You already know why you do it. Knowing hasn’t made it stop.
Depth therapy, EMDR and ADHD work, in Pasadena and by video across California. For people who have done some therapy already, think and feel deeply, and are ready to be challenged kindly. Come as you are. Bring the sense of humor.
Alexa Aversano, LMFT · CA #140766 · EMDR Practitioner · Certified Narcissistic Abuse Treatment Clinician
Who I work with
Maybe some of this lands.
- Maybe you were diagnosed with ADHD later in life and you are still rewriting your entire life story around it.
- Maybe you left a relationship that everyone else thought was fine, and you are still explaining yourself to people who were not in it.
- Maybe you can name your attachment style, your triggers and every dynamic from your childhood, and none of that changes what happens at eleven at night.
- Maybe you are excellent in a crisis and don't know how to be taken care of yourself.
- Maybe you have been to therapy, liked your therapist, and quietly knew it was not going deep enough.
If two or three of those landed, we will probably do good work together.
Specialties
Three things I do properly.
Rather than a list of twenty concerns, here is what I have actually built a practice around.
I also work with life transitions, complex trauma, and the general business of being a person who feels things intensely. Adults and teens, and I am queer-competent and culturally affirming, not as a footnote.
How I work
Depth, not maintenance.
Plenty of therapy is a weekly place to put things down. That is valuable. It is not what I do. I am interested in what is actually running the pattern, and in whether we can change it.
The Method
Trained in depth work, and I use it.
- EMDR for trauma that has not moved with talking alone
- Parts work for the parts of you that are at war with each other
- Psychodynamic work for the patterns that keep reassembling themselves
- Integrative and holistic, including the body, which has been keeping score the whole time
The Feel
Warm before clinical. Calm before energetic.
- I will challenge you. Kindly, and only once you trust me enough for it to be useful
- You can swear. You can laugh. Nothing you tell me is going to make me flinch
- No jargon unless it earns its place, and I explain it when I use it
- Come as you are. This is not a place you have to be your composed self
What to expect
Three steps, none of them hard.
Step 01
Send a note
The contact form takes about a minute. Your name, your email, and a sentence about what is going on. No intake paperwork and no clinical detail needed yet.
You will hear back from me directly, usually within two business days. Nothing you write is a commitment to anything.
Start hereMeet Alexa
I got here the ordinary way.
My own therapy is the reason I do this. I have been on the other side of the room, including for trauma work that genuinely changed how I live, which is a large part of why I trust it enough to offer it.
I also have ADHD. I spent a long time treating it as a personal failing before learning to build a life that works with it instead. When you tell me you have lost the same set of keys three times this week and also cannot stop thinking about a conversation from 2019, none of that will need explaining.
More about me →“I’m so grateful that Alexa was my therapist as my life has truly changed. Every session felt safe, comforting, and attentive, I felt like I was truly trying to be understood in what I was feeling and why. I have learned so many skills that has helped me find myself, and process hard moments that arise. I will always recommend Alexa as a therapist!”
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Come as you are.
A free, confidential ten-minute call. No paperwork, no pressure, and no obligation to book anything afterwards.