Virtual Trauma Therapy
Helping women with trauma, anxiety, and chronic illness through EMDR and somatic-based therapy.
Virtual Trauma-Informed Therapy for:
Anxiety Disorders | Eating Disorders | Trauma | Chronic Pain | Neurodivergence
Individual and Group Therapy in Tennessee, Virginia, Florida, and Colorado
Are you experiencing…
Racing Thoughts?
Disconnect in Your Relationships?
Medical Trauma or Chronic Illness?
Feelings of Chronic Overwhelm?
Intrusive Thoughts or Memories?
Impacts of Complex Childhood Trauma?
Frustration from your Relationship with Food?
Low Self-Esteem?
Perfectionism?
What is Treated at Brighter Minds Therapy?
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Anxiety can feel like your mind and body won’t let you rest. You may worry constantly, replay conversations, or feel on edge without knowing why. Anxiety can show up as racing thoughts, restlessness, difficulty concentrating, irritability, sleep problems, or physical sensations like tightness in the chest, a racing heart, or stomach discomfort. These reactions aren’t just “in your head”—they’re signs of a nervous system stuck in survival mode, making everyday situations feel overwhelming or unsafe.
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Eating-disordered behaviors are not just about food. They often develop as ways to cope with emotional pain, regain a sense of control, or disconnect from overwhelming feelings. Whether through restriction, bingeing, purging, compulsive exercise, or body image distress, these patterns are often rooted in trauma, anxiety, shame, or attachment wounds and can show up as cycles of guilt, self-criticism, disconnection from hunger cues, or emotional numbness.
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Trauma affects how you relate to yourself, your body, your relationships, and the world. It’s not only about what happened, but how your nervous system adapted to survive. Trauma can come from a single overwhelming event or from ongoing experiences like emotional neglect, invalidation, or feeling unsafe. Even experiences others may minimize can leave lasting effects, showing up as anxiety, numbness, dissociation, shame, low self-worth, relationship struggles, or intense fear responses.
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Living with a chronic health condition or dysautonomia can affect every part of your life—physically, emotionally, and socially. Ongoing symptoms, medical uncertainty, and frequent healthcare interactions can be exhausting and sometimes retraumatizing, especially if your experiences were dismissed or minimized. Medical trauma can leave lasting effects, including hypervigilance, anxiety around appointments, difficulty trusting your body, or feeling disconnected from your physical sensations. Therapy can help you process these experiences, regulate your nervous system, and rebuild a sense of safety and control in both your body and life.
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Being neurodivergent or highly sensitive means your nervous system experiences the world more intensely, whether through emotions, sensations, or social interactions. You may notice that you become easily overwhelmed, deeply affected by others’ moods, or highly attuned to details that others overlook. While these traits can be strengths, they can also make everyday life feel exhausting or stressful, especially when combined with trauma, chronic stress, or invalidation. Therapy can help you understand and honor your sensitivity, regulate your nervous system, and build strategies to navigate life with greater ease and self-compassion.
What All of These Have in Common
While trauma, anxiety, chronic health conditions, dysautonomia, eating challenges, neurodivergence, and heightened sensitivity can look very different on the surface, they all share one common thread: nervous system dysregulation. When the nervous system is stuck in states of fight, flight, freeze, or overwhelm, it can affect your body, emotions, thoughts, and relationships.
How I Help
I use a blend of evidence-based, trauma-informed therapies that go beyond surface-level coping and support deep, lasting change.
This might include:
Processing past experiences that still feel “stuck”
Gently retraining your nervous system to feel safer
Understanding and working with different “parts” of you
Releasing stored stress and tension from the body
Everything we do is collaborative, at your pace, and tailored to what you need.
The approaches I use are Polyvagal Theory Informed Sound Therapy, Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR), Somatic Experiencing (SE), and Internal Family Systems (IFS)