Highly Sensitive People: Understanding Sensitivity, Trauma, and Nervous System Healing
Learn what it means to be a highly sensitive person, how sensitivity differs from trauma-based hypervigilance, and how nervous system healing and therapy for highly sensitive people helps you move out of survival mode into emotional balance and self-trust.
How AI Can and Can’t Be a Supportive Part of Mental Health Therapy
Wondering if AI can help with trauma healing or anxiety? Learn how an anxiety and trauma informed therapist works with the limits and benefits of AI in and out of the therapy room.
Rumination, Trauma, and Attachment: Why Your Brain Won’t Stop Overthinking Relationships
Rumination isn’t just overthinking, it’s often a nervous system survival response rooted in trauma. When past experiences disrupted your sense of safety or control, the brain may get stuck trying to “solve” what was never solvable. Understanding the connection between trauma, attachment, and rumination is a powerful step toward trauma healing and recovery.
Echolalia in Autistic Adults: Masking, Scripting, and Neurodivergent Communication
A neurodivergent-affirming guide to echolalia in autistic adults, including internal echolalia, masking, scripting, and communication differences.
New Year, Same Nervous System: A Trauma-Informed Way to Approach Healing
The New Year often comes with pressure to reinvent yourself but your nervous system doesn’t reset at midnight. If you’re carrying anxiety, burnout, or the residue of past trauma, setting goals without honoring your capacity can leave you feeling overwhelmed before the year even begins. This post explores how to reflect on the past year, set grounded intentions for the next, and work with your nervous system, not against it, so growth feels sustainable, not exhausting.