Trauma Therapy

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Reclaim your safety, identity, and peace.

What Trauma Therapy Can Help You Rebuild

Trauma therapy can help you:

  • Feel calm and connected to your body again

  • Reduce panic, nightmares, and intrusive memories

  • Rebuild self-trust, boundaries, and emotional literacy

  • Soften hypervigilance and learn to rest

  • Strengthen your capacity for joy, intimacy, and spontaneity

Over time, trauma work shifts from survival to living—replacing constant alertness with quiet confidence and stability.

What Makes Trauma Therapy Different Here

Our approach integrates:

  • Polyvagal Theory for nervous-system regulation and safety cues

  • Internal Family Systems (IFS) and parts work to gently explore fragmented inner experiences

  • DBT and ACT for emotion regulation, values, and resilience

  • Attachment repair to rebuild safety in relationships

  • Somatic and sensory-based grounding techniques to process trauma at the body level

Trauma doesn’t always look like what people expect.
It can live in your body as tension that never eases, a startle that won’t go away, a constant hum of dread. It can show up as exhaustion, perfectionism, disconnection, irritability, or numbness.

You may have already done talk therapy and found it helpful- but not enough.
Advanced trauma work goes beyond coping skills. It involves gently retraining your nervous system, rebuilding your sense of safety, and restoring connection to your body and self.

Areas of Focus

  • Complex trauma and C-PTSD

  • Childhood or developmental trauma

  • Emotional neglect and invalidation

  • Medical trauma

  • Sexual or relational trauma

  • Dissociation and shutdown

  • Chronic anxiety or hyper-vigilance

  • People-pleasing, perfectionism, or emotional numbness

  • Trauma related to high-stress professions (healthcare, education, emergency response)

Our Process

  1. Safety & Stabilization
    We begin by building grounding strategies and body awareness to ensure safety before processing.

  2. Processing & Integration
    Using IFS-informed, somatic, and cognitive frameworks, we integrate trauma memories and reduce emotional charge.

  3. Reconnection
    Rebuilding trust in yourself, others, and life through relational repair and self-compassion practices.

Meet the Clinician

Chelsea Gay, RP
Chelsea is a Registered Psychotherapist and Certified Clinical Traumatologist with a decade of experience in crisis, outpatient programming, inpatient psychiatry, and private practice.Chelsea is trained in the neurobiological and somatic treatment of both acute and complex trauma (C-PTSD).