Trauma Therapy in Los Angeles, CA
You’re going about your day when, suddenly, something triggers horrible memories and overwhelming distress. You don’t feel safe in the world anymore—like you’re out of place, disconnected, like you don’t belong. Dealing with trauma isn’t easy, but there are treatment options available through holistic trauma therapy in Los Angeles, CA.
Trauma can change how you see the world and yourself, and it may be holding you back from living a freer life. You didn’t choose to experience what you went through, and you certainly didn’t choose for those experiences to affect you today.
A trauma specialist from our team can help you understand and reprocess trauma.
Common Challenges Trauma Therapy Can Help With
When you experience trauma, you may feel threatened, powerless, and frightened. Essentially, your nervous system shifts into a fight, flight, freeze, or fawn response.
An experienced trauma specialist can help you address trauma responses, which may show up in everyday life as:
Mood swings, anger, or irritability
Anxiety or panic attacks
Social withdrawal
Forgetfulness or difficulty concentrating
Feelings of shame or guilt
Insomnia or night terrors
Hypervigilance, quick heart rate, or high blood pressure
Feeling numb or disconnected
Start Trauma Therapy in Los Angeles, CA—Begin Your Healing Journey Today
It’s possible to move beyond past trauma and start feeling safe again—don’t delay the healing process! Taking the first step can feel scary, but we’ll be by your side through the entire journey.
How Trauma Therapy Can Help You
Through trauma therapy in Los Angeles, CA, we offer a compassionate and nonjudgmental space where we treat you holistically. We’ll work with you to explore the impact of your past experiences and help you build on what works, while letting go of what’s keeping you stuck.
Your trauma specialist will encourage you to be open, vulnerable, and honest. Lasting healing happens when we bring both conscious and unconscious beliefs, thoughts, and emotions to light.
We can’t erase painful memories, but we can help you reprocess traumatic experiences so they no longer trigger the same intense reactions.
Trauma counseling can help you:
Gain a deeper understanding of the traumatic event and integrate it
Shift thoughts and emotional responses related to trauma
Reduce the power traumatic memories hold over you
Manage physical symptoms connected to trauma
Empower personal growth and improve self-esteem
Together, we’ll work toward a deeper understanding of your challenges so you can move forward in the therapeutic process—and ultimately heal with strength and authenticity.
Holistic Trauma Therapy in Los Angeles, CA
We take a holistic approach to treatment, honoring you as a whole person—mind, body, and spirit. Our therapists draw from multiple therapeutic modalities to guide their work, tailoring each session to your individual needs, goals, and emotional experiences.
We are informed and thoughtful about the following approaches and incorporate aspects of them to enrich and support your therapeutic experience:
Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR)
EMDR is an alternative to talk therapy that uses eye movements to help process traumatic events that weren’t fully integrated due to overwhelming stress. This approach reduces symptoms and helps clients break free from triggers and distressing responses.
Psychodynamic Therapy
Psychodynamic therapy explores how past experiences influence current behaviors and emotions. By examining early experiences and family dynamics, clients gain insight into their beliefs and coping patterns and learn new ways to manage trauma-related challenges.
Parts Work and Internal Family Systems (IFS)
IFS views the personality as made up of different “parts,” each with its own role and traits. The “Self”—your core consciousness—helps regulate these parts. Trauma may affect some parts more than others, and IFS supports healing by fostering integration and balance.
Somatic Therapy
Because trauma often lives in the body, somatic therapy helps clients explore physical sensations and release stored tension. This approach builds body awareness, grounding, and emotional regulation, supporting trauma release and improved quality of life.
Get Started With Trauma Therapy in Los Angeles, CA
If you’re ready to start healing, we’re here to help! We truly care about you, and our goal is to support you in becoming whole and happy again.
Option 1:
Book a free consultation
Start with a 15-minute call with our Care Coordinator, where you can share your questions and help us understand what you’re looking for.
Option 2:
Fill out our form
Complete our online intake form, and we’ll help you find the therapist who’s the best fit to support your unique needs and goals.
Meet Our Trauma Therapists
Get to know our holistic team and how a trauma specialist can help you with strength and compassion.
Natalie Beltran
Natalie works to explore each story with warmth, curiosity, deep respect for lived experience — and a little humor when it helps.
Isabel Kindberg
Isabel uses principles of trauma-informed care and harm reduction to work towards healing with authenticity, humor, and directness.
Sarah Callender
Sarah uses creativity, honesty, curiosity, and humor to create a safe environment in which to share, explore, and find healing.
Jenny Chandler
Jenny takes a warm, collaborative approach rooted in somatic psychotherapy, attachment theory, and a strengths-based lens.
Tatiana Kovalsky
Tatiana supports healing on all levels — mind, body, heart, and spirit — helping each person step into a more empowered, embodied self.
Jenny Walters
Jenny takes a warm and collaborative approach to get to the heart of symptoms and create lasting and meaningful change.
Will DeSmit
Will creates a compassionate, non-judgmental space where parts and experiences that have been hidden can be safely explored.
Wade Mollison
Wade has a compassionate, collaborative, and emotionally attuned style—with a touch of irreverence—that honors each person's full self.
Trauma Therapy FAQs
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Trauma counseling focuses on helping you safely process and understand your traumatic experiences. During therapy, your trauma specialist will work with you to identify how trauma shows up mentally, emotionally, and physically. You’ll explore underlying factors that may be keeping you stuck and learn personalized coping strategies to help you manage symptoms.
As therapy progresses, you’ll reprocess traumatic experiences to reduce their emotional intensity and develop healthier ways to understand and reframe what you went through.
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The most effective trauma therapy varies from person to person. However, because trauma involves involuntary responses to triggers, treatments that address the neurological impact of trauma are often most effective.
For that reason, EMDR therapy is one of the leading approaches for trauma treatment, as it helps reprocess traumatic memories and integrate them across both hemispheres of the brain.
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You may benefit from trauma counseling if symptoms persist over time or worsen. These may include:
Fatigue or poor sleep
Intrusive thoughts, flashbacks, or nightmares
Difficulty concentrating or memory issues
Ongoing feelings of unsafety or hypervigilance
Restlessness, agitation, or overwhelm
Confusion
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The length of trauma counseling depends on the intensity and complexity of your experiences. Healing looks different for everyone, and we believe it’s best not to place rigid timelines on the process. Trusting and committing to your healing journey is what allows meaningful change to unfold.
Work With Our Trauma Therapists in Los Angeles, CA
We understand the toll that trauma takes on a person, and we would be honored to help you from our Los Angeles, CA-based practice. Contact us if you’re ready to take this step!
Other Services We Offer at Highland Park Holistic Psychotherapy
Our team of caring therapists offers a variety of mental health services to support you and your family. We provide both online therapy and in-person sessions in Los Angeles, CA, and across the state. We also offer affirming care for LGBTQ+ individuals and LGBTQ+ couples.
Start your therapy journey alongside a trauma therapist. Or, learn more about our other services, including EMDR, anxiety treatment, depression therapy, eating disorders, religious trauma therapy, and more.
If you have any further questions, visit our FAQs page or contact us directly.