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. My approach is direct, warm, 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.
You keep doing the work. Nothing shifts.
You’ve read the books. You’ve tried the coping skills. You understand your patterns — intellectually. 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.
“You’ve been weathering the storm long enough.
It’s time to change the climate.”
— Alyssa Davis, LMFT
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.
