Licensed to practice in California and accepts 9 insurances. Specializes in Addiction, Anxiety, Life Transitions and 10 more.
New to Grow
Allegra Lucas is a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist (#93393) with a Master's Degree in Counseling Psychology and over a decade of experience as a clinician and group facilitator. Before entering private practice, she worked extensively in the non-profit sector, serving women in recovery, single mothers and their children, and at-risk youth. Today, Allegra offers virtual psychotherapy to individuals and couples across California from her home base in Sacramento. She works with adults navigating anxiety, depression, grief, trauma, and life transitions, and with couples facing challenges around communication, trust, intimacy, and disconnection. Her approach is largely psychodynamic, centered on the therapeutic relationship, and draws on cognitive behavioral, somatic, and emotionally focused techniques. She also holds advanced training in Expressive Arts and Drama Therapy. Known for her authentic, attuned presence, Allegra has a special interest in dismantling shame in women and adolescent girls and is committed to anti-oppression work alongside clients who identify as people of color, LGBTQ+, or any intersection thereof.
In our sessions, you can expect a warm, authentic space where you set the pace and guide us toward the areas where you feel ready to grow. I'll attune to you gently and naturally, while also offering more structure and direction when I sense it will be helpful. Drawing on psychodynamic, somatic, and emotionally focused approaches, I place the therapeutic relationship at the center of our work together. Whether you're moving through anxiety, grief, a major life transition, or challenges in your relationships, my aim is to help you find clarity, resilience, and a renewed sense of empowerment.
I bring an authentic, deeply attuned presence that helps my clients feel safe enough to guide their own healing, while I skillfully shift toward a more directive approach when added structure will serve them. With over a decade of clinical experience and advanced training in Expressive Arts and Drama Therapy, I integrate psychodynamic, cognitive behavioral, somatic, and emotionally focused methods into care that is both flexible and grounded in the therapeutic relationship. My particular gift lies in dismantling shame and fostering resilience, especially among women, adolescent girls, and clients navigating identity and intersectionality with warmth and genuine respect.
My ideal clients are those who are at a crossroads in life. Perhaps this can be described as the dark night of the soul. Whether its waking up to unhealthy addictive or relationship patterns to adjustments around big life changes such as becoming a parent or losing a loved one I act as a guide to light you path on your own souls journey.
Other specialties
I identify as
Psychodynamic
Initially we work to build trust through our relationship, we'll explore pattens in your early life and identify corrections that lead us to the reparative attachment based work you will need to do to heal. Many of the experiences we have as adults are attempts at repairing what was missed or overlooked in childhood. As I show up consistently as a compassionate listening ear your brain can rewire new connections opening up the possibility that you can have safe reparative relationships that don't replicate those experiences from your past.
Attachment-based
We will focus on identifying your attachment style to find the unmet needs you have underneath. Then we can begin to build coping skills for how to soothe you into secure attachment with self then turning outward to identify the secure attachments with others in your life
Emotionally Focused Therapy (EFT)
Usually I use this method with couples but it can be applied to individuals as it is all based on attachment. at the onset of treatment we focus on validating and humanizing your reactivity, once the nervous system can tolerate confrontation we will develop a more emotionally vulnerable way of talking about whats bothering you. We use the session as a laboratory for exploration of what its like to take risks in vulnerability and intimacy between partner or to prepare you to use these skills in outside relationships.