Transformative Trauma Therapy Services
Multi-Day Intensive Retreats
At Soul & Psyche, we offer specialized trauma therapy services that address the deepest roots of emotional pain and psychological wounds. Our multi-day intensive therapy retreats and individual sessions provide unique healing environments where individuals can break free from patterns of shame, self-worth struggles, and underlying trauma while discovering their authentic selves.
Serving clients throughout California through both in-person and online services, our treatment programs combine cutting-edge trauma therapy with spiritual integration to create lasting transformation. Rather than simply managing symptoms, we guide clients on a profound journey toward genuine healing and sustainable emotional well-being.
Our Foundation: 23 Years of Partnership and Expertise
The foundation of our trauma therapy 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 facing psychological wounds and emotional pain. This unique collaborative foundation informs every aspect of our therapeutic services.
Dr. Jordan Hamilton brings a distinctive blend of artistic sensibility, business acumen, and deep psychological inquiry to trauma therapy. His journey from theatre arts and Shakespearean performance to real estate leadership and eventually Clinical Psychology creates a rare combination of creativity, strategic thinking, and empathic presence. As a pioneer in the men's healing movement and EMDR-trained since 1997, Dr. Hamilton is dedicated to helping his clients be their best selves while providing spiritual direction services alongside therapeutic work.
Kimberly Sanders contributes over 30 years of clinical experience spanning diverse healing contexts, from state hospital work to groundbreaking research at UCLA's Neuropsychiatric Institute. Her EMDR certification since 1991, Level III Trauma Informed Stabilization Treatment training with Dr. Janina Fisher, 700+ hours of yoga teacher training, and Global Mystics program certification create a unique synthesis of evidence-based trauma therapy with embodied and spiritual healing approaches.
Our Specialized Trauma Therapy Services
Multi-Day Intensive Therapy Retreats
Our signature treatment programs offer an immersive alternative to traditional weekly therapy approaches. These intensive retreats create a concentrated healing environment where clients can step away from daily distractions and engage deeply in their trauma recovery journey. Unlike conventional therapy options that spread healing work over months or years, our retreat model allows for significant breakthroughs in addressing underlying emotional wounds in focused timeframes.
During these transformative experiences, clients work intensively with our licensed therapists using specialized modalities designed to process trauma and heal the psychological wounds that create patterns of shame, self-worth struggles, and emotional pain. The retreat setting provides the safety and continuity necessary for deep therapeutic work that creates lasting change in emotional well-being.
We also offer individual hourly sessions for clients who prefer ongoing weekly support alongside or instead of intensive retreat experiences, ensuring our trauma therapy services meet diverse needs and preferences for those ready to engage in deep healing work.
Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR)
EMDR therapy forms a cornerstone of our trauma treatment approach, particularly effective for clients whose emotional struggles stem from unresolved traumatic experiences. This specialized therapy helps process stuck memories and traumatic experiences that often drive patterns of shame, hypervigilance, and emotional pain, reducing their emotional charge and freeing individuals from compulsive protective behaviors.
With EMDR training dating back to 1991 and 1997, our team brings decades of experience using this modality specifically for trauma recovery. Through bilateral stimulation, EMDR activates the brain's natural healing mechanisms, allowing traumatic memories to be processed and integrated healthily. As clients work through these experiences in our therapy sessions, symptoms of burnout, compassion fatigue, and loneliness often naturally diminish as the underlying emotional drivers are resolved.
Ego State Therapy and IFS Theory
Ego State Therapy and IFS theory offer powerful frameworks for understanding the internal conflicts that drive emotional pain and protective behaviors. In our experience with trauma therapy, psychological wounds often create internal "parts" or ego states that developed to protect individuals from overwhelming pain or circumstances.
Through Ego State Therapy and IFS theory work in our treatment programs, we help clients develop relationships with their various internal parts—including those that developed patterns of shame, self-criticism, or emotional withdrawal. Rather than fighting these parts, we guide clients toward understanding their protective functions and finding healthier ways to meet underlying needs in trauma recovery.
This compassionate approach to therapy helps clients develop self-understanding around their emotional patterns rather than self-criticism. When individuals recognize that their protective behaviors arose from parts trying to help them survive difficult experiences, profound healing and integration become possible, supporting lasting emotional well-being.
Image Transformation Therapy (ImTT)
Image Transformation Therapy represents our cutting-edge approach to trauma healing, particularly effective for clients whose emotional struggles connect to deeply embedded traumatic memories. ImTT works with images and memories stored in mind and body, helping transform distressing internal experiences into sources of healing and strength in trauma recovery.
Many individuals with unresolved trauma carry distressing images that continue influencing their emotional state and creating patterns of hypervigilance, shame, or emotional numbing. Through ImTT therapy, we guide clients in transforming these distressing internal experiences into more positive representations, often leading to significant trauma symptom relief and improved emotional well-being.
Trauma Informed Stabilization Treatment (TIST)
Our Level III Trauma Informed Stabilization Treatment approach, developed through direct training with Dr. Janina Fisher, provides essential foundation work for clients whose emotional struggles involve complex trauma. TIST focuses on developing internal resources and stabilization skills before processing traumatic material, ensuring safety throughout the healing process.
This specialized therapy modality recognizes that many individuals with complex trauma require stabilization work before engaging in intensive trauma processing. TIST provides the scaffolding necessary for safe, effective healing from emotional wounds rooted in traumatic experiences, helping resolve patterns of burnout and compassion fatigue.
Comprehensive Issues We Address
Trauma-Related Emotional Patterns
Our trauma therapy services address the complex emotional patterns that develop following difficult life experiences. Whether clients struggle with shame, self-worth issues, hypervigilance, or emotional numbing, our specialized approaches help heal the underlying wounds that create these protective responses.
We work with individuals ready to move beyond coping strategies toward genuine healing of the psychological wounds that contribute to ongoing emotional pain. Our trauma-focused approach recognizes that many emotional struggles stem from unresolved traumatic experiences rather than character defects or personal failings.
Healing from Neglect and Abuse
We provide specialized trauma therapy for individuals healing from various forms of neglect, verbal abuse, or physical abuse. Our approaches recognize the complex ways these experiences impact self-worth, relationship patterns, and overall emotional well-being throughout life.
Whether abuse occurred in childhood, adult relationships, or professional environments, our trauma therapy services offer safe, effective approaches for processing these experiences and reclaiming personal power and authentic self-expression.
Spiritual Trauma and Religious Wounds
We offer specialized trauma therapy for individuals whose emotional struggles developed following experiences of spiritual abuse or religious trauma. Our non-denominational spiritual approach helps clients heal from these particular forms of psychological wounds while maintaining connection to their authentic spiritual nature.
Dr. Hamilton's spiritual direction services complement our therapeutic work, supporting clients in rediscovering healthy spiritual connection while healing from traumatic religious experiences that may have contributed to shame, self-worth struggles, or spiritual disconnection.
Burnout and Compassion Fatigue
Our trauma therapy services effectively address burnout and compassion fatigue, recognizing these as forms of emotional wounds that develop in helping professions and caregiving roles. We understand how chronic stress and empathic overextension create patterns of emotional exhaustion and disconnection.
Through our specialized modalities, we help clients heal the underlying trauma that often makes individuals vulnerable to burnout while developing healthier boundaries and self-care practices that support sustained emotional well-being.
Our Unique Approach to Healing
Beyond Symptom Management
At the heart of our psychology practice is a commitment to offering transformative therapy that goes beyond symptom management to address the deeper roots of human suffering. Rather than simply alleviating surface expressions of emotional pain, we seek to uncover and heal the underlying wounds and unmet needs that give rise to ongoing struggles.
Central to our trauma therapy 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 ready to know and integrate often unacknowledged shadow aspects—the parts that developed protective strategies like emotional withdrawal, hypervigilance, or shame-based behaviors.
Holistic Integration of Therapy and Spirituality
Our approach uniquely integrates evidence-based trauma therapy with spiritual dimensions of healing, recognizing that psychological wounds often represent disconnection from meaning, purpose, and authentic self-connection. This integrated perspective addresses root causes giving rise to both emotional struggles and spiritual disconnection.
We understand that effective trauma recovery involves more than eliminating symptoms—it requires developing healthy emotional regulation, improving relationships, and creating meaningful connection rooted in authentic self-knowledge and purpose. Dr. Hamilton's spiritual direction services complement this work by supporting clients' spiritual growth alongside psychological healing.
Specialized Focus on Deep Healing Work
We work particularly well with individuals who have already developed basic stability in their lives and are ready to engage in deep healing work. Our clients are often those who have achieved initial recovery from various struggles and now seek to address the underlying trauma, shame, and emotional wounds that contributed to their difficulties.
Our trauma-focused approach serves those ready to move beyond managing symptoms toward genuine transformation of the psychological patterns that create ongoing emotional pain. We provide the specialized therapeutic support needed for this deeper level of healing work.
Personalized Treatment Planning
We recognize each person's path to healing is unique, shaped by personal history, cultural background, and individual goals. Our treatment planning reflects comprehensive assessment and highly personalized therapy design tailored to specific needs and circumstances.
Our intake coordinator Shannon works closely with potential clients to understand specific needs and match them with the most appropriate licensed therapist and treatment approach. This careful matching ensures clients receive trauma therapy truly tailored to their circumstances and therapeutic goals.
Our Treatment Process
Initial Consultation and Assessment
Clients can easily book a consultation call to speak with Shannon, our intake coordinator, who will answer questions and guide clients toward the most appropriate therapist for their needs. During these conversations, we explore whether hourly individual sessions or intensive retreat formats would best serve their healing goals.
Shannon provides detailed information about our trauma therapy services and helps potential clients understand what to expect from our treatment programs. This personalized approach ensures proper matching between client needs and our specialized therapeutic modalities, focusing on readiness for deep healing work rather than specific demographic characteristics.
Retreat Experience Structure
For clients choosing our intensive retreat format, day one focuses largely on establishing trust, sharing life experiences and goals for healing, and developing safety necessary for deeper therapeutic work. We understand many seeking trauma therapy have experienced betrayal or harm, so we prioritize creating consistently trustworthy, boundaried, supportive therapeutic relationships.
The afternoon of the first day and subsequent days concentrate on using the most effective trauma processing modalities to clear traumatic memories driving emotional pain and help clients move forward in their lives. Our specialized approaches to trauma therapy create concentrated healing experiences that often achieve significant progress in focused timeframes.
Integration and Aftercare Support
Our retreats conclude with comprehensive integration work ensuring clients can take newfound ease and insights into daily life sustainably. This phase focuses specifically on maintaining the healing achieved during intensive trauma therapy and preventing return to old emotional patterns.
We help develop concrete strategies for managing triggers, maintaining True Self connection, and continuing healing over time to support lasting emotional well-being. While focusing intensively on retreat experiences, we also provide guidance on continuing care and ongoing therapy, helping clients identify appropriate resources in their communities.
Serving California and English-Speaking Communities
We provide trauma therapy services primarily to clients throughout California through both in-person and online sessions, accommodating diverse needs and preferences. Our California-based practice ensures accessibility to our specialized trauma therapy approaches for local clients seeking deep healing work.
For English-speaking expatriate communities in the European Union, we also provide online trauma therapy services, bringing our unique approach to those seeking specialized therapeutic support while living abroad. Our flexible service delivery ensures that geographical location doesn't prevent access to our transformative therapy services.
Why Our Approach Creates Lasting Change
Our transformative outcomes stem from addressing emotional wounds at their deepest roots rather than simply managing symptoms. By focusing on underlying trauma, unmet needs, and spiritual disconnection giving rise to emotional pain patterns, we create conditions for genuine healing and sustainable emotional well-being.
The intensive retreat model allows for deep, sustained therapeutic work creating lasting neurological and psychological changes. Rather than addressing complex trauma in small increments over extended periods, our concentrated approach enables significant breakthroughs and integration in focused timeframes.
The combination of specialized trauma therapy with spiritual and meaning-making dimensions creates comprehensive healing addressing the whole person. This integrated approach ensures healing involves not just symptom relief but authentic engagement with life and relationships from a place of genuine self-knowledge and emotional freedom.
Begin Your Transformation Today
If you recognize yourself in this description and feel called to explore a deeper approach to healing trauma, shame, and emotional wounds, we invite you to take the first step in what could be a life-changing journey toward emotional freedom and authentic self-expression.
Shannon is available to discuss your specific situation and help determine whether our treatment programs might be appropriate for your healing needs. During your consultation call, you'll share your story, ask questions about our trauma therapy approach, and learn what to expect from working with our licensed therapists.
We understand reaching out for help with deep emotional wounds can feel vulnerable. We're committed to making this process comfortable and supportive, providing information and reassurance needed to make informed decisions about your therapeutic options.
Contact us today to schedule your consultation call with Shannon and learn more about our trauma therapy services. Your path to lasting emotional healing and authentic living may be closer than you think.