Notice: My therapeutic practice is currently closed to new clients as I train full-time to become a high-conflict family lawyer. Please see my homepage for the full update.
Professional Note for Legal Employers & Firms
As a future high-conflict family lawyer, my clinical understanding of Complex Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (C-PTSD) and relational trauma serves as a vital tool for case strategy and client management. In high-conflict family law disputes, clients and children dealing with severe domestic or psychological abuse often exhibit deep trauma responses that can be misconstrued in a legal setting as unreliability or instability. Recognizing that adult vulnerabilities are frequently rooted in childhood programming allows me to bring advanced risk assessment, trauma-informed litigation strategy, and elite protective advocacy to complex family law cases—assets that standard legal training alone cannot replicate.
Redefining PTSD & C-PTSD Beyond the Battlefield
CPTSD and PTSD are not conditions that just cause suffering for service personnel, first responders, healthcare workers, or victims of violent crimes.
People who have gone through some form of abuse—whether by a parent or caregiver, sibling, family member, or an intimate partner—are also extremely susceptible to experiencing PTSD and CPTSD, along with all the associated symptoms.
The Root of Relational Trauma
PTSD in adulthood is almost always linked to childhood trauma and relational trauma, rather than just an isolated event experienced in adulthood, in the military, or as a first responder.
A person will often already be dealing with CPTSD symptoms in childhood due to the traumatic dynamics that occurred to them back then. It is for this very reason that, as an adult, a individual becomes more vulnerable to experiencing PTSD on the battlefield, and why a person might unconsciously enter—and stay in—an abusive relationship with an intimate partner.