Therapy for Veterans in Nevada & Utah
You don’t have to be in crisis for something from your service, or life, to still be affecting you.
Military experiences can shape how you respond to stress, relationships, responsibility, safety, and uncertainty long after you’ve left the service.
Sometimes the reason you’re coming to therapy is clearly connected to your military experience. Sometime it isn’t. Either way, therapy doesn’t have to reduce everything you’re experiencing to your time in uniform.
I provide therapy for Veterans dealing with trauma, anxiety, difficult transitions, relationship stress, burnout, grief, and experiences that have become harder to carry over time.
Life after service isn’t always a clean transition
Sometimes things that helped you function then don’t work quite as well now.
Being alert, staying in control, pushing through discomfort, handling things yourself, and focusing on the mission can be useful, and even necessary, in certain environments. Those same patterns can become exhausting when your environment changes but your nervous system hasn’t gotten the update.
You might find yourself constantly scanning for problems, struggling to relax, becoming irritated more quickly than you’d like, disconnecting when things get overwhelming, or feeling uncomfortable relying on other people.
Something can make sense as a survival strategy and still cause problems in your life now.
What we might work on
Trauma & PTSD
Combat-related or non-combat experiences that continue to affect your thoughts, emotions, relationships, or nervous system.
Anxiety & Hypervigilance
Feeling constantly alert, anticipating problems, having difficulty relaxing, or struggling when you aren’t in control of what’s happening.
Transition & Identity
Adjusting to life outside the military and figuring out who you are when a role that once provided structure, purpose, or identity changes.
Relationships & Connection
Difficulty communicating, trusting, being vulnerable, managing conflict, or feeling understood by the people closest to you.
Grief & Loss
Loss of people, relationships, roles, physical abilities, community, expectations, or the future you thought you would have.
Burnout & Responsibility
Being the person who handles everything, and eventually realizing that functioning isn’t necessarily the same thing as being okay.
How I Approach Therapy
You don’t need therapy that treats you like a diagnosis, or a stereotype.
Working with Veterans requires understanding that military experiences matter without assuming they’re the explanation for everything happening in your life. We’ll start with what’s actually bringing you to therapy and figure out what is keeping the problem going now.
My approach is practical, collaborative, and trauma-informed. Depending on what you’re working through, therapy may incorporate EMDR, cognitive and behavioral strategies, nervous system regulation, mindfulness, and parts-informed work. We can address difficult experiences directly when that’s useful, but therapy doesn’t require you to spend every session retelling what happened.
The goal is to understand what’s still affecting you and help it have less control over how you live.
Getting help shouldn’t become another system you have to fight with.
I keep my caseload intentionally manageable so that when I have openings, clients can generally get started quickly and have consisten appointments with the same therapist.
Ready to see if we might work well together?
You don’t need to decide exactly what kind of therapy you need before reaching out. We can talk about what’s been going on, what you’re looking for, and whether my approach makes sense for you.
I offer online therapy for Veterans throughout Nevada and Utah.