LMFT, 14 years of experience
If you’re feeling overwhelmed and anxious, like life is spinning out of control, you’re not alone. The constant pressure from daily demands, family expectations to always provide and help, and the added stress of navigating systemic oppression can leave you feeling stuck and unsafe inside your own mind and body. It’s frustrating and exhausting, and no one should have to live feeling this way. I’m Albania, a Bilingual Latina trauma-informed somatic therapist and coach with over 13 years of experience, and I understand how overwhelming this can be. Together, we’ll develop a straightforward plan to help you manage stress, heal your nervous system, work through generational trauma, regain control, and find peace in your daily life. If you’re ready to take back your calm and start feeling secure again, let’s connect and begin this journey. D In our 1:1 work together you will learn: -To regulate your nervous system and experience more safety in your body -How to break patterns of chronic stress or trauma, so you can operate from your capacity, while gently expand it -Create healthy boundaries, while still having healthy relationships with others -Relate to different parts of you so you can make decisions from your true self, rather than your stressed parts Specialties: Somatic Experiencing, EMDR, and IFS-informed techniques, guiding BIPOC, 30s-40s + age women, and highly sensitive folks towards healing, empowerment, and breaking free from generational trauma, experienced attachment, cultural, and intergenerational trauma, stress and burnout, anxiety, and loss. Availability: Tuesday - Thursdays from 9 am - 2 pm only. Please complete intake paperwork, so we can assess if we are a good fit for the first session. Please Note: I will kindly refer to another provider for people who do not fit the above description and needs. Thank you for your understanding.
I will be doing an intake consultation with you on the first session to make sure we are a good fit. I provide referrals if I feel like your needs are better fit with another provider.
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.
I work with BIPOC women who experience chronic stress and burnout. Those open to slow mind, body, and soul connection and practices to transform limiting beliefs and stress. This is a good to work with me for those: --BIPOC, Women, parents, 30 + age -For high-functioning, deep thinkers, sensitive, spiritually curious. -People wanting gentle and a slower-pace, than traditional talk-therapy. My work is slow, sacred, and intentional - no quick fixing here. -If you are feeling stress, anxiety, overwhelm, stuck, having limiting beliefs. -People comfortable with body-based practices. -People being an active-participant in and out of sessions. ***Please Note: I only specialize in the populations mentioned above and will kindly refer others to providers who are a better fit for your specific needs.
Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing, is an evidenced-based approach to assist clients to desensitize and reprocess earlier events that continue to impact their mind and body, through symptoms. EMDR helps to transform limiting beliefs (stemmed from the earlier experience) and organize the memory (or sensory or feeling), to a more adaptable way, all while decreasing or neutralizing present day symptoms. EMDR can be done virtually and can take several sessions for full completion. Full assessment is necessary to see if treatment is appropriate for the client's capacity and needs.
I offer Somatic Experiencing (SE), a trauma-informed, slow body-based healing modality designed to relieve chronic stress, anxiety, and trauma symptoms.Many high-functioning individuals remain stuck in survival states like fight, flight, or freeze—long after the stress has passed. This dysregulation can lead to chronic tension, burnout, disconnection, and even illness. Somatic Experiencing helps gently release stored trauma from the nervous system, restore a felt sense of safety, and build resilience. Through body awareness, regulation tools, and slow, present-moment processing, SE supports long-term healing—so you can feel more grounded, present, and at peace in your body and life.
I use a Internal Family Systems-Informed approach to get to know the parts of us that are stuck in survival and protecting us and may prevent us from embodying our truest and aligned self. It's a very compassionate approach to healing stress and trauma.
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.
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July 9, 2025
From the initial intake session, Albania struck me as warm, intelligent, direct, holistic, with a solution-oriented and embodied/somatic approach. I'm looking forward to beginning work together.