doctorlisa

Compassionate Care for Complex Lives

A Space to Reconnect and Reclaim

As a licensed psychologist, I specialize in working with adults navigating depression, anxiety, PTSD or difficult life experiences, and relationship challenges. My interpersonal approach is grounded in emotional safety, deep collaboration, and evidence-based care—including EMDR and emotionally focused therapy. Whether you're feeling stuck, overwhelmed, or simply ready to reconnect with your inner clarity, therapy offers a space to pause, reflect, and transform.

What I Treat

I work with individuals facing:

Depression and persistent sadness

Anxiety, panic, and chronic worry

PTSD or difficult life experiences

Relationship struggles and attachment wounds

Life transitions, identity shifts, and emotional burnout

High-functioning distress and perfectionism

Reprocess. Release. Reclaim.

EMDR Therapy

Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR) is a powerful, research-backed therapy for healing trauma or difficult life experiences. It helps you safely revisit painful memories, reduce emotional intensity, and restore a sense of calm and control.

I integrate EMDR with interpersonal process talk-therapy to support both deep healing and relational growth.

How Therapy Works

Therapy is a collaborative process. We’ll begin with a thorough intake, clarify your goals, and co-create a plan that honors your pace and preferences. Sessions are typically 45 minutes, offered weekly or bi-weekly, with options for in-person or virtual care.

📍 Location & Availability

I offer therapy for adults across California, with in-person sessions in Mission Viejo and secure virtual options statewide.

EMDR Intensives

If you’re ready to move through trauma or a difficult life experience with clarity and momentum, EMDR Intensives offer a powerful alternative to traditional weekly therapy. Instead of spreading sessions over months, intensives provide extended EMDR sessions—often several hours at a time—within a condensed window of days or weeks.

This immersive format allows us to go deeper, faster, and with intention. It’s ideal for clients who want to accelerate their healing, minimize interruptions, and address core issues in a safe, structured way. Together, we’ll co-create a plan that honors your goals and supports meaningful transformation.

EMDR Intensives are available for adults seeking focused care for trauma or difficult life experiences. Let’s explore if this format is right for you.

EMDR Intensives - Packages

Accelerated Healing for Trauma or Difficult Life Experiences

For clients seeking focused support, EMDR Intensives offer a powerful way to move through trauma or difficult life experiences in a condensed, intentional format. Instead of weekly sessions, intensives provide extended EMDR therapy over a few days or weeks—allowing us to dive deeper, minimize disruptions, and create meaningful momentum.

This format is ideal for adults who want to address core issues with clarity and depth—whether you’re navigating a life transition, recovering from relational wounds, or simply ready to feel more emotionally free.

EMDR Intensives are offered in-person in Mission Viejo or virtually for California residents. Let’s explore if this approach is right for you.

These assessments explore:

This foundation helps us tailor your intensive to your unique needs, so we can focus on what matters most—your healing, clarity, and transformation.

3 Hour Package

6 Hour Package

9 Hour Package

This format is ideal for adults who want to address core issues with clarity and depth—whether you’re navigating a life transition, recovering from relational wounds, or simply ready to feel more emotionally free.

What Clients Achieve

Specific Outcomes Clients Consistently Achieve

Deep regulation of trauma responses

Clients often experience fewer flashbacks, less anxiety, and greater day-to-day emotional steadiness.

Transformational relational shifts

Many begin creating healthier boundaries, identifying attachment patterns, and showing up more securely in partnerships.

Renewed inner trust and confidence

Particularly with clients who had previously felt broken or disconnected from their intuition.

Embodied healing

They don’t just understand their trauma cognitively—they begin to feel healing somatically.

What You'll Experience

Clients often begin with the belief, “My emotions are overwhelming and dangerous.” Through our work, they gain the language to express their emotions, the tools to regulate them, and the insight to understand themselves.

What you’re really receiving: emotional permission, attunement, and depth.

That’s not just therapy. That’s transformation.

You've done the work. Now it's time for traction.

Whether you’re ready for weekly therapy or an EMDR Intensive, I’m here to walk beside you.

 Serving adults in California • In-person in Mission Viejo • Virtual sessions statewide