EMDR + IFS TRAUMA THERAPY FOR WOMEN | CHARLOTTE, NC
You’re allowed to want more than a life you can manage.
Less managing. More living. More joy. More you.
At Liminal Psychotherapy, I understand the invisible weight of all that you’re carrying. I know it might look like you’ve got it all under control, but that’s not what it feels like on the inside. The inside feels overwhelming or like you’re barely holding it together.
I specialize in helping women & mothers navigate the complexities of trauma, burnout, and overfunctioning in their life and relationships. You can be highly capable and insightful, yet still struggle with past wounds showing up in your life today. I’m deeply committed to helping women like you heal in ways feel meaningful, lasting, and true to who you are on the inside.
— WHO I HELP
You're capable, everyone says so.
From the outside, you're thriving. On the inside, it feels different.
You're exhausted and disconnected in a way sleep doesn't fix.
My clients are often women who’ve been successful in their life, work and relationships up until they hit an emotional limit, find themselves in a new stage of life, or at a major life change. Often times they feel like they’re failing and don’t understand why they can’t seem to run at the same pace they always have. Navigating trauma, motherhood, relationship stress, or seasons of profound change, all while trying to hold it together at home, work, and in relationships is a recipe for burnout.
The caveat is that all of the “holding it together”, managing, and planning is invisible. The internal overwhelm and mental exhaustion is the weight that no one sees from the outside. A lot of times they’ve tried everything, including therapy for themselves or with their partner. They don’t understand why they’re doing everything right, but they still feel stuck and reactive.
On the outside you’re the one who…
everyone relies on
keeps pushing through
keeps managing everyone’s needs
carries the emotional and mental load
thinks 3 steps ahead
always says yes
But on the inside you feel...
resentful
emotionally exhausted
disconnected from yourself & others
invisible
lonely
chronically overwhelmed
— HOW I HELP
Specialized therapy for what’s underneath the patterns of overwhelm. You can be highly capable and struggling, both deserve care.
At Liminal Psychotherapy, I offer thoughtful, trauma informed care that helps women slow down, so they can make sense of the patterns beneath the stress and overwhelm. I help them reconnect with what they actually need, so change can feel possible, lasting and real.
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Your story may not seem “traumatic” on paper, but your body remembers otherwise.
You may have learned to minimize, push through, or stay strong, but inside, there are parts of you still waiting to be seen, soothed, and understood.We’ll gently explore your story through relational safety, nervous system awareness, and inner parts work. We’ll get to know what you needed then and now to feel safe, so you can live fully in the present.
Trauma can also be a sudden and unexpected event.
Something happen too fast that overwhelmed your system. Sometimes it's one event, either recent or specific, and it still actively lives with you. These events can be anything where you experienced real, perceived or threatened death or serious injury. Whatever happened, it overwhelmed your system’s ability to cope and process what happened to you, leaving you stuck in survival mode.
Eye Movement Desensitization & Reprocessing (EMDR)
EMDR is a scientifically validated trauma therapy that offers a path to relief, helping lessen the emotional and physical reactions caused by past trauma and attachment injuries. EMDR offers memory consolidation and a sense that time has passed since the incident, indicating the trauma is over and in the past.
With the same gentle pacing, we can help your system do what it couldn’t at the time of the event and process it fully, and file it away properly.
Click here for more information on EMDR,
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You're constantly thinking, planning, managing.
You appear calm and capable, but inside you're wired, tense, and exhausted. It’s the kind of anxiety that lives in your body like a motor propelling you through the day.Therapy can help you understand what anxiety is attempting to do for you, and learn new ways to gain a sense of safety and calm.
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You do more than your share just about everywhere. In your relationship, at work, and in your family.
You anticipate needs, avoid conflict, and take care of everything… except yourself. This kind of over functioning often begins in childhood, where love was earned through self-sacrifice.We’ll explore how those patterns formed, how they show up now, and how to begin setting boundaries without losing connection. It’s possible to stop over giving and still have value and worth.
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Motherhood changes everything. No one prepares you for the emotional unraveling and shifts that can come with it. You may feel anxious, numb, resentful, or like you’ve lost pieces of yourself.
Whether you’re pregnant, postpartum, or years into motherhood, we create space for your full emotional reality. Together, we make sense of your experience, reconnect with your identity, and help you feel less alone in the complexity of it all.
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When you’ve been living at such a fast pace, you might not even know you’re stuck in fight and flight. A survival state might even be your everyday baseline.
Since safety is essential in this work, we’ll work towards helping you slow down, listen inward, and start to gain a sense of safety internally, at a gentle and intentional pace.
This might look like:
Recognizing when you're in fight, flight, freeze, or fawn
Building body awareness and self-trust through somatic practices
Releasing long-held tension from chronic stress or trauma
Learning to regulate without numbing, avoiding, or over-functioning
EMDR can be a great fit for nervous system regulation as well.
Responses to inquiries within one business day.
— WHO IS LIMINAL PSYCHOTHERAPY
I’m the owner and operating clinical therapist of Liminal Psych, PLLC. Professionally, I'm a Board Certified & Nationally Certified Counselor who specializes in women's mental wellness & maternal mental health. I hold master’s degrees in both elementary education & clinical mental health counseling, with additional training in advanced perinatal psychotherapy from Postpartum Support International and in EMDR trained by EMDRIA.
Personally, I’m a mom of three who has had to navigate many of the same obstacles in life as you. I’ve spent a long time running, striving, and chasing the ever elusive idea that a woman can have and do it all - with a giant smile on her face. I’m not here to tell you it isn’t possible, because it is. I’m here to help you sit with the cost of having it all, or spending a lifetime striving for it, all the while thinking you’re constantly failing. I’m here to help you rediscover what your needs, wants and desires are and build the confidence in using your voice to get them met. I’m here to help you put down what is not yours to carry and begin creating a life that is fulfilling, connected, and feels true to who you are on the inside.
My approach is trauma-informed, blending EMDR, parts work (IFS), attachment-based therapy and nervous system support. This framework provides a compassionate way to begin understanding how your unique system has been built to protect you, and the keys to building a life that feels free and true to who you are.
Whether you are struggling with anxiety, burnout, stress in your relationships, trauma or finding yourself in motherhood, I’m here to help you manage less so you can live more.
Learn more here.
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— WAYS TO WORK WITH ME
Therapy Services
Therapy that sees more than symptoms.
The goal isn’t simply to cope better. It’s to understand the patterns beneath the overwhelm to help create change at the root.
Individual therapy at Liminal Psych is a focused, supportive space to slow down, make sense of what you’re carrying, and shift the patterns that keep you stuck.
Sessions blend depth-oriented conversation with trauma-informed approaches (EMDR, parts work, attachment-based therapy and nervous system support), so you can feel safer in your body, clearer in your choices, and more like yourself again.
Groups at Liminal Psych are designed to be a supportive, expertly guided space for women who are tired of carrying everything alone. You’ll get psychoeducation, connection, perspective, practical tools, and depth work that helps patterns shift with the support of women doing the same kind of work.
Therapy intensives are a deeper, more focused way to work. Intensives are ideal when you want meaningful movement in a condensed, but focused amount of time. These extended sessions blend IFS/parts work and EMDR to help you get to the root of what’s keeping you stuck, create nervous-system safety, and leave with a sense of relief, deeper insight, and embodied integration.
— WHERE
Therapy in Charlotte, NC
Liminal Psychotherapy offers in-person therapy in Charlotte’s SouthPark area and virtual therapy for clients throughout North Carolina.
My office is conveniently located in the South Park area of Charlotte, North Carolina, in the Cameron Valley Psychotherapy Buildings. Centrally located with easy access to many amenities in the area.
Private-pay practice with out-of-network support available through Mentaya.
— WHAT CHANGES
What if life didn't feel so hard?
trust yourself without overthinking every decision
ask for what you need without guilt
feel less responsible for everyone else
recognize patterns before getting pulled into them
feel more grounded in your relationships
have more room for rest, play, connection, and yourself
feel like your insides and outsides finally match