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Therapy Nook A space for deep healing, honest reflection, and intentional growth.

We support those navigating life transitions and emotional overwhelm, helping you reconnect with yourself—gently, but truthfully.

Can I tell you a secret? You are not a problem to be solved.We come into therapy — or into healing in any form — with th...
04/20/2026

Can I tell you a secret?

You are not a problem to be solved.

We come into therapy — or into healing in any form — with this quiet hope that one day it’ll just be done. Fixed. Resolved. That we’ll finally arrive somewhere and not have to tend to ourselves anymore.

But healing doesn’t work like that. And honestly? That used to frustrate me too.
What I’ve come to understand — clinically and personally — is that healing is less about reaching a destination and more about learning to be a compassionate witness to yourself along the way. The nonlinear days. The setbacks that feel like betrayal. The small, quiet moments where you realize something shifted.

That’s the work. And none of it means you’re broken.

You’re just a person learning to come home to yourself — one layer at a time.

Save this one, Instacousins. Share it with someone who’s been waiting to feel “fixed” before they let themselves rest. 🤍

04/15/2026

I’m a licensed trauma therapist.

I specialize in complex trauma and nervous system regulation.

I just want you to know I’m doing really well. ✌🏾

The coconuts — part of the grounding practice. The one in the pothos —totally intentional. The dish soap — sensory exercise. The floor — a whole somatic intervention.

I am completely in my window of tolerance.

She is regulated. She is on the floor. These are not contradictory statements.

Drop a 🥥 in the comments if you’ve had a “I’m fine” day that looked like this.

Can I tell you something that genuinely still amazes me after years of doing this work?The thing you’re struggling with ...
04/13/2026

Can I tell you something that genuinely still amazes me after years of doing this work?

The thing you’re struggling with — the hypervigilance, the anxiety that doesn’t match your life, the way calm never quite feels safe — it might not have started with you.

Intergenerational trauma is real. And thanks to a field called epigenetics, we now know it’s not just emotional — it’s biological. Your nervous system is holding stories it didn’t personally live. And that changes everything about how we approach healing.

This is why context matters in therapy. This is why “just think positive” was never going to be enough. And this is why you deserve care that actually understands where you came from.

Save this one, Instacousins. And share it with someone who’s been hard on themselves for reactions they never asked to have. 🤍

💬 Drop a 🌊 below if this one landed for you

04/11/2026

Every time you override your “no” just to keep someone else comfortable, you’re not being kind.
You’re abandoning yourself.

And your body knows it. 🤍

This is the work we’re practicing over here at Therapy Nook—coming back to yourself in real time, not after the damage is done.

No self-abandonment today.

Drop a 🤍 in the comments if you’ve ever chosen someone else’s comfort over your own truth.

04/09/2026

Notice where you feel it in your body. Don’t run from it, don’t intellectualize it — just be present with it. Locate it. Breathe into it.

That’s the work.

The irony is not lost on me 🤣 We’re all a work in progress out here!

Where do YOU carry it? Drop it in the comments.

PTSD and Complex PTSD are not the same thing — and the difference matters more than most people know. 🧠One comes from an...
04/06/2026

PTSD and Complex PTSD are not the same thing — and the difference matters more than most people know. 🧠

One comes from an event. The other comes from an environment. And if you grew up in a home, a community, or a system that was never truly safe — your nervous system learned to survive it the only way it could.

That’s not a character flaw. That’s adaptation.
Swipe through because I broke this down the way I wish someone had explained it to me — no jargon, no judgment, just the real.

Save it. Share it. Tag someone who needs the language for what they’ve been feeling.

04/03/2026

I didn’t plan on getting a kitten.

But I had been carrying around this enormous amount of love for about 6 or 7 months with absolutely nowhere to put it.

Depression has a way of doing that — it doesn’t take away your capacity to love, it just… blocks the exit.

And then this little one showed up.

He didn’t ask me to be okay. He just needed me to show up, fill his bowl, and let him fall asleep on my chest after a day full of panic attacks and pretending I was fine.

He literally saved my life. And honestly? It’s enough.

If you’re in a season where you have more love than you know what to do with — I see you. Sometimes the smallest things carry the most light. 🐾

04/01/2026

Three years. I owe y’all a whole update.

I’ve been quiet on here for a reason — not because nothing was happening, but because everything was happening. And some of it I wasn’t ready to say out loud yet.

So here’s the real:

I moved into an apartment that was genuinely from hell. Sued my landlady. Three times. (Yes, three.) Lost a friendship that meant everything to me — not because anybody was wrong, just because we both grew and the dynamic couldn’t hold the weight of who we were becoming. That one still sits with me.

And then I lost my grandfather.

He raised me. He was there in the way that restructures a whole child’s sense of safety and worth. And I didn’t fully understand how much of my identity was built around his presence until he was gone.
Losing him in March of 2025 cracked something open in me. I found myself asking — Who am I now that this man is not in the world?

That grief became one of the longest depressive episodes of my life. Three medication changes. Passive suicidality. The kind of darkness that makes you grateful for every plant, every pet, every person who loves you enough to stay in the room.

I had to advocate hard for myself to get the treatment I needed. Ketamine therapy has genuinely saved my life. I don’t say that lightly.

And in the middle of all of that — I was also navigating reproductive health issues that had me quietly grieving something else entirely. The kind of grief that doesn’t always get a funeral. But I can finally say, on the other side of it, that my body can finally have a baby. And when that right person comes along? We are ready. 💚

Oh — and my car got stolen on January 1st, 2026. Because life was like girl, we are not done yet. 😭

Here’s what I’ve learned: I have better tools now. I have people who love me. I made it.

I share all of this because I am a clinician who believes you deserve access to therapists who are honest — not just polished. Not just credentialed. But human. We need that. Especially us.

This is the highlight reel. But know that behind every highlight was a hard day somebody chose to survive.

Glad I’m still here. 💚

💬 Drop a 💚 if you’ve had a season that almost took you out but didn’t.

03/30/2026

Not new… just realigned.

Back with deeper clarity, softer edges, and a sharper vision.
Everything I’ve been through refined the work, not paused it.

Back—and better than yesterday. Always.

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