EMDR Therapy in Los Angeles
EMDR, Parts Work, and Somatic Therapy
virtual and in-person, licensed in CA, WA, and AL
Sometimes insight isn't the missing piece.
You may understand exactly why you overthink, people-please, stay in patterns that you don’t like, or struggle to trust yourself.
And yet something keeps pulling you back.
That's because lasting change doesn't happen through understanding alone. The patterns that are hardest to shift aren't stored in your thinking mind — they live in your nervous system, your body, and the parts of you that formed long before you had language for any of it.
This is where EMDR, parts work, and somatic therapy come in. Not as three separate approaches, but as a connected framework — each one working at the level where the pattern actually lives.
EMDR Therapy
EMDR (Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing) is a research-supported therapy that helps the brain process experiences that remain emotionally stuck.
When difficult experiences aren't fully processed, they continue shaping how you see yourself, your relationships, and the world — often years later, often without your awareness. During EMDR, bilateral stimulation (eye movements, tapping, or sound) supports your brain in doing what it was always trying to do: process and move forward.
As this happens, old memories lose their emotional charge. Beliefs like "I'm not enough," "I'm responsible for everyone around me," or "I can't trust myself" begin to shift — not because you've talked yourself out of them, but because something has actually changed at the level where they were stored.
Many clients describe it as the past finally feeling like the past.
Advanced Training and Qualifications
EMDRIA Certified EMDR Therapist
EMDRIA Certified Consultant in Training (CIT)
These credentials reflect training and ongoing consultation well beyond basic EMDR certification. I regularly support other clinicians in developing their EMDR skills while continuing to deepen my own practice.
To learn more about EMDR, visit the EMDR International Association at emdria.org.
Parts Work
Most of us carry internal contradictions we can't quite explain.
One part pushes you to achieve while another is exhausted. One part wants closeness while another keeps people at a distance. One part knows what you need while another feels genuinely afraid to ask for it.
Parts work doesn't try to eliminate these contradictions — it gets curious about them. Where did each part come from? What is it trying to protect? What does it need in order to soften?
My approach is informed by Internal Family Systems (IFS) as well as other parts work models. As your relationship with your own internal world becomes less conflicted, most people find they experience more self-compassion, more clarity in their decisions, and less of that constant sense of working against themselves.
Somatic Therapy
Our bodies often remember what our minds have already tried to move past.
Stress, trauma, and repeated relational experiences don't just live in memory — they become woven into the nervous system. They show up as chronic tension, emotional reactivity, a persistent sense of being on alert, or a flatness that's hard to name.
Somatic therapy helps you notice these patterns in real time, understand what your nervous system is communicating, and build new experiences of safety and regulation — not just conceptually, but in your body.
Rather than only talking about change, we help you begin to feel it.
What to Expect….
Every person's process looks different, and there's no template for how this work unfolds.
We'll begin by building a foundation — developing the resources and nervous system capacity needed before moving into deeper processing.
From there, we'll identify what's most connected to what you're struggling with today and decide together where to begin.
Over time, most clients notice that situations which once triggered anxiety, self-doubt, or emotional overwhelm start to feel more manageable.
They describe feeling more like themselves — more connected to what they actually want, less controlled by patterns that were never really theirs to carry.