Online Social Isolation therapists in Santa Cruz, California CA
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Social Isolation
Ben Leddick
Marriage and Family Therapist, LMFT
It can be difficult to take the first step in connecting with others around you. While alone, you can be fully in control but this lacks the fundamental part of life: relationship. Overcoming social isolation takes the first step of reaching out to address the patterns that have kept you alone and continue the courageous step of reconnecting with those around you.
3 Years Experience
Online in Santa Cruz, CA
Social Isolation
Jeremi R McManus
Marriage and Family Therapist, MFT
I have supported hundreds of couples over the past 15+ years navigating social isolation, 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 Santa Cruz, CA
Social Isolation
Chris 'Bucky' Bateman
Marriage and Family Therapist, LMFT
Loneliness and disconnection are among the most painful human experiences and they're far more common than people realize. Whether isolation crept in gradually or followed a major life change, therapy helps you understand what's keeping you stuck and begin building the connections and sense of belonging you're looking for. You were made for relationship and we help you find your way back to it.
21 Years Experience
Online in Santa Cruz, CA
Social Isolation
Integrative Psychotherapy Group
Marriage and Family Therapist
We work with clients who express issues or concerns with Social Isolation.
10 Years Experience
Online in Santa Cruz, CA
Social Isolation
Diaspora Therapy Group
Marriage and Family Therapist, DSW, LMFT
We support individuals experiencing loneliness or social isolation with a trauma-informed lens. We explore barriers to connection, rebuild trust, and support meaningful relationships at a pace that feels safe. Our work centers belonging, validation, and emotional safety.
7 Years Experience
Online in Santa Cruz, CA
Social Isolation
Nes Pinar Psychotherapy
Marriage and Family Therapist, LMFT
I help people struggling with social isolation gently reconnect with themselves and with others in ways that feel safe, authentic, and manageable. Together, we explore the experiences, fears, and old patterns that have made connection feel out of reach, while building small, meaningful pathways back to belonging. My approach is steady, compassionate, and relational—supporting you as you move toward a life with more connection, ease, and support.
15 Years Experience
Online in Santa Cruz, CA
Social Isolation
Mia Turner
Therapist, MA, RYT, ASDCS, LMFT, NPT-C, CMNCS, CMIP
Support for experiences of loneliness, disconnection, belonging, and the challenges of finding relationships, communities, and environments where you can show up authentically. This work is particularly relevant for neurodivergent, disabled, chronically ill, highly sensitive, LGBTQIA2S+, BIPOC, multicultural, and otherwise marginalized individuals who may have spent years masking, adapting, code-switching, self-monitoring, or feeling unseen, misunderstood, or out of place.
Social isolation is not always about being physically alone. It can also arise from feeling disconnected while surrounded by others, feeling unable to fully express who you are, struggling to find people who share your experiences, or carrying the exhaustion of constantly adapting yourself in order to belong. For many people, experiences of rejection, bullying, exclusion, trauma, discrimination, chronic illness, disability, neurodivergence, or identity-based marginalization can shape not only relationships, but also the nervous system, self-concept, and expectations of connection itself.
This work explores how experiences of belonging, exclusion, attachment, culture, family systems, identity, trauma, and community have influenced the ways you relate to yourself and others. Particular attention is given to the ways masking, people-pleasing, hypervigilance, self-silencing, rejection sensitivity, and other adaptive strategies may have developed in response to environments where authenticity did not always feel safe or welcomed.
My approach integrates mindfulness, somatic therapy, EMDR, parts work, expressive arts, neuropsychotherapy, attachment-focused approaches, and liberation-oriented healing. Rather than focusing on becoming someone different in order to fit in, therapy supports reconnecting with your own voice, values, needs, interests, and authentic ways of relating. Through greater self-understanding, nervous system awareness, and self-trust, space is created for more meaningful connection with yourself, others, and communities where your full humanity can be seen, supported, and understood.
The goal is not simply to reduce loneliness, but to cultivate a deeper sense of belonging—to yourself, to your relationships, to your communities, and to the parts of who you are that may have been hidden, minimized, or left behind in the pursuit of acceptance.
10 Years Experience
Online in Santa Cruz, CA (Online Only)
Social Isolation
Dennis Sapire
Psychologist, JD PhD
Working with an older adult population, I find loneliness and social isolation are common among single people. This might be associated with depression (caused or causal) and can be intensely painful. I find great joy in being able to help clients energize their social lives and resolve the pain of loneliness.
24 Years Experience
Online in Santa Cruz, CA
Social Isolation
Jennifer Masters
Life Coach, Ba Psychology, CF Thanatology, D Kessler – Grief Grief Coach Certif,M Devine – Grief Coach Certif
Grief can make social connection feel exhausting. Many grievers are already physically and emotionally drained from grief brain, poor sleep, racing thoughts, nightmares, grief overload, or the constant effort of getting through the day. When other people ask how they are, judge how long grief is lasting, offer unwanted advice, or expect them to “get back to normal,” it can feel easier to pull away.
I support adults who feel isolated, disconnected, or too tired to keep up with friends, family, hobbies, or social plans after a loss. I explain why this can happen in grief, why it makes sense, and why it is not a personal failure. I also offer practical tools to help clients manage exhaustion, soften isolation, set boundaries with others, and slowly reconnect with people, routines, and interests in a way that feels possible for them.
6 Years Experience
Online in Santa Cruz, CA (Online Only)
Social Isolation
Emily St. Amant
Licensed Professional Counselor, MA, LPC-MHSP-S (TN), LPCC (CA)
Loneliness has been declared an epidemic by the Surgeon General. People often need support as they are breaking down the barriers to them being able to engage with others and form new relationships.
18 Years Experience
Online in Santa Cruz, CA (Online Only)
Social Isolation
Stephanie Sandoval - COLLECTIVE SPACE THERAPY
Marriage and Family Therapist, MA, LMFT
Are you experiencing a lack of connection with others? Feeling lonely and need help? With extensive training and experience working in a Los Angeles-based group practice and a comprehensive residential addiction treatment center, my specializations include expertise in social isolation. I offer a 15 min free consultation, feel free to reach out to see if we're a good fit!
11 Years Experience
Online in Santa Cruz, CA
Social Isolation
New Beginnings Christian Counseling
Marriage and Family Therapist, MA, LMFT
Feeling socially isolated can be painful and lonely, often leading to sadness, anxiety, or disconnection from others and even from yourself. Social isolation can stem from life transitions, past trauma, anxiety, or relational struggles. In therapy, we provide a safe and compassionate space to explore these experiences, build social skills, and strengthen meaningful connections. With Christ-centered guidance, clients learn to overcome loneliness, foster healthy relationships, and experience greater emotional and spiritual well-being.
15 Years Experience
Online in Santa Cruz, CA
Social Isolation
Jamie Fortin
Marriage and Family Therapist, Licensed Marriage & Family Therapist
I offer counseling to adolescents and adults who are struggling with social isolation and anxiety. I offer Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, Mindfulness, exposure therapy, and other modalities including group therapy specifically tailored to social isolation.
8 Years Experience
Online in Santa Cruz, CA
Social Isolation
David Gumpert
Psychologist, PsyD
Humans are wired for connection and we live increasingly in a world that makes it harder to connect with others, despite technology. My acceptance and commitment therapy approach can support you in understanding why you might not be feeling social, including uncovering how you may be protecting yourself. These then give us the motivation to tolerate the discomfort of moving towards things that are important to us.
5 Years Experience
Online in Santa Cruz, CA (Online Only)
Social Isolation
Bruce Howard
Psychologist, PhD
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43 Years Experience
Online in Santa Cruz, CA
Social Isolation
Mind Study Center
Counselor/Therapist, LMFT, M.D., Ph.D.,
At Mind Study Center, we provide compassionate support for individuals experiencing social isolation. Our team works to identify the underlying causes of isolation, whether related to anxiety, depression, or life transitions, and develops personalized strategies to foster connection. Through therapy and skill-building, we help clients build healthier relationships, improve social skills, and increase social engagement, empowering them to overcome loneliness and build a supportive, fulfilling social network.
10 Years Experience
Online in Santa Cruz, CA
Social Isolation
Dr. Claire Vines, Psy.D., Psychologist / Licensed /Psychotherapy / Psychoanalytic/
Marriage and Family Therapist, Marriage, Couples, LMFT. Psy.D. Trauma-Focused CBT
A social isolation is a self uncertainty often feeling less than, in comparison to the rest of their social circle causing withdrawals and aloneness while feeling different yet feeling victimized by the environment.
21 Years Experience
Online in Santa Cruz, CA
Social Isolation
Russell Wilkie
Marriage and Family Therapist, MFT
One word. Pandemic. For many of us it rattled us to our core, oftentimes leading to paralyzing anxiety about an unknown future. Humans don't deal well with so much uncertainty, and having someone to talk through it with can be very comforting, humanizing and help reduce the isolation. Also, you need sun on your skin and regular soothing and uplifting activities to break the isolation/depression cycle.
34 Years Experience
Online in Santa Cruz, CA (Online Only)
Social Isolation
Viktoria Walda Byczkiewicz, Ph.D.
Pre-Licensed Professional, PhD
Especially since the pandemic of 2020, many of us have experienced the profound feelings of disconnection and surreality of social isolation. Others among us are more comfortable at a social distance, at least most of the time. Distancing and isolation may help you to manage anxiety about potential encounters that you wish to avoid, or about which you do not feel confident. You may not have the means to get out and about. For whatever reason you may be isolated, there is still that yearning for connection. Through the relationship that can be developed with a skilled psychotherapist,
10 Years Experience
Online in Santa Cruz, CA (Online Only)
Social Isolation
Karen Queller
Art Therapist, M.A Expressive Arts Therapy
Discover your inner strengths, and find new ways to connect with yourself and others.
7 Years Experience
Online in Santa Cruz, CA
Social Isolation therapists in Santa Cruz, California Statistics
Social Isolation therapists in Santa Cruz, California average 14 years of experience and charge around $214 per session. 100% offer online sessions. The most commonly treated issues are Social Isolation (100%), Stress (92%), and Depression (88%).
Average years in practice
14 Years Experience
Average cost per session
$214
Gender ID
| 56% |
Female |
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| 37% |
Male |
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| 4% |
Non-Binary |
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| 3% |
Gender Fluid |
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Session Type
| 60% |
In Person and Online |
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| 40% |
Online Only |
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Top Specialties
| 100% | Social Isolation |
| 92% | Stress |
| 88% | Depression |
| 87% | Anxiety or Fears |
| 85% | Self Esteem |
| 82% | Social Anxiety |
| 80% | Trauma and PTSD |