Finally Trauma-free

We are not broken needing to be fixed, we are wounded needing to be healed.

Beyond Talk Therapy

As a therapist, I deeply believe that I can guide my clients only as far as I have journeyed myself. This principle has shaped my commitment to offering treatment approaches that I have personally experienced, tested, and trust. In all my seventeen years of working with clients, I have never encountered a more transformative, life-changing evidence-based approach to healing trauma than Trauma Incident Reduction (TIR).

Experiencing TIR as a client was nothing short of revolutionary— the most effective treatment I’ve ever undergone. Now, as a facilitator, I am privileged to witness its profound and consistent ability to deliver life-changing results for my clients. This work transcends the limitations of traditional talk therapy, offering a pathway not just to coping and managing triggers and symptoms resulting from trauma and Complex-PTSD, but allows individuals to finally become truly trauma-free.

Addressing Trauma With TIR

Big "T" Traumas
These are significant, life-altering events such as physical or sexual abuse, childhood neglect, narcissistic abuse, sibling abuse, severe accidents, major medical procedures, domestic violence, witnessing domestic violence, violent attacks, surviving terrorism, natural disasters, combat exposure, life-threatening illnesses, or the loss of a loved one.

Little "t" Traumas
These refer to less overt but still impactful experiences such as emotional neglect, bullying, chronic stress, parental divorce, financial instability, minor medical procedures, relocating, or the loss of a pet.

Developmental Traumas
These arise from attachment injuries caused by inconsistent caregiving, emotional abuse, shaming, or unrealistic parental expectations during formative years.

Cumulative Traumas
These encompass long-term or repeated stressors such as racial or cultural discrimination, political distress, workplace harassment, chronic caregiving stress, and living in unstable or unsafe environments.

Relational Traumas
These include experiences such as divorce, breakups with romantic partners, the dissolution of friendships, unhealthy family dynamics, sibling rivalry, or invalidation from individuals in positions of power.

What clients say…

  • It Lost Its Power Over Me

    I feel lighter now. I realize these things I've been holding onto didn't really have anything to do with me. They may have happened to me, but they weren't because of me. I feel great. While it was uncomfortable to work through this at first, something shifted - the weight of it all just disappeared. It lost its power over me.

  • I See A Clearer Path

    As I connect those dots, it feels good. It’s freeing. I can see the advantage of trauma processing work - it is disconnecting the emotional charge from these past incidents. It turns them into neutral “facts.” There’s no lingering pain or power struggle. Now I understand why I am where I am and I can see a clear path to where I want to go - it's becoming less curvy, more of a straight line - instead of slaloming through all these obstacles. I feel emotionally free - finally!

  • Teaching Me To Fish

     I see why you're connected with this approach to trauma - the whole plan is to make me not dependent on therapy but help me empower myself. You're not giving me a fish - you’re teaching me to fish.

  • Clarity Helps Me Move Forward

    The process of trauma processing helped me finally step back and see my past clearly. It’s like reading a story in third person—it helps me see the cause and effect, the connections I couldn’t notice before. During the session, it can feel like spinning my wheels, grabbing random puzzle pieces that don’t seem to fit. But after reflecting on it, it feels linear, connected. The pieces come together. That clarity helps me move forward.

  • Revisiting Helps Unravel Its Impact

    Revisiting the incidents helps unravel its impact. It allows me to retrain myself to think and feel something different than I did back then. As a kid, I wasn’t equipped to process it. I was just living through it with the limited information I had at the time. It’s only now, looking back, that I can see how important it is to let myself feel it—not as an adult looking back, but as the child who was there — that’s what I’m learning to do.

  • Life-changing

    It's been life-changing having you as my therapist. For 52 years, I haven't been fully functioning, working, or able to enjoy things. If you hadn't come along, my entire life could have just gone on with me in my cave, hibernating until the day I die. Thank you for existing. Thank you for being there. Thank you for being an amazing therapist and helping me process my trauma. I am trauma-free.

    -Male client, 52

  • I Have My Life Back

    After a lifetime of depression, endless medications, and trying other therapists for years without success, Isabell was the first person to actually guide me through processing my core trauma. Instead of just managing symptoms, she helped me safely do the deep work to finally heal and let go of what I was carrying. That heavy cloud is completely gone, and I am finally able to be the partner and parent I have always wanted to be for my family. Isabell truly gave me my life back.

    - Male client, 46