Licensed to practice in California and accepts 10 insurances. Specializes in First Responders/Healthcare Workers, Sexual Abuse, Trauma and PTSD
Emily Donahue
(she/her)
New to Grow
Hello, I am Emily Donahue, Trauma Therapist. My passion has been to assist and support individuals on their healing paths and recovery. I work with survivors of trauma; sexual assault and abuse, human trafficking, PTSD. My clients also learn new strategies and skills for experiencing the fall out from those experiences; addiction, codependency, anger, life goals, fear, guilt, scare. I also have experience working with a mobile crises unit, that have both a crises worker and EMT. I have seen individuals gain insight and have aha moments. Trauma is only one aspect of your life, come find out about the rest!
Get to know me
In our first session together, here's what you can expect
For our first session, I will introduce myself, go over a few items and then invite you, the client to decide how best to move forward. There are some folks that like to share and then some that prefer a more structured meeting, or a mixture of both. It is up to you. The stories inside of you are yours to decide who gets to hear. There are no prerequisites other than showing up.
The biggest strengths that I bring into our sessions
I am compassionate, hopeful and love the courage and strength that comes through each and everyone of us.
The clients I'm best positioned to serve
I invite anyone in that has had the courage to call me and then to make the first session. These are the two hardest steps for anyone contemplating change. Ideally, those individuals that have come forward learn that they have made the first step for themselves, and that they find the worth of themselves, others, humanity. This is hard work.
Specialties
Top specialties
First Responders/Healthcare Workers
Sexual Abuse
Trauma and PTSD
I identify as
Woman
Serves ages
Adults (18 to 64)
Elders (65 and above)
Licensed in
California
Accepts
Arlo
Cash - $150 per session
Centivo
Cigna
Cigna - HealthEZ
EAP:Cigna
EAP:Evernorth
Evernorth
GTEB
Tufts Health/Cigna
Location
Offers in-person in 555 W College Ave, Santa Rosa, CA 95401, 7 Fourth Street, #19 Petaluma, CA.
Virtual
My treatment methods
Trauma Informed Care
My approach to trauma is to introduce the idea of how what has happened to someone affects them on many different levels; choice, actions, thoughts, feelings, and that a person can learn how to live with the past and to move forward to live in the present. I go at the individual's level, and what this person shares is up to them. Skills and strategies are also an exciting part, to re-train the body and the brain.
Psychoeducation
I believe everyone has a capacity to learn about how they work. Self awareness can invite reflection and pauses before doing something that is hinged on thoughts or feelings, based in trauma. I introduce ideas that many are not aware of, how trauma affects all the different systems in the body. And that with this knowledge comes the power to change.
Grief Therapy
Grief is a difficult passing, a transition from what life was to never being the same again. Humans have built in resiliency to passings, its survival at its best. Grief can provide insight and to open doors that were once too painful to look at. Grief can introduce the idea, that we will survive and flourish. Without grief, we stay stuck in the same patterns.