Trauma Therapy
in Ohio.
You don't have to call it trauma to deserve support.
Something hasn't felt right for a long time.
Trauma isn't always what
you think it looks like.
It doesn't have to be a single dramatic event. It doesn't have to be something you can name. Sometimes it's just a persistent feeling that something is off, and has been for a long time.
Many people who've experienced trauma don't think of themselves as having trauma. They think of themselves as anxious, or overly sensitive, or someone who struggles more than they should. They've been told, or have told themselves, that what happened wasn't that bad.
But trauma isn't about comparison. It's about what you went through and how it's still shaping your life today.
Trauma therapy in Columbus & Worthington, Ohio
Trauma can be a single overwhelming event, or it can be something that built slowly over time — years of feeling unsafe, unseen, or like you had to shrink yourself to be accepted. It can come from childhood, from relationships, from the workplace, or from carrying the weight of something no one around you acknowledged.
Whatever the source, the impact is real. And it often shows up in ways that are hard to connect back to what happened: in your relationships, your nervous system, the way you move through the world.
Whatever brought you here, this is a place to start making sense of it.
Trauma & its effects
You may recognize
yourself here.
These aren't signs that something is wrong with you. They're signs that your mind and body have been working hard to protect you — and that you might be ready for some support.
Trauma responses — including fawning, freezing, and people-pleasing — are ways the nervous system learns to cope. They made sense once. Therapy helps them soften when they're no longer needed.
- You feel anxious, on edge, or like you're always waiting for something to go wrong
- You find yourself going along with things you don't want, to avoid conflict or keep the peace
- You shut down emotionally, or feel numb and disconnected from yourself and others
- You replay past events, or certain memories, images, or feelings come back when you don't expect them
- You struggle with people-pleasing, difficulty saying no, or putting everyone else's needs ahead of your own
- You carry persistent shame, self-blame, or a deep sense that something is fundamentally wrong with you
- You feel safe in your life now but still can't seem to relax — like your body never got the message
Trauma responses — including fawning, freezing, and people-pleasing — are ways the nervous system learns to cope. They made sense once. Therapy helps them soften when they're no longer needed.
Understanding the patterns
This isn't who you are.
It's what you learned.
Even when the original event is long past, the effects don't just live in memory. They show up in the body — in tight muscles, disrupted sleep, a hair-trigger stress response, and a persistent difficulty feeling safe even in calm situations.
This isn't weakness. It's what happens when you've had to be on guard for so long that your mind and body don't know how to stop.
For many people, especially those with complex or relational trauma, the effects don't look like what most people picture when they hear the word trauma. They show up quietly, as a pattern of shrinking, over-apologizing, working too hard to be liked, or never quite feeling at ease in relationships. You might not connect any of this to trauma at all. You might just feel like you're too much, or not enough, or somehow fundamentally hard to love.
Therapy offers a space to gently understand those patterns: where they came from, what they were protecting you from, and how to start loosening their hold.
You don't have to have a diagnosis to deserve support. You don't have to prove your pain was bad enough. You just have to know that you're ready to stop feeling this way. And you don't have to do that alone.
Sessions are collaborative and trauma-informed, grounded in self-compassion and evidence-based approaches including EMDR. We go at your pace, follow what feels most relevant, and never push you toward material before you're ready.
Over time, many people find that they're able to feel more settled in their bodies, more present in their relationships, and more like themselves. Not because the past is erased, but because it no longer has the same hold.
If anxiety, perfectionism or people-pleasing, or working in a high-demand field like healthcare feels connected to what you're carrying, we can work with all of it together.
Getting started
When you’re ready to begin.
Reach Out
Connect through the contact form, or reach out directly by email or phone. Every message is read and responded to by Linnea personally.
Free Consultation
We'll meet for a complimentary consultation to talk about what's bringing you here, answer your questions, and see if working together feels like a good fit.
Begin Therapy
If it feels right, we'll schedule your first session — in person in Worthington or via telehealth across Ohio — and start building the support you're looking for.
You're in the right place
You don't have to have it
all figured out to reach out.
I work with people navigating the effects of complex and relational trauma. People who often don't identify with the word trauma at all, but who recognize the patterns: the hypervigilance, the people-pleasing, the difficulty trusting themselves or others, the feeling that they're always bracing for something.
For many of my clients, what they're carrying has been there for a long time. It didn't arrive all at once. And it won't leave all at once either. But it can shift. Slowly, gently, at a pace that feels safe.
You don't have to have the words. You don't have to know what happened or why you feel the way you do. You just have to be willing to start.
Take the first step
You've carried this
long enough. Let's talk.
Reach out and we can talk through what’s bringing you here.
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