Trauma therapy in San Francisco

Trauma isn't only a single catastrophic event. It's also the long accumulation — childhood environments that required constant vigilance, a relationship that eroded your sense of reality, a medical or institutional experience that left you without a say.

Trauma-informed therapy starts from the assumption that your reactions made sense in the context they formed in. Rather than pushing for a full retelling, the work builds capacity first: stabilizing, learning what happens in your body under stress, and establishing enough safety that memory becomes something you can approach instead of something that ambushes you.

Trauma-focused methods — EMDR, AEDP, parts work and somatic approaches among them — are used when they fit and when you're ready, never as a protocol imposed on your timeline.

People often arrive here after therapy that helped them function but never touched the thing underneath — or after a course of treatment that moved too fast and left them worse.