Our Specialties & Experience

Our team specializes in teen, adult, and family therapy

Therapy / Coaching

I specialize in helping teens regain their balance and support all family members impacted.

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Ketamine-Assisted Psychotherapy

KAP offers a safe, supported way to access deeper healing, insight, and emotional breakthroughs.

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Brainspotting

Heal and recover from past psychological trauma by processing emotions through Brainspotting therapy.

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Therapy for New Moms

Specialize in working with teens, young adults, parents, and families and helping new moms navigate the emotional complexities of pregnancy, postpartum, and motherhood.

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Somatic Experiencing

Maybe you’ve tried to think your way through something, and it helped a little, for a while. But there’s still this thing that lives underneath. A tightness you carry in your chest.

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Trauma Therapy

Trauma can leave a lasting impact on your emotional, mental, and even physical well-being. Whether it stems from a single distressing event or prolonged experiences, trauma can affect how you think.

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Teen, Adult & Family Therapist

Kryss Castle

Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist (LMFT 95114)

Serving Redondo Beach, Hermosa Beach, Palos Verdes, Manhattan Beach, Torrance, El Segundo

My approach to emotional healing and mental health is holistic, incorporating techniques for both the mind and body. I draw from extensive training that includes EFT  tapping for trauma, brain spotting for trauma, anxiety, depression, and managing intense emotions or memories and years of experience addressing drug and alcohol addiction with individuals and families.

We provide LGTBQIA + affirming care

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Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist
License #95114
Sessions are 50 minutes / $260
Locations: Hermosa Beach, Palos Verdes, Video and Phone

Advanced Training in Brainspotting

Brainspotting Phase 1 — Pie Frey
Brainspotting Phase 2 — Lisa Larson
Brainspotting Phase 3 — David Grand
Brainspotting Phase 5 — David Grand
Brainspotting Master Class — David Grand, PhD

Digging Roots Foundations — Steve Sawyer
Digging Roots: The Developmental Trauma Model of Brainspotting 1.0 — Steve Sawyer

Spirituality & Brainspotting Consultation Groups — Heather Corbet
Your Soul & Brainspotting (9-month Consultation Group) — Heather Corbet

Harmonic Brain Healing - Cynthia Schwartzberg
NeuroSoulmatic Alchemy - Nancy Tung

Consultant-in-Training Program (1 year) — Mairya Javed-Payne
Brainspotting Intensive — Mariya Javed-Payne
How to Do an Intensive — Lisa Larson
Brainspotting Consultant — Maureen Donahue

Brainspotting & Ketamine — Mariya Javed-Payne

Phases 1–2
Digging Roots 1.0

Brainspotting with Visual Figures for Relational Healing - Jaegil Lee

THERAPY ASSOCIATES

MEET Caroline Thompson

Marriage and Family Therapist Trainee
Supervised by Kryss Castle, LMFT #95114

I came to this work because I needed it. Years in research taught me a lot, but they also taught me what chronic stress does to a body that never gets a chance to rest. My own healing journey introduced me to something I hadn’t expected: that the body isn’t a problem to be managed, it’s a doorway.

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MEET Alana Samaha

Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist, LMFT #139910

Areas of focus: Working with teens, young adults, parents, and families and helping new moms navigate the emotional complexities of pregnancy, postpartum, and motherhood. My areas of focus include anxiety, depression, trauma, stress, life transitions, family or peer conflict, and rebuilding self-worth and emotional resiliency.

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I’m here to hear your story, walk beside you, and help lighten what has felt heavy to carry.

You may look like you have it all together. You’re used to pushing through, handling things on your own, and appearing “fine,” even when something beneath the surface is harder to carry than others realize. But inside, you feel stressed, numb, anxious, or disconnected in ways few people truly see.