Is your past keeping you from having the healthy relationships you crave?
You're here because past relational traumas keep getting in the way of feeling loved and connected in your relationships. You're afraid you'll push people away if you show your true self, or get hurt if you let your guard down. You're open to learning more about yourself. Ready to explore how your past experiences shaped unhealthy patterns in your relationships with yourself and others.
You're tired of re-experiencing relational trauma and want to finally heal.
More than anything, you want to get to a place where you can have healthy, stable intimate relationships and feel safe in your own body.
You're tired of re-experiencing relational trauma and want to finally heal.
More than anything, you want to get to a place where you can have healthy, stable intimate relationships and feel safe in your own body.
You're tired of feeling broken, damaged, unloveable.
You know something needs to change... you're just not sure what, or how.
You're in the right place.
Hi, I'm Smadar. I believe your past doesn't have to dictate your future.
I specialize in helping adult survivors of childhood emotional neglect, narcissistic abuse, and complex trauma (CPTSD) navigate and heal past relational traumas so you can build healthy relationships with yourself and others.
People come to me looking for someone who gets dysfunctional relationships & complex trauma (CPTSD) on a deeper level because therapy should be a place where you feel safe & validated. In sessions we’ll explore how your past impacts you now, using attachment & interpersonal neurobiology to create lasting changes. In sessions, we'll explore your past, but not relive it. So you don't have to worry about being re-traumatized in therapy. Together we'll identify how relational patterns from your past keep you stuck replaying painful relationship dynamics in the present. We'll identify core emotional needs and learn how to communicate these effectively. We'll establish healthy relational boundaries, gain tools to reduce emotional reactivity, and learn to trust yourself so that you can feel safe, secure, and stable within your own body and life - maybe for the first time ever. I have nearly two decades of experience and a small-by-design telehealth practice helping individual adults and couples break painful relationship patterns rooted in childhood trauma, dysfunction, abuse, & emotional neglect. It's time to stop wondering what's wrong with you and start building the life you desire. Telehealth in California, Florida, Michigan, and Vermont. |
You don't have to struggle alone.
I can help you heal your past and transform your future.
You can build healthy relationships with yourself and others.
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I specialize in therapy for lasting change. |
Diverse populations are always welcome in my practice, including all cultures, sexual orientations, genders, and relationship structures.
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You're here because of part of you believes that life can get better.
I believe it can get better for you, too.
You're not alone.
Healing from relational abuse and emotional neglect starts with feeling safe enough to open up in a validating and empowering therapeutic relationship.
Maybe you've been in therapy before, read all the self-help books and blogs, listened to all the podcasts... but still feel stuck.
The real healing from Relational and Complex Trauma (C-PTSD) comes from uncovering and addressing the full impact of the trauma on your self of sense and your relationships. Not from reliving the trauma over and over again in therapy sessions. Deep relational wounds are healed relationally through feeling safe, learning to sit with the pain as it comes up rather than pushing it away, and integrating all parts of you in an accepting, non-judgmental therapeutic relationship.
Maybe you've been in therapy before, read all the self-help books and blogs, listened to all the podcasts... but still feel stuck.
The real healing from Relational and Complex Trauma (C-PTSD) comes from uncovering and addressing the full impact of the trauma on your self of sense and your relationships. Not from reliving the trauma over and over again in therapy sessions. Deep relational wounds are healed relationally through feeling safe, learning to sit with the pain as it comes up rather than pushing it away, and integrating all parts of you in an accepting, non-judgmental therapeutic relationship.
Life doesn't have to stay this way.
I can help you move past your past.
A better you awaits you.
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Getting started is simple. Here's how: |
1. Schedule a free, no-commitment consultation. |
2. Show up to sessions to explore, process, and practice together.
3. Get unstuck from the constant, predictable loop of feeling out of control and damaged.
You can find peace of mind and begin living a more calm, connected, stable life.
Therapy should be a place where you feel safe, seen, supported, and empowered.
I can help you to:
- Work through unresolved past relational trauma and abuse affecting your current relationships.
- Create better boundaries in relationships with family and friends.
- Work through challenges and anxiety around dating and intimacy in order to have healthy romantic relationships.
- Improve your relationship with yourself and feel safe in your body.
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In my clients' words: |
"With Smadar’s help I began to see how relational trauma, when not directly confronted and dealt with, can end up creating a lifelong pattern of avoidance and dysfunction. Smadar is very good at what she does." |
"Smadar is a phenomenal therapist. With her help, I started peeling back my many layers of dysfunction as a child of mentally ill and alcoholic parents. I’m less afraid of relationships and intimacy now than I’ve ever been before." |
"It took a long time for me to find a therapist who challenges me but also validates me. It’s taken several years of nonstop work to begin feeling like a whole person. I’m more stable and more fully integrated now than I’ve ever been." |
"The future feels less hypothetical. I'm starting to get glimpses of it. For the first time in my life I'm becoming who I truly am, and living the life I truly want. I'm truly thankful for how you've supported me and helped me to grow. " |