Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist

I did not just study
generational healing.
I lived it.

And then I spent a lifetime learning how to pass something different down.

I am Amelia Mora Mars, a licensed Marriage and Family Therapist based in Westlake Village, California. My heart beats for generational healing, the kind that does not just change one life but shifts the entire trajectory of a family.

I work with women — and men — who are ready to stop managing their pain and start transforming it. Through trauma-informed therapy, Internal Family Systems, and Concierge Ketamine-Assisted Psychotherapy, I help people access healing that goes deeper than talk alone can reach.

But before any of that, I was a daughter who needed healing herself.

Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist · LMFT #102384
Concierge Ketamine-Assisted Psychotherapist
SYMBIS Certified Pre-Marital Counselor
Board Chair, Childhood Matters · Ventura County
Mother of Ten
Amelia Mora Mars, LMFT, Westlake Village therapist
Where this began

My grandmother never wanted
to be a wife or a mother.
She had eighteen children anyway.

Vintage family photo

She was married in an arranged union, and the emotional absence she carried was passed down like an invisible thread. My mother inherited that wound — and with it came mental illness, unpredictable rage, and pain she never learned to name.

Growing up, I learned to stay small. I protected my siblings, managed what I could, and quietly believed that something in me must be broken too. I carried a deep fear that I might become what had hurt me.

I was not broken. I was becoming.

Through faith, therapy, and years of honest inner work, I found a different path. I became the mother I never had. And then I did it ten times over.

That journey — from surviving emotional absence to creating emotional safety — is not just my personal story. It is the map I use to guide every woman who walks through my door.

I understand what it costs to carry wounds that were never yours to carry. And I understand what it feels like when they finally begin to lift.

Why I do this work

In January 2019,
my world nearly
shattered.

My oldest son found his brother's suicide note on top of the washing machine. My 17-year-old son Kenny, who lived with autism and often said "this world is not real — I do not belong here," had decided to end his life.

As he stood on a freeway overpass asking God if this was the right thing to do, his siblings — by what I can only call divine timing — saw him and intervened.

Healing does not always take years. Sometimes we just need the right door to open.

At the time, I shared an office with Dr. Bhasin of PointKetamine. When Kenny was released from his psychiatric hold, I scheduled his ketamine treatments immediately. What followed was nothing short of miraculous. The darkness began to lift. Kenny started to see himself differently.

Witnessing that transformation changed me forever. Dr. Bhasin invited me to work alongside his patients, and I saw the same shifts happen again and again — in people who had tried everything and believed they were out of options.

Kenny now courageously shares his story publicly as a Featured Patient. His healing ignited my calling to bring this work to the women I serve — women stuck in pain, women afraid they will never break the cycle, women who feel like they have tried everything and are still hurting.

Kenny in Japan, arms raised in joy
What I believe about healing

This is not about managing symptoms.
It is about coming home to yourself.

— Your pain is not the end of your story. It is the beginning of your healing.
— The wounds passed down through generations can stop with you and that is one of the most courageous things a person can do.
— Your body holds the wisdom your mind has been trying to protect. Real healing reaches both.
— Faith and therapy are not opposites. For many people they are the same road.
— You are not too much. You are not broken. You are carrying something that was never yours to carry alone.
— Healing does not always take years. Sometimes we just need the right door to open.

My deepest prayer is that every person I work with will come home to themselves and know, deep in their bones, that they are a gift.

Beyond the office

I live by the rhythm
of Pura Vida.

I am a proud Costa Rican woman, and the phrase Pura Vida — pure life, simple joy, deep connection — is not just a saying where I come from. It is a way of moving through the world. It shapes how I show up for my clients, my family, and myself.

Outside the office I pour into the community in ways that feel like an extension of the same work.

Community

Board Chair of Childhood Matters, a Ventura County nonprofit dedicated to supporting the mental health of children and families.

Moms in the Storm

Co-founder of a free monthly gathering and Facebook community for mothers raising children who need professional support.

Pre-Marital Counseling

SYMBIS certified, working with couples who want to build their marriage on honest communication and emotional safety from the very beginning.

Family

Mother of ten, married 38 years, and living proof that what gets healed in one generation becomes a gift to every generation that follows.

Amelia Mora Mars family photo

If you are ready to stop
believing the lies —
I am here.

You do not have to keep carrying what was handed to you. There is a version of your story that has not been written yet. I would be honored to help you write it.

Schedule a Free Consultation Call (805) 244-8489