About Me
I’m a trauma-informed therapist working with women who often feel like they are holding everything together on the outside while feeling overwhelmed, anxious, or alone on the inside.
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Many of the women I work with are high-functioning, thoughtful, and self-aware, but still find themselves stuck in patterns of perfectionism, people-pleasing, and self-criticism that feel difficult to turn off. There is often an underlying sense of not quite being enough, even when life looks “fine” externally.
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I see these patterns not as flaws, but as adaptations the nervous system has developed in response to environments that may have felt overwhelming, inconsistent, or emotionally unsafe.
My Approach
In therapy, I work in a relational and body-based way, integrating Brainspotting, somatic awareness, Internal Family Systems (IFS) and attachment work. The focus is on working with the nervous system directly, not only through insight or verbal processing.
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We pay attention to what is happening in the body in the present moment, such as tension, numbness, anxiety, or shutdown-and build the capacity to stay with these experiences in a way that feels safe enough for deeper processing.
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Brainspotting can support access to emotional material that is often difficult to reach through talk therapy alone. Over time, this work can support greater regulation, reduced internal pressure, and a more grounded sense of internal steadiness.
IFS helps us understand the different protective parts that may show up, especially the ones that work hard to maintain control, competence, or emotional stability. Rather than trying to eliminate these parts, we work to understand what they are protecting and what they need.
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This approach tends to resonate with women who are already somewhat aware of their patterns but are looking for a more experiential, nervous-system level approach to healing.
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Danielle Lucia, LMFT
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My perspective on healing
I don’t see therapy as fixing what is broken. I see it as creating enough internal safety for what has been carried alone for a long time to begin to move, soften, and reorganize.
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Change often happens gradually, through repeated experiences of connection, safety, and staying present with internal experience without judgment. For many people, this is the first time they are not trying to “perform” their way through healing.
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This work has helped me tremendously on my own healing journey and I truly believe it is the missing piece for a lot of women who continue to feel stuck despite working so hard to heal.
Who I Work With:
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I work with women who are high-functioning, thoughtful, and self-aware, but often feel overwhelmed, anxious, or stuck in patterns of perfectionism and self-criticism that are difficult to turn off.
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Many are used to holding everything together externally while feeling internally strained, disconnected, or never quite “enough.”
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These patterns are often rooted in nervous system adaptations to experiences that felt overwhelming, inconsistent, or emotionally unsafe.
Common Areas of Support:
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Perfectionism and self-criticism
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Anxiety and chronic overwhelm
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Emotional neglect and relational trauma
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Nervous system dysregulation (fight, flight, freeze, shutdown)
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Feeling stuck, disconnected, or emotionally “on edge”
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Difficulty slowing down or resting
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Boundaries and people-pleasing patterns
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Intellectualizing