It’s time to reconnect to you.
WHOLE WELLNESS THERAPY, SAN DIEGO COUNSELING IN-PERSON & ONLINE
Therapists in San Diego who specialize in addiction, anxiety, trauma and grief and loss. We provide therapy services, including counseling, psychotherapy, and psychiatric diagnostic evaluations, to individuals, couples and families
Our approach is not one-size-fits-all.
We seek to understand the complexity of the human experience, in lieu of assuming it. This means we begin from a place of curiosity—avoiding stale one-size-fits-all approaches.
Instead, we draw from evidence-based psychology (e.g., cognitive behavioral therapy, acceptance and commitment therapy, and emotionally focused therapy) in addition to analytic psychology (e.g., psychodynamic therapy and existential therapy) to provide a comprehensive, individualized treatment approach that is as unique as you.
We offer in-person appointments or the convenience of online video-therapy for California residents through our secure, HIPAA compliant client portal.
You are not your struggle—you are much more.
“I am not what happened to me, I am who I choose to become.”
We are not one-dimensional. But too often we hear a different story.
All day our minds remind us of where we’re falling short—of how we could be doing better.
We learn ways to tune out the noise: unfulfilling relationships, happy hours, drugs, working too much, seeking approval, online shopping, and so on.
Some things work better than others, which keeps us coming back, but the problem is these ways of "getting through it" don't last and can create other problems
Our constant need for distraction becomes overwhelming.
We start to feel like we are just existing, burning the candle at both ends—especially in our minds.
What we really want is to feel alive and some version of whole again.
You can get reconnected.
Most of our problems don't start out as problems—they develop slowly, over time. Before long, we get used to our "used to"—even when it becomes chaotic and unmanageable.
Though addiction, anxiety, trauma, depression—you name it—can feel oppressive and dominate many parts of our lives, our struggles are not what makes us who we are—they are a part of us, but they should not define us.
Whole Wellness Therapy was started because we believe that connection is possible.
Our goal is to help you get reconnected—starting with you.
If our experience has taught us anything, it's that individual wholeness leads to relational wholeness.
In other words, learning to interact with yourself in new ways and on deeper levels is transformative, directly impacting your ability to have real connection with others
Forward-thinking and evidence-based.
Belief is easier when it's observed, especially with repetition—it makes the other impossibles in our lives seem possible too.
At Whole Wellness Therapy, we believe that finding freedom from the things that haunt us is not out of reach, because we've had the privilege of watching many people overcome their “I could never…”
What makes us different is that we believe in allowing the past to guide us while staying with the times.
That is, we respect the emergent and evolving nature of science: how ideas are developed further and deeper, cultivated by both our past and present human experience.
We value the exploration of both.
“Our revolutionary idea is that you know yourself best, which is why we don’t try to fit you into a box because what works for someone else is not guaranteed to work for you.”
Instead, we draw from traditional and emergent evidence-based psychology and collaborate with you to help you transcend the limitations you're facing and evolve beyond what's holding you back.
We truly care about the relationship we have with our clients and we bend over backward to make sure you receive the devoted and expert support you deserve.
Live life untethered.
We believe in keeping things holistic.
Achieve whole wellness.
Don't worry, we won't tell you to eat granola or forage for your own salad greens (unless that's what you're into).
When it comes to optimizing your mental health and emotional wellness, however, it's hard to make a case against taking a look at your lifestyle, which includes your sleep, how you manage stress and what you put into your body.
The advancements in neuropsychology have shown us that the mind-body connection is absolute. By definition, exploring this relationship is part of the story of getting better.
We now know that "being present" is more than a trendy soundbite.
While not a quick fix, the benefits of mindfulness-based therapies are significant, including increased resiliency, enhanced adaptation to stress and marked reduction of the negative impacts of trauma, addiction, anxiety, and depression.
The clinical research around the benefits of mindfulness have given birth to evidence-based practices that incorporate traditional modalities like cognitive behavioral therapy—which is considered to be the "gold standard" for treating anxiety disorders such as Generalized Anxiety Disorder, Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder (OCD), Panic Disorder, Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD), and Social Phobia or Social Anxiety Disorder.
Our clients receive caring and customized treatment approaches. We never stop honing our expertise in the most effective therapy methods because we know one size doesn’t fit all and we believe our clients deserve the absolute best care available.
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Acceptance & Commitment Therapy (ACT)
ACT is built on the premise that running away from a problem puts unnecessary distance between you and the solution. ACT helps people accept their thoughts and feelings rather than fight them or feel guilty about them. When paired with mindfulness tools, ACT can help people address challenges with greater psychological flexibility and self-compassion. ACT helps put you back in the driver’s seat of your life instead of letting anxiety, depression or another struggle do all the driving.
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Brainspotting Therapy
With the help of a therapist who specializes in brainspotting, we are able to move out of a state of hypervigilance and locate “brain spots” that may not be safe to remember or process on our own. Your therapist uses the tip of the pointer as a focal point to guide you through memories, refocus your emotions, and begin to process all that has been stored in your mind and body. By bringing our subconscious into consciousness, we are finally able to fully process our past and begin to heal.
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Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
We are one of the few therapy providers in Sacramento area to practice “Third Wave” Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT). This is our preferred treatment for the simple reason that it works. CBT is based on the idea that our brain is always changing. Our brains are built to constantly rewire themselves. Just because you think in a damaging way now doesn't mean that you will think this way forever. The ability to rewire the brain is called “neuroplasticity” and has been researched extensively.
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Compassionate Inquiry
Compassionate Inquiry is a therapeutic approach developed by Dr. Gabor Maté that reveals what lies behind the appearance we present to the world. Compassionate Inquiry helps reveal a client’s mental climate, hidden assumptions, memories, and body states that express or conceal their authenticity. Compassionate Inquiry unveils the unknown dynamics running behind the scenes in clients lives so they can liberate themselves.
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Dialectical Behavioral Therapy (DBT)
DBT is a type of cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) that helps people learn how to live in the moment and develop healthy ways to cope with stress. Clients practice effective tools to regulate their emotions which can improve their life outlook and their relationships with others. DBT is a skills-based therapy technique that often uses short-term treatment to address thoughts, feelings, and behaviors we can’t easily change.
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EMDR Therapy
EMDR therapy (Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing) was designed to go back into that part of our brain and resolve unprocessed traumatic memories. EMDR therapy can help you come face to face with your younger self and help those wounded parts of you finally be able to heal. Your brain may literally have something neurologically blocking it from processing your memories and EDMR can help.
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Emotion Focused Therapy (EFT)
EFT is based on the foundation that emotions are key to identity—that they guide individual choices and the decision-making process. This type of therapy helps clients become aware of and tap into the important information that emotions provide. Skilled EFT therapists can help people address a range of concerns such as anxiety, trauma, and relationship issues. An awareness of our emotions leads to the ability to transform them.
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Narrative Therapy
Narrative therapists can help by giving us a safe space to explore our own perspectives about our experiences. A Narrative therapist believes that we are the experts of our lives and treat us as such. The therapist’s role in this type of therapy is to seek an understanding of our lives and our worldview, separate us from our problems enough to look at the problems together, and offer new perspectives to help us understand ourselves even better.
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Psychodynamic Therapy
Psychoanalysis was formed out of the idea that our unconscious needs are at the root of our psychological issues and that when we can bring these unconscious needs to awareness, we can find healing and wholeness. Psychoanalytic therapists can help us revisit the pieces of our past in a safe place, offer us different perspectives, and help us put the pieces together in a way that makes sense of our current circumstances.
Locations:
Online appointments are just as effective as in-person appointments. They are confidential, secure, and easily accessible. If in-person appointments would be your preference, we have offices San Diego.
Our online booking is easy and convenient for even the busiest people.
How to get started...
Schedule a free call with our care specialist Kae. She’ll help you get matched with the right therapist for you!
Then take a breath. One of the biggest steps is over.
