Stories arrive before they hold a shape.
Trauma-informed story consulting — shaping sensitive subjects into developed stories for documentary film, books, and podcasts.
I am a trauma-informed story consultant who for two decades has worked across documentary film development and production, philanthropic development and engagement, and one-on-one healing consultations. I work with clients who are looking to transform ideas that relate to sensitive material into developed stories for documentary films, books and podcasts. Trauma-informed, in practice, means the story develops without costing its participants their wholeness: consent that stays alive throughout the process.
“To survive, you must tell stories.”
Tidal
A documentary short directed by Katrina Lillian Sorrentino. In the wake of divorce and alone in a new country, a woman matches with “the one” — and is pulled into the cycle of narcissistic abuse, until the support of other survivors helps her leave and begin to heal.
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Selling a Fantasy
A podcast of true stories of sex work, healing, and power, developed with artist and female empowerment coach Sara Sepehri — built around candid, intimate interviews, explicitly committed to trauma-informed storytelling.
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Dark Side of the Moon
A feature documentary co-created with director Sophia Banks, immersing viewers in the lives of four women grappling with women’s health across the whole life cycle — a celebratory portrait of womanhood, and a damning portrait of the state of women’s health in America.
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The Bobaleks
In the 1970s, a white family already raising four children adopted 12 Black children. Fifty years later, at the height of the Black Lives Matter movement, two sisters return to that history in their own voices — belonging, race, and identity.
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From Limpopo to Ikapa
A documentary concept following musician Xander Ferreira across South Africa to visit fifteen of its most prominent artists as they create one album — asking what a nation’s music can hold that its politics cannot.
Watch the trailer →“Write the tales that scare you. I dare you. … Do not be afraid to disappear — from it, from us, for a while — and see what comes to you in the silence.”