Dr. Zoe Love Verrico, Psy.D.
Post-Doctoral Psychology Resident
Do you constantly feel on edge, overwhelmed, numb, or disconnected, as if your body is stuck in fight, flight, or freeze? Do memories or emotions from the past still spill into your present? Have substances that once calmed your body left you feeling trapped in guilt, shame, or exhaustion? You are not broken — these are your nervous system’s best adaptive efforts to survive painful and overwhelming experiences.
You may understand your trauma, recognize your patterns, and even know your triggers, yet your body reacts as if the threat is still there despite knowing you are safe. That is because trauma and chronic stress become stored in the body when they are left unprocessed. The nervous system can’t learn to feel safe through understanding alone.
My Approach
My approach to therapy is body-based and emotion-focused, meaning we’ll work directly with your nervous system and emotions that live within your body. Together, we’ll explore how your nervous system adapted to protect you overtime, listen to what your body has been carrying, build skills to help you feel safe in the moment, understand and honor your protective patterns while helping them to soften, and gently work to reconsolidate your memories and process emotions in a way that helps achieve lasting healing and nervous system regulation.
As a clinician who values depth, attunement, and genuine connection, my primary goal is to help you feel seen, heard, known, and understood. I maintain a client-centered, relational, and trauma-informed approach, grounded in the belief that you are the expert on your own life. I strive to create a collaborative, transparent, and comfortable therapeutic relationship where your experiences and feedback are always welcomed. I will always meet you with warmth, curiosity, presence, and humor, and we’ll move at a pace that feels safe and aligned with your needs and nervous system.
Who I Work With
I primarily specialize in helping Adults and Veterans who are experiencing:
PTSD
Complex Trauma
Substance Use Concerns
I additionally work with:
Anxiety
Depression
Grief & Loss
Attachment & Relationship Challenges
Therapeutic Framework
I draw from multiple evidence-based psychotherapies that are body-based, emotion-focused, and relational that allow for deeper nervous system healing and attachment repair including:
Accelerated Experiential Dynamic Psychotherapy (AEDP)
Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR)
Internal Family Systems (IFS)
Brainspotting
Additionally, I incorporate elements of:
Mindfulness & Acceptance-Based Strategies
Meditation
Somatic & Trauma-Informed Body Movement