Online Trauma and PTSD therapists in Salinas, California CA
Find experienced online trauma and PTSD therapists in Salinas 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.
Integrated Mental Wellness
Psychologist, Ph.D, Integrated Medical Mental Health Clinician, Licensed Psychologist
Dr Colette Sinclair is specifically trained in treating PTSD and complex trauma. She uses a variety of progressive methods to minimize reactivity and restore functioning in life.
20 Years Experience
Online in Salinas, CA
Melissa Klass M.A., LMFT
Marriage and Family Therapist, M.A., LMFT #119163
Something bad happens, nothing good follows, and everyone pretends it's okay. This simple series of events can lead to lasting emotional and physical symptoms. Sometimes the symptoms make us feel crazy. Let me assure you, you are not crazy and you are not alone. I am trained in a trauma treatment technique called eye movement desensitization and reprocessing (EMDR), that can allow for integration of traumatic memories into one's healthy and coherent narrative. I would be honored to provide you a safe space to work through the painful experiences that just won't seem to go away.
10 Years Experience
Online in Salinas, CA (Online Only)
Tracy Sachs (Singh)
Therapist, MA, AMFT
I work with trauma from body and soul perspectives. By drawing upon somatic modalities, we will explore how your nervous system responded to traumatic events and work towards reintegrating the experience from a more regulated and spacious place. From a soul perspective, trauma can be understood as not having the love, support, and sense of being witnessed when a traumatic experience occurred. Together we will tend to your body and soul so that you are no longer at the mercy of trauma.
7 Years Experience
Online in Salinas, CA (Online Only)
Kim Christine Stevens
Marriage and Family Therapist, LMFT, MA
Have a specialization in supporting people with trauma and PTSD. I have trauma informed therapy experience and education.
11 Years Experience
Online in Salinas, CA
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 Salinas, CA (Online Only)
Roderic Burks - Integrative Mental Health
Licensed Mental Health Counselor, MS, MS HSc, MA, LMHC, LPC
Trauma and PTSD can leave lasting effects on your emotions, relationships, and sense of safety. I help clients explore the impact of these experiences through a trauma-informed, parts-based approach, honoring the ways your system has adapted to survive. Together, we work toward healing, regulation, and reclaiming a sense of safety, self-trust, and empowerment in your life.
26 Years Experience
Online in Salinas, CA (Online Only)
Hiroko Saeki, MA, LMFT, RDT
Marriage and Family Therapist, Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist, Registered Drama Therapist
Traumatic experiences can have long-lasting effects on our lives, and we might find it distressing even to talk about what we experienced. We can start slow. I am a Registered Drama Therapist trained in the therapeutic use of drama and other expressive arts. I feel passionate about supporting and empowering survivors of trauma/abuse, and I would love to help you.
11 Years Experience
Online in Salinas, CA
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 Salinas, CA
Susana Scotti, Journey Psychotherapy
Psychologist, PhD
I offer specialized trauma therapy for individuals experiencing the effects of past trauma, including PTSD, complex trauma, and chronic stress. Trauma and PTSD can leave you feeling stuck in the past, overwhelmed by intrusive memories, or constantly on edge. You may experience flashbacks, nightmares, avoidance, or a persistent sense of fear, disconnection, or emotional numbness. These reactions are your mind and body’s way of trying to cope with overwhelming experiences. As a clinical psychologist, I provide a safe, supportive space to process trauma at a pace that feels manageable. My approach is trauma-informed and grounded in evidence-based treatments, helping you gently work through painful experiences while building skills to regulate emotions and feel more in control. Together, we focus on reducing distressing symptoms, restoring a sense of safety, and helping you reconnect with yourself and others. Healing from trauma is possible, and you don’t have to go through it alone.
13 Years Experience
Online in Salinas, CA (Online Only)
Create You Therapy Services
Marriage and Family Therapist, LMFT
I work with clients experiencing trauma and PTSD using a trauma-informed, strengths-based approach. Therapy focuses on reducing symptoms, increasing emotional regulation, and supporting healing in a safe, supportive environment that honors each client’s unique experiences.
27 Years Experience
Online in Salinas, CA
Dr. Jen Bachtold
Psychologist, Ph.D., Certified Alcohol & Drug Counselor-II (CADC-II), Certified Clinical Trauma Professional, Specialist in Anger Management
I am a Certified Clinical Trauma Professional. Specializing in trauma and PTSD (Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder), I am dedicated to providing compassionate and effective support to individuals who have experienced traumatic events. My approach is grounded in evidence-based therapies and personalized strategies to promote healing, resilience, combat trauma triggers and intrusiveness, and overall well-being.
11 Years Experience
Online in Salinas, CA (Online Only)
Dr. Cristal Lopez
Psychologist, Ph.D.
Welcome! You might be feeling disconnected from your family, friends, children, job, or even the world. I'm Dr. Cristal Lopez, and I believe that we all have powerful strengths. Together, we will explore yours to help you unlock your full potential, connect authentically with others, and show up as your true self. My training at top U.S. children's hospitals, including Children's Hospital Los Angeles, California Pacific Medical Center, Texas Children’s Hospital, and Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, has provided me with over 6 years of experience working with children, adolescents, young and mid-life adults, and families.
For my younger clients, I use behavioral and play therapy techniques, while also supporting parents and families to foster healthy connections. With adolescents and adults, I draw on strength-based, humanistic, and relational principles to guide our work together.
Beyond traditional mental health concerns, I specialize and publish work in: coping with chronic illnesses, career-related issues (burnout, work-life balance), trauma, adverse childhood experiences, and stress related to first-responder families. I’m committed to guiding you, your child, or family to a more connected and fulfilling life. Invest in yourself!
9 Years Experience
Online in Salinas, CA (Online Only)
Leila Tabatabaee
Psychologist, PhD
Trauma has a specific and undeniable impact on our brain and nervous system. This impact ripples into the way we feel about ourselves, our relationships and the world. Learning strategies to mitigate and re-wire the impact of trauma can empower us to feel greater safety, ease, confidence and connection.
19 Years Experience
Online in Salinas, CA
Karina Baltazar-Durán LMFT
Marriage and Family Therapist, LMFT
I am a trauma informed therapist and trained in EMDR to help you uncover and unclog unresolved trauma that's been holding you down. There is hope, and there is light. Allow me to help you get to it.
17 Years Experience
Online in Salinas, CA
Hannah Nyznyk Christian
Marriage and Family Therapist, LMFT #133278
We offer trauma-informed therapy to help clients process past experiences safely and effectively. Treatment focuses on restoring a sense of safety and stability.
7 Years Experience
Online in Salinas, CA
Amrit Schneider
Licensed Clinical Social Worker, LCSW
Begin or continue your journey to heal trauma--identify triggers, nurture self-compassion, and learn tools for emotional regulation.
9 Years Experience
Online in Salinas, CA
Marina Edelman | TrueMe Counseling
Marriage and Family Therapist, LMFT
Trauma treatment at TrueMe Counseling focuses on nervous system healing, emotional processing, and restoring a sense of safety. We use trauma-informed, evidence-based approaches.
20 Years Experience
Online in Salinas, CA
Dr. Ingrid Solano
Psychologist, PhD
Making sense of trauma, and the impact of trauma, can be accompanied by the fear that you will never be able to overcome the distress you feel when you remember the experience or when those intrusive nightmares, flashbacks, and negative thoughts come crashing into your awareness. Through trauma-focused therapy we reclaim confidence, hopefulness, intimacy, safety, self-esteem, and trust. I have specific expertise in treating trauma symptoms related to sexual assault, intimate partner violence and emotional abuse, military sexual trauma (MST), childhood and complex sexual trauma, violence, and combat trauma experienced by Veterans. These experiences can impact physical health, and daily life.
Many people will experience a form of trauma in their lives. Trauma can come with feelings of shame, anger, and confusion. Posttraumatic stress is a normal human reaction to traumatic events. However, for some individuals this stress persists and interferes with their ability to live the life that they want. I work with complex cases that sometimes include dissociation, numbness, anger, risky behaviors, and years of avoidance. The treatments I provide are the most powerful and effective treatments available for these conditions. I have expertise in individual, as well as relationship (i.e., with a partner) based trauma-focused therapies. I have experienced many times how these treatments help people gain new perspectives about what happened to them, develop a sense of empowerment over their trauma, and improve their lives. These treatments can also be helpful if you feel stuck following experiences of trauma, even if you don’t have PTSD. If you’re unsure whether you want to discuss your trauma, or unsure which approach feels like a good fit for you, we can discuss your concerns. We will explore trauma-focused care that builds upon your current support, coping skills, and personal experience. I primarily employ time-limited, evidence-based Cognitive-Behavioral Therapies (CBT) such as CPT, PE, and CBCT. (See Individual and Couples Therapy based Trauma-Focused Services.)
In psychological literature, stressors are defined as events and conditions (e.g., losing a job, death of an intimate partner) that cause change and require that the individual adapt to the new situation or life circumstance. Stress processes can include the experience of prejudice events, expectations of rejection, hiding and concealing your authentic self, internalized homophobia, intimate partner violence, discrimination, and ameliorative coping processes that have become bad, ineffective habits. These experiences can be particularly painful when there is social pressure to conceal your experiences, or stigma. I address what it’s like to have no one to talk to about these experiences, and any distress that comes from having nowhere to do this work safely. I practice LGBTQIA+ affirming therapy that considers the impact of minority stress and chronic stress responses. Aside from these stress processes, LGBTQIA+ individuals, and heterosexuals who report any same-sex sexual partners over their lifetime, have greater risk of childhood maltreatment, interpersonal violence, trauma to a close friend or relative, and unexpected death of someone close.
15 Years Experience
Online in Salinas, CA
Vanessa Ffrench
Marriage and Family Therapist, Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist (140713), Certified Yoga & Meditation Instructor
I have a great deal of experience and training in trauma-informed therapy. Most of my work has been with trauma populations; I work with clients to identify childhood traumas, as well as current issues. I use a psychodynamic, trauma-focused lens, and weave in somatic practices to address trauma and bring in nervous system regulation.
15 Years Experience
Online in Salinas, CA (Online Only)
Elizabeth Nims
Marriage and Family Therapist, LMFT, Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist
I specialize in EMDR, a modality that can help individuals reprocess traumatic experiences and the negative beliefs and feelings that develop following these events.
7 Years Experience
Online in Salinas, CA
Trauma and PTSD therapists in Salinas, California Statistics
Trauma and PTSD therapists in Salinas, 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 |
| 58% | Stress |
| 54% | Relationship and Marriage Counseling |
| 52% | Self Esteem |
| 52% | Loss or Grief |