Space to slow down, listen deeply, and reclaim your life.
You've survived something — maybe something that happened to you directly, maybe something that happened before you were even born and still lives in your body anyway. Abuse. War. Displacement. A catastrophe that split life into before and after. You've built a life since then, sometimes in spite of it, sometimes made entirely out of it. And still, somewhere underneath the getting-through, there's an exhaustion that isn't only yours — it moved through a family, a country, a silence, long before it reached you. A quiet question keeps surfacing: whose fear is this, actually? Whose grief? Where does it end and I begin?
Therapy is an invitation to pause here, together, and start telling that apart. It's a clearing away from the pressure to survive quietly, to protect everyone around you, to be the strong one. Instead, we make space for what's been unspoken to finally be witnessed. Together, we listen to the wisdom held in your body, your history, your lineage — and find the thread that leads back to what's actually yours: your own life, your own ground, your own voice.
Therapy for Intergenerational & Generational Trauma
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You carry a fear, a vigilance, or a grief that doesn't fully make sense given your own life story — like it belongs to someone else.
You are a survivor of abuse and are ready to understand how that history lives in your body, your relationships, and your sense of safety today.
You left a country, a home, or a way of life behind, and are navigating what it means to belong somewhere new while honoring where you came from.
You come from a family shaped by war, displacement, or disaster, and are starting to see how their survival strategies became your inherited patterns.
You find yourself repeating a dynamic — in love, in work, in how you treat yourself — that seems to have started long before you did.
You are the one who "made it out" or "made it here," and carry a quiet guilt or pressure that comes with being the one who got to build a different life.
You want to break a cycle for the people who come after you, but aren't sure where the cycle even begins.
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My approach is deeply psychodynamic, trauma-informed, somatic, and transpersonal — and with this work in particular, systemic. I don't see you as a diagnosis or a story that ends with what happened to you; I see you as someone shaped by a much longer history than your own lifetime, carrying both the wounds and the resilience of everyone who came before.
I hold this work through a decolonial lens, which means I don't separate your nervous system from your history, your family from the systems — political, cultural, generational — that shaped them. We move slowly and somatically, because this kind of history doesn't live only in memory; it lives in the body, and the body sets the pace. Together, we make room to grieve what was lost, honor what was survived, and begin to untangle what's actually yours to carry forward from what was only ever passed down.
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Map the inheritance: trace which patterns, fears, and beliefs are actually yours, and which were handed down without your consent.
Listen to the body's archive: Work somatically with what the nervous system has held onto — hypervigilance, numbness, the echoes of a history that predates you.
Welcome the symptom as a door: see the symptom itself — the panic, the pain, the shutdown — not as something gone wrong, but as your body-mind's creative intelligence, refusing to let what happened stay invisible. We honor that it showed up at all, and learn to use its force rather than silence it, because a system that couldn't somatize would carry the same suffering with nowhere for it to go — unseen, unimaginable, and often worse.
Grieve what was never mourned: make space for losses your family may never have had the safety or time to grieve — a homeland, a sense of safety, a version of life interrupted.
Honor the survival strategies: understand the patterns your parents or grandparents developed to survive, and separate their necessity then from their cost now.
Reclaim your own story: untangle your identity from the roles — protector, translator, the strong one, the one who made it — that were assigned to you early on.
Rebuild a felt sense of safety: practice, in the body and in relationship, what it feels like to no longer be on guard.
Reconnect to what was also passed down: alongside the wounds, recover the resilience, ritual, and resourcefulness that also live in your lineage.
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Ancestral Trauma
Abuse Recovery
Immigration & Displacement
War & Catastrophe
Survivor's Guilt
Somatic Processing
Disenfranchised Grief
Cycle-Breaking
"In these times of crisis, the most radical thing we can do is to be still, to listen, and to allow ourselves to be moved by something other than our own frantic desire for a solution." — Bayo Akomolafe
Give yourselves the chance to move beyond the familiar:
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Get in touch by filling out the contact form.
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We'll schedule a time to talk and make sure we're a good fit.
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Start therapy and begin to explore a new, more aligned way of relating.
I am here to help you bridge the gap back to one another.