8 Los Angeles Trauma Therapists [No Waitlist]
If you’re carrying the weight of what happened, know that you don’t need to continue on your own. At Therapy on Fig, our affirming, compassionate team offers trauma therapy in Los Angeles that holds space for what you’ve been through and who you’re becoming. Meet our therapists here to find the right fit and connect with us when you’re ready to begin.
Does this sound like you?
You're tired of vacillating between self-loathing, resignation, and numbing. The chaos you've experienced in the past has made you both resolute about never putting yourself in a helpless place again and deeply distrusting and anxious. You're hypervigilant because a part of you believes you must always be "on" so you're never caught off guard. But you're worn out and feel defeated from working so hard to barely keep your bearings. The thought of meditating and "tuning into your body" feels excruciatingly awkward because you've relied on your ability to rationalize, intellectualize, and analyze for most of your adult life. You'd like to go beyond the surface, beyond the stuckness, and suspect there must be another way. It can't be this hard. It could be time to consider exploring Trauma Therapy in Los Angeles, CA as a way to navigate these feelings and experiences.
Healing is work, but it doesn't have to be exhausting. You don't need to always be "on" to keep yourself from regressing and being blindsided. You can rest and make healing into a practice of consistently coming back to yourself and calling first dibs on giving yourself the understanding first. Our work together at Therapy on Fig can lead to a more balanced approach to healing.
Meet our Los Angeles trauma therapists
Childhood & attachment trauma therapists
Gabriella Giorgio, AMFT
Gabriella brings a rare combination of personal insight and clinical training to childhood trauma work. As a late-discovered autistic person who has navigated her own reparenting journey, she understands—not just intellectually, but viscerally—how early wounds shape the way we move through the world. Gabriella draws from trauma-informed methods like Internal Family Systems (IFS) to help clients gently tend to the parts of themselves that were hurt or overlooked.
Rachel Kwon, LMFT
Rachel's work is shaped by her own experience as a second-generation Korean American who grew up navigating the unspoken weight of family loyalty, intergenerational pain, and the particular loneliness of being highly sensitive in environments that couldn't attune to them. She specializes in supporting teens and young adults navigating similar experiences, helping them find a voice amid their struggles using methods like IFS and Brainspotting.
PTSD & complex trauma therapist
Michael Hung, AMFT
Michael's path into trauma therapy was shaped by his own lived experience with complex trauma, alongside a decade as a professional musician, which has solidified his belief in the power of creativity in the healing process. He specializes in working with folks navigating the kind of layered, cumulative trauma that doesn't always fit neatly into a single narrative, blending modalities like somatic therapy, IFS, and the Neuroaffective Relational Model (NARM) to fit each person’s unique needs.
Relationship trauma therapists
Janelle Malak, AMFT
Janelle works with individuals and couples whose connections—romantic, familial, or otherwise—feel fraught and fractured. She uses specialized relationship-focused modalities like Emotionally Focused Therapy and the Gottman Method to help clients examine the patterns that keep them disconnected from the people they love most. Janelle’s own experience navigating a multiracial, neurodiverse partnership also gives her work a textured, non-clinical warmth that clients describe as deeply grounding.
Emily Gaston, AMFT
Emily's approach to relationship trauma is depth-oriented and relational at its core, rooted in the belief that healing happens not in isolation, but in the context of safe, honest connection. Her own experience with early loss and navigating complicated family systems shapes her attunement to clients who carry wounds from the very relationships meant to protect them. She works with individuals, couples, and families, with a particular sensitivity to those in queer and ethically non-monogamous relationships.
Sharon Yu, LMFT
Sharon has been accompanying people through relational healing since 2007, and the quality of her work reflects that depth of experience. Trained in deeply relational methods like IFS, she specializes in helping people who have spent years orienting to everyone else's needs shift, slowly and sustainably, back toward their own without abandoning the relational care that makes them who they are.
EMDR trauma therapist
Janelle Malak, AMFT
Janelle is trained in EMDR in addition to her specialized relational modalities, offering clients both a body-based pathway to processing stored trauma and a relational framework for understanding how that trauma has shaped their closest connections. She works especially well with people who sense that what's happening in their relationships today is connected to something much older.
Somatic trauma therapist
Marina Mendes, APCC
Marina brings an unusually diverse set of embodied practices to her trauma work, drawing from Level 1 IFS training, somatic coaching, yoga, and her training as a certified nature therapy guide. For clients whose trauma has created a persistent disconnection from the body, Marina's gentle, nature-informed approach offers an invitation back in. She is particularly skilled in working with people experiencing chronic, often silent grief that can keep them stuck.
Michael Hung, AMFT
In addition to his work with complex trauma, Michael brings a uniquely somatic lens informed by his background in trauma-informed strength training and Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu. He views the body as a source of wisdom, and his work creates space for clients to rebuild safety and trust within their physical selves, especially those whose relationships with their bodies have been complicated by shame, burnout, or disordered patterns.
Religious trauma therapist
Grace Chan, AMFT
Grace brings a unique combination of personal experience and clinical sensitivity that makes her especially well-suited to support those healing from religious trauma. As someone who has navigated her own process of decolonizing and reconstructing her faith, she understands the profound grief and disorientation that can accompany leaving or questioning a belief system that once organized your entire world. Her sessions offer an unhurried, non-pathologizing space to grieve, explore, and move forward.
What sets our practice apart from other Los Angeles trauma therapy providers
IFS-informed across the entire team. Internal Family Systems is a clinical language that our therapists share and build their work from. All of our therapists have training in this specialized modality.
A genuinely diverse, identity-affirming team. Our therapists are BIPOC, neurodivergent, and highly sensitive people themselves. They intentionally draw on their own lived experiences to offer authentic, connected care.
Seasoned clinicians in their second careers. Several of our therapists came to this work after significant life chapters as parents, creatives, and professionals. That breadth of lived experience offers a unique kind of wisdom.
Hybrid in-person and virtual availability. We offer in-person sessions at our Highland Park, Los Angeles office, as well as virtual sessions for anyone residing in California.
Expanded hours. Our therapists are available on weekdays and weekends to make getting support as accessible as possible.
In-network and out-of-network options. Select therapists at our practice are in-network with Aetna and Cigna, and we offer support for out-of-network billing for potential reimbursement as well.
FAQs about trauma therapy
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Common reasons for trauma therapy include:
You notice you are becoming an extreme version of yourself. You find yourself a workaholic, rageful, isolating, shutting down, and controlling, panicked.
Struggling with more "high-functioning" symptoms such as malaise, lethargy, melancholy, worries, and loneliness.
You also have physical or somatic signs. Such as having pain in parts of your body, using pleasures such as shopping and food to dampen the pain, or being chronically ill.
You have socially acceptable and sometimes rewarded symptoms, such as perfectionism, high-achieving, risk avoidance, people-pleasing, and cynicism.
Even if you’re unsure of whether to use the word “trauma” to describe your experiences, you’re welcome here.
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Trauma is an inherently personal experience and is defined by its impact on your nervous system and your sense of self. If something left you feeling unsafe, unseen, or fundamentally changed in ways you're still navigating, that experience deserves care and attention, regardless of whether it meets a certain threshold deemed by others.
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Healing trauma isn’t just a conceptual idea but an experiential and emotionally transformative one.
Trauma therapy helps because it assumes your "out-sized," "unhealthy," "toxic," and "shameful" behaviors and reactions are actually appropriate. Even necessary given an impossible set of circumstances and past experiences. We all choose what makes the most sense to us when it's about surviving. By giving yourself the benefit of the doubt, you open up a pathway towards insight into why you do what you do. You will gain information about yourself in ways you've never had. This will be the key to unlocking stuck points. While also becoming the game changer in breaking repeated patterns.
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There's not just one best approach. Truly effective trauma therapy depends on the person, the nature of their experiences, and what their nervous system needs. We blend modalities like IFS, EMDR, Brainspotting, and somatic-based therapies, since each offers distinct pathways to healing. The most important factor is often the therapeutic relationship itself, and your therapist will help you find which methods feel most supportive.
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Yes, trauma therapy is often covered by insurance. At Therapy on Fig, we are in-network with Cigna and Aetna for qualifying plans. For clients with PPO insurance through other providers, we offer monthly superbills to support out-of-network reimbursement. You can use our practice's benefits checker to review your coverage before your first session.
Start trauma therapy in Los Angeles today
Embark on a journey of healing and transformation with trauma therapy in Los Angeles, CA at Therapy on Fig. Break free from the grip of past experiences, understanding that your behaviors were adaptive survival strategies. Gain insight into your unique journey, unlocking stuck points and fostering emotional transformation. Our caring trauma therapists are here to guide you through this process, providing a safe and compassionate space for your healing. Take the first step towards reclaiming your power and breaking free from repeated patterns. Your transformative healing experience awaits. Follow the steps below to begin your journey toward a brighter, more empowered future.