Offering Healing and Support through Psychotherapy to Iowa Adults who have experienced trauma, narcissistic abuse, or have BPD or love someone that has BPD
I help people understand how their past experiences influence and impact their present lives.
When you dream about a better life, how does it look and feel? It’s different from the life you’re living today, isn’t it?
But how? Is your dream life better because you have more money? Fame? I’ll bet that’s not it – not the core of it anyway.
I’ll bet what you dream about in your ideal life is much more fundamental: sleeping soundly, setting healthy boundaries, getting away from the toxic people currently in your life.
You’re sick of flashbacks or catastrophizing keeping you awake at night. You dream about feeling strong, confident, and at peace. Most of all you long to feel safe and at home in your own skin.
I get it. I’ve worked with countless clients who have experienced trauma or abuse.
Effects of this behavior are tremendous and long lasting. It can leave you feeling helpless and hopeless.
You end up stuck in patterns that do not help you.
You’re afraid that you’re so stuck, nothing will ever change. Stuck in bad relationships and bad situations. Stuck being walked all over by others like a doormat.
But not anymore.
I can work with you to identify those patterns, understand where they’ve come from, and make real efforts to change them.
I will help you learn to prioritize yourself and your own needs. You’ll not only be able to effectively communicate your needs, wants and desires, but you’ll have a good understanding of what those are!
I will help you reach your goals first by hearing your story, how your past is impacting your present, and what you want your ideal life to look and feel like. Then we work on identifying what is within your control to change, not focusing on changing others.
I will help hold you accountable for making incremental change. I will also educate you about the change process - it isn't linear and change is often slow to happen, but we’ll work through it together. Along the way, we will clap and cheer your successes and cry when times remain hard. Bottom line you won’t journey through this alone any longer. I can’t do the work for you, but I can serve as a guide and accountability partner.
Through this process, I can help you transform your life and move closer to your ideal!
