Services

Whether working through substance use, eating disorders, orthorexia, and over exercising, we’d be honored to support you on the journey of growth and healing.

We have extensive experience working with junior high and high school-age students and can provide social and emotional support, tools and teach coping mechanisms and self-soothing techniques to navigate the adolescent season.

Anxiety can manifest in many ways, whether through anxiety attacks, racing thoughts, obsessive behaviors, unhealthy coping skills or ambivalent avoidance - a therapist can empower clients with supportive tools and provide interventions to promote grounding habits.

Learning to love the skin you’re in is a life lesson we all navigate. Body image does not discriminate against age, gender or season of life. Combating the distorted thoughts and behaviors that get in the way is often challenging alone. Receive individual therapy or enroll in a group therapy opportunity to deepen your growth and expand your perspective.

Improving communication, processing conflict and cultivating courage to grow through hard seasons together is often a motivator to seek therapy support. Whether you are a new couple or have spent many years loving and doing life together, seeking therapy to strengthen your partnership can provide valuable, life altering support to help your relationship thrive.

When you are battling waves of heaviness, isolation or feeling alone in your process, a therapist can provide a safe space to heal, grow and learn coping skills to improve your daily functioning. Depression can often feel isolating, paralyzing and overwhelming. You don’t have to do it alone. It is possible to thrive, despite the hard season you are living through.

Perhaps you’ve never been diagnosed with an eating disorder, but you recognize that you have disordered behaviors, thoughts or tendencies that you’d like to heal from. These could be around avoiding certain foods, fear of weight gain, a debilitating relationship with exercise or disordered thoughts that inhibit your relationship with your body. Sharing and opening up about your experience can be a foundational piece of healing the weight of your thoughts and thriving in your relationship with your body, mind and spirit.

Whether you are battling anorexia, bulimia, orthorexia, over-excercising, binge eating or have disordered eating behaviors and have never been diagnosed and desperately want healing — we would be honored to support you on your journey. Thrive Therapy Santa Barbara is a Health At Every Size provider and empowers clients in body image and food neutrality with an Intuitive Eating lens. When working with Thrive Therapy in healing your relationship with your eating disorder, a holistic approach is often necessary - we team with licensed dietitians, psychiatrists and your primary physician to promote the highest level of care and support. As needed, referrals will be made for in-treatment support ensuring your path to freedom and recovery.

Experiencing and processing loss can be one of the hardest endeavors many of us live through. Grief doesn’t begin and end once we lose someone we love or transition into a new season, but often is a lifelong journey of waves of profound sadness and loss. In a culture that often doesn’t honor and hold space to process this sadness, it’s easy to feel isolated, alone and stuck in your grief process. We are passionate about holding space for grief and provide individual therapy, alongside group therapy as resources in your healing journey.

Processing questions of who you are, what your life is about, what to do with your life, who you want to become and other important reflections can feel scary, overwhelming and paralyzing. Having the support of a neutral third party who can explore those questions with you can be deeply empowering, supportive and pivotal as you reach a crossroads in your life journey.

Life is a continual transition, as one chapter closes another begins. But some seasons can be especially challenging - whether navigating a breakup, adjusting from a move, transitioning to college, starting a family, mourning the loss of a friendship, contemplating divorce, healing from generational trauma and many other experiences in between.

Becoming a parent brings up its own set of feelings, challenges and excitement. For many it can cultivate an opportunity to do deep healing work and bring up historical wounds from our families of origin. It can also become a source of stress, anxiety or conflict in relationships with our partners. Having a therapist support in that journey can be helpful as you navigate that season and learn to be gentle with yourself and each other. For many it’s not just preparing for the birth of a baby but also, the birth of a new stage of life - becoming parents.

Matriesence is a term coined for the physiological, emotional and transformational season of becoming a mother - often compared to the awkwardness and difficulty of the season adolescents navigate through puberty. In the same way, becoming a parent can induce similar growing pains of navigating a new body, unfamiliar territory and bring up a host of mental health challenges. Seeing a therapist during this time (individually or with your partner) can be extremely healing and helpful as you navigate a new chapter filled with joys, difficulties and adjustments.

Perinatal mood disorders such as postpartum anxiety, postpartum depression, postpartum rage or other perinatal mood disorders or symptoms can often magnify during postpartum and can make parents feel even more isolated, alone or overwhelmed. If you are experiencing a perinatal mood disorder or are curious if you are and would like to learn more — please reach out for a free consultation and to schedule an assessment. The load of parenthood can often be tiresome and lonely, but when paired with additional emotional challenges, often it can become debilitating. You don’t have to do it alone.

Perhaps you are engaged or preparing to be engaged and would like to seek therapy with your partner to support in processing life decisions and grow closer through intentional and vulnerable conversation. A therapist can be a great outside support to help facilitate and create openness and clear communication. The same is true if you are freshly partnered or never had the opportunity to do couples therapy. Postmarital (anytime after you’ve gotten married) therapy can be equally, if not more valuable as you grow and navigate this new chapter together.

Whether it’s a lived experience that the whole world knows about or a painful event that you’ve never uttered to a soul - taking the brave step to reach out to a therapist to process, heal and move forward can be monumental. In psychotherapy they call it little t trauma and big T trauma — little t trauma examples could be: trauma such as loss of a pet, emotional unrest, an unhealthy friendship, or the loss of a relationship. Big T trauma examples could be: growing up in an abusive family, processing rape or assault or living through a life threatening event. All trauma is worthy of holding tenderly, gently and graciously. With the support of a therapist healing is possible.

College, graduate school and the early twenties can be a challenging season to navigate as many shifts and transitions happen. Whether moving away to college, navigating friendships, deciding what to major in, unraveling relationtional patterns, processing childhood dynamics or making life decisions — a therapist supporting you in your process can be grounding and supportive.