Your mind won’t stop racing. Your body’s always tense. You say yes when you want to say no. You numb out, shut down, and blame yourself for not being okay.

I help high-achieving women release the pressure, reconnect with their emotions, and finally feel safe enough to heal through EMDR & trauma-informed therapy across California.

Does This Sound Familiar?

  • When emotions feel messy or overwhelming, it’s easy to bury them, but unspoken feelings don’t disappear. In my approach, you’ll learn to understand the functions behind your feelings, identify the core emotions, and express them in healthy ways so you can finally release what’s been weighing you down.

  • This cycle of overthinking, people-pleasing, and perfectionism isn’t who you are, it’s how you’ve learned to survive. I’ll help you identify where these patterns come from, give your nervous system the safety it needs, and teach you how to set boundaries with confidence (without the guilt spiral).

  • You’ve tried analyzing, journaling, or pushing past the anxiety, but it always creeps back in. That’s because anxiety isn’t just in your head, it’s your nervous system stuck in overdrive. With my trauma-informed approach, we’ll calm your body’s stress response and teach you tools to find relief that actually lasts.

  • Meditation, yoga, and deep breaths might help for a moment, but the tension always returns. Why? Because your nervous system hasn’t learned how to feel safe yet. Together, we’ll use body-based techniques and EMDR-inspired tools to help you reset your system and find calm that sticks.

If this feels familiar, I can help you stop surviving and start living in the present moment.

You Don’t Have to Carry This Alone

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    Anxiety Therapy (Weekly)

    When you’re an overthinker, overdoer, or people-pleaser, anxiety can feel like carrying silent pressure while your mind runs endless loops. Our sessions give you a steady space to quiet the noise, release what’s been weighing on you, and build lasting emotional safety.

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    EMDR Intensives (Faster Healing)

    If you don’t want to spend months in therapy or feel like talking hasn’t worked, EMDR Intensives are designed for faster breakthroughs. Extended sessions help you deeply process trauma, overthinking, and emotional triggers, all in a condensed, focused timeframe.

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    Therapy for Grief, Heartbreak & Loss

    If you’re grieving a loss, navigating heartbreak, or carrying years of unresolved emotional pain, this therapy offers a safe place to feel, process, and rebuild your sense of worth and connection. Together, we’ll honor your pain while helping you find peace.

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  • Trauma-Informed Therapy (For the Past You Couldn’t Control)

    Sometimes the anxiety, overthinking, and people-pleasing aren’t the whole story they’re signs of deeper wounds your body has been carrying for years. Together, we’ll gently untangle those patterns, release what’s been stored in your body, and help you feel safe, grounded, and fully present in your life.

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Ways to Work Together

A Free 15 Minute Consultation Call

YOUR FIRST STEP!

A gentle space to ask questions, fill things out, and see if we’re a good fit. No pressure, just clarity, safety and next steps at your pace.

EMDR Intensives

Feel like talk therapy isn’t cutting it? Are you ready for transformation? These extended sessions help you move through the root of what’s keeping you stuck, fast. Clear old wounds, calm your nervous system, and finally feel like yourself again.

50 Minute Individual Therapy Session

Weekly sessions offer a steady, supportive space to explore patterns like overthinking, emotional dysregulation, perfectionism, and anxiety. Most clients begin with weekly sessions, which can be adjusted over time based on your needs and preferences.

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Therapy with me isn’t about talking in circles it’s about finally getting to the root.

I help women who are tired of holding it all together finally feel safe enough to fall apart and rebuild in a way that feels real, regulated, and lasting. If you’ve done years of talk therapy but still feel anxious, disconnected, or stuck in survival mode, you’re not alone.

Why Work With Me?

What Sets My Therapy Apart:

  • Most of us were never taught what emotions really are, or how to feel them safely. In our work, you’ll learn how to listen to your emotions instead of fearing or avoiding them. I’ll help you decode the signals behind your anxiety, anger, or numbness so you can respond with clarity instead of reacting from survival.

  • If you’ve ever tried deep breathing or “self-care” that didn’t touch the panic or overwhelm underneath, this is different. You’ll learn nervous system tools that meet you in the moment and help you come back to calm, grounded presence even when life feels chaotic.

  • You don’t need another list of tips to keep your head above water. EMDR therapy helps you release the emotional weight you’ve been carrying in your body for years, so you can finally stop bracing for impact and start feeling light, safe, and truly present in your life.

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Therapy Can Help You:

  • Feel safe enough to rest without guilt or apology.

  • Get clear on what you want and need instead of living in constant overthinking.

  • Say no without fear of losing love or approval.

  • Stop managing everyone else’s feelings and finally take up space for yourself.

  • Speak up with confidence, without overthinking.

  • Give yourself permission to be you (not the “perfect” or “strong” version everyone expects).

  • Know that you are enough, just as you are.

Meet Olivia!

Licensed Clinical Social Worker, EMDR Therapist & Certified Wellness Coach

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Healing starts here:

EMDR & Trauma Therapy for burnout, anxiety & unresolved trauma.

I work with high-achieving women who feel like they’re always “on.” You give your best to everyone else, but inside you feel burned out, anxious, and disconnected like you can’t remember the last time you felt calm, grounded, or at peace with yourself.

I know how heavy that feels. When you’ve been carrying childhood trauma, heartbreak, or emotional wounds for years, it’s easy to believe you have to keep pushing through but you don’t.

Through EMDR therapy, emotional intelligence work, and trauma-informed care, we’ll slow down together. I’ll help you create a safe, judgment-free space to feel and release what’s been buried and not just cope with it.

Therapy doesn’t have to feel confusing.

  1. Reach out.

    We’ll talk for 15 minutes to see what’s been heavy, what you’re hoping for, and what would be help you feel safe to begin.

  2. Schedule Your Intake.

    If it feels right, we’ll schedule your intake during your call… I will send you a welcome email with all the detailed and paperwork you need to prepare you for our first session together.

  3. Work At Your Pace.

    Whether it’s weekly therapy or an EMDR Intensive, we’ll create a rhythm that fits your life and your nervous system. Every step is guided by your needs  and goals.

  4. Feel like you.

    Over time, you’ll feel clearer, calmer, and more connected to yourself. No performing or apologizing.

I help high-achieving, emotionally exhausted women who grew up with emotionally unavailable, absent, or critical caregivers (especially mothers) finally feel safe enough to stop performing and start healing. Most of my clients are cycle breakers, people-pleasers, or perfectionists who are ready to stop carrying the emotional weight of everyone else and reconnect with themselves using EMDR and nervous system regulation.

Online Therapy for High-Achieving Women in California

  • I offer online therapy to women across California who are tired of overthinking, putting everyone else first, and never feeling good enough.

  • Whether you’re in Santa Monica, Long Beach, Los Angeles, Oakland and anywhere in between…

  • I’m here to help you learn how to feel and express emotions because that’s the only way to release what’s been stuck.

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"Emotions are messengers. We suffer when we silence them."