Trauma doesn’t always look the way people expect. Sometimes it’s one event you can name and sometimes it’s years of something that never seemed dramatic enough to count: a home where you were never quite safe, a relationship that slowly wore you down, a childhood where your needs went unmet.

Either way, the effects can be much the same. You might feel constantly on edge, or strangely numb. You might react to small things with a force that surprises you, or find whole stretches of your past you’d rather not look at.

None of that means you are broken. It means your mind and body did what they had to do to get you through. The difficulty is that what helped you survive can keep running long after the danger has passed.

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PTSD can develop after experiencing or witnessing something overwhelming, and it can affect anyone. But you don’t need a diagnosis to deserve help, and you don’t need to have it all worked out before you start.

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Healing from trauma or abuse can’t be rushed, and it isn’t something done to you. We go at your pace, and safety comes first, long before we go anywhere near the hardest material. I draw on a range of approaches, including somatic work and parts work, because trauma lives in the body as well as the mind and different people need different ways in. Alongside that, we look at the bigger questions trauma tends to unsettle: who you are, what you can trust, and who you might become now.

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You won’t be asked to tell your story before you are ready. You decide what gets spoken, and when.