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You may recognize yourself here

You carry something
you have never been
able to name.

You do not have to be a mother to feel the weight of how you were mothered.

Anxiety, depression, or a persistent sense of never feeling good enough
Shame, powerlessness, or a fear of abandonment you cannot trace to a single moment
Fear of intimacy, vulnerability, or truly being known by someone
Exhaustion from people pleasing, perfectionism, and putting everyone else first
A quiet awareness that the patterns from your childhood are shaping your life today and a desire to stop them before they go any further

You do not have to wait until things get worse. You do not have to wait until you are a mother. The work can begin right here, right now, with you.

Young woman in therapy for healing generational patterns
Woman in therapy healing childhood wounds
What this work is about

Many women carry wounds from childhood
that were never theirs to carry.

Growing up with an emotionally unavailable mother leaves an imprint. It shapes how you see yourself, how safe love feels, how much you allow yourself to need, and how fiercely you protect yourself from being hurt again.

Many women spend years managing these patterns without ever understanding where they came from. They work hard, achieve much, hold everything together — and still feel a quiet emptiness they cannot explain.

Therapy is not about reliving the past. It is about understanding how the past is living in you right now — and choosing something different.

The most courageous thing a woman can do is decide that the pattern stops with her.
How we work together

Therapy that reaches what
words alone cannot touch.

Childhood emotional wounds are not stored in the mind alone. They live in the body, in automatic reactions, in the beliefs you formed before you had words for them. The work we do together reaches all of it.

The foundation

Attachment Focused Trauma Informed Therapy

Every session begins with safety. We build the trust and nervous system regulation needed to go gently and honestly into old wounds.

The method

Internal Family Systems (IFS)

IFS helps you understand the parts of yourself that formed to survive childhood. The over-achiever, the people pleaser, the one who shuts down. We heal them rather than fight them.

The space

Faith Informed Integration

For women whose faith is central to their healing, I offer therapy that honors your beliefs as a source of strength. All backgrounds and beliefs are welcome here.

In-network with Gold Coast Health Plan and Optum. Private pay, HSA, and FSA accepted. Telehealth available throughout California.

Who this is for

You do not have to wait
for things to get worse
to deserve support.

This work is for women at any stage of life who are ready to understand themselves more deeply and live with more freedom, connection, and ease.

Some come before motherhood — wanting to break patterns before they are passed on. Some come during — recognizing themselves in the reactions they did not choose. Some come long after — finally giving themselves permission to heal wounds they have carried for decades.

Before motherhood

Women who are aware of the patterns they inherited and want to heal before passing them on.

In relationships

Women who notice their childhood wounds showing up in how they love, trust, and connect with others.

At any stage

Women who are simply tired of carrying something heavy and are finally ready to put it down.

Woman healing childhood wounds in therapy

You do not have to
keep carrying this.
I am here.

A free 20-minute consultation. No commitment, no obligation. Just an honest conversation about where you are and whether this work feels like the right fit.