Trauma Therapy in Irvine, CA

Manage emotional overwhelm and feel safe in your body.

Helping adults heal from childhood wounds.

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Healing Childhood Trauma

You're the dependable, reliable, or understanding one everyone turns to. But underneath, you’re exhausted, overwhelmed, and can't relax. Perhaps growing up, you learned to keep the peace, put others’ needs before your own, or hide your feelings to avoid conflict or rejection.

You’ve learned to make yourself smaller to keep the peace, prioritize others’ needs before your own, or hide your feelings to avoid conflict or rejection. You can read the emotions in a room before saying a word to anyone.

You find it hard to feel safe in relationships, even ones that are healthy. It’s difficult to trust others because of past experiences. You tired of unintentionally repeating the patterns you’ve recognized and promised you would never repeat.

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About Me

Hi, I’m Jenna! I work with clients to help them recover from the impact of childhood trauma.

I believe that healing happens when we have a space where we can show up exactly as we are, without fear of judgment, pressure, or having to hold everything together.

As a trauma therapist, I specialize in helping adults understand and heal their past wounds so they can feel more connected to themselves and in their body. I utilize somatic therapy and inner child work to help you explore how childhood attachment wounds may still be showing up in your relationships, emotions, behaviors, and even your relationship with yourself. Together, we'll begin to understand the young part of you that learned to survive, the mechanisms that once protected you, and what it might look like to move beyond simply surviving.

But just as important as the work we do is the space we create together. I want therapy to feel like a place when you can take off your mask, let your guard down, and be safe to be your full, imperfect, and human self. I strive to be that person with my clients as well through transparency, collaboration, humor, and authenticity.

You may have spent most of your time caring for others, walking on eggshells, making yourself smaller, or white knuckling your way through the day, Therapy can be an opportunity to finally turn that care inward.

You don't have to have it all figured out before you walk through my door. You just have to show up as you are and we’ll navigate it together!

Services

Inner Child Work

Somatic therapy is a body-based approach to therapy that recognizes how trauma impacts not only our minds but also our nervous systems and physical bodies. Traumatic experiences can shape how our bodies respond to stress, relationships, and everyday situations, sometimes leaving us feeling anxious, overwhelmed, disconnected, or constantly on guard. Through this work, we will learn to slow down, tune into our body's signals, and gently work through patterns of survival that may no longer serve us. By building awareness and developing a greater sense of safety within our body, we can begin to feel more grounded, connected, and alive.

Somatic Therapy

Inner child work for childhood trauma helps you understand and heal the younger parts of yourself that may still carry the emotional wounds of the past. We’ll begin to reconnect with those parts that hold onto feelings of fear, shame, rejection, or hurt. By approaching these parts with empathy and validation, rather than judgment, they will start to learn safety and compassion. Over time, this work can help us break old patterns, develop a deeper relationship with ourselves, and create new ways of feeling safe, connected, and secure. You may not have received the care, understanding, or emotional safety you needed growing up, but you can begin learning how to offer those things to yourself now.

Super Hero Therapy

Superhero therapy uses storytelling, imagination, and characters from comics, movies, video games, books, etc. to help explore emotions, build self-awareness, and recognize personal strengths. Trauma work can be daunting at times, but by connecting with characters and their stories, we can start exploring underlying emotions, themes, and patterns in a way that feels safe, approachable, and even fun! Superhero therapy reminds us that we don't have to be perfect, fearless, or without struggles to be strong. Just because your two hearts down doesn’t mean you don’t have the strength to overcomes your obstacles!

I want to connect, now what?

  1. Reach out! Fill out the contact form HERE and I will reach out to you via phone or email to schedule a free 15-minute consultation call.

  2. Do a free 15-minute consultation! During our consultation call, I’ll answer any questions you have for me and learn a bit more about what you would like support with. If we feel like it’s a good fit, we’ll find a day and time that works for you to book our first session.

  3. Start your healing journey! In our sessions we will be using trauma-informed therapy to explore what keeps you feeling stuck and learn ways to help you feel safe in the present at a pace that feels comfortable for you.

FAQs

  • 50-minute individual therapy sessions are $180

  • I am in-network with Lyra Health’s Employee Assistance Program.

  • Yes! I use Mentaya - a platform that allows me to submit out of network claims on your behalf for a 5% fee. You can verify your out of network benefits here: https://mentaya.com/checkbenefits/zFosQoCLJs0RhH4i0FeV

  • Fill out my contact form HERE and I will reach out to schedule a FREE 15-minute consultation. If we feel it is a good fit, we can book our first session that day.

  • The first couple of sessions with me will be getting to know each other and understanding what you would like out of therapy. We’ll spend some time exploring your personal history and then we will collaborate on a treatment plan to accomplish your goals.