Trauma, Couples, and Somatic Therapy in Shaker Heights and Cleveland Heights, Ohio, and Telehealth Across Ohio and New Mexico

A practice shaped by both training and lived experience

We are Craig McAdams and Lyndsey McAdams, a married clinical team, parents, and therapists whose work has been shaped not only by advanced training, but by the real demands and sacredness of being human together.

We know what it is to love deeply. To grow. To repair. To face stress, grief, transition, uncertainty, and the ways life asks more of us than we thought we could hold. We know that relationships can become places of pain, but also places of profound healing. We know that insight matters, but that real transformation often asks for something more embodied, more relational, and more honest.

That lived reality informs the way we practice. It does not make us less clinical. It makes the work more grounded, more attuned, and more real.

Why this practice feels different

Many people come to therapy because something in life no longer feels sustainable.

On the outside, they may still be functioning well. They may be successful, competent, insightful, reliable, or the person others count on. But underneath that, there may be grief that has not fully moved, relational pain that still shapes the present, a nervous system that has stayed braced for too long, or a quiet sense that they have been surviving in ways that no longer fit who they are becoming.

What makes this practice different is that we do not only ask what you think about the problem. We also listen for what your body is doing with it. We pay attention to how stress, attachment, trauma, emotion, and relationship live in real time. We help you understand the deeper pattern, not to label you, but to help you change it.

This work is thoughtful and depth-oriented. It is warm, relational, and clinically grounded. It honors both science and lived experience. It makes room for the practical and the sacred.

Our approach

Our work draws from trauma-informed therapy, attachment theory, somatic and mindfulness-based approaches, interpersonal neurobiology, and nervous system regulation.

In practice, that means therapy here often includes helping you:

• understand the pattern beneath the pattern

• notice what happens in your body under stress, in conflict, in grief, or in closeness

• work with anxiety, shutdown, overwhelm, or over-functioning at the level where it is actually happening

• build more capacity for emotional presence, connection, and regulation

• create change that is not only intellectual, but lived

We believe healing is not only about telling the truth. It is also about being able to stay with the truth long enough, safely enough, and compassionately enough for it to become transformative.

Who we tend to serve best

Our practice is often a strong fit for adults and couples who:

• have insight, but still feel taken over in real-life moments

• want depth, not performance

• are tired of repeating the same relationship dynamic

• are carrying grief, trauma, emotional overload, or chronic self-abandonment

• want therapy that includes the body, the nervous system, and the relational field, not just analysis

• are looking for a practice that feels thoughtful, warm, and deeply attuned

Some clients come to us because they are in a season of rupture. Others come because they are successful in many areas of life, yet privately know that something essential still hurts. Many come because they want a kind of therapy that feels more human, more embodied, and more honest than what they have experienced before.

Two clinicians, one shared philosophy, two distinct ways of working

Though we share a practice and a core philosophy, we each bring a distinct presence, style, and area of focus.

Craig’s work is especially strong with couples, men, and high-functioning adults who want to understand and shift the deeper patterns underneath conflict, shutdown, shame, emotional overload, and intimacy struggles. His style is warm, grounded, relational, and deeply informed by somatic and nervous system-based work.

Lyndsey’s work is especially strong with emotionally sensitive and high-achieving women, grief, trauma, identity shifts, spiritual depth. Her presence is spacious, intuitive, compassionate, and deeply attuned to the places where pain, meaning, and transformation meet.

They both work with psychedelic integration, and offer Ketamine assisted therapy work both individually and in group or retreat experiences together.

We believe the nervous system matters

People often think their struggle is only emotional, relational, or behavioral. But so much of what feels confusing in life begins as an adaptive response in the nervous system.

The shutdown. The pursuit. The irritability. The numbness. The over-accommodating. The distance. The flood of emotion. The inability to stay present when something vulnerable or important is happening. These are often not signs of failure. They are signs that your system learned how to protect you.

Therapy can help those old protections become less automatic and less costly. It can help you build more capacity for connection, choice, repair, intimacy, steadiness, and self-trust.

That is one of the core commitments of this practice.

If you are new here

You do not need to know exactly what kind of help you need before reaching out.

Some people know immediately who they want to work with. Others first want to get a feel for the practice, the philosophy, and the kind of care offered here.

That is part of why this practice is structured the way it is. You can begin with the shared story, then follow the path toward the clinician or specialty area that feels most aligned.

• Explore Specialty Areas

  • Individual therapy

  • Therapy for high performing men

  • Therapy for highly capable but exhausted women

  • Therapy for highly sensitive women

  • Grief counseling/ceremony

  • Couples Counseling

  • Ketamine assisted therapy

  • Psychedelic integration therapy

  • Walk and Talk/nature based therapy

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