You’ve spent much of your life chasing the next goal, but no matter how much you achieve, peace still feels out of reach. This post explores how perfectionism, overthinking, and trauma shape our relationship with self-worth and how EMDR therapy can help you slow down, feel safe, and finally believe you’re enough.

High achieving women reflecting on her need for healing her nervous system from burnout and anxiety in California.

People-pleasing often comes from childhood wounds and the fear of letting others down. Learn how therapy in Santa Monica and online across California can help you set boundaries, heal, and reclaim your voice.

Grief can feel heavier during the holidays. Discover gentle ways to cope and how grief therapy in Santa Monica and online across California can help.

You’re not broken you’re just tired of holding it all. This post explores the emotional exhaustion that comes from always being the strong one, and how EMDR can help you finally feel safe enough to rest.

I’m a trauma therapist and EMDR practitioner who helps high-achieving women release the emotional weight they’ve been carrying for years, so they can finally feel safe in their bodies, clear in their minds, and connected to who they really are. Through a warm, honest, and emotionally grounded approach, I guide clients out of survival mode and into healing that actually sticks.

If you’ve had to suppress, avoid, or numb your emotions just to get by, I want you to know that you are living in survival mode. EMDR therapy helps you release what’s stuck so you can finally feel safe enough to rest, choose yourself, and show up as who you really are.

Wondering what actually happens in EMDR therapy? This post gently walks you through what to expect, step by step, so you can decide if it feels right for you.