Sarah Painter


Los Angeles, California 90044 United States

About

Often in my practice I work with creative, put-together people, but, despite appearances, inside they feel disconnected from themselves and others. Many times these feelings are a response to experiencing trauma. We tend to think traumatic events only include extreme experiences, but trauma can also occur through nuanced events that break our trust in others, ourselves and the world. This can program the brain and nervous system to be highly sensitive to shame, rejection and fear. BUT, through reparative experiences like therapy, neuroscience has shown that the human brain can rewire itself to new ways of thinking and responding.

Using a depth psychology approach, we will explore and deconstruct the barriers to meaningful personal connections, creative flow and access to joy. By identifying limiting beliefs, we can navigate new perspectives, develop language to understand your experiences and resolve the ways past events unconsciously influence the present.

Like most meaningful things we do, working with a therapist is a practice, not a quick fix, but early on I can give you tools to understand and care for distress. I provide EMDR for trauma and talk therapy for individuation. The best part of my job is watching people develop a better friendship with themselves, leading to deeper relationships with others.

Features

Qualifications: University of Southern California
Academic Suffixes: LCSW
Expertise: Anxiety, Depression, Divorce, Grief, Life Transitions, Marital and Premarital, Relationship Issues, Spirituality, Stress, Trauma and PTSD, Women

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