Pasadena, CA and Online Throughout California
“You survived it. Now you don’t have to carry it alone.”
Trauma isn’t always one dramatic event. Sometimes it’s a betrayal that reshaped how you trust. Sometimes it’s a medical experience that left you feeling powerless in your own body. Sometimes it’s the slow accumulation of being let down, unseen, or too busy to process until one day you realize you’ve been bracing for a long time without knowing why.
If any of that sounds familiar, this is trauma and betrayal trauma counseling, and it’s exactly the work I do with women throughout the San Gabriel Valley and across California.
Is Trauma and Emotional Wellness Therapy Right for You?
You may benefit from this work if you are:
- Struggling to trust again after betrayal by a partner, a friend, or someone who was supposed to protect you
- Carrying the emotional weight of a frightening or dismissive medical experience
- Feeling hypervigilant, on edge, or unable to fully relax even when nothing is “wrong” right now
- Noticing old patterns of shutting down, over-explaining, or bracing for disappointment
- Processing a birth experience that left lasting effects (see also: Motherhood and Identity Therapy)
- Living with the cumulative weight of emotional neglect, chronic stress, or years of feeling like the strong one and caregiver
- Wanting to feel more present and grounded in your body and your relationships, but not sure how to get there
Areas of Focus
Betrayal Trauma
Rebuilding your ability to trust, including trusting yourself
Betrayal trauma doesn’t just hurt in the moment; it changes how safe the world feels afterward. Whether the betrayal came from a partner, a family member, or someone else you trusted, the aftermath often includes self-doubt, hypervigilance, and a nagging sense that you should have seen it coming. Therapy offers a place to process what happened without judgment, and to slowly rebuild trust in your own instincts again.
Medical and Body-Based Trauma
When your body has been through something your mind is still processing
Frightening diagnoses, invasive procedures, or medical experiences where you felt unheard or out of control can leave a lasting imprint—even after the physical event has passed. This work focuses on helping your nervous system feel safe again, and helping you reconnect with a body that may still feel like it’s bracing for the next thing.
Complex and Cumulative Trauma
The weight of years, not just a single moment
Not all trauma comes from one event. Chronic emotional neglect, long-term relational stress, or years of being the one who holds everything together can leave the same marks as a single traumatic event—just quieter, and often unacknowledged. Therapy helps name what happened, without minimizing it just because it built up slowly.
My Approach
As a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist, my work integrates solution-focused, cognitive-based, and psychodynamic approaches within a calm, trauma-informed space. Healing from trauma isn’t always about reliving it, it’s about helping your nervous system learn that it’s safe now, at a pace that feels right for your own state of readiness.
Some sessions are practical, focused on regulation and coping in the present. Others go deeper, into the patterns trauma leaves behind. Either way, this is not about fixing you. It’s about helping you feel steady in your own life again and getting you on the path of healing.
Begin Trauma and Emotional Wellness Therapy in Pasadena
If you’re carrying something, betrayal, a medical experience, or years of quiet weight—you don’t have to keep holding it alone. I offer in-person trauma and betrayal trauma counseling in Pasadena and secure online therapy throughout California and the San Gabriel Valley.
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