Trauma Therapy in Highland Park, California
If You’re Tired of Feeling “Too Much” or “Not Enough”… You’re Not Alone!
You were raised in environments where being “good” meant being agreeable, quiet, accommodating, even if it meant betraying yourself in the process. Maybe you were praised for being easygoing, selfless, or mature beyond your years. Maybe you learned to keep your needs small, your voice quiet, and your emotions hidden. Somewhere along the way, you started to believe that if you were just a little less sensitive, less emotional, or less “needy,” life would be easier.
Now, this pattern has created a deep sense of disconnection. You might feel like you’re constantly swinging between feeling like too much and not enough.
Trauma Therapy in Highland Park, CA can help you find your way back to yourself.
Trauma therapy offers a compassionate space to explore where these patterns began and how they’re still impacting your sense of self. Together, we’ll unpack the unspoken rules, the family dynamics, and the early messaging that told you who you had to be to feel safe or accepted. This isn’t about “fixing you”, it’s about helping you reconnect to the version of yourself that was never broken to begin with.
When Survival Becomes Exhausting, It’s Time to Shift Into Healing
When you're used to keeping it together on the outside, trauma can be hard to spot… even to yourself. You get things done. You show up for others. You manage your life on the surface. But under all that functioning, you might feel numb, detached, burnt out, or on edge. Your body feels like it’s always bracing for the next hit, even if your life looks “fine” now. You may find yourself stuck in cycles of people-pleasing, overworking, perfectionism, or emotional shutdown. Then you wonder why rest feels unsafe, or joy feels out of reach.
So far, survival mode has worked. It helped you navigate unpredictable, demanding, or emotionally unsafe environments. But now, it’s likely keeping you from feeling grounded, connected, and whole.
With the support of a Trauma Therapist in Highland Park, you can:
Begin to understand how your nervous system has been protecting you, and how to slowly shift into a new way of being.
Explore what safety actually feels like, how to regulate overwhelm, and how to begin making choices from a place of self-trust rather than fear.
Learn that healing doesn’t require urgency, it requires gentleness. You don’t have to earn rest.
Meet Stephanie, a Trauma Therapist in Highland Park, CA
Like you, I’ve spent a long time holding it all together - being the helper, the fixer, the one who keeps the peace. I was also taught to stay small, stay good, and never rock the boat. I spent years doing everything “right” on the outside, while quietly wondering why things still felt hard.
I’m a trauma therapist who works with folks carrying the invisible weight of shame, expectations, religious wounds, and burn out. Together, we’ll make space for the version of you that’s been waiting to come back home.
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