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Childhood trauma can cause you mental trouble long after it occurred. It may affect your relationships, self-image, mental health, and even your physical wellbeing.

Mental Health Match connects you with top-notch therapists who can help you manage the feelings, behaviors, and triggers associated with traumatic childhood events. Whether you are located in downtown Irvine, East Irvine, Northwood, Orchard Hills, or even Turtle Rock, Mental Health Match can help you easily find an experienced therapist or counselor who best meets your needs.

Childhood Trauma Symptoms

Childhood trauma stems from childhood abuse, neglect, accidents, and more. It can affect adolescents, teens, and adults, causing them to experience a wide range of symptoms, some of which include:

  • Chronic sadness or depression
  • Worry
  • Anger and irritability
  • Panic attacks
  • Trouble sleeping
  • Mood swings
  • Poor concentration

If you’re experiencing any of these symptoms, therapy can help to improve the quality of your life. You can learn more about childhood trauma and how it affects you in this article from therapist Lacy Shawn.

Overcome Your Childhood Trauma with Therapy

There’s no better time to seek treatment for childhood trauma than now - therapy can help you heal and let go of the trauma. Mental Health Match can help get you started by connecting you with a licensed therapist fast. Get childhood trauma therapy and counseling online or in-person. Browse below, or use our therapist matching survey to get personalized results.

Irvine, CA Childhood Trauma Therapists - List Your Practice on Mental Health Match

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Alexandra Seastrunk
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Explore your past experiences, relationships, and childhood dynamics. Through this process, you will gain clarity and insight, which will help you to cope more effectively and make choices that are aligned with what you want for yourself.


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Explore your past experiences, relationships, and childhood dynamics. Through this process, you will gain clarity and insight, which will help you to cope more effectively and make choices that are aligned with what you want for yourself.

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My approach is based in depth psychology and psychodynamic theory which addresses the patterns beneath our thoughts, feelings, dreams, and behaviors, and how they impact our our sense of ourselves and the way we relate to those around us.

FOCUS AREAS:
  • Anxiety
  • Anxiety in Relationships
  • Attachment Issues
  • Breakups
  • College Students
  • Depression
  • Developmental Trauma
  • Relationship Distress
  • Relationship Trauma
  • Situational Grief
  • Vulnerability
  • Young Adults
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Carole Goguen, PsyD
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Explore and understand the beliefs and situations that impact your life. We will work on the skills for you to get control over your life, manage stress, sleep better, and enjoy your life.


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Explore and understand the beliefs and situations that impact your life. We will work on the skills for you to get control over your life, manage stress, sleep better, and enjoy your life.

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I provide care to people like you who anxious and overwhelmed by life's pressures, plagued by imposter syndrome, or haunted by traumas to feel confident, calm, and secure. Anxiety, Trauma, Depression, OCD, or Stress does not have to run your life.

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  • Anxiety
  • Depression
  • Dermatillomania/Skin Picking/Excoriation
  • Fears and Phobias
  • Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder (OCD)
  • Trauma
  • Trichotillomania/Hair Pulling
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Nicholas Watkins
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help you understand why your trauma makes you react the way you do, how we can change your reactions and what you want them replaced with while helping you rebuild or strengthen your support network and coping skills for when times get tough.


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help you understand why your trauma makes you react the way you do, how we can change your reactions and what you want them replaced with while helping you rebuild or strengthen your support network and coping skills for when times get tough.

Something to know about my approach is:

I believe we all learn coping skills and the goal is to replace the unhealthy ones with healthy ones in a nonjudgmental and client-determined pace. I use evidence based therapies such as Cognitive Processing Therapy and Written Exposure Therapy.

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  • Child Abuse
  • Combat Trauma
  • Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD)
  • Sexual Trauma
  • Trauma From Abuse
  • Veterans/Military Families
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Jill Zatyko
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I learn as much, or more, from my clients as they do from me. In my practice no topic is off limit from sex to politics. I want my clients to feel comfortable talking about anything and everything.


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I learn as much, or more, from my clients as they do from me. In my practice no topic is off limit from sex to politics. I want my clients to feel comfortable talking about anything and everything.

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I integrate a variety of therapeutic approaches to offer a highly personalized approach that fits your style and preferences. I include DBT, ACT, Mindfulness, Solution-Focused, Person-Centered, Trauma-Focused, and Attachment-based therapies.

FOCUS AREAS:
  • Codependency
  • Confidence
  • Empowering Women
  • Feminism
  • Gender Identity
  • Illness Anxiety Disorder
  • Life Transitions
  • Major Depressive Disorder
  • Open Relationships
  • Parent-Child Relationship
  • Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD)
  • Relationship Conflict
  • Self-Esteem
  • Trauma
  • Young Women
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Jen Siladi
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Identify the thing you're really feeling underneath the surface reaction, how your unmet childhood needs manifest in your present day life and key relationships. Heal the wounded parts and replace the strategies that no longer serve you.


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Together, we will:

Identify the thing you're really feeling underneath the surface reaction, how your unmet childhood needs manifest in your present day life and key relationships. Heal the wounded parts and replace the strategies that no longer serve you.

Something to know about my approach is:

It's like an experience elevator. We start with the relationship context of your thoughts, then explore feelings connected to those thoughts, physical sensations you notice, the more vulnerable emotions and we finally get to the unmet needs.

FOCUS AREAS:
  • Adult ADHD
  • Couples
  • Entrepreneurs
  • Family of Origin
  • Generalized Anxiety Disorder
  • Loneliness
  • Premarital Counseling
  • Relationship Distress
  • Stress
  • Working Professionals
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Jen Siladi remote and phone therapy in California, Delaware, Florida, Vermont