Complex Trauma Therapy

in-person in San Mateo, online across California

Schedule A Free Consultation

We help clients disrupt old relationship patterns so they can create safe and secure connections today.

  • Do you feel stuck in cycles you can see but cannot seem to break?

  • Do you want closeness, but feel on edge, guarded, or unsure once people get too close?

Complex trauma makes your body react before your mind has time to catch up. Emotions come in waves. Intrusive thoughts get loud. Relationships feel confusing, intense, or unsafe, even when part of you wants connection.

Your system learned how to protect you, and therapy can help you build new patterns.

Meet With a Therapist

Complex Trauma Clients
Come To Us For

  • Emotional Flooding

  • On Edge

  • Intrusive Thoughts

  • Impulsive Behavior

  • Relationship Frustration

  • Self-doubt

  • Unhealthy Coping

  • Feeling Isolated

  • Tired of repeating patterns over and over

Let's Talk

Complex trauma often shows up in relationships first. 

You may choose partners who feel familiar, react in ways you later regret, or struggle to trust what you feel and need.

How Our Complex Trauma Therapy Helps

We begin with an assessment during the first three sessions so we can understand what is bringing you in, what you have lived through, and how your relationship history still affects you today.

From there, we collaborate with you to create a treatment plan that works for you.

Some clients need room to vent, explore, and finally say things out loud without feeling judged. Others want practical tools right away so they can start changing how they react, communicate, cope, and choose partners.

Most people need both.

  • Helps you manage emotional waves, tolerate distress, and respond with more choice instead of reacting from panic, anger, or shutdown.

  • Helps you work with intrusive thoughts, self-doubt, and beliefs that keep you stuck in old patterns.

  • Reprocesses painful memories so that you can recall experiences from the past without intense distress that still feels active in your body, thoughts, and relationships.

  • Helps you understand the parts of you that protect, avoid, cling, people-please, numb, or rage so you can relate to yourself with more clarity.

  • Helps you understand relationship patterns, fear of closeness, fear of abandonment, and the ways your system learned to seek safety.

Therapy With Results

After therapy clients report:

  • More confident managing emotions

  • Less controlled by intrusive thoughts

  • Stable in relationships

  • Choose safer partners

  • Less reactive during conflict

  • More grounded at work and in daily life

  • A return of relief, joy, and hope

You may still have hard days.
Old fears may still show up. 

But you learn to pause, understand what is happening, and respond from the adult part of you instead of the younger, wounded part that feels like it has to protect you at all costs.

Book a Free Intro

Our Complex Trauma Therapists

3 Steps To
Get Started

  • Fill out our contact form. We’ll respond quickly and answer any questions you have.

  • Meet with us for three sessions to decide if this process feels right for your teen and family.

  • We’ll start by building trust with your teen and supporting parents in parallel, so everyone feels supported from day one.

If you’re ready to repair communication and restore peace at home, we’re here to help.

Meet With Us