Trauma Therapy in Salt Lake City
Build resilience through reconnection
Do you find yourself wondering if you are broken? Maybe your mind won’t switch off at night no matter how fatigued your body feels. Maybe you “lose” time or feel disconnected from yourself and those around you. Maybe you’re always on high alert, waiting for the other shoe to drop. Or maybe you just wish you could respond differently to things than you do.
Trauma doesn’t just live in the past — it echoes in your present. It can show up as sudden spikes of anxiety or depression, irritability over small things, deep feelings of shame and low self-worth, or the instinct to withdraw from the people and activities you love. You might wonder why it’s so hard to “just move on” even when you logically know you are safe right now.
If you are looking for an experienced trauma therapist in Salt Lake City, Utah who understands that healing requires more than just talking, you are in the right place. Together, we can help your nervous system remember what safety actually feels like.
An integrative approach to trauma recovery
Because every individual's experience is unique, my trauma therapy practice in Salt Lake City integrates multiple modalities to meet you exactly where you are:
1. Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR)
When a traumatic event occurs, the brain can get overwhelmed, causing the memory of the experience to get "stuck.” EMDR uses bilateral stimulation (such as side-to-side eye movements or gentle taps) to help your brain reprocess and shift these memories from distressing emotional triggers in the present into more neutral past events — without requiring you to talk through every painful detail.
2. Parts Work (IFS-Informed)
Have you ever felt like part of you wants to move forward, but another part of you is terrified and holding you back? Trauma often fragments our internal world. Parts work helps us identify and communicate with these different inner voices — such as the critic, the protector, or the wounded child. By understanding their adaptive responses, we can untangle internal conflict and cultivate self-compassion.
3. Somatic Therapy
Trauma affects our physiology — it is shows up in our muscles, posture, breath, and nervous system responses (like fight, flight, freeze, or fawn). Somatic therapy brings gentle awareness to these experiences. By learning to track and work with these sensations, we can shift arousal and help your body finally understand that the danger has passed.
4. Nature-Based Therapy
Nature offers a supportive space for practicing emotion regulation and secure attachment. By weaving the natural world into our therapeutic process — utilizing local outdoor spaces around Salt Lake City or incorporating nature elements and grounding practices into our work — we can lean on the more-than-human world to support healing.
Stabilize and Build Skills: We begin by building relational safety and a practical toolkit for right now — focusing on grounding and stabilizing to build capacity for processing and the demands of your day-to-day life.
Process: We gently untangle stuck memories and old emotional loops at a measured pace and within the safe container of therapy.
Shift Perspective: We work to transform core beliefs rooted in the past (like "I am unsafe" or "It was my fault") into an adaptive sense of self in the present.
Integrate and Reconnect: We restore your capacity for joy, presence, and authentic connection with yourself and your community.
Through this process, clients are able to find relief from the responses they’ve felt controlled by for so long, allowing them to shift relational patterns, cultivate self-compassion, hold healthy boundaries, and reclaim their agency.
What our work together looks like
FAQs about trauma therapy
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No—trauma isn’t defined by the objective scale of an event, but by how your nervous system responded to the experience. Trauma responses may stem from feeling stuck or trapped, experiencing too much too soon (or for too long) or too little too late.
Whether you are dealing with a single overwhelming event or the cumulative weight of chronic stress, relational wounds, or systemic neglect, your experience is valid and deserving of healing.
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Because everyone's nervous systems and lived experiences are different, there is no single timeline for healing. Some clients experience significant relief from specific symptoms within a few months of targeted EMDR work, while others find the greatest impact with a longer-term, collaborative approach that focuses on deeper relational healing and parts integration.
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You do not need to share specifics of your trauma with me. Modalities like EMDR, somatic therapy, and parts work focus on how trauma is showing up and impacting your mind and body in the present. You retain full control over your story, and we can effectively process these experiences without verbalizing the details.
Ready to take the next step?
You don’t have to continue navigating the effects of trauma alone. Schedule a free initial consultation, and let’s explore how we can work through it together.