(805) 244-8489
Licensed Marriage & Family Therapist · LMFT #102384 · Westlake Village, CA
Heal the patterns you inherited and create emotionally safe relationships in your own family — whether you are a mother, a woman still finding herself, or someone whose faith is central to her healing.
In-network with Gold Coast Health Plan & Optum · Telehealth available throughout California
Therapy for Women in Westlake Village & Online
Whether you are raising children and terrified of your own patterns, a woman carrying wounds you've never named, or someone whose faith shapes how you want to heal — there is a place for you here.
A sharp tone you didn't intend. Shutting down when emotions run high. Guilt after every hard moment. These are not character flaws — they are inherited patterns from the relationship you had with your own mother. Therapy helps you understand the cycle and choose differently.
You don't have to be a mother to feel the weight of how you were mothered. Many women arrive carrying patterns in relationships, self-trust, and emotional safety that trace quietly back to childhood and have never had a space to unpack them.
Therapy that respects and integrates your Christian faith — not therapy that ignores it. Healing and belief are not in conflict. For women who want clinical expertise and spiritual grounding in the same space.
Pre-Marital Counseling
Counseling for couples who want to build their marriage on honest communication, shared values and emotional safety from the very beginning. Sessions can be woven with faith for couples whose spirituality is central to their relationship. All backgrounds and beliefs are welcome here.
Growing Up With an Emotionally Unavailable Mother
These patterns are not personal failures. They are emotional survival strategies formed in early relationships and with thoughtful therapeutic work they can change.
Call to Talk About This
The wound your mother gave you does not have to become the wound you give your daughter.
— Amelia Mora Mars, LMFTAbout Amelia
I'm a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist, Board Chair of Childhood Matters and mother of ten. I was raised by an emotionally unavailable mother and that wound shaped every relationship I had, including the one with my own children.
My interest in this work began before I became a therapist. I never had the opportunity to meet my Abuelita. I came to know her through family stories of the pain she carried and the fear her children sometimes felt around her. Growing up I became curious about how emotional wounds move quietly through generations shaping how love, safety and connection are experienced within a family.
Those questions brought me to this work. Today I help women understand how the emotional dynamics they experienced growing up continue to influence their relationships and how those patterns can genuinely and lastingly change.
What Therapy Can Create
Most women come to therapy wanting to feel less anxious. What they discover is something deeper. An emotional blueprint formed in childhood that has been quietly running their relationships ever since. When that blueprint changes everything changes.
You respond to hard moments rather than react to them. Your children begin to feel the difference and so do you.
You stop carrying everyone else's emotions and start trusting your own. Guilt begins to loosen its grip on your daily decisions.
You build the emotionally safe relationships you always wanted with your children, your partner and yourself.
You parent from wisdom rather than fear. Relief from long standing shame and self doubt becomes the new baseline.
The generational pattern that moved quietly through your family stops here with you.
A free 20 minute consultation is the simplest first step. No commitment required.
Call (805) 244-8489I was severely depressed and chronically anxious. I tried a variety of alternatives and didn't seem to be able to get out of the desperate state of trauma and sadness I was in. After a decade of suffering I feel now I can handle the ups and downs of life without the extreme reaction I used to have. I have found joy in living which I still consider unreal sometimes.
When Healing Happens
The patterns you've carried didn't form overnight. Healing doesn't happen overnight either. But women consistently describe the same quiet shift toward steadiness, toward lightness and toward feeling like themselves again.
The consultation call is free and carries no obligation. It is simply a conversation to see whether this work and this therapist feel like the right fit for you.
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Christian Counseling in Westlake Village & Online
For women whose Christian faith is central to who they are therapy works best when it doesn't ask you to leave that at the door. I offer counseling that integrates clinical expertise with respect for your beliefs, your values and your relationship with God.
Support is available for church hurt, spiritual identity questions and for women who simply want a therapist who understands that faith and healing are not in conflict. They can deepen each other.
Workshops & Groups
A guided group experience for mothers who want practical tools, real community and a gentler first step into this kind of work. No therapy required. All women welcome.
Ask About the CircleA warm community for mothers raising children with mental illness. A space to be honest, be supported and be reminded you are not alone. $20 per session goes directly to Childhood Matters for activities and snacks. In collaboration with Shaleena Tareen, Founder of Childhood Matters.
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The patterns you inherited have already shaped enough mornings, enough reactions and enough moments of shame. They don't have to shape your children's.
A free 20 minute consultation is where we begin. No commitment, no obligation. Just an honest conversation about whether this is the right fit.
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