Somewhere along the way, you learned to perform a version of yourself that worked — the competent one, the steady one, the one who holds it together for everyone else. It served you. It may still be serving you. But performing a self is exhausting, and at some point the gap between who you are and who you're showing the world starts to ache. I work with adults who are carrying something they haven't had room to set down: a loss that didn't get grieved, a transition that rearranged who they are, a history the body still keeps a record of. Much of what brings people to my office isn't a single problem so much as the quiet cost of holding a role for too long — and underneath much of it, in one form or another, is grief. My approach is both relational and grounded in how the brain and nervous system actually work. Alongside talk therapy, I'm trained in EMDR for processing trauma and in qEEG-informed neurofeedback, which lets us look at and gently retrain patterns of nervous-system regulation rather than relying on insight alone. We'll match the work to what your system is ready for, not force a protocol onto it. I see clients in Virginia Beach, VA and Morehead City, NC, and virtually across the states where I'm licensed (VA, NC, SC, OH). I invite you to schedule a free consultation if this resonates.