For adults and teens in California, Washington, Utah & Florida

Trauma Therapy 

Overview

Trauma therapy helps you heal from overwhelming experiences that have disrupted your sense of safety, trust, and connection. Whether you're dealing with acute PTSD or the lingering effects of complex trauma, our work together focuses on reclaiming your nervous system, your story, and your self-trust. At ED and OCD Therapy, we offer trauma-informed, somatic, psychodynamic, narrative, attachment and relational approaches tailored to your needs. Healing is not one size fits all, we bring our clinical knowledge while collaborating with you to find what works.

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Who is trauma therapy for?

This service is for individuals who:

  • Have experienced trauma of any kind—relational, developmental, systemic, or acute

  • Are struggling with symptoms of PTSD or C-PTSD, including flashbacks, hypervigilance, dissociation, or toxic shame

  • Are navigating grief, betrayal, loss, or major life disruptions

  • Feel unsafe in their bodies or relationships

  • Experience trauma-related symptoms alongside Eating Disorders or OCD

  • Want a trauma therapist who honors systemic context in the healing process (yes, our mental health is impacted by the socio-political context we live in!)

Our approach to treating trauma:

We believe trauma is not defined by the event alone but by how it impacts your nervous system and access to safety, support, and resources. Our anti-oppression, relational approach integrates:

  • Somatic Therapy to re-establish a felt sense of safety in your body

  • Narrative Therapy to help you reclaim and re-author your story

  • IFS (Internal Family Systems) to compassionately unburden parts of you carrying shame, fear, or self-blame

  • ACT and other third-wave CBTs to challenge trauma-based beliefs and rebuild trust in yourself
    We also offer Ketamine-Assisted Psychotherapy (KAP) as a powerful adjunct for trauma work. Learn more about that here.

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Common Client goals

  • Reduce symptoms of PTSD/C-PTSD like flashbacks, nightmares, or emotional numbness

  • Feel more grounded and less reactive

  • Rebuild trust in self and others

  • Release shame and self-doubt

  • Make peace with the past

  • Reconnect with joy, purpose, and values

  • Heal root causes of disordered eating or OCD symptoms

What to expect in a trauma therapy session:

Trauma therapy sessions are tailored to your unique needs and preferences. Sessions may include:

  • Psychoeducation on trauma’s effect on the mind and body- this helps you develop compassion for your body’s ways of surviving- most commonly: flight, fight, freeze or fawn

  • Co-regulation and grounding techniques to help your body move out of these survival states

  • Somatic therapy skills to assist in helping your nervous system find relative safety when triggered

  • Parts work and inner child healing to unburden the protective parts that developed due to the trauma and have since become over burdened (eg. an eating disorder or substance abuse part that works to try to distract you from the pain).

  • Processing past experiences at a pace that honors your window of tolerance

  • Understanding and healing the negative core beliefs developed due to the trauma

  • Reclaiming the narrative of your life story

  • Ongoing integration of coping skills for daily life

    Trauma work is very hard. We move at your pace, never forcing exposure or emotional overwhelm.

Client Experience:

You may come in feeling stuck in survival mode, disconnected from your body, and unsure if healing is even possible. You may feel afraid of what memories or feelings will come up if you start processing your trauma. You may even be unsure if what you are experiencing is trauma. Over time, clients often describe feeling more present, more trusting of themselves, more connected to their body, able to use their voice to assert their needs and feelings and more resourced to navigate life. Trauma therapy doesn’t erase your pain, it changes the way you relate to it and helps you integrate it in a way that will leave you feeling a little more “free” inside. Therapy may feel intense at times but it is also empowering, transformative and a whole heck of a lot better than stay stuck in a constant state of survival. Our team is here to help you reclaim your life from your painful past. Reach out today to book a free consultation to see if we are a good fit for you!

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At Eating Disorder OCD Therapy, we offer compassionate, relational, and individualized care, rooted in the belief that healing is not one-size-fits-all. Honoring client autonomy, collaboration, and anti-oppressive, neurodivergent-affirming practices, we walk alongside you as the expert in your own life. We provide therapy for Eating Disorders, OCD, Body Image, Trauma, Maternal Mental Health, Anxiety, and offer Ketamine Assisted Psychotherapy (KAP), Group Therapy (globally), Recovery Coaching (globally), and Clinical Consultation and Supervision for clinicians. We are currently accepting new clients for in-person therapy in San Diego and virtual services in California, Washington, Utah, and Florida.