You look grounded on the outside. Inside, your nervous system is still on high alert. Gentle, body-centered trauma and anxiety processing for high-functioning Westside adults. Clear the emotional noise without losing your edge or taking a break from your life.
In-Person Care: Private, tranquil suite at 12011 San Vicente Blvd (corner of Saltair Ave).
Integrated Modalities: EMDR + Internal Family Systems (IFS) + Somatic Tracking.
Designed For: High-functioning anxiety, attachment wounds, burnout, and complex trauma.
Emergency Notice: If you are experiencing an acute mental health crisis, please call or text 988, or call 911 immediately.
You can probably explain your history with complete clarity. You know your triggers and your patterns. Yet when a stressor hits, your body reacts before your logic can catch up. Insight lives in your thinking brain. Panic, hyper-vigilance, and burnout live in your nervous system.
The result? The internal alarm turns off. You keep your sharp mind and hard-earned wisdom, without carrying the physical weight.
"What I love most about this work is witnessing the moment something shifts when a client suddenly sees their experience differently, and you can see the relief on their face."
- Susan Quinn Therapist, LMFT
Standard EMDR is exceptional at clearing specific memory files, but deep relational healing requires a gentler, more nuanced framework. If your system relies on perfectionism, overthinking, or tight self-control to feel safe, pushing past those defenses can feel abrasive. By weaving in Internal Family Systems (IFS), we check in with your protective parts first, earning their permission before touching tender wounds.
At the same time, somatic tracking helps release the physical bracing—the tight jaw, shallow breathing, or chest pressure—that your body holds onto during stress. Combining these three modalities allows old trauma and chronic anxiety to resolve smoothly at the root, leaving you feeling genuinely grounded in both mind and body.
Healing shouldn’t feel like a shock to your system. We work with clear structure and deliberate pacing, ensuring you always feel grounded and fully in control.
Standard EMDR processes specific traumatic memories. AF-EMDR keeps that work and adds a layer focused on relational wounds the early experiences that shaped your sense of self and your ability to connect with others. It’s the difference between treating a symptom and addressing its origin.
Intellectual insight doesn’t reset an overactive nervous system. If traditional talk therapy hasn’t shifted how you actually feel, you don’t need more talking. you need neurological processing. As an EMDRIA-Certified EMDR therapist in Brentwood, LA, I specialize in deep-root trauma recovery that systematically unburdens your system so your past stops hijacking your present.
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In-person care in Brentwood, West LA (90049) and secure online therapy across California.
This is the single most common fear for high-achieving, control-oriented adults. The short answer is no, because we do not push open doors your nervous system isn’t ready to unlock.
Traditional exposure therapies can sometimes flood your system, but EMDR works in brief, micro-dosed sets. You hold the steering wheel at every moment. We build solid grounding tools before touching target memories, and we never end a session while a memory feels wide open. You learn to observe your past from a safe distance rather than reliving it.
Yes. Prescribed psychiatric medications, such as low-dose SSRIs, anti-anxiety medication, or ADHD stimulants, do not prevent EMDR from working.
The only requirement is that your nervous system can still access and feel subtle emotions during the session. If a medication leaves you feeling completely blunted or emotionally flat, processing can take a bit longer. During our initial consult, we discuss your routine to ensure your nervous system has enough responsive headroom to reprocess memories effectively.
Progress in EMDR is often quiet and physiological before it becomes mental.
You’ll know it’s working when a situation that used to set off an immediate fight-or-flight reaction suddenly produces a neutral non-event. You might notice you didn’t clench your jaw during a tense meeting, didn’t over-explain yourself after setting a boundary, or simply slept through the night without an underlying hum of dread. The memory stays in your history, but its emotional charge disappears.
Both options are clinically effective, but they offer different environments.
In-person sessions at my San Vicente office provide a physical sanctuary: a quiet, confidential space away from work and home where you can completely step out of your daily roles. Virtual therapy across California uses secure bilateral software and offers the convenience of processing from your own home, eliminating the commute on the 405 or Wilshire. We choose the setting that best fits your lifestyle and feeling of safety.
EMDR is a structured, goal-directed treatment rather than an endless open-ended talk therapy.
For a single-event target, such as a recent car accident or acute medical scare, processing can often be completed in a focused cluster of sessions. For complex, long-standing developmental or attachment themes, the work takes longer because we are updating foundational safety blueprints. We regularly review your milestones together so you always know where you are in your healing process.
Yes. We rarely choose partners strictly with our conscious minds; we pick what feels familiar to our underlying attachment system.
If early experiences taught your body that love requires over-functioning, self-sacrifice, or anxiety, your nervous system will reflexively mistake emotional volatility for passion. Using Attachment-Focused EMDR (AF-EMDR), we reprocess those original relational experiences. Once your body realizes that emotional safety is natural, your baseline attraction shifts, and healthy, secure connection stops feeling boring or overwhelming.
Located at 12011 San Vicente Blvd, Suite 305 (90049), my practice sits on the corner of San Vicente and Saltair Avenue along Brentwood’s coral tree corridor. The suite provides a quiet, confidential sanctuary designed for focused healing.
My office sits on San Vicente Boulevard in Brentwood minutes from Santa Monica, West LA, and Beverly Hills. For clients across California, telehealth makes the same work possible from home.
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No commitment, no paperwork. A chance to talk through what you’re carrying and see whether EMDR and whether I might be the right fit.