Individual Trauma & DBT Therapy
Rebuild trust. Break free from old cycles. Feel safe and connected again.
Stop Managing Symptoms. Start Reclaiming Your Life.
It’s 2 AM and your nervous system is still buzzing from a conversation that happened eight hours ago. You replay every word, every facial expression, convinced you said something wrong. Your body feels wired and exhausted at the same time.
You know logically that you’re safe. But your body hasn’t gotten the memo.
Sound familiar?
You’re not broken. Your nervous system is just stuck in old patterns that once kept you alive.
But those same survival strategies—hypervigilance, people-pleasing, emotional shutdown, explosive reactions—are now the very things keeping you from the life and relationships you actually want.
What Happens When Trauma Lives in Your Nervous System
The Trauma Cycle
Maybe you’ve noticed these patterns:
- The 3 AM overthinking spiral after any social interaction, analyzing every detail for signs of rejection
- Emotions that feel bigger than your body can contain, hijacking your mind before you can think straight
- Shutting down when you most want to connect, leaving others confused and you feeling more alone
- Saying yes when you mean no, then resenting everyone (including yourself)
- Explosive reactions followed by shame spirals that last for days
- Relationships that feel like emotional minefields where you’re always walking on eggshells
Here’s what I know after 15 years of this work: You’re not failing at life. You’re succeeding at survival.
Your nervous system learned these patterns for good reasons. The problem is, nobody taught you how to update the software.
This means you’ll not only understand why you get triggered, but practice new responses in real time — so you can interrupt the negative-cycle before it takes over and repair quickly when things go sideways.
Here’s the hard truth:
The Cost of Waiting
Right now, you might be thinking, “I should be able to handle this on my own.”
But here’s what I know: The patterns that protected you once are now the same ones keeping you stuck. Every day you wait is another day of exhausting yourself trying to manage symptoms instead of healing their source.
You weren’t meant to spend your life in survival mode. You weren’t meant to feel like a stranger in your own body or apologize for taking up space.
You were meant to live fully—with all the mess, beauty, and deep connection that comes with being human.
What Becomes Possible
Imagine:
- Having a difficult conversation without your heart racing or your mind going blank
- Setting a boundary without a three-hour anxiety spiral afterward
- Experiencing conflict that deepens connection instead of creating days of silence
- Trusting your own perceptions instead of constantly questioning yourself
- Feeling your emotions without being overwhelmed by them
- Choosing your response instead of being hijacked by your reactions
- Sleeping peacefully instead of replaying conversations at 2 AM
- Finally feeling safe in your own skin—maybe for the first time
This isn’t about perfection. It’s about creating a life where you feel grounded, present, and able to choose how you show up in the world.
Why Most Therapy Falls Short
Maybe you’ve tried therapy before. Maybe you left with insights about your childhood but still felt hijacked by your emotions every day. Or maybe you learned breathing techniques that felt useless when your world was actually falling apart.
Most therapy falls into one of two camps:
Talk therapy gives you understanding but leaves you emotionally dysregulated. You know why you react certain ways, but you still can’t stop doing it.
Skills-based therapy gives you coping tools but never addresses the trauma underneath. It’s like putting a band-aid on a wound that’s still infected.
Neither approach is enough on its own.
That’s why I spent 15+ years developing an approach that works at the level of mind, body, and nervous system simultaneously.
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My Integrated Approach: DBT + Trauma Healing
I combine the practical power of Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) with cutting-edge trauma therapy to create lasting change that you can actually feel in your body.
DBT Gives You the Skills
Mindfulness that works even when you’re activated (not just when you’re calm)
Distress tolerance for riding out emotional storms without making them worse
Emotion regulation so feelings inform you instead of controlling you
Interpersonal effectiveness for communicating needs without guilt or explosion
Trauma Therapy Heals the Source
Somatic work to calm your nervous system at the biological level
Attachment repair to make closeness feel safe instead of dangerous
Polyvagal techniques to help your body recognize safety
Internal Family Systems to heal the parts of you still stuck in survival mode
“Working with Eva has been amazing. She is down-to-earth, authentic and feels like she knows us so well. One of the biggest impacts to stopping our negative cycle was being able to see how we were individually responsible for our part in contributing to the toxic pattern. We can now identify when we’re playing out the same behavior in the moment.” — D & B ~ Former clients
Why My Experience Makes the Difference
I’m not someone who read about DBT in graduate school and now teaches it from a manual.
I’ve been immersed in this work since 2008, running DBT groups and providing individual therapy with a depth that few therapists can match. I trained directly with Behavioral Tech (the institute founded by DBT’s creator, Marsha Linehan) and completed advanced trauma certifications in EFT, Somatic Experiencing, IFS, NARM, and Polyvagal Theory.
But here’s what matters more than credentials: I’ve sat with hundreds of people who thought they were “too much” or “too broken.” They weren’t. And neither are you.
I’ve watched people go from apologizing for existing to advocating for their needs. From 3 AM panic spirals to sleeping peacefully through the night. From relationships that drain them to connections that actually nourish their soul.
After 15 years, I’ve learned that healing isn’t linear—and that’s exactly as it should be. I know how to meet you wherever you are and help you practice these skills in real time, while we simultaneously heal the deeper wounds that trigger them.
What Our Work Together Looks Like
This isn’t traditional therapy where you talk about your week and leave with homework you’ll forget to do.
Practice regulating your nervous system in real time when emotions arise (not just when you’re calm)
Identify and interrupt trauma patterns before they hijack your day
Build genuine self-trust instead of constant second-guessing
Learn to set boundaries that protect your energy without guilt
Repair your relationship with your body so it feels like a safe place to live
Transform shame and self-criticism into compassion and confidence
Break the exhausting cycle of reacting → regretting → repeating
This work is both practical and profound. You’ll leave each session with tools you can use immediately, while also healing at the deeper level that creates lasting change.
“Working with Eva has been amazing. She is down-to-earth, authentic and feels like she knows us so well. One of the biggest impacts to stopping our negative cycle was being able to see how we were individually responsible for our part in contributing to the toxic pattern. We can now identify when we’re playing out the same behavior in the moment.” — D & B ~ Former clients
Ready to Start?
I work with a limited number of clients so I can give each person the depth of attention this work requires.
If you’re tired of managing symptoms and ready to reclaim your life, let’s talk.