Healing Starts with Understanding
Trauma, Anxiety & Relationship Insights from a Missouri Therapist
Welcome — I’m glad you’re here.
This blog is where I share tools, insights, and therapeutic guidance to help you understand trauma, anxiety, attachment wounds, relationship patterns, and the healing process.
All content is written by a licensed therapist providing online trauma therapy and couples counseling throughout Missouri — including Springfield, Kansas City, St. Louis, and surrounding areas.
Whether you’re exploring EMDR, wanting to understand your relationship triggers, or looking for support between sessions, you’ll find gentle, research-backed guidance here.
How to Stop the Same Arguments from Repeating in Your Relationship
Struggling with the same arguments? Learn why conflict cycles repeat and how to stop them. Online couples counseling across Missouri. Free relationship guides included.
Repeating the same arguments with your partner? This blog breaks down why conflict cycles happen, how attachment patterns show up in relationships, and what you can do to finally change the dynamic. Learn practical strategies to calm conflict, reconnect, and rebuild emotional safety. I offer online couples counseling throughout Missouri — including Springfield, Kansas City, St. Louis, Bolivar, and Polk County — and free resources to help you strengthen your relationship. Not ready for therapy yet? Explore my therapist-created mini-course, Roadmap for Couples: Back to Connection, based on Emotionally Focused Couples Therapy (EFCT).