Trauma Therapy · Boca Raton, FL
The patterns you can name aren't the ones keeping you stuck.
Trauma-informed therapy for women in Boca Raton, Florida, working at the layer underneath what you already know about yourself.
Training & supervision
EMDR-trained
EMDRIA-approved basic training curriculum
AEDP-trained
AEDP Institute
IFS-informed
Internal Family Systems
MS, Clinical Mental Health Counseling
Master's level clinician
Practicing under qualified supervision
Supervised by Karin Witte, LMHC #MH13488
Currently practicing at Genesis Counseling, Boca Raton.
What is trauma therapy in Boca Raton?
Trauma therapy in Boca Raton is psychotherapy that addresses how past overwhelming experiences continue to shape the nervous system, the body, and everyday life. Hannah Lee, RMHCI, integrates EMDR, AEDP, and somatic approaches under qualified Florida supervision, working with single-event PTSD, complex trauma, developmental trauma, and relational wounds for women in Boca Raton and via telehealth statewide.
What trauma actually looks like
It isn't always the obvious things.
The women who come to me for trauma work rarely arrive saying "I have trauma". They say something quieter — that they feel anxious in ways that don't match the situation, that they can't relax even when nothing's wrong, that their reactions in relationships feel bigger than the moment calls for, that they've talked through their history with another therapist but the body still hasn't gotten the memo.
Trauma is what happens when an experience overwhelmed what your nervous system could process at the time. Often it isn't a single dramatic event — it's a long pattern of small experiences that taught your system the world wasn't safe, or you weren't safe in it, or you couldn't trust the people who were supposed to take care of you.
What I work with
Developmental & relational trauma
The patterns formed in early relationships that continue to shape how you trust, connect, and protect yourself today. Often the hardest to name because they feel like personality.
PTSD & acute trauma
Single-event or short-duration trauma that produces classic PTSD responses — hyperarousal, intrusive memories, avoidance, emotional numbing. EMDR has decades of research support here.
Complex trauma (C-PTSD)
Prolonged, repeated trauma — typically interpersonal — that affects emotional regulation, identity, and relational patterns. Paced, longer work that holds room for both processing and stabilization.
Trauma that's "small-T"
The experiences that don't fit a textbook definition but still left a mark. Chronic dismissal, emotional unavailability, betrayals, the slow erosion of trust. Real trauma, real work.
How I work
Trauma reaches places words alone can't.
Talk therapy has its place. Insight matters. But trauma lives below the level of conscious thought — in the body, in implicit memory, in the patterns your nervous system runs without asking permission. To reach it, the work has to reach there too.
My approach integrates EMDR for the processing work, AEDP for the relational and emotional safety that makes processing possible, and somatic awareness throughout. The methods are tools, not the point. The working relationship is the point.
We move at the pace your nervous system can hold. Nothing is forced. The goal is not to dramatize what happened to you, but to help your whole self experience that it is over.
What to expect
Slower than people expect.
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01 · Free consultation
A 15-minute phone call. You share what's bringing you in. I share how I work. We see if it feels like a fit.
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02 · First sessions
Before any trauma processing, we get oriented. I learn your history, your patterns, your existing supports. We make sure you have what you need to do the work safely.
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03 · The processing work
When you're ready, we begin EMDR or somatic processing on the material that's keeping you stuck. This is often the part clients have heard about and want to skip to — and the reason we don't is that the prep is what makes the processing land.
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04 · Integration
Processing isn't the end. The integration phase is where new patterns settle into daily life. We work toward you trusting yourself enough to keep going on your own.
Common questions about trauma therapy
Do I have to talk about everything that happened?
No. EMDR in particular works with how memories are stored, not how good you are at describing them. You stay in control of what you share at every step.
How long does trauma therapy take?
Everyone is different. Some people working through a single-event trauma notice meaningful shifts in around 6-12 sessions once preparation is in place; others take longer. Complex or developmental trauma is paced work over a longer timeframe. We talk through expectations during the consult.
Is in-person or telehealth better for trauma work?
Both work. Some clients prefer the containment of an in-person room; others prefer the regulation of being in their own space. We discuss the fit during the consult.
What if I've done therapy before and it didn't help?
That's common with trauma — talk-only approaches often reach a plateau because the implicit material doesn't respond to talking about it. EMDR and somatic work specifically target what insight alone can't reach.
An invitation
Worth a 15-minute call?
Trauma therapy is a long working relationship. The free consultation is the lowest-stakes way to feel out whether we'd work well together.
No commitment. I'll reply by email with a few times.
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