Moving Beyond Survival Mode
Therapy for Trauma & PTSD in Redondo Beach
Reconnect more fully with your life beyond trauma, rediscovering safety, purpose, and joy.
Trauma shapes how you experience yourself, your relationships, and the world. You may feel constantly on edge, numb or disconnected, stuck in survival patterns, or find past events continuing to influence your emotions and reactions now.
Therapy for Trauma and PTSD in Redondo Beach, CA • Online throughout California
OUR SERVICES
How We Help You Heal and Grow
Trauma and PTSD can leave you feeling stuck, hypervigilant, or disconnected from your life and relationships. At Catherine Alvarado Therapy + EMDR, we offer compassionate, evidence-based care—including EMDR and integrative, mind-body interventions—to safely process traumatic memories, reduce symptoms, and restore a sense of safety and control. Therapy is tailored to your pace and needs, helping you rebuild resilience, regulate emotions, and reclaim meaningful connection and daily functioning. Support is available in-person in Redondo Beach and online throughout California.
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Trauma therapy for individuals offers a compassionate, evidence-based path to healing from past wounds. At Catherine Alvarado Therapy + EMDR, we blend EMDR, somatic and mind-body techniques, and integrative psychotherapy to help you reduce symptoms of PTSD, anxiety, and hypervigilance, process traumatic memories safely, and reclaim a sense of safety and agency.
Sessions are tailored to your pace and needs, whether in-person in Redondo Beach or online across California—supporting lasting change, resilience, and restored well-being.
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Trauma therapy for kids and teens helps young people feel safe, understood, and empowered to heal. Using age-appropriate, evidence-based approaches—such as EMDR, play therapy, and somatic techniques—therapy addresses trauma’s emotional, cognitive, and physical effects.
Sessions teach coping skills, reduce symptoms like anxiety and nightmares, improve relationships and school functioning, and involve caregivers when helpful. Early, compassionate intervention supports resilience, restores a sense of control, and promotes healthy development.
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Trauma can ripple through relationships, affecting trust, communication, and safety. At Catherine Alvarado Therapy + EMDR, we offer trauma-informed therapy for couples and families that integrates EMDR, attachment-focused work, and mind‑body approaches. We help partners and family members process traumatic memories, rebuild emotional safety, improve conflict resolution, and restore connection.
Therapy is held in a compassionate, structured environment—in-person in Redondo Beach or online across California—so you can heal together and create healthier patterns for the future.
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EMDR (Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing) is a proven, trauma-focused therapy that helps people reduce the emotional intensity of traumatic memories and reprocess them into adaptive, less distressing forms. Using guided bilateral stimulation (often eye movements) alongside focused memory work, EMDR helps nervous systems integrate painful experiences without the need for detailed verbalization.
Many clients experience faster relief from symptoms like flashbacks, nightmares, hypervigilance, and avoidance, and develop healthier beliefs about themselves and their safety. EMDR is evidence-based, adaptable to adults and teens, and can be delivered in person or online within a trauma-informed, compassionate therapy setting.
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Intensive trauma therapy offers focused, time-limited treatment designed to accelerate healing for those whose symptoms aren’t improving with weekly sessions. Delivered over several consecutive days or concentrated weeks, intensives combine evidence-based approaches—often EMDR, somatic interventions, and cognitive-behavioral techniques—to reduce symptoms, process traumatic memories safely, and restore daily functioning.
Intensives provide a contained, supportive setting that allows deeper emotional processing, faster symptom relief, and clearer integration of therapeutic gains into everyday life. Ideal for individuals ready to commit to an immersive, professionally guided course of recovery.
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Adjunct EMDR for trauma enhances standard EMDR protocols by integrating complementary techniques—such as breathwork, mindfulness, gentle somatic interventions, and resource-building—to support regulation, safety, and resilience during processing.
Tailored to each client, adjunct EMDR helps manage intense activation, strengthen coping skills, and bridge therapy into daily life, improving tolerability and outcomes for complex or chronic trauma presentations.
HOW WE CAN HELP
Trauma can be hidden — we help you recover and heal.
✓ Hypervigilance & Feeling On Edge
✓ Emotional Numbness & Disconnection
✓ Anxiety, Panic & Fear Responses
✓ Shame & Negative Self-Beliefs
✓ Avoidance & Feeling Shut Down
✓ Difficulty Trusting or Feeling Safe
✓ Relationship & Attachment Patterns
✓ People-Pleasing & Over-Responsibility
✓ Intrusive Memories & Trauma Reminders
✓ Feeling Stuck in Survival Mode
Therapists for Trauma & PTSD
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Catherine Alvarado
Licensed Marriage & Family Therapist #134744
EMDRIA Approved Consultant & Clinical SupervisorSupporting children, adolescents, and adults navigating trauma, complex trauma, PTSD, anxiety, and long‑standing patterns through EMDR, attachment‑focused work, and somatic therapy.
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Monika Arana
Registered Associate MFT #140548
EMDR Trained TherapistTrauma-focused therapy to help you feel safe, process painful memories, and rebuild resilience — guiding you with evidence-based approaches so you can restore a sense of safety and reclaim control over your life.
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Arielle Harris
Registered Associate MFT #161691
EMDR Trained TherapistSupporting individuals, couples, and families healing from trauma, PTSD, anxiety, relationship patterns, and self-worth struggles through EMDR and compassionate, attachment-focused therapy.
Heal Trauma, Restore Balance, Reclaim Your Life.
TRAUMA THERAPY
Taking the first step doesn't have to feel overwhelming.
Share a little about what you're experiencing, and we'll thoughtfully match you with the clinician whose experience and approach best align with your needs. We offer in-person trauma therapy in Redondo Beach and online trauma therapy throughout California, supporting individuals navigating trauma, PTSD, complex trauma, and the ways past experiences can continue to affect the mind, body, nervous system, and relationships.
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