Healing isn’t about erasing the past: it’s about honoring the strength of the parts that carried you through it.
Holding space for deep healing.
I’m Erick Santos, a bilingual trauma therapist offering a grounded, compassionate space for those navigating the lasting impacts of trauma and emotional overwhelm. I am here to help you reconnect with your inner resilience and move toward healing at your own pace. This is a trauma-informed space to process what has felt too heavy to carry alone. Using EMDR therapy, Internal Family Systems (IFS), and Brainspotting, I help clients move gently through past wounds toward greater connection, peace, and self-trust.
This is a space to bring all of you: your story, your strength, your sorrow, and the history that lives in your body. A space where the pain you carry, whether it began with you or was passed down, is honored with care and compassion.
Here, we’ll gently explore the wounds shaped by trauma, culture, and intergenerational experiences. We’ll hold space for the parts of you that had to survive and make room for the parts of you that are ready to heal.
Together, we’ll move at your pace toward reconnection, toward self-trust, and toward the possibility of becoming who you were always meant to be.
Services
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Individual Therapy
I offer trauma-informed therapy to individuals who are navigating trauma, anxiety, depression, grief, neurodivergence, and attachment/relational trauma.
My approach is client-centered, compassionate, and evidence-based to meet your unique needs and therapy goals—whether it’s quieting your inner critic, healing from past trauma, or creating meaningful change.
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EMDR Therapy Intensives
I am EMDRIA certified and offer Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR) therapy, a integrative, trauma-informed approach that focuses on nervous system regulation and relational healing while providing a sense of containment.
I offer EMDR therapy intensives for clients seeking a more focused and immersive healing experience
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Relationship Therapy
I work with couples and friends through a trauma and attachment lens. I help those in relationships strengthen their communication, deepen connection, and navigate challenges together. Our relationships often carry the weight of past wounds or unspoken fears, and therapy can provide a space to heal those patterns, repair trust, and create new ways of relating.
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Family Therapy
I work with families, including blended families, or caregivers and their adult children, as well as sibling relationships. Through a family systems and an trauma-informed lens, and using Internal Family Systems (IFS), I help families improve communication, strengthen attachment, overcome differences and create more secure, resilient ways of relating.
Ready to Begin?
We’ll first schedule a free 15-20 minute consultation to answer any questions and to see if we could be a good fit to work together. Reach out and let’s talk!
Virtual sessions are offered to anyone in California. In-person sessions available in Long Beach and Irvine.
I welcome all identities including sexual orientation, age, race, disability, ethnicity/national origin, gender identity, and religious/spiritual affiliation.