Areas of Care
Each person who comes to therapy brings a unique story. The services below reflect the areas where Christina has deep training and experience — offered with warmth, curiosity, and genuine care.
Processing trauma at its roots.
Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR) is one of the most well-researched, evidence-based approaches to trauma treatment available. It works by helping the brain reprocess distressing memories that have become "stuck" — memories that continue to cause pain, fear, or dysregulation long after the original event.
In EMDR sessions, we use bilateral stimulation (typically guided eye movements or tapping) while you hold a traumatic memory in mind. This process allows the brain to do what it does naturally during REM sleep — integrate and make sense of difficult experiences, so they lose their emotional charge.
EMDR is effective for single-incident trauma, complex PTSD, childhood trauma, grief, phobias, and more. Many clients find that EMDR creates shifts that years of talk therapy alone could not.
Reclaiming safety, wholeness, and yourself.
Trauma is not just what happened to you — it is what happened inside you as a result. It lives in the nervous system, in the body, in the patterns of relationship and thought that developed as ways of surviving something overwhelming.
Trauma therapy here is paced, collaborative, and deeply respectful of your nervous system's wisdom. We work at a pace that feels safe — building the internal resources and relational trust needed before approaching the most difficult material.
Whether you experienced a single traumatic event, prolonged childhood adversity, relational trauma, or the cumulative weight of living in a world that has not always been safe for you, there is a path forward. Healing is possible.
Understanding what your anxiety is trying to say.
Anxiety is not simply a malfunction to be corrected — it is often a signal, a protective response, a way the psyche tries to keep you safe. Therapy here does not just aim to reduce symptoms; it aims to understand what is underneath them.
Using a psychodynamic lens, we explore the roots of your anxiety: the early experiences, the relational patterns, the beliefs about yourself and the world that quietly fuel the worry, the dread, the hypervigilance.
This deeper work — alongside practical tools for nervous system regulation — creates lasting change rather than temporary relief. You deserve to feel at ease in your own life.
Finding your way back to each other — and to yourself.
Relationships are where our earliest wounds most often resurface. The patterns we learned in childhood — how to ask for what we need, how to handle conflict, how close to let someone get — show up again and again in our adult relationships, often without our awareness.
Therapy for relationship issues explores these patterns with curiosity rather than judgment. Whether you are navigating conflict with a partner, struggling with intimacy, processing a painful rupture, or trying to understand why the same dynamics keep repeating, this work creates space to see clearly and choose differently.
This is individual therapy focused on relational patterns — not couples therapy, though couples work can be discussed and referred if appropriate.
The hardest and most important work there is.
Parenting asks more of us than almost anything else — and it surfaces parts of ourselves we may not have known were there. Old wounds, unresolved grief, the weight of our own childhoods: all of it can come flooding back when we become responsible for a child.
Parenting support in therapy is not about being told what to do. It is about understanding yourself more deeply so you can show up for your children from a more grounded, regulated place. It is about processing the grief and identity shifts that parenthood brings, and finding your footing in a role that is constantly changing.
Whether you are a new parent overwhelmed by the transition, a parent of a child with complex needs, or someone navigating the particular challenges of parenting while managing your own mental health — you deserve support too.
Working with your mind, not against it.
ADHD is not a character flaw or a failure of willpower. It is a different way of experiencing time, attention, emotion, and motivation — one that can be genuinely disabling in a world not designed for it, and also one that often comes with remarkable creativity, intensity, and depth.
Therapy for ADHD here goes beyond strategies and systems. We explore the emotional landscape of living with ADHD: the shame that accumulates from years of struggling, the grief of unrealized potential, the exhaustion of masking, the complicated relationship with productivity and self-worth.
This work is collaborative, non-pathologizing, and deeply respectful of how your particular mind works. The goal is not to make you neurotypical — it is to help you build a life that genuinely fits you.
A space that celebrates who you are.
This is a fully affirming, celebratory space for queer, trans, nonbinary, and gender-expansive individuals. Identity is not a problem to be solved here — it is honored, explored, and celebrated.
Christina brings both professional training in LGBTQIA+ affirming care and a genuine personal commitment to this work. She understands the particular stressors that come with navigating a world that is not always safe or welcoming — minority stress, family rejection, internalized shame, the exhaustion of code-switching.
Whether you are exploring identity, navigating coming out, processing relationship dynamics, or simply looking for a therapist who truly gets it — you are welcome here, exactly as you are.
For those who feel everything deeply.
The creative life is a particular kind of life — rich with meaning, beauty, and possibility, and also with vulnerability, self-doubt, and the unique pressures of making work that comes from the deepest parts of yourself.
Christina is herself an artist, and she brings that lived understanding to her work with creatives. She knows the terror of the blank canvas, the grief of a project that doesn't come together, the complicated relationship between identity and output, the way creative blocks are often emotional blocks in disguise.
Therapy for artists here honors the whole person — the maker and the human being — and creates space for both to flourish. Whether you are navigating creative blocks, burnout, imposter syndrome, or the particular anxieties of a life in the arts, you will be met with genuine understanding.
The same quality of care, wherever you are.
Secure, HIPAA-compliant telehealth sessions are available to anyone in California. Online therapy offers the same depth and quality of care as in-person sessions — with the added convenience of meeting from your own home, office, or any private space.
Many clients find that telehealth actually deepens the therapeutic work, allowing them to engage from an environment where they already feel safe and comfortable.
Telehealth sessions are conducted via a secure video platform. All you need is a private space and a reliable internet connection.
A Note on Approach
"Every service listed here is offered within the same warm, collaborative, non-judgmental framework — because the relationship between therapist and client is itself the foundation of healing."
— Christina Lucey-Ventura, MA, LMFT
A free 15-minute consultation is a chance to talk through what you're looking for and see if it feels like the right fit — no commitment required.