Therapy for Therapists
Therapists are highly attuned to others, deeply reflective, and often skilled at holding complexity, yet, this same sensitivity can make them more vulnerable to anxiety, obsessive thinking, burnout, and reproductive or attachment-related trauma. Many clinicians I work with are navigating infertility, pregnancy loss, complicated pregnancies, or the transition into parenthood while continuing to show up for clients every day.
Therapists often recognize what is happening cognitively, but still feel hijacked somatically, by intrusive thoughts, hypervigilance, emotional numbing, or a nervous system that won’t settle. Clinical insight does not automatically translate into nervous system regulation, especially after prolonged uncertainty, grief, or medical trauma.
My work with therapists is trauma-informed, attachment-based, and neurobiologically grounded. I integrate EMDR, parts work (ego state/IFS-informed), and polyvagal theory to help clinicians process unresolved trauma, shift entrenched threat responses, and restore a sense of internal safety. Rather than focusing only on symptom management, we work at the level of procedural memory, attachment, and autonomic regulation, where obsessive thinking, anxiety, and reproductive trauma are actually stored.
Therapy becomes a space where therapists do not have to perform, contain, or analyze—but can be held, metabolize grief and fear, and reconnect with their bodies and emotional lives. This often leads not only to symptom relief, but to greater clinical presence, emotional capacity, and resilience in both personal and professional roles.
If you are a therapist who feels stuck, flooded, numb, or trapped in looping thoughts—especially in the context of fertility, loss, or parenting—there is nothing wrong with you. Your nervous system adapted to survive something difficult. Together, we can help it learn that safety, connection, and steadiness are possible again.