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Welcome, I’m Alisa Vincent.
I’m a trauma therapist specializing in EMDR therapy for adults and adolescents throughout California.
People often come to me because something in their lives continues to hurt or get in the way—even when they understand where it comes from.
You may have spent years thinking about your experiences, understanding your patterns, or trying to change the way you respond. And yet old beliefs, fears, relationship patterns, or emotional reactions can be remarkably persistent.
Sometimes what happened is clearly recognizable as trauma. Other times, it comes from experiences that were quieter but no less consequential: emotional neglect, difficult family relationships, rejection, bullying, loss, or growing up without the safety, acceptance, or care you needed.
This is the work I specialize in.
I’m a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist and Certified EMDR Therapist with more than a decade of experience using EMDR. I provide virtual trauma therapy throughout California, with particular expertise in childhood and developmental trauma, emotional neglect, sexual trauma, anxiety, grief, attachment, and relationship wounds.
Therapy that goes beyond understanding
Insight matters. Understanding why you feel or respond the way you do can be enormously valuable.
But sometimes understanding isn't enough.
You can know that you weren't responsible for what happened, and still feel ashamed. You can know that you're worthy of love, and still feel unlovable. You can recognize that you're safe now, while some part of you remains braced for something to go wrong. You can understand exactly where a relationship pattern came from, and find yourself repeating it anyway.
Trauma therapy can help us work with the places where insight hasn't yet translated into change.
My approach is warm, active, and collaborative. I won't sit silently while you do all of the work. I ask thoughtful questions, offer honest reflections, help you notice patterns and connections, and bring my experience into the room while respecting that you are the expert on your own life.
I want therapy to be a place where you feel deeply understood—and where something can actually shift.
My approach to EMDR and trauma therapy
I specialize in psychosensory therapies and other approaches to trauma treatment. I am certified in both EMDR (Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing) and Havening Techniques®, and I have practiced EMDR for more than a decade.
EMDR can be especially useful when you intellectually understand something but continue to feel its effects.
Our work might involve experiences that are readily recognized as traumatic, such as abuse, sexual trauma, frightening events, or significant loss. It may also involve developmental and relational experiences that gradually shaped what you came to believe about yourself.
Experiences like these can leave behind beliefs such as I'm not good enough. I'm unlovable. I don't matter. I can't trust anyone. I'm not safe.
Those beliefs can feel like facts rather than conclusions your mind formed under difficult circumstances. One of the things I value most about trauma therapy is helping those old conclusions finally begin to change.
The relationship matters, too
The method matters, but so does the person sitting across from you.
I believe meaningful therapy comes from combining effective tools for change with a genuine, compassionate therapeutic relationship. Safety, trust, curiosity, humor, honesty, and human connection all have a place in my therapy room.
Before becoming a therapist, I earned my B.A. in Cultural Anthropology from UC Berkeley. Studying culture taught me to question assumptions about what is “normal” and to approach people's experiences with curiosity about the families, cultures, identities, relationships, and circumstances that have shaped them.
I later earned my M.A. in Counseling Psychology from The Wright Institute, where my training strengthened something I still believe deeply: therapy isn't something a therapist does to you. It's something we create together.
I bring expertise in trauma treatment. You bring expertise in you.
Both matter.
Why I do this work
My own experiences with therapy, particularly EMDR and attachment-focused work, profoundly shaped my life and my understanding of what good therapy can make possible.
That's part of why this work matters so much to me.
I don't believe healing means becoming someone different. I think it can mean having more freedom to be who you already are—without old experiences having quite so much say in what happens next.
Online EMDR Therapy Throughout California
I am a California Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist (LMFT #100343) and provide virtual EMDR and trauma therapy to adults and adolescents throughout California.
If something you've read here feels familiar, the best way to see whether we might work well together is to talk. I offer a complimentary 30-minute consultation where we can discuss what you're looking for, what has and hasn't helped before, and whether I may be a good fit for you.
Alisa Vincent, LMFT
California Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist #100343
Certified EMDR Therapist
Certified Havening Techniques® Practitioner
Virtual trauma and EMDR therapy throughout California.