Specialties
Trauma & PTSD
This is where most of my work lives. The past is over, but the mind can keep responding as if it isn't.
What this looks like
You react before you've decided to.
Your body stays braced for something that already happened.
You avoid certain places, people, or conversations.
It feels like you're managing it rather than free of it.
How Rapid Resolution Therapy approaches it
You do not have to retell it. Nothing about this work requires you to walk back through the worst day of your life for my benefit.
RRT works below the level of talk, with the part of the mind that is still holding the event. The aim is for the event to stop carrying a charge, instead of being endlessly revisited.
How trauma stays in the present
The event has an end date. Your reactions often don't seem to know that. A smell, a tone of voice, a car door, a certain time of year, and your body answers before you've had a chance to think. That speed is the point. The part of the mind that learned to protect you works faster than reasoning does.
That's a learned reflex, not a weakness. You didn't choose it, and you can't argue it into standing down. People often tell me they know perfectly well they're safe now and still feel like they aren't. Both things can be true at once, and that gap is exactly what the work is aimed at.
Trauma also doesn't have to be one dramatic event. It can be something that happened in childhood, a car crash, an assault, or a hurricane that took more than a roof.
What PTSD can look like day to day
Sleep that won't come, or comes with dreams you'd rather not have. Jumping at sounds other people barely notice. Walking into a room and checking the exits without meaning to. A short fuse. Steering around anything that might remind you. Or the opposite of all of that: a numbness where feeling used to be.
Plenty of people have some of these without ever getting a diagnosis, and this isn't a checklist. If some of it sounds familiar, that's reason enough to have a conversation. You don't need a label to deserve relief.
Why you don't have to retell it
Some approaches ask you to go back over the event in detail, again and again. That's not how I work. What we focus on is how your mind is holding the experience now, the charge it still carries and the way it keeps firing. That can be worked with without a blow-by-blow account.
You choose what to share. If you want to tell me something, I'll listen. If you'd rather give me a sentence and leave it there, that's enough to work with. Rapid Resolution Therapy is built around that, and if you're comparing options, I've written about how RRT differs from EMDR.
What a session is like
Sessions are 90 minutes by secure video, from a private space somewhere in Florida. It's a conversation, not an interrogation. It's direct, and it's often lighter than people expect going in.
You stay in the driver's seat. If something isn't working, we adjust in the room. There's no homework stack waiting for you afterward. If you want the nuts and bolts, here's how a 90-minute session works. If you're unsure whether this applies to you, see signs of unresolved trauma, and for the retelling question, do I have to relive my trauma in therapy?
If you're in crisis, call or text 988 (Suicide & Crisis Lifeline). For emergencies, dial 911.
You don't have to go back through it to be free of it.
Questions people ask
No. You don't need to arrive with a diagnosis or any paperwork. The free 15-minute consultation is where we work out whether what you're dealing with is a good fit for this kind of work.
That's common, and it doesn't get in the way. We work with how the experience is affecting you now, not with a complete record of the past. Gaps are fine.
For many people, being in their own space makes it easier, not harder. We go at a pace you can manage, and you can pause or slow down at any point. If you're in crisis or need emergency support, scheduled online sessions aren't the right starting point, and I'll say so.
Not sure if what you're carrying fits here?
A free 15-minute call is the simplest way to find out.
Rapid Resolution Therapy is a therapeutic approach, not a guarantee of specific results and not a substitute for medical care. Every person's experience is different and individual outcomes vary.
It's not what's wrong with you... It's what happened to you.