Trauma & Depth Therapy in Burbank, Pasadena, and Online California
Healing Root Causes through EMDR, Brainspotting, and Somatic Parts Work.
Maybe you’ve spent years intellectualizing your pain and becoming exceptionally good at explaining why you feel the way you do while the actual feeling remains stubbornly unchanged.
Or perhaps you’re on the opposite side of the spectrum: overwhelmed by chaotic emotions, shutdown states, anxiety, or numbness without understanding where any of it is coming from.
Whether you’re trapped in chronic overthinking or lost in the fog of “I don’t know,” the root issue is often the same.
Your trauma is often largely wordless
Beyond the Loop: Subcortical Healing for the Analytical & the Overwhelmed
Traditional talk therapy primarily engages the Internal Narrator: the logical, meaning-making part of the brain trying to organize the story.
But trauma, chronic stress, and nervous system survival responses often live much deeper than language. They live in the subcortical nervous system.
This is why many people can fully understand their trauma intellectually and still feel emotionally stuck, reactive, anxious, disconnected, or chronically unsafe.
Our sessions do not focus on the analytical mind. We work with the language your nervous system actually understands.
Using somatic therapy, EMDR, Brainspotting, and depth-oriented trauma work, we help clients process trauma beneath the surface level of cognition so healing becomes embodied — not just conceptual.
Navigating the "Check Engine" Light
If you are seeking trauma or depth therapy, you may already sense the painful gap between what you know logically and what your body continues to feel.
The Intellectual Loop: You can explain your trauma story clearly and insightfully, yet your nervous system still reacts as if the threat is happening in the present moment. And your body also feels that the traumatic event is occuring.
The Nameless Fog: Chronic exhaustion, overwhelm, emotional shutdown, dissociation, numbness, or anxiety without a clear trigger or narrative.
Repetitive Emotional or Relationship Cycles: Finding yourself repeating the same relational dynamics, attachment wounds, emotional reactions, or self-protective patterns despite “knowing better.”
Symbolic Hunger: A sense that something essential is missing appears through recurring dreams, imagery, existential anxiety, or feeling disconnected from yourself, your body and "vessel"
These experiences are not signs that you are broken. They are signs your nervous system is still carrying unresolved survival responses.
The Depth Process: A 3-Step Approach
Somatic Tracking
Healing begins by moving beneath the constant mental narration and reconnecting with the body’s signals. Through somatic tracking, we gently explore where stress, trauma, and activation are held physically in the nervous system.
Rather than forcing emotional exposure, we use a trauma-informed and titrated approach that helps your system process safely without overwhelm or retraumatization.
The goal is not to “push through” your nervous system defenses, but to build trust with them.
Subcortical Processing
Using Brainspotting and EMDR therapy, we work directly with the deeper brain regions where traumatic experiences and implicit memories are stored.
These therapies support the nervous system’s natural ability to metabolize unresolved distress, survival responses, and emotional activation patterns that talking alone often cannot reach.
This process helps update the nervous system’s “check engine” codes that may have been running silently for years.
Symbolic Reclamation & Jungian Depth Work
Trauma healing is not only about symptom reduction. It also consists of reclaiming disconnected parts of the Self.
Through a Jungian and depth psychology lens, we explore the symbolic language emerging from dreams, recurring themes, emotional patterns, imagery, creativity, and subconscious material.
Together, we begin restoring connection to the deeper aspects of identity, meaning, intuition, and internal coherence that trauma often fractures.
Jungian Depth Work in Burbank & Pasadena, CA
& online throughout California
“There is a source within us that always works to bring things into the light.”
We approach depth therapy as essential nervous system maintenance rather than needing to "perform" to a therapist.
You do not have to keep proving your insight, explaining your pain perfectly, or performing “healing” intellectually.
This work is about experiencing alignment, safety, and internal coherence at the nervous system level.
Think of your nervous system as your primary vessel.
Deep-dive therapy is the intentional work of getting under the hood while tending to the patterns, survival responses, and unresolved experiences that quietly shape your emotional world.
This is a space where you can stop performing in therapy and begin experiencing meaningful somatic alignment and healing.
