We are so glad you are here.
People come to therapy for all kinds of reasons. Sometimes there’s a clear problem you want help with. Other times, something simply doesn’t feel right—and you may not yet have words for it. You might recognize yourself in one of the experiences below. And if you don’t, that’s okay too. You don’t need to know exactly what you need before you begin.Anxiety can show up as worry, overthinking, panic, perfectionism, irritability, physical tension, or the sense that you always need to be prepared for what might happen next. Sometimes it is loud and obvious; other times it simply feels like you can never fully settle.
Anxiety
Depression doesn’t always look like sadness. It can feel like exhaustion, disconnection, numbness, low motivation, self-criticism, or the sense that you’ve lost access to a version of yourself that once felt more alive.
Depression
Relationships
Relationships can bring up some of our deepest needs, fears, and patterns. You may be struggling with trust, intimacy, boundaries, conflict, attachment, or finding yourself repeating ways of relating that no longer work for you.
Life Transitions
Even wanted changes can unsettle our sense of identity, direction, and belonging. Transitions such as career changes, parenthood, separation, relocation, aging, or simply entering a new chapter can leave you asking what comes next—and who you are now.
Trauma can continue to shape how you feel in your body, relationships, sense of safety, and responses to everyday life long after the original experience has passed. Sometimes you know exactly where it comes from, and sometimes you only recognize the patterns it has left behind.
Trauma + PTSD
Grief can follow the loss of a person, a relationship, a role, a future you imagined, or a version of life that has changed. There is no single way it is supposed to look, and it often moves in ways that are anything but linear.
Grief + Loss
We don’t believe the modality is the therapy. These frameworks are tools—not formulas. We draw from a range of approaches, but the person in front of us always comes first.-
Somatic psychotherapy brings the body into the therapeutic process, paying attention to sensation, movement, breath, impulses, and other experiences that may exist beyond words. Our therapists may draw from approaches including Core Energetics, Radical Aliveness, Somatic Experiencing, Hakomi, and other body-based practices.
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IFS understands the mind as containing different “parts,” often carrying protective roles, emotions, or beliefs. The work invites greater curiosity and compassion toward these parts rather than trying to suppress or get rid of them.
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EMDR is a structured psychotherapy that works with distressing memories and the thoughts, emotions, and body sensations connected to them, using bilateral stimulation as part of the process. It is especially well established for trauma and PTSD and can also be integrated into broader psychotherapy when appropriate.
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Psychodynamic and depth-oriented therapy look beneath present-day symptoms to the relationships, patterns, defenses, and less-conscious experiences shaping how we understand ourselves and others. This work can be especially meaningful when you understand a pattern intellectually but still find yourself living it.
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EFT is an experiential, attachment-based approach that explores the emotions and patterns shaping how we connect with ourselves and others. It can be used with individuals, couples, and families to deepen emotional understanding and create new ways of relating.
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Clinical hypnosis uses focused attention and heightened internal awareness to explore emotions, imagery, patterns, and embodied experience. Generative trance similarly uses experiential states to open possibilities that may be difficult to access through conversation alone.
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Attachment-based work explores how important early and ongoing relationships can shape our expectations of safety, closeness, trust, and connection. Therapy offers a place to recognize these patterns and develop more flexible ways of relating to ourselves and others.
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Mindfulness-based work helps us notice thoughts, emotions, and bodily experiences with greater awareness and less automatic reaction. Over time, that awareness can create more space between what we experience and how we respond.
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For clients who want it, therapy can include questions of meaning, purpose, spirituality, values, and connection to something larger than the self. This work is guided by the client’s own beliefs and worldview rather than any prescribed spiritual framework.
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Polyvagal-informed work brings attention to autonomic states and the ways our bodies respond to cues of safety, connection, and threat. We use it as one framework among many for helping clients notice their nervous system patterns and develop greater capacity for regulation and connection.
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KAP brings psychotherapy together with the altered-state experience of ketamine, creating space to explore emotions, patterns, and perspectives that may be difficult to access through talk therapy alone. Medical evaluation and ketamine treatment are provided through our partners at Lucid Therapeutics in Santa Barbara, led by Dr. Remi Drozd, while we help prepare for and integrate what emerges into the larger therapeutic work.