You understand your patterns. You still feel stuck in them.
You’re ready to stop managing the symptoms and get to the source.
Individual and couples therapy for attachment and complex trauma in Irvine, Newport Beach, Costa Mesa, Huntington Beach or online across California.
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You are stuck in an endless cycle
You understand your patterns, but you still find yourself caught in cycles of reactivity, disconnection, and fear.
Your body has learned that its not safe
You sense that much of your pain comes from childhood. You feel it in your body, but it’s hard to put into words.
You want more than the absence of symptoms
You’ve done trauma work, or looked into approaches like EMDR, and something in you wants the healing to reach further. Not just fewer symptoms, but access to your intuition, your spirit, and a life that actually feels free.
You sense that you need to move toward - not away - from your pain
You’ve been numbing, or trying every healing modality under the sun, and you’re starting to see that you’ve been running from your pain. Something in you knows that healing means turning toward it, but that feels too scary to do alone.
Insight alone is not always enough
Sometimes you understand exactly why you do what you do—and still can’t seem to change it.
That’s what happens when trauma lives in the nervous system, below the reach of insight alone. Your body adapted to survive something real, and it may still be running that old program long after the danger has passed.
The way through isn’t more analysis. It’s learning to work with the body itself, as well as the younger parts of you that learned to survive. This is where the pattern lives—and where deeper healing can begin.
I am here to support you!
I'm [Krista Sabados](/about), a licensed marriage and family therapist in California. My practice, Source Healing, is built around depth work: getting to the source of your pain and working with you as a whole person, not a collection of symptoms. I want to know your history, your wounds, your strengths, and the ways you learned to survive. We build the work from there. My work draws from somatic and mind-body trauma therapy, parts work, psychodynamic therapy, grief support, DBT, CBT, and Mindful Self-Compassion. I'm particularly drawn to approaches that reach places insight alone often cannot. One of those is the Comprehensive Resource Model (CRM), which I trained in directly with its developer, Lisa Schwarz. CRM was built for complex trauma and early attachment wounds. It starts by building internal and embodied resources, so that when you turn toward the pain, you turn toward it feeling safe, supported, and connected to your own intuition. When you go to the root with enough resource in place, the nervous system can lay down a new response. The old protective patterns, whether that's addiction, dissociation, or reactivity, stop being the only option available. CRM is not EMDR. Both are trauma-focused, and EMDR is a well-established treatment. CRM works differently: it builds resources before processing, and it engages body, mind, and, spirit.
So what could life actually look like?
Your body as a place you live, not a thing you manage. Mornings that don't start with dread. A nervous system that can settle. Saying no without a three-day guilt spiral. Loving people deeply without bracing for what it might cost you. Feeling your feelings without being flooded by them. Trusting your own intuition again. Real sovereignty over your life. Joy.
Not becoming someone new. Returning to the self that was there all along.
You don’t have to do this alone, and you don’t have to know exactly what you need before reaching out. Start with a free 15-minute consultation, and we’ll talk about what’s been happening and whether this work is the right fit.
Pathways to Healing
Ways to work with me
Every path begins with a free consultation, so you can feel whether this is right before anything else.
Therapy · California
Complex Trauma
You don’t need another explanation of why you’re hurting. You need a different way of working with the part of you that still believes it has to survive.
Explore →Anxiety
Anxiety isn’t the enemy. It’s your nervous system trying to protect you with outdated information. Together we help it learn something new.
Explore →Couples
The argument isn’t really about the dishes, the text message, or the money. It’s two nervous systems protecting old wounds in the only ways they know how.
Explore →Beach (Walk-and-Talk) Therapy
Depth work in motion. Sessions on the sand in Huntington Beach, where nature, movement, and somatic trauma work meet.
Explore →Therapy Intensives
Want to go deeper, faster? Extended sessions for focused, transformative work at the source.
Explore →Beyond the Therapy Room
Coaching & Healing
Growth and transformation drawing on the full toolkit: mindfulness, breathwork, spiritual practice, and a guide who has walked the territory. Available worldwide.
This is coaching, not therapy, and not a substitute for it.
Explore →For Organizations
Burnout has a source too, and it’s rarely what the wellness program is treating. Discovery-driven workshops and group facilitation built from what your people are actually living, not from a template.
Explore →Do you take insurance?
For individual therapy, yes. I accept Medicare, and I’m in-network with Kaiser Permanente, Anthem Blue Cross California, Aetna, Cigna, and Health Net, among others. See FAQs and Fees for the full list of accepted plans.
Couples work and intensives are private pay. Insurance requires a diagnosis and dictates session length and structure, and this work doesn’t fit that frame.
Don’t see your plan? Reach out anyway. Many plans include out-of-network benefits, and I can provide a superbill for reimbursement. I’m also happy to discuss private pay rates.
I’ll walk you through your benefits on the consultation call.