Online Trauma and PTSD therapists in El Rio, California CA
Find experienced online trauma and PTSD therapists in El Rio 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.
PTSD/Trauma
Emma Esper
Marriage and Family Therapist, LMFT, LPCC
Trauma creates profoundly deep and painful wounds. These wounds can be difficult to heal, as we often suppress them, have difficulty expressing them, or do not have safe spaces to unearth them. Unhealed trauma can inform how we make decisions, how we see ourselves, how we see others and our world, and how we react to these things. My work with trauma survivors is to instill hope and self-worth, acknowledge and validate all emotions, create feelings of safety, and provide permission giving for struggle. Remember, it is okay to not be okay.
7 Years Experience
Online in El Rio, CA
PTSD/Trauma
Phillip McCulley
Marriage and Family Therapist, MA, LMFT, CSAT
I work with individuals and couples who are dealing with the effects of trauma or post traumatic stress. Trauma can come from many experiences, including childhood events, relationship betrayal, abuse, medical trauma, loss, or other situations that felt overwhelming or unsafe. Even when the event is in the past, its effects can continue to show up through anxiety, emotional numbness, hypervigilance, intrusive memories, or difficulty trusting others.
In therapy, I help clients understand how trauma is affecting their nervous system, emotions, and relationships in the present. I use trauma informed approaches, including EMDR therapy, to help process painful experiences in a way that feels safe and manageable. This work allows many clients to feel less controlled by memories or emotional reactions and more grounded in their daily lives.
Trauma healing is not about reliving the past or forcing yourself to move on. It is about helping your mind and body release what they have been holding onto so you can feel more present, connected, and in control. Together, we work toward restoring a sense of safety, stability, and confidence in yourself and your relationships.
22 Years Experience
Online in El Rio, CA
PTSD/Trauma
David Sudyka
Marriage and Family Therapist, Marriage & Family Therapist, LMFT, MA
Trauma can continue to affect you long after the event has passed, showing up as intrusive memories, heightened anxiety, or feeling on edge. It can impact your sense of safety and the way you move through the world. In therapy we will work at a pace that feels safe to process what you have been through while also building tools to manage symptoms. The goal is to help you feel more grounded, more in control, and less impacted by the past.
4 Years Experience
Online in El Rio, CA (Online Only)
PTSD/Trauma
Morgan Pemberton
Marriage and Family Therapist, LMFT, EMDR certified
If you’re struggling with complex trauma, attachment wounds, or generational trauma, healing can feel overwhelming, but you don’t have to face it alone. As a certified EMDR therapist, I specialize in helping individuals process deep-rooted trauma using a variety of effective techniques, including EMDR, Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT), and resourcing. By addressing both the emotional and generational aspects of your experiences, we work together to break the cycle and help you build a healthier, more connected future.
11 Years Experience
Online in El Rio, CA (Online Only)
PTSD/Trauma
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 El Rio, CA (Online Only)
PTSD/Trauma
Melissa Berschauer
Marriage and Family Therapist, LMFT
When a painful past experience keeps showing up in your present-day reactions, it can feel like you're permanently on high alert. We will work together at a pace that feels completely safe for you, often using EMDR, helping your brain and body finally register that you are out of danger.
14 Years Experience
Online in El Rio, CA (Online Only)
PTSD/Trauma
Douglairian psychology apc
Marriage and Family Therapist, Lmft
We are trained in research-supported therapies that target substance use and compulsive behavior patterns, as well as mental health issues such as Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD), complex trauma, and anxiety or mood disorders.
5 Years Experience
Online in El Rio, CA (Online Only)
PTSD/Trauma
LaTianna Williams, Therapy, Sexology, and Holistic Tantra
Marriage and Family Therapist, LMFT, CTRS, ABS
Trauma & PTSD: Trauma can continue to affect your life long after the event has passed. You may struggle with anxiety, hypervigilance, emotional numbness, relationship difficulties, intrusive memories, trust issues, or a persistent feeling that you’re never truly safe.
Using a trauma-informed approach, I help clients process difficult experiences, understand their nervous system responses, and develop tools for healing and recovery. Together, we’ll work at a pace that feels safe while building greater emotional regulation, resilience, and self-compassion.
Healing from trauma is not about forgetting what happened. It’s about reclaiming your sense of safety, power, and ability to fully participate in your life.
8 Years Experience
Online in El Rio, CA (Online Only)
PTSD/Trauma
Dr. Rebecca Scott, Psy.D
Psychologist, Clinical Psychologist, Certified in Holistic Health
I support PTSD and trauma by utilizing many different modalities. Recalling all the details of the trauma, research suggests, can retraumatize the patient and not be essential for treatment with all patients. Learning how to cope in the moment and relate to the world can be challenging, I can help support this journey.
17 Years Experience
Online in El Rio, CA
PTSD/Trauma
John Jakubowski
Marriage and Family Therapist, LMFT MACP LPCC
Trauma therapy has come light years in the last decade. You do not have to relive, or dig up past experiences to heal. I work with both trauma and attachment disruptions, in order to heal going forward and flourish. Through a myriad of relational tools, let's change the landscape and help you get on with your life.
7 Years Experience
Online in El Rio, CA
PTSD/Trauma
Amita Khare
Marriage and Family Therapist, LMFT
Trauma takes a physical and mental toll on a person. Trauma can render you tied up in a knot, unable to get free. Children experience and understand trauma differently from adults. They do not have the vocabulary to express their distress, so they act out. If your child is experiencing difficulty sleeping, have nightmares, being emotional and hypervigilant, therapy can be very helpful in reducing symptoms. I use play therapy, art to help children express their thoughts and feelings and teach them coping mechanisms to calm down, relax.
Trauma in adults looks a bit different. You might feel hopeless, helpless, unable to stop the flashbacks and nightmares. It might be hard to work or maintain relationships. It might result in substance abuse, suicidal thoughts, or risky behaviors. Don't wait to get help. You can break free from trauma and live a happy, satisfying life.
11 Years Experience
Online in El Rio, CA
PTSD/Trauma
IEMT Trauma Therapy
Hypnotherapist, C.Ht., NLP, I.E.M.T., B.T.P, Adv-EFT., CBT Specialist
IEMT is uniquely effective for trauma because it doesn’t require talking about the details. It quickly disconnects the emotional overwhelm from the memory, making the past truly feel like the past. Flashbacks and emotional hijacks are common with PTSD. IEMT works by rapidly reducing the charge behind those memories, helping your mind stop reacting as if the danger is still present.
9 Years Experience
Online in El Rio, CA
PTSD/Trauma
Sexual Recovery Coach
Counselor/Therapist, PhD, CST, CADC-III, CTA-CC
PTSD generally refers to a reaction to a single traumatic event. A memory of the event, conscious or unconscious, rises up and the person believes that it is happening now. Battlefield trauma is the clearest example of this. CPTSD (Complex Post traumatic Stress Disorder) refers to a stress disorder linked to sustained patterns of abuse, trauma and neglect. Sometimes the roots of the trauma are obvious,but not always. There is inter-generational trauma, intrauterine trauma, medical trauma and religious trauma for example. Trauma knows no time. When we are triggered, the pain and discomfort can be as real as it was when the initial events occurred. Exploring whatever adverse experiences occurred in early life, adulthood or in past generations can help you achieve a freedom from these trauma reactions. To help resolve them, I use EMDR, CBT, hypnotherapy and somatic techniques.
20 Years Experience
Online in El Rio, CA
PTSD/Trauma
Sandy Kong
Marriage and Family Therapist, LMFT 119380
Trauma can be any experience that shapes the way you view, relate, and develop a relationship with yourself, others, and the world. Exposure to either one big negative event or a cumulative of small negative events can cause people to live in fear, worry, paranoia, stress, and insecurity. Healing from trauma involves a gradual process of restoring safety, processing emotions, and rebuilding connections. Key strategies in therapy with me include practicing self-compassion, grounding techniques, and establishing a support system. Healing is not linear, and it often requires avoiding self-blame, maintaining routines, setting boundaries, and addressing trauma gently over time.
11 Years Experience
Online in El Rio, CA
PTSD/Trauma
Jennifer Canu
Marriage and Family Therapist, LMFT
Acknowledging an event as traumatic is scary, and it can be easy to minimize our past experiences particularly when we feel "fine". Yet one may experience a variety of mental health symptoms and/or patterns which may feel uncomfortable or interfere with various life areas. These patterns likely helped you survive the traumatic experience, yet continued despite no longer being needed. I have over 15 years experience in treating symptoms of trauma and PTSD in children, adolescents, and adults. I utilize an integrated approach, incorporating psychoeducation, parts work (IFS), EMDR therapy, mindfulness and CBT to support clients of all ages with processing the traumatic experience and integrating adaptive information and new, more effective patterns.
20 Years Experience
Online in El Rio, CA
PTSD/Trauma
Relationship Therapy Center - serving individuals and couples in CA online and in the Sacramento area
Marriage and Family Therapist, LMFT, Certified Gottman Therapist
Whether you have had a one time trauma or a lot of small incidences over time, talk therapy is not always effective. We do provide a talk therapy called CPT which is proven effective, we also offer EMDR and Brainspotting which are body based therapies that can resolve trauma more quickly.
12 Years Experience
Online in El Rio, CA
PTSD/Trauma
David Strah
Marriage and Family Therapist, MA, LMFT
I completed a year-long trauma and somatic training and can use EMDR for clients suffering from trauma and PTSD
Online in El Rio, CA
PTSD/Trauma
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 El Rio, CA (Online Only)
PTSD/Trauma
Bonnie Rae
Marriage and Family Therapist, MA, LMFT
Trauma can often keep people stuck and engaged in unhealthy patterns and relationships that no longer serve them. I am a trauma focused therapist, using attachment focus therapists, psychodynamic therapy, EMDR and ISTDP (Intensive Short Term Dynamic Therapy) to help deeper processing of trauma and PTSD.
14 Years Experience
Online in El Rio, CA
PTSD/Trauma
Tanya Samuelian
Marriage and Family Therapist, M.S., Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist
Trauma isn’t always loud—it can live quietly beneath high achievement, control, or emotional distance. Many high-functioning individuals carry past wounds that continue to impact their relationships, self-worth, or sense of safety. I offer a compassionate, trauma-informed space to process what’s been buried, reconnect with your inner world, and move toward lasting healing and integration. You don’t have to carry it alone.
11 Years Experience
Online in El Rio, CA
Trauma and PTSD therapists in El Rio, California Statistics
Trauma and PTSD therapists in El Rio, 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 |
|
| 38% |
Online Only |
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Top Specialties
| 100% | Trauma and PTSD |
| 84% | Anxiety or Fears |
| 71% | Depression |
| 59% | Stress |
| 54% | Relationship and Marriage Counseling |
| 52% | Self Esteem |
| 52% | Loss or Grief |