IFS & EMDR Therapy for Adults in Oregon & Washington

Do you look “fine” on the outside — while constantly battling stress, anxiety, burnout, and self-doubt on the inside? You might be the reliable one, the high-achiever, the helper — the person others depend on. But beneath the calm exterior, you’re exhausted from working so hard to hold everything together.

If you identify as a people-pleaser, perfectionist, caretaker, or workaholic, you’re not alone. Many of my clients feel:

• Overwhelmed by expectations (your own and others’)

• Guilty setting boundaries

• Afraid of disappointing people

• Disconnected from their emotions and needs

• Constantly “on,” unable to relax

• Burned out — emotionally and physically

• Stuck in old patterns you can’t seem to change

You may look successful — but internally, you’re tired of striving, performing, and trying to be “enough.”

Therapy can help you slow down, reconnect, and finally feel safe being yourself.

Compassionate Therapy to Help You Understand — Not Fix — Yourself

At Inner Insight Counseling, I specialize in helping caring, driven, highly responsible people heal from old emotional patterns and nervous-system stress. Together, we’ll explore where these patterns came from — without blame, shame, or pressure.

I use evidence-based, trauma-informed approaches, including:

Internal Family Systems (IFS) Therapy

IFS helps you gently explore the “parts” of you that:

• Try to keep everyone happy

• Push you toward perfection

• Criticize or judge you

• Numb or distract you

• Carry old emotional wounds

Instead of fighting these parts, we learn to understand and heal them — so you can feel calmer, clearer, and more whole.

EMDR Therapy (Eye Movement Desensitization & Reprocessing)

EMDR helps your brain release and reprocess past experiences, stress, and trauma that may still be affecting you today — even if you’ve “moved on.” Many clients find EMDR especially helpful for:

• Anxiety and overwhelm

• Perfectionism and chronic self-criticism

• Burnout and stress

• People-pleasing patterns

• Childhood emotional wounds

• Traumatic or painful experiences

EMDR supports lasting nervous-system healing — without having to relive every detail of the past.

You Deserve to Feel Safe — Without Earning It

So many of my clients learned early in life that they needed to be:

✔ Helpful
✔ Kind
✔ Accommodating
✔ High-performing

…in order to be worthy of love, belonging, or safety.

Over time, this can lead to:

• Overworking

• Emotional numbness

• Anxiety & hyper-vigilance

• Trouble saying “no”

• Chronic stress & burnout

• A harsh inner critic

• Feeling like you’ve lost yourself

Therapy gives you space to reconnect with:

Your feelings
Your needs
Your body
Your boundaries
Your true self

You don’t have to prove your worth anymore.