Online Trauma and PTSD therapists in Arroyo Grande, California CA
Find experienced online trauma and PTSD therapists in Arroyo Grande who provide testing, evidence-based treatment for trauma, post-traumatic stress disorder, and related challenges such as anxiety, depression, and stress. Compare detailed therapist profiles and connect with a provider that’s right for you.
Rory Valentine Diller
Registered Psychotherapist, M.A., LMFT Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist #139783
Somatic Therapy incorporates body-based practices, Neuroscience, and Psychobiology into traditional Talk Therapy. This Holistic approach is particularly beneficial to Trauma Survivors struggling with symptoms of PTSD. Trauma impacts the Nervous System and brain functioning which often leaves traumatic experiences and trauma memories unprocessed in the body and unconscious mind, as Bessel van der Kolk famously stated, “The Body Keeps The Score.” This can lead to symptoms of PTSD (re-experiencing, flashbacks, angry outbursts, hyper vigilance, insomnia, anxiety, depression, chronic fatigue, chronic pain, dissociation, shame, and a fractured sense of Self) and requires understanding and focused attention to the mind-body connection during treatment and recovery.
10 Years Experience
Online in Arroyo Grande, CA (Online Only)
Jeremi R McManus
Marriage and Family Therapist, MFT
I have supported hundreds of couples over the past 15+ years navigating PTSD and trauma, and look forward to helping you get your relationship where you want it to be. Poor communication? Broken trust? Endless arguments? I look forward to hearing from you.
21 Years Experience
Online in Arroyo Grande, CA
Lisa Abrams-Misbeek
Marriage and Family Therapist, LMFT
Trauma-Focused Therapy helps to focus on the traumatic event and what it means to you. as well as techniques that can help people with PTSD disconnect from trauma. There are several techniques that help, including Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy. These will help you learn to get through reexperiencing the event and focus on the positive things in life.
15 Years Experience
Online in Arroyo Grande, CA (Online Only)
Arazeli Wagner
Marriage and Family Therapist, LMFT, Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist
I support adults who are healing from trauma and PTSD, including experiences rooted in childhood, relationships, or family systems. Trauma can show up as emotional overwhelm, hypervigilance, shutdown, or difficulty feeling safe in your body or relationships. Therapy focuses on building safety, awareness, and new ways of responding with greater choice and self-trust.
10 Years Experience
Online in Arroyo Grande, CA (Online Only)
Margaret Graham
Licensed Professional Counselor, LPC, LCPC, LPCC
My work with trauma and PTSD clients focuses on developing safe, paced strategies for processing difficult experiences that continue to impact your present life. Through evidence-based approaches including EMDR, clinical hypnosis, and somatic techniques, we address key areas including hypervigilance, emotional flashbacks, relational patterns rooted in past wounds, and nervous system dysregulation. I help clients build resources and resilience before processing traumatic memories, develop tools for managing triggers and overwhelming emotions in daily life, understand how past experiences shaped current beliefs and behaviors, and create new neural pathways that support healing and integration. My approach acknowledges that trauma work requires moving at your pace while providing a framework that allows you to process what happened without being retraumatized in the telling.
15 Years Experience
Online in Arroyo Grande, CA (Online Only)
Dr Pamela Helen Polcyn
Marriage and Family Therapist, Phd, MFT
Trauma can stop you in progressing with your life. Many treatments are now available that can assist you in approaching painful and difficult issues in a safe and effective manner. Intrusive memories and feelings can be reduced, the volume and intensity turned down. The allows you to engage in life
35 Years Experience
Online in Arroyo Grande, CA (Online Only)
Melanie Goetz
Marriage and Family Therapist, LMFT
You already have displayed such a beautiful expression of courage by seeking out support. In the beginning of therapy, we’ll build on this courage by identifying what is working for you in life right now, bringing in new resources to expand the sense of safety to live and connect. Then slowly taking little tastes of deeper, painful work, we’ll move back and forth, allowing your full being to embrace this new way of living without the added weight of judgment or pressure to live any one way. We’ll consider the stories and thoughts, the emotions, the images and picture memories, as well as, the groans, pains, and numbness of your body that are charged by fight-flight-freeze-faint energy. We’ll honor all parts of you as we work together to engage all the rules of safety and connection that you’ve learned through past experiences. We’ll consider what is and is not working well for you now, and, we’ll identify new purposes for these parts of you that honor your living and connecting now.
10 Years Experience
Online in Arroyo Grande, CA
Heidi Hartston
Psychologist, PhD
A traumatic experience can reset your nervous system to be chronically hyper-vigilant as if another dangerous situation is right around the corner. Chronic hypervigilance can have you on guard all the time, over-reactive, easily offended or startled, sleep deprived and feeling alone and unsupported. It is exhausting and unsustainable to live that way. And it can shut down your creativity, playfullness, relationships and physical health too. I can work with you to process trauma, anger and grief. And I can help you learn to ease your nervous system back into a more relaxed state. I combine insightful, caring depth work with evidence based techniques that effectively free you from past traumas, self-sabotaging patterns, and help you to build the balanced, happy life you deserve.
35 Years Experience
Online in Arroyo Grande, CA (Online Only)
Danielle Greenspan, LMFT, LPCC
Marriage and Family Therapist, LMFT 104395, LPCC 4889
I have extensive experience working with individuals with trauma, PTSD and Complex PTSD. I use a client-centered approach to tailor interventions to fit my clients' needs. I particularly like using Dialectical Behavioral Therapy (DBT) and Accelerated Resolution Therapy (ART) to work through traumatic experiences and trauma triggers.
11 Years Experience
Online in Arroyo Grande, CA
Dorit Saberi-Thrive Psychological Services
Psychologist, Ph.D, Diplomate-Academy of Cognitive Therapy; Trainer- Prolonged Exposure for PTSD- CTSA
Trained and certified at all levels in Prolonged Exposure for PTSD t/ the Center for the Treatment and Study of Anxiety- UPenn. Can train and certify in this modality.
24 Years Experience
Online in Arroyo Grande, CA (Online Only)
Barbara Lynn Allen
Hypnotherapist, MS. CCHT. DCEP
I offer expertise in energy psychology, clinical hypnotherapy, energy medicine and wise, empathic counseling for men, women, couples and teens. Our work together will relieve your anxiety, depression, PTSD, addictions and more while building inner strength for your life, work and relationships.
37 Years Experience
Online in Arroyo Grande, CA
Shayda Ewalt
Marriage and Family Therapist, LMFT
Trauma is not just what happened, it is how the nervous system adapted in order to survive. PTSD symptoms such as hypervigilance, flashbacks, emotional numbing, or reactivity are protective responses that once served a purpose. Using approaches such as EMDR, Brainspotting, and somatic work, we gently process trauma so your body no longer has to live as though the danger is still present.
10 Years Experience
Online in Arroyo Grande, CA (Online Only)
Castle Rock Family Services
Licensed Clinical Social Worker, LMFT, LCSW, AMFT, ACSW
Our clinicians specialize in trauma-informed care, helping clients process past experiences, manage PTSD symptoms, and regain a sense of control and peace.
12 Years Experience
Online in Arroyo Grande, CA
Christine Jones
Psychologist, Psy.D.
Highly stressful and/or adverse events can lead to lingering trauma memories. They tend to cause disturbance in our mind and bodies, sometimes in the form of higher anxiety, mood issues, negative relationship loops, greater avoidance, and a negative impression of self. Science-based treatments have demonstrated recovery from a diverse array of traumas that stem from childhood and adulthood. Treatment outcomes often include little to no emotional charge on the worst memories, an automatic balanced sense of self, and a lifting of past symptomatology.
24 Years Experience
Online in Arroyo Grande, CA
Dr. Shawn V Giammattei
Psychologist, PhD
Many of our clients also struggle with trauma and PTSD, especially as a result of the minority stress experienced and their many intersections of minorities identities. We use several modalities including DBT, EMDR, IFS to help heal the reactions to harmful events and experiences.
17 Years Experience
Online in Arroyo Grande, CA
Angelique Umutesi
Licensed Clinical Social Worker, LCSW
Healing from trauma and PTSD is a brave and deeply personal journey, and at Roots and Refuge Center, we are here to walk alongside you.
Whether you’ve experienced childhood trauma, military service trauma, loss, or any form of violence, we provide a compassionate space for you to process, heal, and rebuild your life.
We understand that trauma affects every part of you — your mind, body, and spirit — and we offer trauma-informed care to help you reclaim your sense of safety, strength, and peace.
What We Offer
Trauma-Informed Therapy:
Safe, supportive, and empathetic counseling that respects the impact of your trauma and works with you to foster healing and recovery.
Personalized PTSD Treatment:
We offer evidence-based treatments such as Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) and EMDR (Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing) to help you process and heal from PTSD.
Mind-Body Healing:
Trauma affects the body, and we offer techniques such as mindfulness, breathwork, and somatic experiencing to help you reconnect with your body and release stored trauma.
Building Resilience:
Learn tools to manage triggers, build emotional resilience, and create a sense of stability in your daily life.
Healing from Religious or Cultural Trauma:
If your trauma is tied to faith or cultural experiences, we offer compassionate support to address the emotional wounds left by those experiences.
5 Years Experience
Online in Arroyo Grande, CA (Online Only)
Tracey Kiernan
Marriage and Family Therapist, MA, AMFT
Trauma can show up as reactivity, numbness, or feeling stuck in patterns you don’t fully understand. Using a somatic and integrative approach, I help you safely process these experiences and build a greater sense of stability and control.
2 Years Experience
Online in Arroyo Grande, CA
Empowered Wellbeing, Decolonizing Intersectional and Integrative Complex Trauma & Dissociation Recovery Support
Life Coach, view my credentials online at: www.recoveringfromwithin.com/credentialslongform
We bring 14+ years of experience with complex trauma, dissociation care and recovery, memory reconsolidation and other neurodevelopmental care, attachmemt care and support... We specialize in CSAS - Adult Survivors of Childhood Sexual Abuse, Colonial and/or Narcissistic/Trauma Recovery. Our approach is systems and neurodevelopmental and at times ethnotraditional/ecorelational based. We bring compassion and empathy to trauma recovery support. There is a deep understanding of the internal and external affects of trauma recovery. Care providers are sometimes also survivors who have been through the recovery and have deep compassion for the process. We look at and work with intersectional issues of oppression. We also recognize many instances of socially derived trauma are intergenerational, lateralized and or oppressive and ongoing, clients are often addressing childhood, as well as, adult trauma from a non-self-shaming compassion based approach such as, Intersectional Care, Parts Work including TIST -- Trauma Informed Stabilization Theory, IFS -- Internal Family Systems; Somatic Work and distance CranioSacral; DBR, Polyvagal and Attachment Theory based approaches... non dominant handwriting, addiction care, memory reconsolidation and existential/coherence level care. We also integrate understanding of Transformative and Social Justice to bring awareness to internalized oppression that can keep survivors looped into dangerous experiences. We have a decolonizing orientation to care! This work is a special calling, during and post trauma recovery, folks may even feel more affirmed and move towards creative and fulfilling Self actualization in their process. We welcome POC and GM folks with intersecting care needs. Please feel free to email me if you have any questions.
15 Years Experience
Online in Arroyo Grande, CA (Online Only)
Abigail (Abi) Zarate Ramsay
Pre-Licensed Professional, Marriage and Family Therapist Trainee, Professional Clinical Counselor Trainee
I support survivors of trauma and PTSD with a trauma informed, paced approach that centers safety, nervous system regulation, and meaning-making, without pushing you to share more than you are ready for.
0 Years Experience
Online in Arroyo Grande, CA (Online Only)
Jillian Luz
Marriage and Family Therapist, LMFT, ATR
I have specialized training and experiencing in treating trauma and complex trauma as well as Acute Stress Disorder and PTSD. My main treatment modality for these issues is EMDR.
11 Years Experience
Online in Arroyo Grande, CA (Online Only)
Trauma and PTSD therapists in Arroyo Grande, California Statistics
Trauma and PTSD therapists in Arroyo Grande, California average 15 years of experience and charge around $207 per session. 100% offer online sessions. The most commonly treated issues are Trauma and PTSD (100%), Anxiety or Fears (84%), and Depression (71%).
Average years in practice
15 Years Experience
Average cost per session
$207
Gender ID
| 71% |
Female |
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| 24% |
Male |
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| 3% |
Non-Binary |
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| 2% |
Gender Fluid |
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Session Type
| 62% |
In Person and Online |
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| 38% |
Online Only |
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Top Specialties
| 100% | Trauma and PTSD |
| 84% | Anxiety or Fears |
| 71% | Depression |
| 58% | Stress |
| 54% | Relationship and Marriage Counseling |
| 52% | Self Esteem |
| 52% | Loss or Grief |