You've been carrying this long enough.
Trauma has a way of making you feel like you're broken — like something happened to you and now you're just... different. Stuck. Like your nervous system never got the memo that the danger has passed.
You're not broken. You're responding to real things that happened to you. And you deserve support that actually understands that.
At Wolf & Willow, trauma therapy isn't about reliving the worst moments of your life for the sake of it. It's about helping your mind and body find safety again — at your pace, in a space that's genuinely built for it.
What we mean when we say "trauma-informed"
Trauma-informed care gets thrown around a lot. Here's what it actually looks like with us:
We go at your pace — you're never pushed to go somewhere you're not ready to go
We understand the body — trauma lives in the nervous system, not just the mind, and we work with that
We don't pathologize your responses — hypervigilance, dissociation, people-pleasing, shutting down — these are adaptations, not character flaws
We look at the whole picture — your identity, your community, your history all matter here
We work outside when it helps — nature and animals have a remarkable way of calming a dysregulated nervous system
What we work with
Trauma shows up in a lot of different forms. We have experience supporting folx navigating:
Childhood and developmental trauma — the kind that shaped you before you had words for it
Complex/relational trauma (C-PTSD) — repeated harm, often by people who were supposed to keep you safe
Intimate partner violence — leaving, surviving, rebuilding
Immigration trauma — displacement, family separation, navigating systems that weren't built for you
Racial and ethnic trauma — the chronic stress of racism, microaggressions, and identity-based harm
Religious and spiritual trauma — when faith was used as a weapon against you
Intergenerational trauma — carrying what was never yours to carry
LGBTQ+ specific trauma — rejection, conversion experiences, identity-based violence
Single-incident trauma — accidents, loss, medical events, assault
Our approach to healing
We integrate evidence-based approaches with something you don't always find in traditional therapy settings — the healing power of the natural world.
Sessions may include:
Talk therapy grounded in trauma-informed frameworks
Somatic and body-based work — because healing isn't just cognitive
Nature-based therapy — walking, grounding, being in the woods
Animal-assisted therapy — gentle, nonjudgmental connection that can reach places words can't
Expressive arts — writing, music, movement, creativity as a path through
Therapeutic horticulture — tending to living things as a way of tending to yourself
