Move Past Surviving. Start Living.
Structured, time-limited trauma therapy in Bend, Oregon using proven modalities like CPT and Prolonged Exposure.
When you experience trauma, your brain changes the way it handles information to protect you. Thinking patterns rewire, the emotional center is on high alert, and your body readies its defenses.
But over time, those protective survival mechanisms can turn into prison walls: what once helped starts manifesting as hypervigilance, flashbacks, avoidance, and a constant, exhausting weight in your chest.
True recovery requires more than just talking about what happened; it requires rewriting how your brain interprets safety and power today so it doesn’t stay stuck in the past.
How We Work Together
I specialize in structured, evidence-based trauma treatments designed to give you measurable relief you start to see within a few sessions, rather than methods that keep you in therapy indefinitely. These are a few of them:
- Cognitive Processing Therapy (CPT): A direct, 12-session program where we identify and challenge “stuck points”—the deeply held (but distorted) beliefs about safety, trust, control, and esteem that trauma leaves you with.
- Prolonged Exposure (PE): A systematic approach that helps your brain safely process traumatic memories and frees you from the avoidance that keeps your fear alive.
- Written Exposure Therapy (WET): A novel approach that works in just five sessions to help you stop being plagued by unwanted memories and the weight that comes with them.
No matter what method we decide on, we move together at a deliberate pace with near-term goals in mind. No alternative theories, no open-ended guesswork—just proven plans to help you finally integrate the past so it stops dictating the present.
Let’s Build a Foundation Capable of Bearing the Weight.
You don’t have to navigate this shifting terrain alone. Reach out today to schedule a brief introductory phone call. We’ll discuss what you need, outline a clear path forward, and make sure you have the exact tools required to feel confident, stable, and content again.