Brainspotting therapists in San Luis Obispo, California CA
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Marina Edelman | TrueMe Counseling
Marriage and Family Therapist, LMFT
Marina Edelman, LMFT, specializes in helping couples rebuild trust, improve communication, and reconnect emotionally after conflict or betrayal. Using evidence-based, attachment-focused therapy, she provides practical tools that create real, lasting change in relationships. Marina offers couples therapy, affair recovery, and premarital counseling in Culver City, Westlake Village, and virtually throughout California.
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**Personal Statement**
I am deeply passionate about helping couples find their way back to connection, safety, and genuine partnership. In my work, I use the Gottman Method alongside attachment-based approaches to give couples clear, research-supported tools that strengthen communication and rebuild trust. Having been married for 30 years myself, I bring both professional expertise and real-life understanding to the complex, meaningful work of sustaining long-term love.
20 Years Experience
Online in San Luis Obispo, CA California
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Roopa Cantu, LCSW
Licensed Clinical Social Worker, Licensed Clinical Social Worker
I am a Licensed Clinical Social Worker based in California. I provide individualized therapeutic services to youth and adults. I am loyal, dedicated, caring, compassionate and personable. I have navigated many of the issues you probably have as well and feel comfortable and confident supporting you through them. In our first session together, we will start with brief introductions, and discuss confidentiality, and other guidelines I want to make sure you are aware of as a client. Then we will dive into your needs and how I can support you with them.
13 Years Experience
Online in San Luis Obispo, CA California (Online Only)
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Enlightened Self Family Therapy
Marriage and Family Therapist, LMFT
Hello, and thank you for taking the time to seek the support you need.
You may be wondering who you’ll be meeting with as you begin your healing journey. I am a Tohono O'odham and Mexican American, neurodivergent, cisgender, bisexual female. My identity and lived experience are an integral part of how I show up in this work with care, humility, and a deep respect for each person’s story.
As a therapist, I am committed to ongoing learning and growth in service of my clients. Over the years in private practice, I have learned to trust my intuition while developing and refining different healing approaches. This process has deepened my connection to Somatic Experiencing, EMDR, and Brainspotting.
At my practice, I have had the pleasure of working with individuals who are deeply committed to their healing. Our therapists share this same dedication and are equally committed to the clients they serve.
In our work together, we thoughtfully interweave these modalities to support deeper, more integrated healing.
I feel a deep commitment to the people I have the privilege to work with and walk alongside in their process.
6 Years Experience
Online in San Luis Obispo, CA California
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IEMT Trauma Therapy
Hypnotherapist, C.Ht., NLP, I.E.M.T., B.T.P, Adv-EFT., CBT Specialist
My focus is vocational/avocational self-improvement to help you change a behavior you do not like to a behavior you do prefer.
I am present for my client and my personal goal is to help people achieve their very best.
For example:
Trauma/PTSD
Anxiety - most any kind
My focus is rapid change work.
So ask yourself, "What life would be like without the issue that is plaguing you?"
9 Years Experience
Online in San Luis Obispo, CA California
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Mona Saba Valeriano
Licensed Clinical Social Worker, LCSW
Even with insight and past therapy, you may still feel caught in patterns that leave you depleted—overextending yourself, avoiding conflict, striving to get everything “right,” or feeling disconnected in your relationships and from your own body. At some point, coping strategies that once protected you can begin to feel constricting.
In our work together, we delve into the deeper emotional and relational roots of these patterns. I bring 18 years of direct experience into the room, helping clients cultivate greater clarity, steadiness, confidence, and self-trust so they can move through relationships with more authenticity and assertion. My approach integrates experiential and depth-oriented therapies—including psychodynamic psychotherapy, ISTDP, EMDR, Brainspotting, and EFT—to support meaningful, lasting change at both the emotional, physiological and spiritual levels.
I see this work as especially important in a society that often prizes productivity over presence and autonomy over connection. By questioning dominant cultural narratives and inherited systems of disconnection, therapy can become a space for reclaiming connection, dignity, and care—within ourselves and across differences.
It is a privilege to accompany clients into their most tender and defended places. I trust that through this process, you can cultivate deeper self-understanding, greater inner coherence, and a more grounded sense of safety and belonging—within yourself and in the relationships that matter most.
18 Years Experience
Online in San Luis Obispo, CA California
Brainspotting therapists in San Luis Obispo, California Statistics
Brainspotting therapists in San Luis Obispo, California average 11 years of experience and charge around $177 per session. 100% offer online sessions. The most commonly treated issues are Anxiety or Fears (81%), Trauma and PTSD (81%), and Relationship and Marriage Counseling (63%).
Average years in practice
11 Years Experience
Average cost per session
$177
Accept insurance
38%
Offer sliding scale
56%
Gender ID
| 60% |
Female |
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| 24% |
Male |
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| 12% |
Non-Binary |
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| 4% |
Gender Fluid |
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Session Type
| 75% |
In Person and Online |
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| 25% |
Online Only |
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Top Specialties
| 81% | Anxiety or Fears |
| 81% | Trauma and PTSD |
| 63% | Relationship and Marriage Counseling |
| 63% | Depression |
| 56% | Self Esteem |
| 50% | Women's Issues |
| 44% | Parenting |
Ages Served
| 94% | Adult |
| 69% | Young Adult |
| 50% | Teen |
| 38% | Senior |
| 25% | Children |
Client Focus
| 69% | Women |
| 56% | LGBTQ+ |
| 50% | Men |
| 38% | Asian |
| 38% | Persons with Disabilities |