Maybe you grew up around domestic abuse, addiction, emotional neglect, or other forms of violence. Perhaps your caregivers were anxious or depressed, and you had to grow up too fast. These experiences can shape how you navigate safety, trust, and relationships today. At Reina Therapy, you’ll get a space to gently unpack your history, rebuild safety, and move toward healing at your own pace.

Common themes in this work:

• Becoming “the strong one” or “the caretaker”
• Feeling responsible for other people’s emotions
• Fear of conflict or being misunderstood
• Difficulty trusting others or letting people in
• Feeling disconnected from your own needs
• Hyper-independence or shutting down when overwhelmed

Here, you get space to understand yourself, rebuild internal safety, and write a new experience of relationships, starting with the one you have with yourself.

Movement has always been your language. Your outlet. Your safe place. But when the music stops or when you’re still, things get harder.

You might feel pressure to push through pain, disconnect from your needs, silence your emotions, or perfect your body at any cost.

I help dancers, athletes, and movers of all kinds reconnect with themselves, heal from trauma stored in the body, and build a relationship with movement that feels supportive rather than punishing.

Common issues dancers/movers face:

• Body disconnection or hyper-awareness
• Perfectionism and performance pressure
• Anxiety or panic when still or resting
• Identity questions after injury or transition
• Trauma responses that show up in the body during movement

This work blends somatic therapy, mindfulness, and emotional grounding to help you feel whole both in motion and at rest.

Your mind never turns off. You replay conversations, anticipate worst-case scenarios, and analyze every feeling until you’re exhausted.
Even when nothing is “wrong,” your body stays tense, alert, or braced for impact.

Together, we slow things down—not by forcing calm, but by helping your nervous system feel genuinely safer. We explore what your thoughts are protecting you from, and help you create more space between you and your anxiety.

Common experiences we work on:

• Constant overthinking or second-guessing
• Feeling “on edge” or tense most of the day
• Struggling to rest or switch out of work mode
• Worrying about how others perceive you
• Physical symptoms like tightness, nausea, or restlessness
• Difficulty trusting your intuition or decisions

This work helps you feel more present, grounded, and confident in your own pace.

Whether you survived domestic violence, sexual assault, stalking, or another crime, you deserve a space that honors your story without rushing or retraumatizing you.

Here, you get to move at your own pace.
We focus on restoring safety, reclaiming your autonomy, and helping your nervous system believe that you’re not in danger anymore.

I support survivors who:

• Want to feel safe in their own skin again
• Struggle with body memories or triggers
• Feel on high alert or disconnected
• Carry shame or self-blame
• Find it hard to trust themselves or others

If you’ve been incarcerated or connected to gang life, you’ve had to stay tough, hyper-aware, and self-reliant. Those skills kept you alive, but they can make relationships, emotions, and slowing down feel uncomfortable or unfamiliar now.

Therapy gives you space to process what you’ve lived through, understand how it shows up in your body, and build new ways of coping that actually support the life you want. No judgment. No assumptions. Just real support for real experiences.

Support may include:

• Challenging old patterns without shame
• Understanding trauma reactions rooted in survival
• Rebuilding trust and safety after violence
• Navigating identity shifts and new environments
• Processing grief, loss, and life transitions