Therapy for Therapists |
Intensive Healing in California
Deep healing for therapists using Brainspotting, IFS, somatic therapy, and KAP.
BOOK A CONSULTATIONYou Are Good At This. So Why Does It Feel This Hard?
You spend your days holding space for people in some of the hardest moments of their lives, and you do it well. You love your work but you also know that you’re good at hiding behind it.
When you get home, the needs don't stop. Your kids, your partner, extended family and friends all also need you. The silence you are desperate for doesn't come, and you find yourself standing in the middle of your own life feeling like there is nothing left to give.
Sometimes you wonder if you are actually the problem. Maybe if you were handling things better it wouldn’t feel this hard.
You have all the trainings, frameworks, and insight. You have a good understanding for where your anxiety and people pleasing come from, but you still don’t make time to feel or heal. Instead, you compartmentalize and push it all down. You get up, go to work, and give your energy to the people that keep showing up and seem to need it the most - your clients.
But you’ve noticed that you’re starting to feel a tinge of irritation even with them. The ones who aren’t progressing, show up late, or no-show get to you the most. You know you should be more firm on following through on your cancellation policies and end sessions on time, but somehow it all gets away from you. The no-shows give you an hour to check out and scroll social media. You hate that you waste time like this, but laughing at silly videos feels better than catching up on notes or feeling the weight of everything in your life.
You know you work too much and you should eat better, move your body, and say no more often. These are the exact things you tell your clients. But the knowing and the doing live in completely different places inside you and you can’t seem to connect the two.
Other therapists seem to have it together and look whole in the way you are supposed to. You keep the real version of yourself quiet, even around colleagues who would probably understand. You feel embarrassed and don’t want to burden them with any of your shortcomings or anxious energy.
You are functioning, helping, and holding it all. And you’re tired in a way that a good night's sleep does not touch.
You became a therapist because you felt things deeply and understood pain from the inside. You wanted to be the person for someone else that you never had.That part of you is still here.The fact that you are reading this means the part of you that knows you deserve the same care you give to everyone else has not gone quiet. It’s waiting, and it’s been waiting for a while now. My work with therapists isn’t about helping you become a better therapist because you already spend enough time thinking about that. It’s a place to get curious about the parts of you that have been performing, proving, caretaking, achieving, accommodating, and holding everything together. This is a place where you don’t have to explain or package your experience into something clinically appropriate. Here, insight isn’t the end of the work. It’s just the beginning.
From Therapist to Healer
I’m Alicia.
For the first ten years of my career, I was a therapist.
I was trained and competent, and I knew the frameworks, protocols, and interventions. I supervised associates and taught them the same frameworks and protocols.
But it wasn’t until I began my own deep healing work that I moved from simply being a therapist to claiming my unique gifts as a healer.
My belief is that a therapist is someone who has studied the material and understands the next step in the protocol. They follow the frameworks they’ve learned in their trainings.
A healer is also trained. They have the same tools, but a healer is not simply regurgitating information or performing interventions. A healer draws from their own lineage, their intuition, their embodiment, their own healing, and their heart, to guide the client back to themselves. A healer facilitates healing and stays in right relationship with the deep responsibility of this work.
This is the kind of space I offer therapists.
You won’t receive more information or professional development and this is not another place where you need to perform insight or demonstrate that you have done the work.
What I provide is a space where you can come back home to yourself.
I believe that being in our own therapy is one of the greatest gifts we can give ourselves and our clients. It is a sign that we take the work seriously.
When we tend to our own healing, we see our blind spots more clearly and become aware of what we might be carrying into the room - the unresolved pieces, the patterns, the places where our own story is unknowingly shaping the session. Our clients feel the difference, even when they can’t name it.
I have spent over 15 years helping individuals and couples uncover the patterns that keep them stuck. My work with therapists draws on that same depth. Most sessions include connecting with the body, brainspotting, and IFS interventions that take clients to the parts of themselves that have been waiting, sometimes for years, for their own attention. It is through this kind of connection that clients begin to feel relief. Not the managed, professional kind of relief. Real relief. The kind that changes how you move through your days and through the world.
Clients often describe feeling more alive than they have in a long time. They are more themselves than they’ve ever been. They reconnect with the sense of purpose and direction that brought them to this work in the first place. That is what I want for you.
How Therapy for Therapists Works
Therapy for therapists with me is not a place to perform your growth. It is a place to actually do it.
The modalities woven through all of this work include Brainspotting, Internal Family Systems (IFS), and somatic therapy. Together these approaches help locate where experience lives in the body, build a compassionate relationship with the parts of yourself you have been managing or hiding, and honor what you have been carrying for a long time.
What clients find through this work is not a performance of healing. It is the actual thing. You begin to make peace with your own emotions and feel them in a way that is productive rather than overwhelming. The fear that you will be swallowed up by your feelings starts to loosen. You stop putting yourself last not because you forced yourself to, but because something inside genuinely shifted.
I offer several ways to work together, depending on what you need and what your life allows:
Healing Circles for Therapists
Healing circles for therapists bring you into community with other clinicians who are also doing their own work. Sometimes the most powerful thing is realizing you are not alone in this.
Winter cohort coming soon.
Weekly Individual Therapy for Therapists
Weekly individual therapy in person in Rancho Cucamonga, or online from anywhere in California gives you a consistent, protected space to do your own work over time, at a pace that honors where you are. Best for therapists who want consistent support and a regular space to explore what is unfolding in their personal and professional lives.
Intensives for Therapists
Intensives offer a concentrated container for deeper exploration when your schedule or your readiness calls for something more immersive. Best for therapists ready for deep, focused work with enough uninterrupted time to explore and shift long-standing patterns.
Ketamine Assisted Therapy (KAP)
Ketamine Assisted Psychotherapy (KAP) is available for those who are ready to go deep and create lasting change through an expanded state of consciousness.
You Deserve This Too
You have held a lot for a long time, and you have done it with skill and care and genuine love for the people you serve.
Being in your own therapy is one of the most honest and generous things you can do, for yourself and for your clients. It is how you do better work and stay in right relationship with this profession. And it is how you stop running on empty.
If something on this page felt familiar, I’d love to help. You do not have to keep putting yourself last.
Book a free consultation and we’ll have an honest conversation with no pressure or commitment required. Just a chance to see if this feels like the right space for you.
You have been the one holding the space for everyone else.
It is okay to let someone hold it for you.
FAQs
Is therapy for therapists really different from regular therapy?
Yes, and the difference matters more than you might expect. When a therapist works with another therapist, there is no need to explain your professional world, the weight of the work, the particular guilt that comes with struggling at something you are supposed to know how to do. That shared context creates a kind of ease that makes it possible to go deeper, faster. You can stop translating yourself and just be honest. That is where the real work begins.
I already know so much about therapy and psychology. Will I just intellectualize everything?
This is one of the most common concerns therapists bring to the first conversation, and it is a fair one. Insight is a strength, and it can also become a hiding place. The work I do with therapists is primarily body-based and experiential, using Brainspotting, IFS, and somatic approaches that move underneath the analytical mind. Knowing the theory does not protect you from the felt experience of actually doing the work. Most therapist clients find that their training enriches the process rather than blocking it.
What if I am worried about confidentiality?
Confidentiality applies to every client, including therapists. What you share in our sessions is protected by the same ethical and legal standards that govern your own practice. The therapeutic relationship operates within the same professional boundaries regardless of who the client is.
Do you work with therapists who are also dealing with burnout?
Yes. Burnout is one of the most common threads running through the experiences of therapist clients. It often looks like chronic exhaustion, emotional numbing, difficulty being present with clients, resentment that quickly turns to guilt, and a growing gap between what you know and what you are actually able to do for yourself. If that sounds familiar, you are in the right place. This work addresses burnout at its roots rather than just adding coping strategies to an already full plate.
How do I know if therapy for therapists is right for me versus peer consultation or supervision?
Supervision and consultation are professional resources that serve an important function. But they are not therapy, and they are not designed to address the personal patterns, unresolved experiences, or emotional depletion that often sit underneath professional struggles. If you find yourself bringing the same themes into consultation repeatedly without resolution, or if you notice that your personal life and your professional life are bleeding into each other in ways that feel hard to manage, individual therapy is likely what you are actually needing.
What is a healing circle for therapists and how is it different from group therapy?
A healing circle for therapists is a group experience designed specifically for clinicians who are doing their own work. It is not a support group, and it is not group supervision. It is a space to be witnessed and to witness others, to practice being the one who receives rather than the one who holds. There is something uniquely powerful about sitting in a room with other therapists who are also being honest about their own struggles. Many participants find that the circle accelerates their individual work in ways they did not anticipate.
What is Brainspotting and why do you use it with therapists?
Brainspotting is a brain-body based approach that works by locating specific eye positions that correspond to places in the nervous system where difficult experiences are stored. It allows the brain to process material that talk therapy alone often cannot reach. For therapists, who have frequently built very sophisticated cognitive defenses around their own pain, Brainspotting can be particularly effective because it works below the level of language and analysis. Many therapist clients describe it as the first approach that actually got underneath their professional armor.
What is Ketamine Assisted Psychotherapy and is it right for me?
Ketamine Assisted Psychotherapy (KAP) combines the use of ketamine, a legal and regulated medicine, with psychotherapeutic support before, during, and after the experience. It can create an expanded state of consciousness that allows access to parts of the self that are harder to reach in ordinary awareness. KAP is not right for everyone and involves a thorough intake process to determine fit. It is offered as one option within a broader therapeutic relationship, not as a standalone treatment.
How long does therapy for therapists usually take?
This varies significantly depending on what you are bringing, what format you choose, and how your process unfolds. Some therapist clients do intensive work over a shorter concentrated period. Others engage in ongoing weekly therapy over months or years. There is no standard timeline because this is not a standardized process. What tends to be true is that the work moves more efficiently when the therapeutic relationship feels safe and when the approaches used are well matched to how your nervous system actually processes experience.
What does a free consultation involve?
A free consultation is a brief conversation, typically around 20 minutes, where you can share a little about what is bringing you in and ask any questions you have about the work. It is not an intake session and it is not therapy. It is simply a chance to get a sense of whether working together feels like a good fit. There is no pressure and no commitment involved. You can book yours at ranchocounseling.com/consultation or by calling 909-600-0306.
Can I do intensive therapy if I have a busy schedule?
Intensives are specifically designed for people whose schedules make weekly therapy difficult to sustain, or for those who are ready to go deeper in a more concentrated way. Rather than spreading the work across many weeks, an intensive compresses meaningful therapeutic time into one or several longer sessions. Many therapists find that the immersive format actually fits their professional life better than trying to carve out a regular weekly hour, and that the depth of the experience justifies the time investment.
Do you work with therapists who are not in crisis but just want to grow?
Absolutely. You do not need to be in crisis to deserve your own space for growth. Many therapist clients come because they sense there is more available to them, more aliveness, more presence, more ease, and they want to actually experience it rather than just understand it intellectually. If you love your work and your life and still feel like something is being left on the table, that is a completely valid reason to begin.