Trauma Therapy in NYC
Virtual therapy throughout New York and New Jersey
Are You Struggling to Heal from the Past?
Trauma is not defined only by the events you lived through. It is shaped by how your nervous system adapted in order to survive. You may know that something is “in the past” and still find that your body reacts as if it is happening now. You might feel on edge, numb, overwhelmed, disconnected, or unsure why certain situations affect you so strongly.
Trauma therapy isn't only about what happened to you. It's what your body and nervous system learned to do to survive it. It looks like a flinch before you consciously register a threat. A body that stays braced long after the danger has passed. Trusting someone with your whole self feeling nearly impossible, even when you want to.
Grounded in a relational and somatic framework, this work prioritizes safety, trust, and collaboration because healing trauma alone, in your head, rarely reaches what's actually stored in the body. We process traumatic and sensory memories together, understand their emotional and physiological impact, and gently reconnect with parts of yourself that may feel disconnected or overwhelmed.
Every trauma story is unique. That's why this work is personalized, culturally responsive, and rooted in both evidence-based practice and deep emotional attunement, whether you're coping with a single event or the long-term effects of complex, relational, or systemic trauma.
Types Of Trauma Therapy that we might work through:
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PTSD develops after a specific, identifiable event: an accident, an assault, a loss, a moment where your safety was genuinely threatened.
If you’ve been asking:
“Why can’t I stop thinking about what happened?”
“Why do I still feel anxious or on edge?”
You’re not alone. Even brief moments of crisis can disrupt your sense of safety and trust in the world.
The nervous system holds onto that moment long after it's over, showing up as flashbacks, hypervigilance, or a body that stays braced for something that already happened. This work helps you process the event itself and reconnect with a sense of safety in the present.
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C-PTSD isn't rooted in one event. It comes from prolonged or repeated exposure to unsafe conditions, often over years, often in relationships where you had no way out. It can shape how you see yourself as much as how you respond to the world: chronic self-doubt, difficulty trusting, a nervous system that learned to stay on guard as a way of life.
If you find yourself wondering:
“Why do I struggle with relationships, boundaries, or self-worth?”
“Why do I feel stuck in emotional patterns that don’t make sense?”
You may be navigating developmental trauma or complex PTSD which is often rooted in childhood experiences such as emotional neglect, inconsistent caregiving, abuse, or chronic stress.
This work moves slower by necessity, building safety and self-trust alongside processing what happened.
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Some trauma lives specifically in how connection itself was learned through a parent, a partner, a family system where closeness came with conditions or harm. It often shows up not as a memory but as a pattern: pulling away right when things get close, reading danger into ordinary conflict, struggling to feel safe even in relationships that are actually safe. This work traces those patterns and release them, so they stop running your closest relationships today.
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Trauma processed directly through the body, for what talking alone hasn't been able to fully reach
Jem Wong, LMFT
You deserve to get the help you need and to invest in yourself and your relationships. The therapy relationship is such an important part of the work; it's important to find the right fit. If you're curious, please reach out. We'll schedule a free consult to determine whether we're a good fit, and if not, I'll try to point you in the right direction.
what this all can look like in practice:
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Understand different sides of you. Like the part that’s always on high alert, or the part that tells you to dissociate. The work isn't about eliminating any of these parts, but getting to know them with curiosity and compassion, so your core Self can lead instead of any one part running the show alone.
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Trauma-focused therapy that identifies your body’s responses and may involve guided eye movements. We’ll notice your breathing, heart rate, and any areas of tension, and work to bring softness, curiosity, and understanding for your physical being. Over time, this can reduce the emotional intensity of the memory, allowing it to become something the person can remember without being retraumatized by it.
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Attachment-based approach that helps couples identify the negative cycle they keep getting pulled into — one person reaching, the other withdrawing — and understand the deeper attachment fears driving it. Rather than focusing on the surface argument, EFT works to access and reshape the underlying emotions, so partners can respond to what's actually happening between them and build a more secure, trusting bond.
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Practical tools for managing intense emotion, tolerating distress without making it worse, and reducing anxiety in relationships and social situations.
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Shifts the goal from eliminating anxiety to building a life that isn’t organized around avoiding it. Focuses on values, present-moment awareness, and learning to hold difficult thoughts without being controlled by them.