Holistic Psychotherapy: Feel More Grounded, Safe & Like Yourself Again
Do you feel like you're functioning, but not really thriving—stuck in patterns of stress, overthinking, and self-doubt? Our trauma-informed psychologist helps adults and teens understand the deeper patterns behind these struggles, creating meaningful, lasting change rather than temporary relief.
Meet Erin, Your Holistic Psychologist
Erin is a Licensed Psychologist specialising in the intersection of identity, nervous system science, trauma, and integrative healing.
Her approach combines psychological insight with a deeper understanding of how stress and trauma live within both the mind and the body.
Rather than focusing only on symptom management, Erin helps adults and teens explore the underlying patterns, beliefs, and self-concepts that may be keeping the nervous system stuck in survival mode.
The goal is not just temporary relief, but meaningful and lasting change.
Her work is especially suited to individuals who are self-aware, reflective, and ready to better understand the deeper emotional patterns shaping their lives, relationships, stress responses, and sense of self.
Adults & Teens
Nervous System & Identity Work
Trauma-Informed Care
Our Psychologists Can Help With
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High-functioning anxiety
Constant mental looping and worry
Feeling unable to fully switch off
Fear of failure or disappointing others
Nervous system stuck in “on” mode
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Feeling constantly overwhelmed or emotionally drained
Difficulty slowing down or fully relaxing
Fatigue, tension, poor sleep, or feeling “wired”
High-functioning stress that never fully switches off
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Developmental, relational, and complex trauma
Feeling stuck in survival mode
Emotional triggers, shutdown, hypervigilance, or chronic stress responses
Creating safety and resilience within the nervous system
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High-functioning anxiety
Constant mental looping and overanalysing
Fear of failure, disappointing others, or getting things wrong
Difficulty feeling calm, present, or settled
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Feeling pressure to always perform or hold everything together
Over-responsibility and difficulty resting
Struggling to set boundaries or prioritise yourself
Self-worth tied to achievement or external validation
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Academic pressure and performance anxiety
Social stress, self-esteem, and identity challenges
Difficulty understanding emotions or feeling grounded
Support for teens navigating a critical stage of self-development
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Physical symptoms connected to stress or emotional patterns
Headaches, gut issues, fatigue, tension, or poor sleep
Nervous system dysregulation showing up in the body
Symptoms that persist despite good self-care habits or physical treatment
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Repeating cycles despite insight or self-awareness
Patterns that temporarily improve but always return
Feeling stuck in familiar emotional responses
Exploring the deeper beliefs and identity patterns beneath the cycle
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The pressure to keep everything running — work, kids, home, relationships
Self-care that sounds good in theory but feels impossible in practice
Holding on so tightly because there’s no room for things to fall apart
Identity that has quietly disappeared into the role of mother
Exhaustion that rest doesn’t fix
How We Do It: A Whole-Person Approach to Psychotherapy
This approach integrates psychological insight, nervous system awareness, and trauma-informed care to help you understand not only what you're experiencing, but why these patterns developed and how lasting change becomes possible.
Understand The Pattern
Explore the beliefs, emotional experiences, and identity patterns shaping how you relate to yourself, others, and the world around you.
Regulate The Nervous System
Develop greater emotional safety, awareness, and resilience by understanding how stress and trauma live within the body and nervous system.
Create Lasting Change
Move beyond temporary coping strategies and create more sustainable change through deeper self-awareness, integration, and emotional healing.
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Many adult clients are already highly self-aware and have tried various approaches to improve their wellbeing, yet still find themselves returning to familiar patterns of stress, anxiety, burnout, or physical symptoms. This work helps uncover and shift the deeper emotional and identity-based patterns beneath those cycles.
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This includes work with mothers and caregivers who are holding it all together, often beautifully, while quietly running on empty.
The mental load of keeping a family functioning leaves little room for error and even less room for yourself. Sessions offer a space to explore not just the stress, but the identity and nervous system patterns beneath it — so that healing doesn’t have to wait until everything else is handled first.
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Teen sessions provide a supportive space to explore stress, anxiety, self-worth, identity, emotional overwhelm, and nervous system regulation during a critical stage of development. The focus is not simply on managing symptoms, but helping teens build a more grounded and authentic sense of self.
Parent check-ins are available where appropriate to support the process while ensuring the teen remains the primary client within sessions.
Who Erin Works With
Ready to feel
your best?
What Sessions Feel Like: A Safe, Collaborative & Supportive Process
Sessions are designed to feel grounded, supportive, and non-judgemental. From the beginning, the focus is on creating safety, curiosity, and genuine understanding of the patterns shaping your emotional and physical experience.
Together, we explore the relationship between stress, identity, trauma, emotions, and the nervous system at a pace that feels appropriate and manageable. Where trauma is present, care is always taken to ensure the process feels safe and supportive.
Appointments are typically weekly or every other week depending on the individual and their needs.
What Makes Erin Different From Other Psychologists?
A Whole-Person Approach
Erin understands that stress, trauma, and anxiety often show up physically through tension, fatigue, poor sleep, gut issues, and nervous system dysregulation—not just emotionally.
Focused On Lasting Change
Rather than simply managing symptoms, Erin helps clients explore the deeper patterns, beliefs, and identity-based stress driving recurring anxiety, overwhelm, and emotional cycles.
Thoughtful & Trauma-Informed
Sessions are warm, grounded, and tailored to the individual, creating a safe space for adults and teens to feel genuinely understood and supported.
Begin Feeling More
Grounded & Connected
Imagine making decisions without second-guessing yourself, feeling calmer in
your body, setting boundaries with less guilt, and finally feeling like you're living
from what is true for you—not just what everyone else needs.
You don't have to wait until everything falls apart before asking for support.
You’ll receive the benefits of:
✓ Licensed Psychologist with over 20 years of experience
✓ Specialized training in trauma, EMDR, somatic, and integrative approaches
✓ Warm, collaborative, individualized care
✓ Evidence-based and trauma-informed approaches
Frequently Asked Questions
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Erin works with both adults and teens.
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No referral is required to book an appointment.
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This approach integrates psychological insight with nervous system regulation, somatic awareness, trauma-informed care, and identity-based work.
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Many clients have already done personal work or tried different approaches before seeking this style of support. Sessions focus on exploring the deeper patterns that may still be keeping the nervous system stuck.
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Sessions are typically weekly or fortnightly depending on your goals, circumstances, and level of support needed.
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Yes. Parent check-ins can be included where appropriate, while still ensuring the teen remains the primary focus of the therapeutic process.
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No. While therapy may include body awareness, nervous system education, and somatic (body-based) techniques, sessions do not involve hands-on bodywork or physical touch.
Together, we'll explore how stress, trauma, and emotions are experienced in the body through guided awareness, mindfulness, and gentle therapeutic exercises.
Our Clinic Locations
Oakland
11881 Skyline Blv, Suite G,
Oakland CA 94619
Oakland Clinic Hours
Mon, Wed and Thurs
10:00am - 6:30pm
Tue & Friday
10:00am - 8pm
Saturday
9am-2pm
Serving Oakland, San Leandro, Albany, Berkeley, Elcerrito and surrounds.
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Albany
1225 Solano Ave, Suite B,
Albany CA 94706
Albany Clinic Hours
Tue to Fri
9:30am - 6:30pm
Saturday
9am-2pm
Serving Albany, Berkeley, Elcerrito, Richmond, Oakland, San Leandro and surrounds.