Transformative Trauma-Focused Therapy in California
Deep Psychological Healing
Finding authentic therapy in California that addresses the deeper roots of anxiety, depression, and trauma can transform lives. At Soul & Psyche, we provide specialized psychotherapy services throughout California, offering both online therapy and intensive retreat experiences designed to facilitate profound emotional healing that goes beyond symptom management.
Our unique approach to therapeutic treatment integrates psychological and spiritual dimensions, addressing the whole person rather than isolated symptoms. With our experienced therapist team serving clients throughout California, we offer Multi-Day Intensive Therapy Retreats that provide the professional support needed for lasting transformation through evidence-based modalities and compassionate care.
Our Foundation: 23 Years of Partnership in Psychological Healing
The foundation of our work extends beyond individual expertise to our 23-year partnership – a relationship that has weathered seasons of growth, held space for each other's evolution, and deepened our capacity to hold space for others seeking therapy in California. This enduring collaboration brings unique depth to our psychotherapy service, creating a stable foundation for the transformative healing we offer.
Our partnership allows us to provide comprehensive therapeutic support that draws from decades of combined experience in trauma treatment, spiritual healing, and innovative therapeutic approaches. This collaborative foundation ensures that clients seeking counselling throughout California receive the benefit of our collective wisdom and complementary therapeutic strengths.
Our Specialized Therapeutic Modalities for Psychological Healing in California
Multi-Day Intensive Therapy Retreats
Our signature service offering therapy in California involves Multi-Day Intensive Therapy Retreats that provide concentrated, transformative healing experiences. These retreats represent a different approach from traditional weekly therapy sessions, allowing clients to engage in multiple therapy sessions over consecutive days without the interruptions of daily life.
This intensive format enables breakthrough moments that might take months to achieve in conventional counselling approaches. For individuals seeking therapy in California who have felt stuck despite previous therapeutic efforts, our retreat format offers the sustained focus needed to address complex trauma and deeply rooted emotional patterns through professional support.
Each retreat is carefully structured to maximize therapeutic benefit while ensuring client safety throughout the intensive healing process. Our experienced therapist team provides continuous professional support, creating a safe space where profound psychological transformation can occur through evidence-based trauma processing techniques.
Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR)
EMDR represents a cornerstone of our psychotherapy service, particularly powerful for addressing trauma-related symptoms and emotional distress. Both Dr. Hamilton and Kimberly Sanders bring extensive EMDR training to their work with clients seeking therapy in California, with Kimberly's certification dating back to 1991 and Dr. Hamilton completing his training in 1997.
This evidence-based approach facilitates the processing of traumatic memories through bilateral stimulation, helping clients achieve emotional relief and gain new insights about their experiences. Our intensive retreat format allows for multiple EMDR sessions over consecutive days, often accelerating healing that might take much longer in traditional weekly appointments.
Many clients seeking psychological healing in California find significant relief from symptoms that have persisted for years, particularly those dealing with post-traumatic stress, anxiety, and depression rooted in unresolved trauma.
Ego State Therapy and IFS Theory
Our counselling approach incorporates Ego State Therapy and IFS theory, recognizing that we all have different parts of our personality with unique feelings, beliefs, and memories. Through Ego State Therapy and IFS theory work during therapy sessions, clients learn to develop compassion for different aspects of themselves, creating internal harmony that supports lasting emotional growth.
These modalities are particularly effective for clients who struggle with internal conflict, self-criticism, or feeling stuck in repetitive patterns. Our experienced therapist team guides clients through exploring their internal system, helping them develop a strong, compassionate Self that can lead and care for all their parts.
Image Transformation Therapy (ImTT) and Trauma Informed Stabilization Treatment (TIST)
We utilize Image Transformation Therapy, which employs visualization and guided imagery to facilitate emotional healing. This approach helps clients work with internal images related to traumatic experiences, allowing stuck emotional energy to be released and transformed through specialized psychotherapy techniques.
Kimberly Sanders' Level III training in Trauma Informed Stabilization Treatment (TIST) adds another dimension to our trauma healing capabilities. This approach focuses on stabilizing clients before, during, and after trauma processing, ensuring safety throughout the healing journey for those seeking therapy in California.
Who We Serve: Clients Ready for Deep Inner Healing
Individuals Seeking Peace and Freedom from Emotional Pain
Dr. Hamilton is dedicated to helping his clients be their best selves, particularly those who deeply long for a greater sense of peace and freedom in their lives. These individuals may be carrying the weight of persistent sadness or anxiety, often feeling trapped by emotional pain that seems to linger despite previous therapy efforts with other counsellors or therapists in California.
Many are ready to address histories of neglect, verbal abuse, physical abuse, or betrayal – whether from family, professional environments, or religious institutions – that have left them burdened by shame, self-worth issues, and emotional exhaustion. Others may be grappling with trauma related to relocation, loss, and emotional neglect that continue to affect their daily functioning and relationships.
Our work helps resolve burnout, compassion fatigue, hypervigilance, and loneliness while supporting individuals who are ready to go beyond coping strategies. We focus on helping clients rediscover their inner strength, reclaim their voice, and move toward a life that feels authentic, grounded, and whole through trauma-focused therapy in California.
For individuals with substance use histories who have maintained sobriety for 12 months or longer, our approach addresses the underlying trauma, shame, and emotional pain that may have contributed to substance use patterns. Our trauma-focused methodology helps heal these deeper wounds rather than focusing on substance-related behaviors.
Women Seeking Deeper Meaning and Connection
Kimberly Sanders' psychological counseling practice serves individuals – with particular expertise in working with women – who are seeking a deeper sense of meaning, healing, and connection in their lives. With over 30 years of experience in trauma treatment, she offers a compassionate integrative approach that combines evidence-based modalities for clients throughout California.
Her work is grounded in a holistic understanding of the human experience, informed by years of training in non-denominational spiritual direction, which allows her to support clients in exploring both psychological and spiritual dimensions of healing. She focuses on helping individuals struggling with self-worth issues, shame, and esteem problems, often manifested in painful relationship patterns.
Through a warm, empowering, and deeply attuned therapeutic relationship, Kimberly helps clients release past burdens, heal from neglect or abuse, and reclaim their inherent worth. Her approach addresses burnout, compassion fatigue, hypervigilance, and loneliness while supporting clients in moving toward lives rooted in authenticity, inner peace, and meaningful self-connection.
How We Differentiate: Unique Psychological Healing in California
Addressing the Deeper Roots of Human Suffering
At the heart of our psychology practice is a commitment to offering transformative psychological treatments that go beyond symptom management to address the deeper roots of human suffering. Rather than simply alleviating surface-level expressions such as depression and anxiety, our practice seeks to uncover and heal the underlying wounds and unmet needs that give rise to these symptoms.
Central to our approach is guiding clients on a journey of self-discovery, helping them fulfill the fundamental human need to realize their True Self. This includes supporting clients who are ready to know and integrate their often unacknowledged shadow aspects of the ego – the parts that cling to control and resist vulnerability.
By fostering deep inner work and authentic connection to the self, our practice empowers lasting change, greater freedom, and a more meaningful, conscious life for individuals seeking therapy in California.
Trauma-Focused Approach to Psychological and Spiritual Healing
Our psychotherapy service recognizes that human beings are both psychological and spiritual entities. We integrate spiritual elements into our therapeutic work not from any particular religious perspective, but from recognition that spirituality is a fundamental aspect of human experience that affects emotional well-being.
This trauma-focused, holistic approach allows clients to heal on multiple levels simultaneously, creating transformation that touches every aspect of their lives. Clients seeking counselling in California often report not only relief from symptoms but also renewed sense of purpose, deeper relationships, and greater alignment with their authentic selves.
Our expertise comes from decades of trauma work rather than addiction-specific training, making our approach particularly effective for addressing the underlying emotional wounds that contribute to various life challenges.
Specific Issues We Address Through Therapy in California
Anxiety and Depression Treatment
Our approach to anxiety and depression goes beyond symptom management to address underlying causes that create and maintain these conditions. Through intensive therapy sessions and specialized modalities like EMDR and Ego State Therapy, we help clients explore the roots of their anxiety and depression while developing sustainable healing strategies.
Many clients seeking therapy in California for anxiety and depression find that our retreat format allows for breakthrough understanding and relief that traditional weekly sessions couldn't provide. The concentrated nature of our work often reveals connections between current symptoms and past experiences, including shame, self-worth issues, and the effects of neglect or abuse.
Post-Traumatic Stress and Trauma Recovery
With our extensive EMDR training and trauma-informed approaches, we specialize in helping clients process and heal from post-traumatic stress. Our trauma processing modalities are designed to clear traumatic memories while ensuring client safety throughout the healing process.
Kimberly Sanders' Level III TIST training and Dr. Hamilton's trauma work provide comprehensive trauma recovery support for clients throughout California dealing with various types of traumatic experiences, including neglect, verbal abuse, physical abuse, and betrayal.
Spiritual Abuse Recovery
We have expertise in addressing spiritual abuse – trauma that occurs within religious or spiritual contexts. This specialized area requires understanding of how spiritual wounding affects both psychological and spiritual aspects of a person's life.
Our approach to spiritual abuse recovery integrates trauma processing with spiritual healing, helping clients reclaim their authentic spiritual connection while healing from the wounds inflicted by spiritual institutions or leaders. Dr. Hamilton's spiritual direction services complement this work by supporting clients' ongoing spiritual growth and exploration.
Healing Underlying Emotional Pain
For individuals with substance use histories who have maintained sobriety for 12 months or longer and are ready for deeper work, our trauma-focused approach addresses the underlying emotional pain, shame, and trauma that may have contributed to substance use patterns. We focus on healing these deeper wounds rather than addressing substance-related behaviors, as our expertise lies in trauma work rather than addiction-specific treatment.
Our approach helps resolve the shame, self-worth issues, esteem problems, and effects of neglect or abuse that often underlie various life challenges, while addressing symptoms like burnout, compassion fatigue, hypervigilance, and loneliness.
Our Intake Process: Beginning Your Healing Journey in California
Initial Consultation and Professional Guidance
Clients can easily book a consultation call to speak with our intake coordinator, who will answer your questions and guide you to who is most appropriate for your therapeutic needs. This initial conversation ensures you receive the most suitable professional support for your unique situation seeking therapy in California.
Our intake coordinator understands the nuances of our different therapeutic approaches and can help determine whether Dr. Hamilton's or Kimberly Sanders' expertise aligns best with your particular goals and challenges. This personalized matching process ensures you receive the most effective counselling for your healing journey.
Therapist Consultation and Treatment Planning
Once your consultation call is scheduled, you will speak with one of us to see if an hourly format or a retreat is a good fit for your needs and schedule a time to move forward. This conversation allows for detailed discussion of your therapeutic goals and exploration of how our intensive approaches might address your particular emotional challenges.
If the retreat format is chosen, a deposit will secure your retreat dates. This collaborative planning process ensures you enter your therapeutic experience feeling prepared and confident about the intensive healing work ahead, whether you're dealing with anxiety, depression, post-traumatic stress, or spiritual abuse.
What to Expect: Your Retreat Experience in California
Building Trust and Safety
The first day is largely about establishing a trusting relationship, sharing information about your life experience and goals for the retreat, and developing a sense of safety so that you will be ready to move forward. This foundation-building is crucial for clients who may have had previous difficult experiences with counsellors or therapy in California.
Our experienced therapist team understands that engaging in deep psychological healing requires strong trust and safety. We take time to create the therapeutic environment needed for profound transformation, ensuring you feel seen, heard, and supported throughout the process.
Intensive Trauma Processing and Healing
The afternoon of your first day and the following days will be focused on using the most effective trauma processing modalities to clear your traumatic memories and help you move forward in your life. This intensive work utilizes our specialized training in EMDR, Ego State Therapy, ImTT, and TIST approaches.
Throughout this intensive processing work, our therapists maintain careful attention to your emotional state and capacity, ensuring the work feels safe and manageable. The concentrated nature of our retreat format allows for sustained focus on healing without the interruptions of daily life.
Integration for Lasting Transformation
Your retreat will end with integration to ensure that you can take your newfound ease and insights and bring them into your daily life. This integration phase is crucial for making the changes sustainable beyond the retreat setting, maintaining long-term emotional well-being after returning to your regular life in California.
During integration work, you and your therapist will identify specific strategies and practices that will support your continued growth, helping you maintain the progress made through our comprehensive psychotherapy approach.
Serving Therapeutic Needs Throughout California and Beyond
Our practice primarily serves clients throughout California, bringing expertise and commitment to transformative healing that honors each client's unique background and perspective. We understand various cultural contexts and therapeutic needs, providing sensitive care while maintaining the highest standards of professional support.
Whether you're located in Los Angeles, San Francisco, San Diego, or other areas throughout California, our therapeutic services are designed to meet you where you are. We offer both online therapy options for accessibility and in-person retreat experiences for those who prefer immersive healing environments.
For English-speaking expatriates living in the European Union who are seeking our specialized approach to trauma-focused healing, we also provide online therapy services that maintain the same quality and depth of care we offer to our California clients.
Meet Our Experienced Therapist Team Serving California
Dr. Jordan Hamilton: Bridging Art, Business, and Deep Psychological Inquiry
Dr. Jordan Hamilton's psychology practice is uniquely shaped by a rich and varied professional journey that bridges the worlds of art, business, and deep psychological inquiry. His educational foundation includes a master's degree in theatre arts from the University of Michigan and early experience in Shakespearean theatre, bringing a creative and empathic presence to his therapeutic work with clients throughout California.
His transition into real estate as a residential manager and later Vice President of a national investment firm provided insight into high-level leadership, responsibility, and the psychological demands of success – experience that proves invaluable when working with professionals seeking therapy in California. Motivated by a personal calling to explore the inner life, he began volunteering as a lay counselor, eventually earning his Doctorate in Clinical Psychology in 1993 with a dissertation focused on the nature of intimacy and bonding in men's groups.
Dr. Hamilton integrates his EMDR training (completed in 1997) with his artistic sensibility and strategic acumen. In addition to his psychotherapy practice, Dr. Hamilton provides spiritual direction services, supporting clients in their spiritual growth and connection to deeper meaning. This multifaceted background allows him to support clients with a blend of depth, creativity, and grounded pragmatism.
Dr. Hamilton is dedicated to helping his clients be their best selves, focusing on healing shame, self-worth issues, and the effects of neglect or abuse while resolving challenges like burnout, compassion fatigue, hypervigilance, and loneliness.
Kimberly Sanders, M.A.: Three Decades of Clinical Excellence and Trauma-Focused Care
What makes Kimberly Sanders' psychology practice unique is the depth and breadth of her experience, spanning over 30 years of clinical work and trauma treatment. From working at Camarillo State Hospital and supporting children and foster families in San Luis Obispo and Placer Counties, to contributing to research on genetic alcoholism at UCLA's Neuropsychiatric Institute, her path has been one of dedication to healing across diverse settings.
Originally certified in EMDR in 1991, Kimberly is a Level III Trauma Informed Stabilization practitioner trained directly by Dr. Janina Fisher. She integrates somatic healing through over 700 hours of yoga teacher training and brings a spiritual dimension to her work through certification in the Global Mystics program. Her clients often describe her presence as grounding and transformative, blending science, deep compassion, and humor to bring lightness to even the most difficult trauma work.
With a foundation in rigorous education – graduating cum laude from Pepperdine – and a lifelong commitment to service, Kimberly brings a synthesis of clinical expertise, embodied practice, and heartfelt connection to her psychotherapy work with clients seeking counselling throughout California.
Taking the Next Step: Professional Therapeutic Support in California
If you feel called to explore whether our approach might benefit your therapeutic needs, we encourage reaching out for a consultation. Our personalized approach ensures you receive the most appropriate professional support for your unique situation, whether you're dealing with anxiety, depression, post-traumatic stress, spiritual abuse, or the underlying emotional pain that may contribute to various life challenges.
You can schedule a consultation call through our website at https://soul-and-psyche.com/, where you'll find additional information about our experienced therapist team and philosophy of psychological healing. Our intake process is designed to make accessing quality therapy in California comfortable and straightforward.
During your consultation, our intake coordinator will answer questions, provide information about our counselling services, and guide you toward the therapist whose expertise aligns with your particular needs. This ensures you receive the most effective professional support for your healing journey, regardless of your specific background or challenges.
We welcome all individuals who are ready for deep healing work, focusing on each person's readiness to engage in transformative therapy rather than specific demographic characteristics. Our trauma-focused approach addresses shame, self-worth issues, esteem problems, and the effects of neglect or abuse while helping resolve burnout, compassion fatigue, hypervigilance, and loneliness.
Emotional challenges don't have to define your life experience. With appropriate therapeutic support and commitment to deep healing, authentic transformation is possible – transformation that touches every aspect of life and creates lasting change. We would be honored to support you on this important journey toward healing, wholeness, and authentic self-connection.