You Don't Have to Keep Managing It Alone
Something's not working. Maybe you're angrier than you want to be. Maybe your relationships keep hitting the same wall. Maybe something happened — years ago or recently — and you've been carrying it ever since.
You've dealt with it the best you know how. But you're here, which means that's not enough anymore.
That's not a weakness. That's clarity.
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Ask yourself if you feel comfortable.
Talk Therapy
Therapy is meant to produce real change in your life — not just insight about why things are hard.
I take an eclectic approach, drawing from cognitive behavioral and somatic therapies, adapted to you and built around your goals. In practice, that means two things working together: gaining awareness of the stories you tell yourself about the world, and using the mind-body connection to actually internalize more useful ones. Thinking your way to change only goes so far — we have to work at the level of the nervous system too.
I find Polyvagal theory to be helpful to understand how our early life experiences wire our nervous systems in ways we don’t choose — and those patterns often keep driving our behavior long after they’ve stopped being useful. What looked like protection at one point can become the thing getting in the way of the relationships, habits, and life you actually want. Therapy gives us a space to recognize those patterns and, over time, change them.
You bring the goals. I’ll bring the structure, the feedback, and the interventions I think will actually get you there.
EMDR
EMDR — Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing — is what I reach for when the goal is to actually let go of something, not just understand it.
It’s the most effective treatment I know for people who have done the talk therapy work and still feel stuck. That’s because unresolved experiences don’t just live in our thoughts — they live in the body. EMDR bridges cognitive and somatic therapy, working with both the stories we carry and the physical imprint they leave behind. It uses the brain’s own processing ability to reorganize material that got frozen in place — often in a way that years of conversation alone can’t reach.
If there’s something from your past that keeps surfacing no matter how much insight you have about it, that’s usually a sign that insight isn’t what’s missing. EMDR gets to the root.
Learn more at EMDRIA.org
About Britney Peterson
I've been practicing psychotherapy for over ten years. I started in community mental health, working with children, teens, and families navigating severe trauma in high-risk communities, then moved into supporting adults in the criminal justice system dealing with addiction and complex trauma.
What I found across every population is the same thing: people are resilient. They have what it takes to thrive — they're just often derailed by the daily work of surviving. Healing comes down to building a healthier relationship with yourself and the world around you.
I'm not a soft therapist. My strengths are meeting people on an equal playing field and giving honest, compassionate feedback. I believe I should be working myself out of a job — which means you should see real changes in your life, not just feel better for an hour.
I hold a Master's in Counseling Psychology from Santa Clara University and licenses in Marriage and Family Therapy and Addiction Counseling. My approach draws on polyvagal theory, Internal Family Systems, and cognitive behavioral interventions. I'm also a Registered Yoga Teacher, which allows me to incorporate somatic work into sessions — and yoga classes are coming to the practice soon.