EMDR & Religious Trauma Therapy for Adults Online in Los Angeles and CA
Helping adults heal from spiritual abuse, purity culture, and complex trauma through EMDR therapy
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If you're here, maybe you've been wondering why it's so hard to set boundaries, trust yourself, or stop feeling guilty all the time.
Or maybe you have a hard time believing you're “good enough” without being perfect, or worthy without having to earn it.
Welcome, I’m Nina!
I’m so glad you’re here.
Religious trauma can make you question everything. Your identity, your worth, even your ability to trust your own thoughts.
You might feel anxious, guilty, stuck, or like you’re always doing something wrong. You may struggle with people-pleasing, fear around making decisions, or a sense that something still has a hold on you.
I help adults in California heal from religious trauma using EMDR and somatic therapy, so you can rebuild trust in yourself and create a life that actually feels like your own.
Whether you're questioning your beliefs, unpacking purity culture, or trying to understand why this still affects you, you don’t have to do this alone.
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My style is warm, genuine, and relationship-focused. I love creating a therapy space where you can be yourself, laugh, feel safe, and know you won’t be judged. I care deeply about my clients and will support, encourage, and gently challenge you as you grow into a life that feels more authentic to you.
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I use an integrative approach that draws from psychodynamic therapy, EMDR, somatic therapy, and IFS-informed parts work. Together, we may explore how past experiences and patterns continue to shape you, process what feels stuck, and build a deeper sense of safety, self-understanding, and compassion.
Who I Help
You might be a good fit for therapy if you:
• Grew up in a high-control religious environment or cult
• Are deconstructing your faith or rebuilding spirituality on your own terms
• Struggle with shame, guilt, or fear around sex, identity, or your body
• Feel disconnected from yourself after years of people-pleasing
• Are constantly questioning whether you’re “bad,” selfish, or disappointing others
• Feel anxious setting boundaries or trusting yourself
• Experienced spiritual abuse, purity culture, or harmful religious messaging
• Want an LGBTQ+ affirming space to explore identity and healing
Services I Offer
Religious Trauma Therapy
When faith has caused harm or no longer feels like home, it can be confusing and lonely. You deserve space to question, grieve, and heal. I support you in working through religious wounds, releasing shame, and reconnecting with who you are and what matters to you.
$150 per 50 min session
EMDR Therapy
EMDR is an evidence-based trauma therapy that helps your brain reprocess painful memories so they feel less overwhelming and reactive. Over time, triggers soften, negative beliefs lose their grip, and you can move through life with greater calm, clarity, and self-trust.
$150 per 50 min session
Individual Therapy
Individual therapy is a space where you can set down the weight you’ve been carrying and show up exactly as you are. Together, we gently work through trauma, identity, relationships, ADHD, perfectionism, and burnout in a way that is affirming, collaborative, and deeply respectful of your lived experience.
$150 per 50 min session
How Does Therapy
Actually Help
Therapy can help you understand how childhood experiences, religious trauma, complex trauma, anxiety, and past relationships may still be affecting the way you think, feel, and relate to yourself and others. Through EMDR, somatic therapy, psychodynamic therapy, and IFS-informed parts work, we can explore the roots of these patterns, process painful experiences, and develop a stronger sense of safety and self-trust.
Whether you're healing from religious trauma, spiritual abuse, purity culture, childhood trauma, or difficult life experiences, therapy can help you feel more grounded, confident, and connected to yourself. The goal isn't to change who you are. It's to help you understand yourself more deeply, heal what still hurts, and create a life that feels authentically yours.
About Me
Hi, I’m Nina.
I'm a therapist for people who are trying to find themselves again.
I'm a California and Los Angeles therapist specializing in religious trauma, EMDR, anxiety, and complex trauma.
I'm especially passionate about helping people who grew up in high-control or rigid religious environments and are now trying to untangle the messages they learned about worth, identity, relationships, sexuality, and who they're "supposed" to be.
I know how complicated it can feel to question things you were taught were never supposed to be questioned.
There can be grief.
Anger.
Relief.
Fear.
Confusion.
Even moments of joy.
Sometimes all of it happens at the same time.
My approach is warm, collaborative, trauma-informed, and grounded in the belief that you deserve to have a therapeutic space where you can be curious about your experiences without being judged.
What Therapy With Me Is Actually Like
I’m not here to tell you what you should believe, how you should live, or who you should be. Especially when you're healing from religious trauma or a high-control religious environment, I believe therapy should be a place where you can finally explore who you are without judgment.
You are the expert on your own life. My role is to help you better understand yourself, feel safer in your body, process what you've been through, and build the confidence to make choices that feel true to you.
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Therapy doesn't have to feel cold or clinical. I want you to feel comfortable being yourself, and I’ll show up exactly as myself. I love laughing with clients and building rapport through authentic human connection.
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Your experiences, questions, beliefs, doubts, and identity are welcome here. You don't have to worry about being judged or told what you should believe.
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We'll move at a pace that feels manageable and pay attention to both your emotional experience and your nervous system.
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We're in this together. I’ll support and encourage you while also gently challenging you when it may help you grow.
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I draw from EMDR, psychodynamic therapy, somatic therapy, and IFS-informed parts work to help you understand the past, process what feels stuck, and create meaningful change.
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You deserve a therapist who respects and supports your identity. You never have to defend, justify, or explain who you are.
Ready To Start Healing?
You don’t have to keep carrying this alone.
I offer free consultations so you can see if we’re a good fit.
Online Religious Trauma & EMDR Therapy Throughout Los Angeles and California
I’m a Los Angeles therapist specializing in religious trauma, EMDR, and complex trauma, offering compassionate, trauma-informed therapy entirely online. While my therapy practice is based in Northeast Los Angeles, I work virtually with adults throughout Los Angeles and across California.
If you're looking for a religious trauma therapist in Los Angeles, an EMDR therapist in California, or online therapy for anxiety, complex trauma, spiritual abuse, or faith deconstruction, you can access therapy from the comfort and privacy of your own home.
Whether you're in Los Angeles, Pasadena, Glendale, Burbank, the San Fernando Valley, Orange County, San Diego, San Francisco, Sacramento, or elsewhere in California, online therapy makes it possible to get support without having to commute to an office.
Online therapy for religious trauma, EMDR, and complex trauma throughout California.
You are welcome here, you deserve to be celebrated
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You are welcome here, you deserve to be celebrated 〰️
I am an ally! I am a fully LGBTQIA+ affirming, gender-affirming, and
trans-affirming therapist.