Being a person is hard. Especially when you’ve spent most of your life making sure everyone else was okay before checking in with yourself. Especially when your sensitivity was seen as weakness—or when parts of your identity were never fully accepted.
Have you spent most of your life making sure everyone else was ok before checking in with yourself?
Has your sensitivity been seen as weakness?
Have you felt parts of your identity were never fully accepted?
Maybe you were the one your family relied on.
But you don’t need to shrink in order to heal.
I work with deep feelers, cultural shape-shifters, and adult children of emotionally immature caregivers—people who’ve had to grow up too fast or carry burdens that were never theirs. I specialize in working with reparenting and narcissistic trauma, multicultural identity and belonging, and anxiety and panic.
My family arrived in Los Angeles from Mexico and Southern parts of the U.S. As someone who identifies as multiracial, and I understand the feeling of non-belonging, displacement, and impact of intergenerational trauma. I can also understand the stigma that comes with seeking therapy, and believe that healing is our right. Please reach out if you think we might be a fit, or you are interested in starting this work together.
Elena White, LMFT