Helping individuals and relationships heal from the effects of trauma and addiction.
When trauma or addiction are part of your story, your relationships can become about protection—carrying old wounds, old survival strategies—rather than intimacy, security, and trust.
To build relationships that truly nourish us, we have to heal those old wounds, write new stories, and create new patterns of relating—to ourselves and to each other.
MEET YOUR THERAPIST
Kim Hogan
Marriage and Family Therapist Associate
CGAC-II, CADC-R
TRAUMA & ADDICTION ARE INTERTWINED.
Addiction can be a reaction to trauma, and addiction can be traumatizing, both for the person struggling and for those close to them. Our systems respond to trauma by trying to protect us in order to survive the circumstances. This can train our systems to never leave that protective, survival-first mode—then, we keep using the same survival tools, just in different contexts.
AND THERE’S AN IMPACT.
In protection mode, our systems struggle to allow for the safety that intimacy requires. We learn to soothe ourselves without safety or closeness, but we’re human. We still need both.
THERAPY CAN HELP.
To heal, we get to know our protections, access our emotions, learn new ways to soothe, meet our needs directly, and build new patterns of connection instead of disconnection.
IF YOU SEE YOURSELF HERE, MY SPECIALIZATION MIGHT BE RIGHT FOR YOU.
Resentment is plaguing us.
Communication ends in conflict, escalation, or just not feeling heard.
Everyone feels like they’re walking on eggshells.
Something happened that needs to be addressed, but it feels impossible to talk about.
There are really high highs and low lows, feeling unstable and insecure.
We struggle to maintain our own hobbies and friends outside of the relationship.
IN MY RELATIONSHIP…
I crave intimate relationships but end up running away or getting really anxious at the possibility.
I keep landing in the same relationship, job, or situation.
I overthink, analyze, and intellectualize—I can’t seem to just be present.
I don’t feel valuable unless I’m successful at my job or in a relationship.
I feel like a chameleon, reflecting the people I’m around.
I react to my big emotions and catastrophic thoughts, acting in ways that don’t feel like me.