Trauma Therapist Florida
You've tried to move past it. You've done the coping strategies, maybe spent time in therapy before. And yet the same patterns keep showing up in your relationships, your reactions, the voice that tells you you're too much or not enough.
Virtual trauma therapy is available to adults across Florida through Inner Harmony Counseling, where my work focuses on childhood trauma, family of origin wounds, and relational difficulties using Internal Family Systems (IFS) therapy. As a licensed professional counselor and licensed clinical mental health counselor with over 14 years of experience, my approach is grounded in the belief that you are not broken, and that real change is possible. Sessions are available statewide via a HIPAA-secure platform, with Aetna and Blue Cross Blue Shield accepted in-network and private pay on a sliding scale from $100 to $165.
What keeps you stuck even after years of trying to heal
The pattern I hear most often sounds something like this: you can't seem to get over the past, and it keeps affecting your relationships. You feel disconnected from yourself. You've tried to think your way through it, and it hasn't worked.
If that resonates, what you're carrying isn't a character flaw. It's a set of protective responses that made sense given what you lived through, and they deserve to be understood rather than pushed away.
How IFS therapy works for trauma
Internal Family Systems understands you as a person with many inner parts, each shaped by your history, each trying to protect you in some way. The part that drives perfectionism. The one that numbs out when things get hard. The one that keeps choosing people who aren't emotionally available.
The work doesn't try to eliminate those parts. It tries to understand them, and in doing so, gives them permission to soften. The work here draws from the same IFS-rooted foundation that shapes trauma therapy at Inner Harmony Counseling, where healing is understood as a relational process, not a protocol.
Sessions are 50 minutes and held virtually. Most Florida clients start weekly and shift to every other week as the work progresses.
Who this work is for
This is individual therapy for adults 18 and up, with a primary focus on those in their mid-twenties through late forties. If your history includes emotional neglect, enmeshment, parentification, or relational trauma, this approach is designed for exactly that kind of pain.
For clients who aren't sure whether their childhood experiences count as trauma, the page on help for childhood trauma as an adult addresses exactly that question. Clients carrying layered histories of relational injury often relate to what's described in the therapy for complex trauma symptoms page, particularly the way those symptoms tend to show up in relationships rather than in isolation.
What I bring to this work
Over 14 years of clinical experience shapes how this work actually unfolds in session, including running the crisis unit at the largest women's prison in Georgia, private practice trauma work, and time working in an eating disorder treatment center. You can read more about my background and approach to understand how that experience informs the work we do together.
My licensure covers Florida, Georgia, North Carolina, and South Carolina, and my credentials include both LPC and LCMHC. The same approach is available to clients in Georgia, where working as a trauma therapist means holding the same standard of care across state lines.
Fees, insurance, and how to get started
Virtual sessions are $165 for 50 minutes. My practice is in-network with Aetna and Blue Cross Blue Shield, and a sliding scale is available to $100 for private pay clients.
Your first session covers what's bringing you to therapy right now, relevant history, practice logistics, and what progress might look like for you. Before that, there's a free 15-minute phone consultation so you can ask questions and get a feel for fit before committing to anything.
The process starts with a free 15-minute consultation designed to give you a real sense of whether this approach fits before any commitment is made.
Questions people ask before booking
I've already tried therapy and it didn't really help. Why would this be different?
IFS works at a different level than many common approaches. If past therapy focused on reframing thoughts or building coping skills without reaching what's underneath, that gap is worth talking about. This work is designed to address what's driving the patterns, not just the patterns themselves.
Do I need to know what my trauma is before I start?
No. A diagnosis, a clear story, or a specific word for what happened is not required to begin. If you know something feels persistently off, that relationships are harder than they should be, or that you keep reacting in ways you don't fully understand, that's enough.
How long does trauma therapy usually take?
This kind of work takes time, and I won't suggest otherwise. Clients typically begin noticing meaningful shifts over months, not weeks. Because the work addresses what's underneath the surface patterns, the changes tend to be lasting rather than temporary.
Is virtual therapy effective for trauma?
Yes. For the relational, exploratory work IFS involves, virtual sessions are fully effective. Everything takes place through a HIPAA-secure platform, and Florida clients access sessions from wherever they're most comfortable. For some people, working from their own space makes it easier to go to harder places.
You don't have to have it figured out before you reach out
If something on this page felt true to you, that recognition is worth paying attention to. You don't need to be in crisis, and you don't need to know exactly what to say.
The process starts with a free 15-minute consultation designed to give you a real sense of whether this approach fits before any commitment is made.