Services
Compassionate, trauma-informed therapy designed to help you process painful experiences, reconnect with yourself, and move toward lasting healing.
Traditional Talk Therapy Can Bring Awareness
But lasting change often requires working at a deeper level with the patterns held in the nervous system.
My Approach To Therapy
EMDR Therapy
Trauma isn’t just something you remember, it’s something your body continues to hold.
EMDR helps your brain and nervous system fully process distressing experiences so they no longer feel as overwhelming.
Internal Family Systems (IFS)
After trauma, it’s common to feel pulled in different direction self-criticism, anxiety, or shutdown.
IFS helps you connect with these parts with curiosity and compassion.
Progressive Counting & Flash Technique
Not all trauma work needs to begin with direct exposure.
These gentle approaches help reduce distress while maintaining a sense of safety and control.
EMDR Therapy
EMDR (Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing) is a structured, evidence-based therapy approach designed to help the brain and nervous system process distressing or overwhelming experiences. When trauma remains unprocessed, it can continue to affect emotions, relationships, self-esteem, and daily functioning long after the original event has passed.
A core component of EMDR therapy is bilateral stimulation, which may include guided eye movements, tapping, or alternating sounds. Bilateral stimulation helps support the brain’s natural processing system while clients safely revisit distressing memories in a gradual and supported way.
EMDR helps reduce the emotional intensity connected to painful memories, so they no longer feel as overwhelming or disruptive in the present. EMDR therapy may be helpful for individuals experiencing PTSD, anxiety, childhood trauma, abuse, panic, chronic stress, and other trauma-related symptoms. My approach to EMDR is collaborative, thoughtfully paced, and tailored to each client’s unique needs and comfort level.
Internal Family Systems (IFS)
Internal Family Systems (IFS) is a compassionate, trauma-informed therapy approach that helps individuals better understand the different “parts” of themselves that may develop in response to painful or overwhelming experiences. These parts can show up as anxiety, self-criticism, perfectionism, emotional shutdown, people-pleasing, or feeling emotionally stuck or conflicted.
Together, we will work to better understand these parts with curiosity and compassion rather than judgment. Through this process, clients can develop greater self-awareness, emotional balance, self-compassion, and healing from trauma and other difficult life experiences.
Progressive Counting & Flash Technique
Progressive Counting (PC) and the Flash Technique are gentle, trauma-informed approaches that can help individuals process distressing memories while reducing emotional overwhelm. These approaches are often used with individuals experiencing PTSD, trauma, anxiety, childhood trauma, abuse, panic and other trauma-related symptoms.
A core component of Progressive Counting involves the therapist counting aloud in gradually increasing increments while clients briefly notice parts of a distressing memory in a structured and supported way. Similar to EMDR, this process helps support the brain’s natural ability to process traumatic experiences while reducing emotional intensity over time.
The Flash Technique is designed to help reduce distress connected to traumatic memories without requiring clients to directly focus on the painful experience itself. Together, we work at a pace that prioritizes emotional safety, nervous system regulation, and a greater sense of control throughout the healing process.
You Don’t Need More Insight. You Need A Different Kind Of Process.
If you’re ready for therapy that creates real movement, I’d be glad to talk with you.
Contact Us
You Don’t Need More Insight. You Need A Different Kind Of Process.
If you’re ready for therapy that creates real movement, I’d be glad to talk with you.
- (857) 626-1157
- info@newtontraumatherapy.com
- www.newtontraumatherapy.com
- Newton, MA 02466
