Smart, sensitive souls…it’s time to stop beating yourself up.
Online therapy for anxious thinkers and insecure feelers in California.
You want to do more than just “get by”.
Here’s how it hurts.
You…
Spiral into the same anxious thoughts despite knowing better
Beat yourself up—even when you know it's not helping
Feel disconnected from your emotions or overwhelmed by them
Exhaust yourself trying to think your way out of your inner turmoil
Keep running into the same relational patterns
Struggle to act decisively
Can't turn off your thoughts
I see you.
Hi, I’m Elisa.
You’ve accomplished a lot, but still aren’t that sure of yourself. You’ve got high standards and your inner critic always lets you know when you fall short. It's hard to get out of your head and the overthinking, worry and dread pulls you under.
You're already self-aware and insightful. Maybe you've even done therapy, read the books, worked on yourself.
The problem isn't that you haven't tried hard enough. Healing anxiety, overthinking and insecurity at the root—the deep patterns that keep you stuck—requires working at a different level.
I offer Internal Family Systems (IFS) depth psychotherapy for introspective thinkers, feelers and doers who know how to show up for everyone and everything else, except themselves. With my nervous system-informed IFS approach, you can get unstuck, tap into what’s possible, and even find a peace that will surprise you.
Here, you can show up as you are, without judgment, as we tend to the parts of you that are in need of healing and relief.
Let's talk in a complimentary consultation about how Internal Family Systems therapy can help you connect with your calmer, confident and more creative self.
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You've Been Managing. Now Let's Heal What's Underneath.
Many kinds of therapy focus on coping strategies and managing symptoms, rather than transforming the patterns underneath them. While learning tools to help you get through the emotional waves can definitely be an important part of therapy, the real change happens when you’re able to go beyond surface-level and address what’s driving the “symptoms.”
And my guess is that if you’ve been chronically struggling with anxious thinking, self-doubt, or not feeling like you’re enough, you're probably ready for something more:
Changing the patterns that keep you stuck—not just understanding them
Grounding your nervous system—because your body holds what your mind can't think its way out of
Releasing emotional burdens you've been carrying—from your own painful experiences and those passed down to you
Workin’
Working with all parts of you—the reactive, self-critical or anxious—in a way that doesn’t feel overwhelming.
This isn’t about white-knuckling your way through life or learning how to “just deal with it.” It's about healing the parts of you that keep this painful cycle going.
My Therapeutic Approach
You are already acquainted with the parts of you that are bringing you to therapy: The anxiety that won't turn off. The inner critic that never lets up. The internal meltdowns that happens when things get hard. And many more!
Here’s the paradox: even though these uncomfortable inner experiences feel like the enemy, they actually aren’t, at their core. They're just outdated protective strategies from earlier in your life that are still running on autopilot. The good news? They can change.
With individualized Internal Family Systems therapy, we'll:
Get curious about these patterns and help them find new, more helpful strategies (that feel way better!)
Work with your nervous system so you can respond thoughtfully instead of reacting automatically
You’ll start to let go of what you've been carrying that no longer serves you
Experience more ease, confidence, and calm in your daily life
Discover your authentic Self - the calm, compassionate, confident core that gets obscured by all the noise
If you want a quick, one-size-fits-all solution, this probably isn’t the approach for you. But if you want real, lasting change—the kind that truly shifts how you feel from the inside out—then this might be just what you’ve been looking for
Is IFS Therapy Right for You?
As an overthinker, you are in your head a lot. As a self-aware feeler, you might have been called "sensitive" or "too much." As a highly-responsible doer, every time you achieve something, it’s hard to enjoy it because the bar just moves higher. You know intellectually that you deserve compassion, but you can't seem to give it to yourself. And you're tired of being on the hamster wheel of anxiety, self-criticism, and self-doubt.
You're ready to do something different. Not another round of "tips and tools," but actual healing work that gets to what's behind it all.
IFS therapy works best for people who are ready to go beyond surface-level insight and want deeper, sustainable change. Because the truth is that understanding why you think, feel and behave the way you do simply isn't enough to change the patterns that keep you caught in the same loops.
This probably isn't for you if you're looking for a quick fix or prefer a super-structured, written homework-based approach. But if you're drawn to the idea of depth work and real transformation, I’d be happy to explore with you what IFS has to offer!