EMDR Therapy · Trauma · Adults

Not just weathering the storm.Changing the climate.

Therapy for adults who are done surviving and ready to actually shift. No stacked rocks. No empty affirmations. Real work that changes how you move through the world.

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You're high-functioning. You've done all the "right" things. And yet something still feels fundamentally off — like you're managing life, but not actually living it. That's exactly what we work on here.
12+
Years Clinical
LMFT
Licensed · California
EMDR
Certified Therapist
Your Therapist

I'm Alyssa.
I don't do fluff.

I'm an LMFT and EMDR-certified clinician based in Los Angeles. I work with adults navigating trauma — especially the kind that's hard to name because it didn't happen in one dramatic moment, but it still leaves you feeling as if you're in the middle of never ending storm.

My approach is warm, direct, and grounded in the research. Therapy should actually change things — not just give you language for what's wrong, but shift the underlying patterns keeping you stuck.

I'm also a real person who is genuinely invested in your growth. Not in a sparkle-and-affirmations way. In a let's actually do this way.

LMFT · CALIFORNIA
EMDR CERTIFIED
TRAUMA SPECIALIST
EMDR MEMBER
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Does this sound familiar?

You keep doing
the work.
Nothing shifts.

A lot of people arrive here after years of trying — talk therapy, self-help, mindfulness. Progress happened. But there's a layer that just won't move. That's the layer we work at.

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You're not in crisis, but you're not okay either

You function well on the outside. Good at holding it together. But there's a low-level hum of something that won't quit — no matter how much you understand it.

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The people who were supposed to love you hurt you

Relational and developmental trauma doesn't always look dramatic. Sometimes it's the quiet, pervasive kind — the kind that makes you feel like something is fundamentally wrong with you.

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You understand your patterns — intellectually

You've read the books. You've tried the coping skills. But understanding hasn't changed how you feel in your body when it happens again. That's not a willpower problem. That's a nervous system problem. And that's exactly what EMDR is designed to reach.

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Talk therapy helped, but only so far

You've had good therapists. Talked it through. A lot. But there's a part that understanding alone can't touch. That's exactly the part EMDR is designed to reach.

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You're ready for something that actually moves

You're not looking to be soothed or managed. You want to actually change how you show up — in relationships, at work, in your own skin. Done just weathering it.

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What actually getting better looks like.

EMDR doesn't require you to talk through every detail of what happened. It works by helping your brain finish processing what got stuck — so the memory loses its charge. Clients describe it as: things that used to hijack them just… don't anymore. That's the goal. Not coping better with the same pain, but actually moving through it.

How It Works

Simple. Direct.
No guesswork.

Here's what it actually looks like to start working together — no mystery, no pressure.

01

A Real Conversation First

A free consultation — not a sales call. Just a real conversation to see if this is the right fit. You should feel confident before we ever start.

02

Build the Foundation

Before EMDR processing, we build safety and understand your full picture. This includes building real regulation and coping tools — so you have something to work with before we go to the harder places. This takes time, and we don't rush it.

03

Do the Work That Moves

EMDR reprocessing is where things shift. Clients describe it as unlike anything else they've tried — because it reaches the layer where the trauma actually lives.

Ways We Work Together

What I offer.

Every offering is grounded in evidence-based practice, delivered with directness. I don't do cookie-cutter, I do what actually works for your nervous system.

01

Individual EMDR Therapy

Targeted, evidence-based trauma therapy for adults. Beyond talking about it — actually reprocessing the experiences still running the show in your body, your nervous system, your relationships.

Complex Trauma Relational Trauma Divorce Treatment Resistant Depression
02

Therapy for Parents

For parents who are cycle breakers. The ones learning to parent in this generation while trying to reparent themselves. I see you and I got you.

Development Relational Attachment
03

Couples Therapy

For couples caught in the same fight, the same distance, the same loop. Trained in Emotionally Focused Couples Therapy through a 12-hour intensive, I work underneath the argument — to the attachment needs and protective patterns driving it — so you can find your way back to each other.

EFT · 12-Hour Intensive Attachment Connection Conflict Cycles
04

Ketamine Assisted Psychotherapy

For clients who have tried traditional therapy and need something more. Ketamine-assisted psychotherapy pairs medicine with deep therapeutic work to accelerate healing in ways that talk therapy alone sometimes can't reach.

Treatment Resistant Depression Trauma Anxiety
05

Consultation, Supervision & Speaking

For therapists who want to go deeper in their clinical practice. Case consultation, clinical supervision, and real-world training from a clinician who has done this work — not just studied it.

Clinicians EMDR Training Supervision Speaking

You've been weathering it long enough.

It's time to change the climate. Start with a free consultation — no pressure, just a real conversation.

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