Online Psychotherapy for Teens, Adults, and Families in California
Therapy to change generational pain and reclaim collective growth.
Meet your therapist:
Hi, I’m Elley. As a CA-licensed narrative and somatic therapist, I’m here to help you create a safe refuge within yourself and with your loved ones. I’m a Filipina-American woman and immigrant daughter with several years of experience supporting teens, adults, and families navigating complex life challenges and identity-shifting experiences. My work centers on themes of exploring cultural identity and belonging, building supportive relationships, and creating generational growth. I believe in therapy as a creative, transformative place to reshape your life without conforming to unhelpful societal norms or sacrificing important family and cultural values.
Many of the individuals I work with describe a deep exhaustion from the things they carry. Perhaps you feel caught between worlds and cultures, struggling to find your voice and footing. Together we make sense of chronic anxiety, depression, fatigue, restlessness, numbness, emotional overwhelm, and feelings of internal or social disconnection.
If this speaks to you, then maybe you desire a quality of life with more freedom and lightness, especially in a world of ongoing uncertainty. I’m here to help you to gently untangle what feels confusing or heavy, so you can show up to your days with greater clarity, self-trust, and harmony. We will sort through inherited stories held in the body to keep what nourishes you and re-imagine what doesn’t. Therapy can be a safe enough place to sit with profound feelings, grieve what could have been, reconnect with wisdom and possibility, and chart a path forward.
Therapy with me is an invitation to slow down, so we can get creative.
Who I Support:
People seek therapy for a variety of reasons. Informed by my background and training, my practice focuses on:
Immigrants and adult children of immigrants
Family issues (sibling repair and parent-child dynamics)
Young adults navigating life in their 20s (college/post-college)
Adults facing a DNA discovery impact (NPE’s/Not Parent Expected, donor conception, adoptees)
Adolescent mental health for ages 12-17
Relational and attachment trauma across the life span
Therapy Approach:
My style is relational, collaborative, and focused on developing a more empowering personal story that is felt in the body and reflected in your relationships. We’ll collect and clarify your values, strengths, and skills as key ingredients towards sustainable change. My intention is for you to walk away from each session feeling cared for, respected, and wonderfully different from how you arrived.
As your therapist, I bring a blend of narrative and somatic psychotherapy approaches to locate and resolve generational trauma and emotional pain, whether we know where it comes from or not. Integrative yet focused, my theoretical framework is most informed by:
Narrative Therapy
Somatic Therapy
Attachment-Based Therapy
Parts Work and Internal Family Systems Informed
Brainspotting Therapy
