Trauma-Informed Therapy for Adults Healing from Childhood Trauma in KY and SC

You may understand why your past affects you, yet still find yourself caught in anxiety, perfectionism, people-pleasing, or emotions that feel hard to manage.

I help adults healing from childhood trauma and neglect who struggle with anxiety, emotional dysregulation, perfectionism, and low self-esteem develop the tools to regulate their emotions, build self-trust, and move forward without feeling controlled by their past.

At Transitions Virtual Therapy, you'll find a supportive space to explore how childhood trauma and emotional neglect may be affecting your life today. Together, we can work toward emotional regulation, stronger self-trust, and a future shaped more by your values than your past.

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You Don't Have to Keep Living in Survival Mode

Maybe you know your childhood is behind you, but your body and mind still react as if you need to protect yourself.

You overthink conversations. You feel guilty when you rest. You hold yourself to impossible standards. You may find it hard to identify what you need, set boundaries, or trust your own decisions.

These patterns may have helped you navigate earlier experiences. They don't mean you're weak, broken, or failing at healing.

Therapy can help you understand these patterns, develop practical skills, and build a relationship with yourself that feels safer and more supportive.

What We Can Work Toward Together

Feel More Emotionally Grounded

Learn practical emotion regulation skills to navigate anxiety, overwhelm, and intense feelings with greater confidence.

Build Trust in Yourself

Begin recognizing your needs, honoring your boundaries, and making decisions without constantly second-guessing yourself.

Loosen Perfectionism's Grip

Explore the fears behind high expectations and practice believing your worth isn't measured by what you accomplish.

Move Forward at Your Pace

Process the impact of childhood experiences while building healthier patterns for relationships, self-esteem, and everyday life.

Meet Your Trauma-Informed Therapist at Transitions Virtual Therapy

You may have spent years trying to understand why certain situations feel so difficult, why you hold yourself to such high standards, or why trusting yourself doesn't always come easily.

I'm here to help you explore those experiences with curiosity and compassion. As an LPC and LPCC-S with EMDR training, I support adults who want to understand the impact of childhood trauma and neglect, develop emotional regulation skills, and build a more trusting relationship with themselves.

Therapy isn't about blaming your past or becoming someone else. It's about understanding your story and creating room for new possibilities.

You Don't Have to Earn Your Worth

Sometimes the patterns that cause us the most pain began as ways to cope. Perfectionism may have helped you feel accepted. People-pleasing may have helped you avoid conflict. Staying emotionally guarded may have felt safer than letting others see what you needed.

You may recognize these patterns even when you wish you could respond differently.

In therapy, we can explore where these patterns came from, how they affect your life today, and what it might look like to respond to yourself with greater understanding. The goal is not to judge the ways you've learned to cope, but to help you discover which patterns still serve you and which ones you're ready to change.

My Approach to Therapy

My approach is grounded in collaboration, compassion, and respect for your individual experiences.

Trauma-informed care: We consider how your history may influence your present without assuming that every difficulty has the same cause.
EMDR training: EMDR may be considered when appropriate to your needs, readiness, and treatment goals.
Practical skill development: We can work on emotional awareness, grounding, boundaries, and self-trust.
Individualized treatment: Your goals, preferences, and pace help guide our work together.

Credentials & Professional Background

Professional credentials

LPC
LPCC-S
EMDR-trained clinician

Practice: Transitions Virtual Therapy

Why Transitions Virtual Therapy?

Healing isn't about forcing yourself to move on or expecting yourself to feel better overnight. It's about understanding your experiences, building new skills, and learning to relate to yourself differently.

At Transitions Virtual Therapy, therapy is an opportunity to slow down, make sense of your patterns, and move forward at a pace that respects your needs.

Trauma-informed care: Explore your history without reducing yourself to what happened.
EMDR-informed options: Where clinically appropriate, consider EMDR as part of an individualized treatment plan.
Practical, collaborative support: Develop tools you can use in everyday situations.
A focus on lasting change: Work toward greater self-awareness, emotional flexibility, and confidence in your choices.

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Therapy Services

Childhood Trauma & Emotional Neglect

Understand how early experiences may shape your beliefs, emotional responses, and relationships today.

Keywords: childhood trauma therapy, emotional neglect counseling, adult trauma recovery.

Anxiety & Emotional Regulation

Learn to navigate worry, emotional overwhelm, and triggers with greater understanding and practical coping skills.

Keywords: adult anxiety therapy, emotional regulation counseling, anxiety coping skills.

Perfectionism, Self-Esteem & Self-Trust

Explore the pressure to please, achieve, and get everything right while building a kinder relationship with yourself.

Keywords: perfectionism counseling, low self-esteem therapy, self-trust and boundaries

EMDR Therapy

Explore whether Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR) may be an appropriate approach for your treatment goals.

Getting Started Is Simpler Than You Think

Connect. Schedule a free consultation and ask questions about working together.
Collaborate. Identify your concerns, priorities, and therapy goals.
Build new patterns. Work on practical tools and deeper understanding over time.

You Can Begin a New Chapter

You don't have to wait until you're overwhelmed to deserve support. If you're ready to understand yourself more deeply and make space for a different way of living, Transitions Virtual Therapy is here to help you explore the next step.