Comprehensive Therapeutic Services Trauma | Grief | EMDR | DEPTH
Helping individuals build self-awareness, inner-connectedness, and emotional resilience. Your healing is a sacred journey.
Who I work with:
- deep thinkers
- highly sensitive people
- creatives, seekers, & dreamers
- those who want change
- those who seek depth
- those who are ready to meet themselves with honesty
If you're scared but willing, you're in the right place!
Therapy for Trauma, Anxiety, Grief, and Disconnection
Many people today feel overwhelmed, emotionally disconnected, chronically anxious, or trapped in painful relational patterns they cannot fully explain. Even in the presence of others, there can be a persistent sense of loneliness, emptiness, or internal unrest. Often, these struggles are rooted not only in present stressors but in unresolved experiences from the past that continue to shape the nervous system, relationships, self-worth, and sense of identity.
At Sensing the Self, I work with adults navigating trauma, grief, anxiety, emotional overwhelm, attachment wounds, life transitions, relational difficulties, and the lasting effects of childhood emotional neglect or adverse experiences. Many clients come to therapy feeling disconnected from themselves — stuck in patterns of over-functioning, people-pleasing, emotional numbing, hypervigilance, perfectionism, or difficulty feeling safe in relationships.
Therapy is a space to slow down, reconnect with yourself, and begin understanding the deeper origins of your emotional experience rather than simply managing symptoms at the surface. Together, we explore how past experiences, family systems, attachment patterns, and survival responses may still be shaping your present life. Through increased self-awareness, nervous system regulation, emotional processing, and compassionate exploration, therapy can support a stronger sense of identity, inner stability, and authentic connection.
My approach is trauma-informed, relational, and depth-oriented, integrating EMDR, somatic awareness, attachment theory, mindfulness, IFS, and psychodynamic insight. This work is not about “fixing” or "controlling" problematic behaviors. It is about helping you reconnect with the parts of yourself that may have been suppressed, abandoned, or disconnected in the process of survival.
Clients can expect therapy to be collaborative, reflective, and grounded in emotional safety. The goal is not perfection or performance, but developing the capacity to remain connected to yourself with greater honesty, clarity, resilience, and self-compassion — even amidst uncertainty or pain.
Healing often begins by learning that you no longer have to abandon yourself in order to belong, be loved, or feel safe. Intimate connection with others becomes possible when there is an authentic connection within yourself first.
Christina Kaufman, LCSW TX#111533 CA#138140