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Come Back to Yourself
Therapy for adults healing from narcissistic family dynamics, toxic or trauma-bonded relationships, and controlling religious environments, so you can finally trust your own voice again.
Does This Sound Like You?
You’ve spent years putting everyone else's comfort and expectations ahead of your own needs.
Honestly, it might feel like you've been doing it your whole life.
Often, this starts in childhood. You might have had a parent whose love felt conditional, someone who twisted the truth until you doubted your own reality, or who needed you to stay small just so they could feel big. For others, the pattern continued into adult relationships where you slowly lost yourself, walking on eggshells and constantly shrinking to fit. Or maybe it happened inside a religious environment that traded genuine care for guilt, fear, and control, making it feel dangerous to question anything at all.
No matter how you got here, the underlying wound is exactly the same: you learned that abandoning yourself was the only way to stay safe or stay loved. But you’re finally ready to stop.
Meet Patricia
Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist
What I Specialize In:
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Breaking Cycles in Difficult Family Systems: If you grew up with parents or siblings who were narcissistic, borderline, or emotionally unsafe, the damage runs deep. I will help you build the firm boundaries and deep self-trust that your family never modeled for you.
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Leaving Toxic & Trauma-Bonded Relationships: It is one thing to recognize the manipulation, gaslighting, and control in a partner. It is another to actually break the trauma bond. We will do the deeper work together so you don't repeat these old patterns in your next chapter.
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Recovering from Spiritual & Religious Trauma: It takes immense courage to untangle your sense of self from fear-based teachings, guilt, or communities that used faith to demand compliance. I will support you as you safely separate from that control, while still honoring whatever you choose to hold sacred.
How I Work:
I bring nearly three decades of clinical experience to our sessions. Over the past 29 years, I've learned that deep healing often requires tools that go far beyond traditional talk therapy. Because trauma is held in both the mind and the body, I integrate specialized approaches tailored to your unique story:
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EMDR & Parts Work (IFS): Talk therapy is great, but it often stalls out when dealing with deeply rooted trauma. I use EMDR (Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing) alongside IFS (Internal Family Systems). This combination allows us to gently honor the protective "parts" of your mind that might be afraid of opening up, while safely processing and releasing those stuck, painful memories at a pace that feels safe for you.
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Expressive Arts Therapy: Sometimes, words simply aren't enough, especially for experiences that never felt safe to speak out loud. By bringing art, movement, and creative expression into our work, we can gently access and heal the parts of you that are hardest to voice.
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Deep, Intuitive Inquiry: Clients frequently tell me that I ask the exact questions needed to get straight to the heart of the matter. This doesn’t happen by accident; it's a skill I’ve developed over 29 years of practice. It allows us to cut through the noise and help you understand your inner world much faster than you might expect.
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