What we’ll work on

Welcome to Holding Place Therapy

If you’re a professional woman in Encinitas who looks like she has it all together but feels anxious, overwhelmed, or constantly “on” underneath the surface, you’re in the right place.

Maybe you’re successful in your career, deeply caring in your relationships, and the person everyone can count on. But you’re also overthinking conversations, putting pressure on yourself to get everything right, noticing every shift in someone else’s mood, or struggling to truly relax even when everything is technically okay.

You may also be carrying the invisible mental load of navigating celiac disease or an autoimmune condition, thinking ahead about food, your environment, your energy, or what your body might need while trying not to feel like a burden to anyone else.

You may have been in therapy before. You understand your patterns, know your triggers, and have plenty of coping skills. But knowing why you feel this way hasn’t necessarily changed how your mind and body respond.

At Holding Place Therapy, I specialize in helping thoughtful, high-achieving women go beyond traditional talk therapy. Using Attachment-Focused EMDR, Brainspotting, Flash Technique, and Deep Brain Reorienting (DBR), we can gently work with experiences and patterns that may still be keeping your nervous system on alert.

You don’t have to spend your life trying to outthink your anxiety. Therapy can offer a space to work through perfectionism, people-pleasing, relationship triggers, overwhelm, and unresolved experiences so you can begin to feel more grounded, trust yourself more, and have more room to simply be.

Holding Place Therapy is a fully virtual practice serving women in Encinitas, San Diego County, and throughout California. You can access specialized EMDR and trauma therapy from the comfort and privacy of your own space.