Complex Trauma Therapy in Sacramento for C-PTSD, Inner Child, and CSA Healing

Therapy for Complex Trauma (C-PTSD), CSA, and Inner Child Healing

Therapy for developmental trauma, childhood sexual abuse survivors, and those healing fragmented parts of self

"And yet I fight this battle all alone / No one to cry to, no place to call home."
— Alice in Chains, Nutshell

What I specialize in

I'm a licensed therapist in California specializing in complex trauma, C-PTSD, childhood sexual abuse recovery, and inner child healing.

I work with people who have spent years trying to outrun something they couldn't quite name. People who are exhausted from holding it together, from being the one who functions, from surviving in a body that never quite felt safe.

People who are ready, finally, to be gently met.

My approach integrates depth psychology, somatic therapy, parts work, energy medicine, and ancestral healing.

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What is C-PTSD?

C-PTSD develops from prolonged exposure to emotional and relational unsafety, most often in childhood, and most often invisible to everyone around you.

It doesn't always come from a single catastrophic event. Sometimes it comes from growing up unseen. From being the child who was too much, or not enough, or both at once. From having to become responsible for things no child should carry. From environments where love was conditional, or confusing, or absent in the ways that mattered most.

Common signs include chronic shame and self-blame, dissociation or feeling outside yourself, emotional flashbacks, people-pleasing or shutting down, deep mistrust in relationships, and a nervous system that never really learned to rest.

C-PTSD is real. It touches everything: your thoughts, your body, your relationships, your sense of self, your spiritual life. It doesn't live in one place. It lives in all of you.

When coping stops working

Many people find me when the strategies that kept them afloat stop working.

Maybe you've been compartmentalizing for years. Over-functioning. Numbing. Caretaking everyone else while quietly abandoning yourself. And it worked, until it didn't.

Now something is breaking open. You're exhausted. You can't sleep. You're anxious, or shut down, or swinging between both.

This isn't failure. This is your psyche finally feeling safe enough to surface the truth.

The body says: I can't carry this alone anymore.

And that's when the real work can begin.

C-PTSD and Neurodivergence

C-PTSD and neurodivergence often live in the same body.

Many autistic people, ADHDers, and highly sensitive people grew up in environments that didn't understand or protect their nervous systems. They were punished for being too sensitive, shamed for their needs, expected to mask constantly, overstimulated and undersupported.

The sensitivity made them more vulnerable to relational wounding. The wounding made the sensitivity harder to bear. Both are real. Both deserve care.

(Related: Therapy for Neurodivergent & Highly Sensitive People)

Working with Childhood Sexual Abuse

CSA is more common than we allow ourselves to admit. And remembering isn't always linear.

For many survivors, it isn't a full narrative. It's a body reaction, a dream you can't shake, panic without explanation, grief with no clear beginning. Your body has always known. Your psyche protected you until you were ready.

You don't need all the memories. You don't need a timeline.

You need a space that honors your truth exactly as it lives in you.

How We Work Together

This is slow, reverent work. Depth therapy at its core is relational, and that means you are genuinely seen and mirrored here. Not just your symptoms, not just your history, but the whole of you: the parts that are tender, the parts that are fierce, the parts that are still waiting to be found.

Much of this work happens in the relationship itself. In being witnessed without flinching. In having someone sit with you in what you've never been able to say out loud, and not look away.

We work with the little parts: the younger ones, the protective ones, the exiled and frozen ones, helping them unburden what they've been carrying, sometimes for decades. This is sacred work. These parts didn't get to lay their burdens down when everyone else did, and this is where that finally happens.

Spiritual guides, ancestors, and energy work are woven throughout. We work with what's been inherited, what's been passed down through the lineage, and what can be returned or released. Astrology comes in as a map, helping you understand why this lifetime, why these initiations, what your soul came here to heal and break open.

The relationship between us is part of the medicine. You don't have to carry this alone anymore.

Who This Work Is For

✓ Have experienced complex trauma, abuse, neglect, or relational wounding

✓ Are reconnecting to parts of themselves that shut down in childhood

✓ Feel fragmented, lost, or like they've never quite known who they are

✓ Are living out patterns that feel ancestral, karmic, or spiritually entangled

✓ Need a trauma-informed therapist who understands the spiritual and energetic dimensions of healing

✓ Are highly sensitive, neurodivergent, or empathic

✓ Are breaking cycles in their family line

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This Is Lifetime Work

You don't have to be ready for all of it at once. You don't have to have all the words. You don't have to know where it's going.

You just have to be willing to be gently, soulfully met, right where you are.

You are not behind. You are not broken. You are not too much.

FAQs

No. You are never expected to disclose more than you’re ready for. Therapy can be effective by working with what’s showing up in the present—emotionally, somatically, or behaviorally—without going into full details.
Complex trauma usually involves long-term or repeated experiences that shape how you relate to yourself, others, and the world. It often starts in childhood or relational environments where you didn’t feel safe, seen, or protected.
Yes. I work with many clients who are CSA survivors. This therapy is trauma-informed, consent-based, and led by your readiness. Together, we gently support the healing of shame, grief, and fragmentation that CSA can leave behind.
That’s a common and natural response. Our work is about building that connection slowly and safely. You don’t need to “feel” ready—you just need to be curious enough to begin.