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Trauma & Recovery

Complex Trauma Therapy

Care for long-term trauma, survival patterns, and nervous system stress

Complex trauma therapy can help when long-standing painful experiences continue to shape your emotions, relationships, and sense of self.

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When This Can Help
  • You feel stuck in survival patterns, reactivity, or shutdown
  • Long-term trauma is affecting your identity or relationships
  • Shame, hypervigilance, or emotional overwhelm feel persistent
  • You want trauma support that feels steady and deeply informed
Support May Include
  • Understanding the lasting impact of chronic or relational trauma
  • Building safety and regulation before deeper processing
  • Healing shame, patterns, and nervous system overwhelm over time
Good Match For

Adults, teens, and young adults

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What This Support Can Address

A clearer look at what people may be carrying when they reach out for this kind of care.

Complex trauma often develops over time through repeated stress, relational harm, instability, or experiences where you had to stay in survival mode. It can affect trust, identity, boundaries, emotional regulation, and the way your body responds to stress.

Our Approach

How we try to make care feel both skillful and genuinely human.

This work requires care, pacing, and a strong therapeutic relationship. Our therapists focus on safety, regulation, self-understanding, and gradually processing what has been too much to hold alone.

Therapists Connected to This Work

These clinicians have specialties or treatment approaches related to complex trauma therapy.

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        in San Luis Obispo providing therapy services with DeRose Therapy Group

Natalie Watson, AMFT

Associate Therapist

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        in San Luis Obispo providing therapy services with DeRose Therapy Group

Marina Canella, AMFT

Associate Therapist

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        in San Luis Obispo providing therapy services with DeRose Therapy Group

Claudia Kraake, AMFT

Associate Therapist

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        in San Luis Obispo providing therapy services with DeRose Therapy Group

Logan Rolle, APCC

Associate Therapist