Therapy for Intergenerational Trauma

Online Therapy in California for BIPOC & LGBTQIA+ Adults

Healing inherited patterns of shame for the life you deserve

Intergenerational Trauma Therapy for BIPOC and LGBTQIA+ adults, Online in California

Does having healthy relationships seem hopeless after painful life experiences?

Is setting, maintaining, or observing boundaries at home, work, and around loved ones hard?

Would you describe yourself as hyper-independent or codependent?

Are you struggling to sleep with echoes of critical self-talk or reminders of painful memories?

Frequently, the impacts of intergenerational trauma can look like anxiety, depression, or ADHD. Sometimes trauma is directly experienced and other times it is inherited as a result of intergenerational patterns. This is why it is important you receive individualized therapy from an experienced trauma-informed therapist who can differentiate the overlapping symptoms and ensure you receive the most effective help. 

Are you ready to heal the generational cycles that impact the way you think, how you feel about yourself and others, and how you react to stress or difficult emotions?

You have spent a lifetime trying to manage these inherited wounds from trauma, from scarcity, or from generations of abuse. Maybe you have been desperate for healing, turning to dozens of self-help books or even traditional talk therapy, like CBT, or maybe this is the first time you are looking for help with this. 

You are accustomed to a world where you have to figure it out yourself, where it has not been safe to reach out for help from others. You are exhausted from critical self-talk, avoiding people or environments, and resisting painful memories and feelings of shame. You need a therapist with compassion, intuition, and experience integrating multiple trauma approaches for your most effective, individualized healing.

HSP, BIPOC, LGBTQIA+, intergenerational trauma, anxiety, attachment therapy, online therapist in California

There is a future where you are able to regulate intense emotions and effectively express yourself.

There is a future where you can communicate your needs, set boundaries, and meet your needs regardless of the comfort of others. 

The impacts from emotional wounds show in your inner world, your relationships, and maybe even your workplace. You see how others can connect in respectful and healthy ways and are curious about life beyond codependency, enabling, or extreme independence. It is possible to address what stops you from being your full self at home, at work, and with friends. It is possible to heal, to experience life without the weight of shame and other patterns from generations past.

You deserve help that is customized for your specific wounds.

I use a personalized approach integrating my trainings in multiple trauma treatments. This means we will move beyond typical talk therapy, we will begin to feel deeply into the body with somatic awareness and experiencing, as I use my intuitive gifts and clinical experience to create personalized guided meditations for your specific emotional healing needs. 

We will use my training in EMDR to support the development of healthier thought processes and as an IFS-informed therapist, we will integrate the parts of you most needing to be honored and healed. No matter where you are on your journey, you can be confident that I have the skills and experience you deserve to heal emotional wounds and shame from intergenerational trauma.

Schedule your first therapy session today and discover the therapy approaches suited for your unique needs.

Kyrie Sedano, MS, LMFT

Intergenerational Trauma Therapy can help with:

  • Resolving limiting beliefs about what you are worth and ‘imposter syndrome’

  • Challenging ‘people pleasing’ tendencies and setting boundaries

  • Stopping codependency, learning authentic connection and secure attachment

  • Trusting yourself and learning how, and when it’s safe, to trust others

  • Listening to your truest self instead of fears from the past

  • Shifting to an abundant mindset from the scarcity mindset you inherited 

It is time to break free from a legacy of trauma and shame.

FAQs: Intergenerational Trauma

  • A: The legacy of trauma explains how intergenerational trauma shapes how ongoing generations see the world and themselves. In times of trauma, our ancestors did their best to survive and were successful; unfortunately, these tools for survival often hold us back from thriving, from accessing our fullest life and healthier connections to others. Breaking these cycles is considered impactful to seven generations back and seven generations forward. 

  • Research has found that traumatic stress can be associated with lasting changes in multiple areas of the brain, including the amygdala, hippocampus, and prefrontal cortex. If you are interested in healing trauma, it is important that you find a therapist knowledgeable about the relationship between the brain and trauma, inherited and directly experienced. 

  • According to research, trauma is indeed stored in the body. This is why it is crucial that your trauma therapy includes somatic awareness and experiencing integrated with talk therapy and possibly also including bilateral eye movement and addressing different parts inside you.