Holistic, soul-centered therapy for women and teens in San Clemente, CA
Quieting the noise, coming home to yourself.
The world is loud. So much reaches for your attention that it can become hard to hear what is true within you. Many of my clients first come to therapy feeling burnt out, frazzled, and disconnected from themselves. Therapy offers a place to quiet the noise and return inward. This work is about the story of you—your inner world, your relationships, your emotions, fears, longings, curiosities, and hopes. It begins exactly where you are right now. My role is to walk alongside you as a compassionate guide, creating a safe and steady space where your inner life can be met with curiosity, care, and depth.
Many of the people I work with are thoughtful, sensitive, and deeply feeling. They may look capable on the outside while quietly carrying anxiety, old wounds, relationship pain, self-doubt, or the exhaustion of trying to hold everything together. Often, they have spent so much time tending to others, overthinking, or simply surviving that they have lost touch with their own voice. Therapy can become a place to slow down, make sense of your patterns, and reconnect with what matters most.
Together, we pay attention to what is happening beneath the surface: the patterns that repeat, the feelings that get pushed down, the protective parts of you that have worked so hard to keep you safe, and the deeper longings that have not always had room to speak. With compassion and curiosity, we begin to listen differently to your story. Over time, this work can help you feel more grounded within yourself, more connected in your relationships, and more able to move through life with clarity, choice, and self-trust.
Holding the Whole of You.
I view healing as an ongoing process of learning to hold our vulnerabilities and pain with kindness, making room for more joy, love, peace, wonder, and aliveness.
This is not about erasing darkness, but about integrating it into a fuller, more harmonious whole.
Meet Ashley
Therapy is a place to come home to yourself
My care for this work is not just professional. It is deeply personal. Through my own winding soul journey through life, with the support of my own therapy, I have experienced what it means to slowly reconnect to my deepest inner self, even in the midst of anxiety, overwhelm, and darkness. That experience shapes how I show up: with compassion, patience, and a deep respect for the courage it takes to turn inward.
My background in depth psychology emphasized the importance of doing my own inner work as a clinician first, and the truth that we are never fully done with that work. Because of that, I don’t approach therapy as someone who has it all figured out, but as someone who understands how meaningful, and how challenging, this process can be. This work is deeply sacred to me. It is an honor to walk alongside my clients as they do this brave and important work. My graduate program’s motto, tending the soul in and of the world, continues to shape the way I hold therapy: as deeply personal work that also ripples outward into the way we love, relate, and live.
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Research suggests that the most powerful indicator of good, effective therapy is the quality of the relationship between you and your therapist. Similar to dating, it can sometimes take a few tries with different therapists to find who you really click with, so don’t give up hope! I work relationally, with deep care for you and how you feel about the work we do together. It is my greatest hope that you feel cared for and accepted, while also feeling challenged to grow into even more fullness of who you are.
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For those who carry trauma as a part of their story, coping can be a significant ongoing challenge, and it is especially important that the therapy space feels safe and secure. Trauma work is often a slow process. We move at your pace, gently strengthening a sense of resiliency and empowerment with tools and exercises that can be used every day. I also provide EMDR therapy, which comes along with a lot of preparation using these regulating tools before diving in. -
Rooted in the work of Carl Jung, depth psychotherapy looks at the deeper causes of suffering and struggles, especially those we might not be aware of. This approach explores dreams, myths, symbols, metaphors, and even spiritual experiences to connect with psyche (the Greek word for soul). By paying close attention to these elements and reflecting on what they might be speaking to us, we can more deeply understand ourselves and find greater meaning in our lives.
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The quality of our relationships is one of the most important elements of our mental wellbeing. Struggles in relationships are often rooted in our early attachment patterns to caregivers, which shapes how we interact with others throughout our lives. I help my clients focus on building secure and satisfying relationships by exploring childhood attachments and their impact on current emotional and relational patterns, and fostering new and healthier ways of connecting with others.
You’re on your path.
I’ll walk with you.
