Trauma Therapy Services

In San Luis Obispo and Across California

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Time to focus on yourself.

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Therapy is time set aside for you to determine your goals, concerns, fears, plans, and more.

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A therapist can support you with reflection, finding the answers to your questions, or hearing yourself in a new way.

Who We Treat

Central Coast Psychotherapy provides therapy to individuals, couples, and families 12 years old and up.

    • Adults recognizing their childhood was traumatic

    • Individuals who avoid calling their parents

    • College students struggling with independence

    • People who are worried about judgment from others

    • Those who cry easily

    • Those who avoid crying

    • College students with school stress

    • People who want to be perfect

    • College students studying psychology

    • Adults wanting to parent differently than their parents did

    • People with childhood trauma

    • Individuals who have experienced abuse

    • Anyone struggling with depression, anxiety, perfectionism, or trauma.

    • Adolescents struggling with school stress

    • Teens dealing with self-harm or suicidal thoughts

    • Queer youth wanting a space to discuss gender and sexuality

    • Teens trying to cope with a world that feels hopeless

    • People who were adopted or in foster care

    • Adolescents learning to be independent for the first time

    • Kids wanting to explore relationships

    • Teens who skip school

    • Teens who feel peer pressure

    • Adolescents who want to leave home for college

    • Teens who want an adult to talk to who is not a parent

    • Anyone struggling with depression, anxiety, perfectionism, or trauma.

    • People struggling with communication

    • Adults who want to understand their partner better

    • People planning to get married

    • People thinking about divorce

    • People wanting to discuss future plans

    • Those who feel uncomfortable crying with their partner

    • People who want to learn new coping skills to be effective parents and partners

    • Girl dads

    • Boy moms

    • Parents

    • Anyone struggling with depression, anxiety, trauma, perfectionism, conflict, or communication issues.

Work With Us

Some of the Therapy We Offer

Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR)

EMDR is a therapeutic intervention created for trauma. The process involves bilateral stimulation in the form of eye movement, tapping, or the use of machinery to create physical stimulation. EMDR is not recommended for everyone, but has been demonstrated to be effective in as little as 8 sessions. EMDR helps to instill healthy coping skills, change thought patterns, and reduce trauma and anxiety responses to triggers.

Dialectical Behavioral Therapy (DBT)

DBT is a therapeutic modality originally created for borderline personality disorder, but is effective for many different concerns including substance use, anger, anxiety, and more. DBT is rooted in Buddhist concepts, cognitive behavioral interventions, and skill building. The basic concepts in DBT are wise mind (the balance between logic and emotion), objectivity, mindfulness, and acceptance. A large focus of DBT is distress tolerance which seeks to reduce reactivity and increase emotional control.

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Somatic Therapy

Somatic therapy incorporates the mind and body and seeks to build connection. Somatic work utilizes physical movement and psychotherapy. Somatic therapy takes talk therapy a step further by incorporating experiential exploration of sensation, emotion, and feelings. Somatic therapy may include art, meditation, movement, or imagery.