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"The healing and the building are not sequential. They are concurrent."
A structured clinical resource for betrayal trauma recovery. The Compass Recovery Model — developed through doctoral research — offers the first validated stage-assessment framework for betrayal survivors.
Visit Site →Weekly essays on recovery, capital, and the specific competence that develops inside difficult years. For women rebuilding on their own terms.
Read the Essays →A 16-week evidence-based curriculum for betrayal trauma recovery, anchored in Freyd's Betrayal Trauma Theory and integrated with attachment, somatic, and relational modalities. Submitted in partial fulfillment of a PhD in Sex Therapy.
Explore the Model →I am a Licensed Mental Health Counselor and Certified Sex Addiction Therapist (ASAT) practicing in New York, and a doctoral candidate in Sex Therapy. The Compass Recovery Model — the framework I developed to treat betrayal trauma — is the subject of my dissertation.
My clinical work began where the research left gaps. Betrayal trauma survivors were arriving in therapy with PTSD-level symptoms, and the existing frameworks — designed for addiction treatment or generalized trauma — were not built for this population. The Compass Recovery Model addresses those gaps directly: a five-stage directional framework for the specific terrain of betrayal, where standard protocols do not reach.
I write about recovery, clinical methodology, and the economics of rebuilding. The intersection of those things is where the most honest work gets done.