Narcissistic Abuse Recovery
Heal from emotional manipulation and rebuild your sense of self.
Specialized care for trauma, emotional abuse, and unhealthy relationship patterns.
Healing the Inner Child
Address childhood wounds and learn self-compassion and self-acceptance.
Trauma Recovery
Process trauma experiences and reduce symptoms of PTSD, anxiety, and depression.
Relationship challenged
Improve communications set boundaries, and create healthier relationships.
Narcissistic abuse can leave you feeling confused, emotionally drained, and disconnected from yourself. It may involve manipulation, gaslighting, control, criticism, or patterns that make you question your feelings and reality. Healing from narcissistic abuse is about rebuilding trust in yourself, understanding unhealthy relationship patterns, setting boundaries, and rediscovering your sense of self-worth. Therapy can provide a safe, supportive space to process your experiences and begin moving forward with greater confidence and clarity.
Healing from narcissistic abuse is about reclaiming your voice, your boundaries, and your worth.
Break free from manipulation and control
Reduce self-doubt, guilt and anxiety
Rebuild confidence and trust in yourself
Learn healthy boundaries
Create a life based on your values
Healing the inner child is about reconnecting with the parts of yourself shaped by childhood experiences, unmet needs, and past wounds. Therapy can help you understand how these experiences may still influence your emotions, relationships, boundaries, and sense of self today. Through compassion and self-awareness, you can learn to meet your own needs, challenge old patterns, and create a deeper sense of safety, self-worth, and connection within yourself.
For adults who grew up with emotionally unavailable, inconsistent, or neglectful caregivers.
Understand your attachment patterns
Release shame and self-blame
Develop self-compassion
Build emotional regulation
reconnect with your authentic self
Sometimes, our minds and bodies continue to carry the weight of experiences we’ve been through—even when we’re ready to move forward. EMDR can help you process difficult or traumatic experiences, reduce their emotional impact, and create space for healing.
You don’t have to erase what happened to heal from it. You can learn to remember without feeling overwhelmed by the memory.
EMDR May help with:
Trauma & PTSD
Anxiety and panic
Depression
Grief and loss
Childhood trauma
Narcissistic abuse recovery
Low self-worth and shame
Stress related to difficult life experiences
Emotional triggers and reactivity
& More
Parts work is a therapeutic approach that helps you understand the different “parts” of yourself that may show up in response to your experiences, emotions, and relationships. Some parts may feel protective, critical, fearful, or overwhelmed, while others may carry unmet needs or painful experiences. By approaching these parts with curiosity and compassion rather than judgment, therapy can help you better understand yourself, heal old wounds, and create greater inner balance and self-acceptance.
Person-centered therapy offers a warm, compassionate, and judgment-free space where you can feel genuinely heard, understood, and accepted. This approach recognizes that you are the expert on your own life, and therapy is a place to explore your experiences, emotions, relationships, and challenges at your own pace.
Together, we can work through what may be weighing on you, gain a deeper understanding of your needs, and develop greater confidence in yourself and your choices. Whether you’re navigating anxiety, relationship challenges, low self-worth, life transitions, or simply feeling stuck, you don’t have to have everything figured out before coming to therapy. You can come exactly as you are, and we’ll begin from there.
Getting Started With Therapy
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Getting started is easy!
Begin by exploring the therapist's profile to learn more about her approach and determine if she feels like a good fit for your needs. Once you're ready, simply click "Get Started" or "Contact Us" and complete our brief inquiry form.
Your submission is sent directly to our Office Manager, who will reach out to discuss the next steps, answer any questions, verify your insurance benefits (if applicable), and help you get scheduled.
If you're not sure whether the practice is the right fit, you can also contact us through our general contact form. Our Office Manager will learn more about what you're looking for in therapy, your scheduling preferences, and whether you prefer in-office or telehealth sessions. From there, she'll answer your questions and guide you through the process of getting started.
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Yes. We offer a free 15-minute consultation so you can meet your therapist and make sure it feels like a good fit before starting sessions.
To request a consultation, contact our office manager at (805) 539-7191 or email ada.andrade@therapywithada.com
If you’re planning to use insurance, we’ll first need to verify your benefits and review your fee structure before the consultation takes place.
For current clients with billing/insurance related questions, please email our Director of Billing at isabel@therapywithada.com
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Your first session is a chance to slow down and talk about what’s been weighing on you. Your therapist will ask questions to understand your history, goals, relationships, and what support looks like for you.
We are relational therapists above all, so the first session is a chance for your therapist to get to know you and begin to build trust. We work from an LGBTQ-affirming, trauma-informed perspective. That means your identity is respected and affirmed, your lived experience is taken seriously, and therapy is tailored to you, not a one-size-fits-all model.
By the end of the session, you and your therapist will begin shaping a direction for your work together.
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Yes. We provide secure, HIPAA-compliant online therapy to clients anywhere in New York and California.
Many of our clients choose virtual sessions for flexibility, accessibility, or convenience. As long as you are physically located in California at the time of your session, you can work with one of our licensed therapist remotely.
Reach out through our contact page to confirm availability.
