Healing complex trauma with IFS and EMDR
Working with complex trauma requires a robust, integrative, relational approach. Most trauma therapy focuses on processing what happened or understanding why you do what you do. We do both — because lasting change requires working at the level of memory, nervous system, and self-relationship at once.
Is this you?
You’ve been to talk therapy, practice coping skills, and read the self-help books, but only feel like they’re scratching the surface, and you’re looking for deeper change
You carry a lot of anxiety, guilt, hypervigilance, emotional shutdown, and feel like you’re masking your way through life
Something in your past — a relationship, your family, what you witnessed or lived through — left a mark that talk therapy hasn't quite touched
You want a therapist who gets what it means to be queer, to be a creative, to live in a body that holds history
You're not just trying to feel less bad. You want to actually live a bold and beautiful life that speaks to who you are
How we work
We combine two evidence-based trauma therapies, in addition to other supplemental approaches, to work with complex trauma.
EMDR (Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing) EMDR helps your brain finally finish processing memories that got stuck. Through guided bilateral stimulation, distressing experiences lose their grip — not by forcing you to relive them, but by helping your nervous system complete what it couldn't at the time. It's structured, evidence-based, and often works where years of talk therapy haven't.
IFS (Internal Family Systems) IFS is a way of understanding the different "parts" of you — the inner critic, the people-pleaser, the one who shuts down, the one who rages. Rather than fighting these parts, IFS helps you get curious about them. When you understand what each part is protecting, something underneath opens up: a calmer, more grounded sense of self that was there all along.
What services we offer
Individual Therapy — weekly sessions, in person in Brooklyn, Manhattan, or online across New York
Couples & Partners Therapy — for queer relationships navigating trauma, communication, and intimacy
EMDR + IFS Intensives — accelerated multi-session formats for deeper, faster work
Group Therapy — community and healing in the company of others who get it
Trainings & Workshops — for clinicians and creative communities