Samantha Stermon
Do you wonder if your life could feel better than it currently does? I work with individuals experiencing anxiety, depression, including postpartum anxiety and depression, grief, trauma, life transitions, and other life challenges. In this therapeutic process, we work together to help bring you closer to what truly matters to you and help create change and healing in your life. I use evidence-based techniques, which includes EMDR along with a variety of other treatment modalities. I am EMDR Certified.
I work with individuals experiencing anxiety, depression, including postpartum anxiety and depression, grief, trauma, life transitions, and other life challenges.
Therapy can help you create a sense of safety and nurturing within, whether you’ve lost that feeling along the way or never had it to begin with. I strongly believe in the brain’s tendency towards resilience and its innate ability to heal itself with support. I strive to provide a safe, supportive, open-minded, and respectful environment, and I believe that a collaborative relationship is critical to therapeutic success. Let’s work together to help you find the healing you are needing. Here is my website if you want to read more about what I offer: www.SamanthaStermonTherapy.com
First session
In our first session together, I will strive to make the session feel like a safe space where you can start to share about yourself with me. I will be asking you questions based on your intake that you filled in, and I will want to find out more about what is bringing you to therapy so we can start the therapeutic process.
Strengths
Creating a safe space for clients to share and to feel heard and seen. To be a guide for the client to help them discover insights that they may be struggling to see, and often these insights can help bring more healing and change when someone is feeling stuck.
Ideal clients
Are you feeling like you need support in navigating difficult emotions/stressors/life transitions, trauma(s), anxiety, and depression. I would be honored to help support you during this journey and help you find some relief and healing. I specialize in working with clients who have experienced any kind of trauma or negative experience that continues to linger and cause issues for them. I use EMDR and some IFS (I am IFS informed), and both of these modalities have been proven to help reduce the effects of trauma. I also specialize in working with women who are pregnant, in the postpartum period, including experiencing postpartum anxiety and/or depression.
Treatment methods
EMDR
I am an EMDR Certified therapist. This therapy method is used to help clients reprocess past traumas and negative experiences, which can reduce negative effects of the trauma and increase coping skills and resiliency.
Mindfulness-Based Therapy
I use mindfulness based techniques when appropriate to help clients feel more grounded and present and reduce unwanted symptoms
Compassion-Focused
I help clients learn how to be more compassionate and kind/gentle with themselves, which in terms helps clients feel better
Cognitive Behavioral (CBT)
This modality can be very helpful for reducing anxiety and depressed or down mood.
Location
Virtual sessions
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- CaliforniaLicense 95588