Feeling overwhelmed by the pressures of life—juggling career demands, family responsibilities, and the weight of trying to keep it all together? Or perhaps you're looking for practical tools to reduce reactivity, reconnect with loved ones, and break free from what's holding you back? Healing doesn't have to be hard. This is for you if you experience excessive worry, chronic stress, burnout, reactivity in your relationships, or feel out of alignment with your Soul's purpose and creativity. Hi, I'm Albania Alegria, a California Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist. As a Latina bilingual in Spanish and English, I feel honored to support people in getting unstuck and tapping into their inner healer. I work at a slower pace, with a focus on body-oriented practices rather than traditional talk therapy. This approach allows your body to heal in a sustainable, mindful way—perfect for those who feel like talk therapy alone hasn't worked. I value co-creation, presence, respect, compassion, and radical responsibility in our work together. ***Please Note: I specialize in the populations mentioned above and will kindly refer others to providers who have specific specialities. I will be doing an intake consultation with you on the first session to make sure we are a good fit. Thank you!
What can clients expect to take away from sessions with you?
I will be doing an intake consultation with you on the first session to make sure we are a good fit.
Explain to clients what areas you feel are your biggest strengths.
My greatest strengths: Deeply listening and present, Calm, soft, and use of appropriate-humor. Lovingly interrupt and challenge clients, Share tools so the client ignites their inner-healer. Experience in different modalities and interweaving culture.
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EMDR
After the assessment and treatment plan phase, both client and I discussed EMDR and have their consent . Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing, is an evidenced-based approach to assisting clients to desensitize and reprocess earlier events that impacted their mind and body, and are currently exhibiting symptoms. EMDR helps to transform limiting beliefs (stemmed from the earlier experience) and organize the memory (or sensory or feeling), to a more adaptable and positive way, all while decreasing or neutralizing present day symptoms. EMDR can be done virtually and can take several sessions for full completion.
Somatic
I use a modality called Somatic Experiencing (SE). We work with the body to heal the trauma and stressors that were experienced in the past, to process, and relieve the body in the present moment. Most individuals get stuck in a survival response (fight, flight, freeze/shutdown), and they will continually sense danger when actual danger is not present, or completely shuts down and loose capacity to live in the present moment. As a result, the individual has an unhealthy nervous system with low capacity, which sooner or later can lead to chronic pain and symptoms, as illnesses. SE helps to slowly access the body memory (as we know trauma is stored in the body), to allow them to complete the natural cycle of self-protection that they were meant to have in the first place. SE is slow and works with the present, using body-oriented tools to help the person feel regulated inside themselves, safely discharge the stuck energy, and restoring back to safety.
Internal Family Systems (IFS)
I use a Internal Family Systems-Informed approach to get to know the parts of us that are protecting us and may prevent us from embodying our true self.
Mind-body approach
Using the other treatments stated, I use a holistic (mind and body) approach, as this is what creates sustainable healing. You learn the skills to implement a growth mindset, as well as how to regulate your nervous system, and grow it's ability to embody more of the version you want to be living in.