lumenate
Our Services
We offer therapy for individuals, couples, and families in Santa Cruz, CA. Our services are thoughtfully shaped around your unique story.
Our Approach
We offer a warm, integrative, and trauma-informed approach to therapy that is thoughtfully tailored to your unique experiences, goals, and pace. Our clinicians are trained in a variety of evidence-based practices to meet your specific needs.
Expressive Arts Therapy
Expressive Arts Therapy (EXA) is an experiential therapy that helps you process your experiences, understand your emotions, and improve well-being through engaging in your own unique creative process. We're one of a few therapy practices in California that use EXA in their work with clients.
Emotionally Focused Therapy
Emotionally Focused Therapy (EFT) is a highly effective, research-based approach designed to restore, repair and strengthen relationships. EFT is based on the science of attachment theory and focuses on transforming negative patterns of interaction, increasing emotional awareness, and building healthier and more fulfilling relationships.
EMDR
When difficult experiences remain unprocessed, they can continue to show up in everyday life through anxiety, triggers, self-doubt, or emotional overwhelm. EMDR (Eye Movement Desensitization & Reporossing) helps the brain heal and reprocess these experiences so they feel less activating and no longer define the present.
Our Specialties
Whatever brings you here, you do not have to navigate it alone. We support clients through a wide range of emotional, relational, and mental health challenges with compassionate, personalized care.
Depression
Depression can make even the simplest days feel heavy and out of reach. We help you understand what's underneath and find your way back to yourself.
Anxiety and Stress
When worry and stress take over, it can feel impossible to slow down. We'll work with you to build calm, clarity, and confidence in your daily life.
Trauma
Trauma has a way of staying with us long after the event has passed. We provide a safe, supportive space to process your experiences and move toward healing.
Major Life Transitions
Whether you're facing a career change, a move, a loss, or a new chapter, transitions can be disorienting. We help you navigate change with intention and resilience.
Grief & Loss
Grief doesn't follow a timeline, and it doesn't always look the way people expect. We'll meet you wherever you are in your process with compassion and without judgment.
Relationship Issues
Relationships bring some of our greatest joy and our deepest pain. We help individuals and couples untangle conflict, rebuild trust, and communicate more openly.
Meet Our Team of Therapists in Santa Cruz
Identity & Growth
Whether you are exploring who you are, finding your voice, or navigating change, therapy can support greater self-awareness, confidence, and personal growth.
Motherhood
Motherhood can be beautiful, exhausting, joyful, and overwhelming all at once, and therapy offers a space to care for yourself while navigating its many challenges and transitions.
Life Stages
Each season of life brings new joys, growing pains, and uncertainties, and therapy offers a supportive space to navigate the changes and challenges of wherever you are in your journey.
Frequently Asked Questions About Therapy with Lumenate
Embrace Your Journey
Starting therapy can feel overwhelming. We warmly invite you to book a free initial consultation. This first conversation is an opportunity to share what brings you to therapy, ask questions, and see whether working together feels like the right fit for your needs and goals.
Ready when you are
You don't have to have the right words or the perfect timing. If you're curious about starting therapy—or just want to see if we're the right fit—we're here.
