Relational Trauma Therapy for Residents of California
Welcome.
I'm Rachel and I'm glad you're here. I work with adults and teens virtually throughout California and in-person in San Francisco.
If you're here, chances are you've been carrying something heavy for a while. Maybe old wounds that keep surfacing, feeling like you're surviving instead of living, or like you can never just... breathe. Whatever it is, you don't have to navigate it alone.
The human experience is fundamentally relational: our challenges stem from the nature of our relationship with ourselves, our purpose, our fears, our growth, our past, our communities, and the world around us. How we relate to these parts of our lives determines our experience of them.
Together, we'll examine these relationships and create new ways of relating that feel honest and sustainable. Ways that let you live, not just survive.
Anxiety
Body-Focused Repetitive Behaviors (skin picking, hair pulling)
Body Image
Burnout & Stress
Chronic Pain & Illness
Depression
Grief & Loss
Narcissistic Abuse
People pleasing & Perfectionism Patterns
Phobias
Premenstrual Dysphoric Disorder (PMDD)
Relationship Struggles
Self-worth
Sober-curiosity
Trauma (Single-event trauma, Complex PTSD)
Areas of Focus
Therapy Modalities
Relational therapy focuses on healing through relationship, recognizing that our connection becomes a microcosm of your other relationships. What emerges between us, the moments of rupture, the longings, the ways of reaching and pulling back, all of this becomes part of the work. In this space, you can explore and transform how you connect with others while experiencing new ways of being seen, heard, and valued
Relational Therapy
EMDR (Eye Movement Desensitization & Reprocessing) Therapy uses bilateral eye movements to make traumatic memories less vivid and their respective beliefs less valid, allowing you to create new, empowering meaning from past wounds.
EMDR
Somatic therapy integrates your whole being — mind, body, and spirit— to access deep healing that goes beyond just talking. By tuning into physical sensations, breath, and movement, this approach helps you stay present with stuck ways of being while reconnecting with your body's natural wisdom and capacity for healing.
Somatic Therapy
Internal Family Systems helps you get to know the different parts of yourself like your inner critic, people-pleaser, or the hurt child. Each part has a reason for being there, and together we explore what each part needs and what it has been trying to protect. This therapy fosters compassionate dialogue between parts, allowing them to understand each other and work together harmoniously.
Internal Family Systems
Lifespan Integration is a gentle, body-based approach that uses the creation of timelines to heal trauma without requiring you to go back into the traumatic experience itself. This method helps connect and integrate fragmented memories across your entire life, allowing your nervous system to naturally process wounds and develop a more cohesive sense of self.
Lifespan Integration
Psychodynamic therapy is built on the idea that the past lives in the present. By exploring early relationships and the patterns they created, we begin to understand how you came to be who you are. That understanding, over time, creates room for something new.
Psychodynamic Therapy
The connection between us is everything in this work. I offer complimentary 20-minute consultations so we can get a sense of each other and see if it feels right to work together.
You can reach out to me at (415) 685-3051 or by email at hello@rachelenglandtherapy.com.
If you’d prefer you can also fill out the form to the right and I will reach out to you within 48 hours. I look forward to hearing from you and learning more about what brings you to therapy.