Group therapy · Westlake Village

The Daughter
Wound Circle

A closed therapy group for women who were raised by emotionally unavailable mothers and are ready to heal — not alone, but witnessed.

Individual therapy can take you far. But there is something that happens in a room of women who carry the same wound — a kind of recognition that no one-to-one relationship can replicate. You do not have to explain yourself here. They already know.

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You may recognize yourself here

She was there.
But she was never really there.

You grew up feeling invisible in your own home. Not because you were unloved necessarily, but because you were never truly seen.

You learned early to manage your emotions alone. To not need too much. To be the one who holds it together so others do not have to.

You have a persistent sense of not being enough — in your relationships, your parenting, your work — even when the evidence says otherwise.

You find intimacy difficult. Being truly known by someone feels dangerous even when you desperately want it.

You have done work on yourself — read the books, maybe even done therapy — and you understand the wound intellectually. But something in you has not yet shifted at the level you know it needs to.

You are tired of carrying this quietly. You are ready to be in a room where you do not have to explain yourself from the beginning.

If you read that and felt something shift in your chest — you are in the right place.

What the Circle is

Not a support group.
Not a lecture.
A therapeutic container for real change.

The Daughter Wound Circle is a closed group therapy experience facilitated by Amelia Mora Mars, LMFT. It meets weekly for ten weeks in person at her Westlake Village office.

The group is intentionally small — a maximum of twelve women — so that every person in the room has space to be known, not just heard. This is not a place to sit quietly in the back. It is a place to do the work alongside women who understand it from the inside.

The group process itself is part of the healing. What you could not receive from your mother — being witnessed, held, told you are enough — begins to be repaired in relationship with other women who are doing the same work beside you.

Format

Weekly in-person group therapy sessions, 10 weeks, closed cohort.

Location

2660 Townsgate Road, Suite 450, Westlake Village, CA 91362.

Investment

$75 per session · $750 total · Cash pay. HSA and FSA accepted.

First cohort

Beginning September 2025. Enrollment is limited. Application required.

What we work on together

Understanding how your mother's emotional unavailability shaped the way you see yourself and move through the world

Grieving what you did not receive without being consumed by it

Learning to stay present in hard emotional moments instead of shutting down or flooding

Rebuilding trust in your own instincts, emotions, and sense of self

Creating secure connection in your relationships — with your children, your partner, and yourself

Being witnessed by women who understand — and letting that witnessing begin to repair what was broken

Who this is for and who it is not

This group works because
everyone in it is ready.

The Daughter Wound Circle is a carefully held space. Its power comes from the fact that every woman who enters it is stable enough to show up for others, not just herself. This is not a crisis group. It is a healing group.

This is for you if

You are emotionally stable and functional in your daily life even when things are hard

You have some awareness of the mother wound and its impact on your life

You are ready to hold space for others, not just receive it yourself

You can commit to showing up consistently for ten weeks

You are open to being seen and challenged, not just validated

This is not the right fit if

You are currently in active crisis or acute emotional distress

You need more intensive individual support before you are ready for group work

You are not yet able to be present for others in the room

Your schedule does not allow for consistent weekly attendance

You are looking for a place to vent rather than a place to grow

If you are not sure whether this is the right fit, apply anyway. The application conversation is the best way to find out together. If individual therapy is a better first step, Amelia will tell you honestly — and can often help connect you with the right support.

Amelia Mora Mars LMFT
Your facilitator

Amelia Mora Mars, LMFT

Amelia is a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist with a private practice in Westlake Village, California. She specializes in generational healing, the mother wound, and trauma informed therapy for women.

She is also a daughter who was raised by an emotionally unavailable mother. She knows this wound from the inside. She spent years carrying it quietly, learning to stay small, protecting everyone around her while believing something in her must be broken.

She is also a mother of ten and a woman who did the work. She brings both her clinical training and her lived experience into every group she facilitates — which means nothing you bring into that room will surprise her or overwhelm her. She has been there.

Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist · LMFT #102384
Attachment Focused · Trauma Informed · Internal Family Systems
Board Chair, Childhood Matters · Ventura County
Mother of Ten
Ready to apply

You made it here.
That took courage.

The application takes about ten minutes. It helps Amelia understand where you are right now and whether the Daughter Wound Circle is the right fit for this season of your healing.

There are no wrong answers. Only honest ones. Amelia reviews every application personally and will be in touch within two business days.

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Enrollment for the first cohort opens September 2025.
Spots are limited to twelve women.

You were not broken
by what happened.
You were shaped by it.

And what was shaped can be reshaped. That is what the Circle is for. If you have questions before you apply, Amelia is happy to talk.

Apply for the Circle Call (805) 244-8489