6 04, 2025

How Brainspotting Can Help Resolve Perinatal Trauma: Online Therapy in California

By |2025-04-06T15:42:01-07:00April 6th, 2025|Categories: Blog, Featured, Grief/Loss, Maternal Mental Health, Reproductive Mental Health|Tags: , , , , , , |0 Comments

Becoming a parent is often described as a joyful time—but what if your experience has felt anything but joyful?

If you’re a new parent in California navigating the lingering effects of a difficult pregnancy, birth, or postpartum experience, you’re not alone—and you’re not broken. Perinatal trauma is more common than many people realize, and it deserves compassionate, effective support.

As a licensed therapist specializing in reproductive mental health, I offer online therapy throughout California and have done so for over a decade. Lately, I’ve been blown away by the additional benefits my clients have seen since starting to use a powerful brain-based modality called Brainspotting. This approach can help you process and release trauma stored deep in the body and mind—even when it feels too overwhelming to talk about.

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3 02, 2025

What is Brainspotting?

By |2025-02-03T13:52:01-08:00February 3rd, 2025|Categories: Addiction, Blog, Featured, Grief/Loss, Maternal Mental Health, Mental Wellness, Practice Updates, Reproductive Mental Health|Tags: , , , |0 Comments

Brainspotting is a “bottom up” tool that is really helpful when your thinking brain knows and understands something, but your body and nervous system are still reacting. Residual trauma is often not in your thinking brain so is better accessed by brain/body techniques like Brainspotting which can directly help your subcortical brain.

In my practice, reproductive trauma, such as birth trauma, stillbirth, TFMR, miscarriage and more, is not always healed completely with “talk therapy” or a “top down” approach.

Brainspotting and the brain - California therapy

Sometimes we can think of unprocessed trauma as being held in the the brain like a capsule (Robert Scaer, MD). Brainspotting can help super old trauma move away from being trapped in your present timeline and move it to its proper place in your history.

A brain spot can […]

28 11, 2017

How to Use Pixar’s Coco to Teach about Death [Cinematherapy Guide]

By |2019-11-18T14:30:31-08:00November 28th, 2017|Categories: Blog, Grief/Loss|Tags: , , , , , , |1 Comment

“The word death is not pronounced in New York, in Paris, in London, because it burns the lips. The Mexican, in contrast, is familiar with death… jokes about it, caresses it, sleeps with it, celebrates it. It is one of his favorite toys and his most steadfast love.” -Octavio Paz

Disney Pixar Coco Cinematherapy Guide

About Coco

Disney/Pixar’s latest movie, “Coco” delivers a beautiful animated tale, centered around the Mexican holiday, the Day of the Dead (El Dia de los Muertos). I’ve tried not to include any spoilers or reveal too much about the plot.

If you have seen my “Inside Out” Study Guides for teaching teens and children about emotions, you will know I am a fan of cinematherapy. In my psychotherapy practice in […]

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