To be fully here now

For those ready to do the work

The most important part of my containers is the relationship we build together. Feeling safe, seen, and supported is the foundation for healing.

I offer therapy for clients and couples in California as an associate marriage and family therapist (AMFT155971) and international coaching for those located outside of California.

Explore my offerings.

One to One

Individual Virtual Coaching & Therapy

Is this you?

  • High functioning at work or school, but deeply dysregulated in relationship

  • Independent, yet struggling with isolation and loneliness

  • Externally composed, internally dissociated, panicked, and disorganized

  • Addicted to intensity, optimization, and idealization

  • Intellectual brilliance compensating for nervous system dysregulation and disembodiment

  • Rich inner world, but unknown by others

  • Chronic deep unmet needs

  • Dorsal vagal shutdown mistaken for calm

  • Strong fear or pain body that presents through numbness

For those stuck in a chronic stress response, emotional whiplash of anxiety and shutdown, and repetition of painful relationship patterns, this work is for you. Through the fusion of Somatics, IFS, Attachment-focused therapy, Jungian Analysis, and vagus nerve brain retraining, I help you return to embodied wholeness.

One to Two

Couples Virtual Coaching & Therapy

Is this your relationship?

  • Emerging complex trauma patterns

  • Defensive power struggles creating a divide

  • Conflict of needs and questions of compatibility

  • Anxious and avoidant patterns preventing safety, security, and stability

  • Not receiving love in the way you want to be loved

  • Unconscious and unspoken expectations of your partner needing to change

  • Betrayal and infidelity eroding trust

  • Physical and emotional wants feel transactional

  • Stuck in ambivalence, questioning if you should stay or go

  • Incomplete conflict and repair that leads to more resistance and resentment

  • Premarital, marriage counseling, divorce, and uncoupling

For the couple locked in defensive postures and shadow projections creating emotional and physical distance, this is the space for you to learn the art of embodied truth telling. Through Attachment-focused and Jungian Couple Therapy, I will support you in creating a regenerative process of conflict and repair that opens the door to deeper intimacy.

Is it anxiety or OCD? If your anxiety has been treatment resistant, maybe you’ve been receiving the wrong type of care because anxiety isn’t the root…

Do you…

  • experience disturbing or unwanted thoughts that feel completely out of alignment with your values

  • appear competent and composed externally while privately battling constant mental loops and anxiety

  • feel trapped in your search for absolute certainty about thoughts, feelings, relationships, health, or identity

  • experience a powerful sense that something terrible could happen unless you figure the thought out, neutralize it, or gain certainty from your doubt

  • do compulsions, whether overt behaviors or mental rituals, in an effort to reduce the distress caused by the obsession

  • feel distrusting and lacking confidence in your sense of self

Whether you’ve been diagnosed with OCD, or curious if the distress you’ve been experiencing is actually rooted in OCD, then schedule a free complimentary consult call with me. I offer Inferential Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (I-CBT). Doubt doesn’t have to continue to be your reality. The right support will help you break free.

OCD

For when what matters most to you became the target

Who's Erika?

As a PhD candidate in depth psychology at Pacifica Graduate Institute, I’m researching the bind of existential terror and Eros in the divided and disorganized psyche.

I specialize in the treatment of shock, attachment and developmental trauma, dissociative disorders, anxiety, and OCD and work both as a coach internationally and as an associate therapist in California (AMFT155971) under the supervision of Sarah Segal(LCSW 86501).

Regardless of the symptomology and suffering that brought you to my work, I will support you in recovering your Core Self and earned attachment security so you can stop having a split experience in life and love.

Through the modalities of Somatic Experiencing, Internal Family Systems, Jungian Analysis, Attachment-focused therapy, vagus nerve regulation, and I-CBT, we will restore your primal trust.

You can find my current research and musings on IG @iamerikastraub