Trauma, Anxiety & Relationship Therapy in Los Angeles

For painful experiences, emotional overwhelm, chronic stress, disconnection, and survival patterns that still show up in everyday life- even if you’ve gotten good at functioning through them.

Sometimes trauma looks obvious. Sometimes it looks like overfunctioning, emotional shutdown, people-pleasing, hyper-independence, anxiety, or feeling constantly “on.”

Trauma therapy at Brick by Brick helps clients process unresolved experiences while building a stronger sense of emotional safety, self-understanding, and steadiness within themselves and their relationships.

EMDR therapy can help clients process trauma, distressing experiences, emotional overwhelm, and long-standing nervous system patterns that continue to affect daily life and relationships.

My approach is grounded in the SAFE Approach to EMDR, a somatic and attachment-focused model that emphasizes emotional safety, nervous system regulation, trust, and pacing throughout the healing process.

Rather than pushing clients to relive painful experiences before they feel ready, this approach supports trauma processing in a way that feels more grounded, relational, and sustainable.

This work may support clients struggling with:

• trauma and PTSD

• chronic anxiety and hypervigilance

• relationship and attachment wounds

• emotional shutdown or overwhelm

• people-pleasing and survival patterns

• difficulty feeling safe, connected, or regulated

Healing often happens slowly and intentionally- brick by brick.

For the constant mental load, emotional exhaustion, chronic pressure, and feeling like your mind rarely fully shuts off.

Anxiety doesn’t always look obvious. Sometimes it looks like constantly overthinking conversations, struggling to rest, feeling emotionally “on” all the time, staying busy to avoid slowing down, or carrying pressure that never fully leaves your body.

Many clients come to therapy feeling exhausted by the amount they’re carrying internally while still trying to function normally on the outside.

Therapy can help create more awareness around the patterns, stress responses, and underlying experiences contributing to anxiety and burnout while also building healthier ways to regulate, cope, and move through everyday life with more steadiness.

Explore relationship dynamics, attachment wounds, emotional safety, boundaries, communication patterns, and the ways past experiences can continue showing up in present relationships.

The ways we learned to connect, protect ourselves, communicate, and seek closeness often begin shaping relationships long before we consciously realize it.

You may notice patterns like:

◦ difficulty trusting others
◦ fear of abandonment or rejection
◦ emotional shutdown during conflict
◦ people-pleasing
◦ hyper-independence
◦ feeling disconnected even in close relationships
◦ repeating the same relationship dynamics over and over

Therapy offers space to better understand these patterns with more clarity and less self-judgment while creating healthier, more secure ways of relating to yourself and others.

My approach may integrate attachment-focused therapy, relational therapy, mindfulness-based work, and DBT-informed skills to support emotional regulation, communication, boundaries, and navigating relationships with greater intention and stability.

Support for complicated family relationships, communication challenges, emotional tension, cultural expectations, and relational patterns that can feel difficult to navigate alone.

Family relationships can carry a lot of emotional weight- especially when there are longstanding patterns, unresolved hurt, pressure, conflict, or roles you’ve felt stuck inside for a long time.

For many adults, family dynamics continue impacting:

• boundaries

• self-worth

• emotional regulation

• relationship patterns

• anxiety and stress

• feelings of guilt or responsibility

Therapy can help you better understand these dynamics, process the emotions connected to them, and begin navigating relationships in ways that feel healthier, clearer, and more sustainable.

Build practical coping tools that actually fit your life, emotions, relationships, and nervous system- not just generic self-care advice that sounds good in theory but doesn’t feel sustainable in real life.

Coping skills aren’t one-size-fits-all. What feels grounding and supportive for one person may feel completely unrealistic or ineffective for someone else.

Part of therapy at Brick by Brick involves helping clients build personalized tools for:

• emotional regulation

• anxiety and stress management

• nervous system support

• communication

• boundaries

• self-awareness

• navigating difficult emotions and relationships

Therapy may integrate DBT-informed skills, mindfulness, relational therapy, and nervous system-focused approaches to help clients better understand their emotions while building coping strategies that feel more realistic, supportive, and sustainable in everyday life.

The goal isn’t perfection or constant productivity. It’s creating tools that actually help you move through life with more steadiness, self-awareness, and flexibility over time.