HOLISTIC TRAUMA THERAPY® · EMBODIED DEPTH-ORIENTED Therapy FOR TRAUMA
A NURTURING SPACE to HEAL your MIND, BODY, and SPIRIT
Full-spectrum trauma therapy in Pasadena, Newport Beach, and throughout California for the wounds that run deep.
Or call (626) 605-1785. Currently accepting new clients.
Trained under Peter Levine, Gabor Maté, and Dan Siegel. A private-pay practice for depth.
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You're the one who can't say no, who feels the whole room before you ever walk into it, who makes sure everyone else is alright and never quite gets around to yourself. You're the one who can't sit still, because the moment you stop, something you've been outrunning starts to catch up. You're the one who smiles and means it and still feels a distance no one else can see.
From the Outside, It May Look Like You Have It All Together.
Maybe you went quiet inside a long time ago, and now you move through your days a half-step removed from your own life. Maybe you hold the people you love at a careful arm's length, because somewhere along the way closeness stopped feeling safe. Maybe you're surrounded, and busy, and admired, and lonelier than you would ever admit out loud. Maybe you lie awake asking why you still feel this way, when by every measure you've done everything right.
None of it means something is wrong with you. It means a younger you found a way to survive, and you have been carrying the weight of that ever since, in your body, in your sleep, in the tiredness that rest never touches. You told yourself it wasn't that bad. That others had it worse. That you should be past this by now. But the ache doesn't answer to any of that. You are not broken. You are not too much.
What you'll find here is not someone rushing to tell you what your pain means. It's being met, slowly and without looking away, by people who understand that the deepest wounds are often the ones you learned to carry in silence. You don't need to arrive with the whole story, or the right words, or even the certainty that what happened to you counts. However it looks from the outside, there is a place here to begin, gently, to set it down.
Full-Spectrum Trauma Therapy for the Wounds That Learned to Look Like Achievement.
Holistic Trauma Therapy® is led by Chief Traumatologist Seema Sharma, SEP, LMFT, LPCC, a former Fortune 500 senior leader turned trauma clinician. Our work is depth-oriented and parts-based at its foundation, with somatic therapy, holistic EMDR, and nervous system regulation as instruments held inside that deeper container. We help high-achieving professionals, survivors, and culturally complex clients return to themselves.
Insight. Embodiment. Transformation.
or call (626) 605-1785
WHAT MAKES HTT DIFFERENT
The Only Full-Spectrum Trauma Healing Practice in California
Holistic Trauma Therapy® is not a trauma practice that does one thing well. It is built around the recognition that trauma lives in many places at once. In the nervous system, in the body, in identity, in relationships, in culture, in spirit, and in meaning. Healing has to be able to meet a person in all of them.
Our approach brings together what most practices treat as separate worlds.
Depth, transpersonal, and consciousness-informed care. Drawn from Chief Traumatologist Seema Sharma's graduate training in transpersonal and consciousness psychology, integrating meaning, identity, and the spiritual dimensions of healing without losing clinical rigor. This is the container the rest of the work is held inside.
Parts work and depth psychotherapy. Internal Family Systems and parts work tend to the protective selves that carried what was once unbearable, while depth-oriented psychotherapy listens beneath the symptom for the deeper story trying to come into awareness.
Somatic and body-based healing. Somatic Experiencing, nervous system regulation, and polyvagal-informed care. The slow, careful work of helping the body feel safe enough to release what it has been holding.
Evidence-based clinical care. Holistic EMDR, attachment-informed psychotherapy, and trauma-focused approaches grounded in current neuroscience, used where they serve the work.
Advanced professional trauma training. Specialized training through the International Society for the Study of Trauma and Dissociation, supporting our work with complex trauma, dissociation, attachment wounds, and fragmented self-states.
Culturally attuned trauma care. Specialized work with BIPOC clients, immigrant families, religious trauma survivors, LGBTQ+ clients, and high-achieving professionals whose wounds rarely get named.
This combination does not exist anywhere else in California. It is the result of a clinician who has spent her life studying not only how trauma happens, but every way humanity has ever found to heal it.
If you are looking for a practice with the background to understand you…
…you’re in the right place.
Hi, I’m Seema.
Chief Traumatologist, Founder of Holistic Trauma Therapy®, Professor, Researcher, Board Member, Business Owner, and lifelong student of holistic healing and the human experience.
Before becoming a trauma clinician, I spent over 25 years in senior leadership across Fortune 500 companies, startups, and global organizations. I understand the pressure of performing at a high level, leading international teams, traveling constantly, and holding everything together at home while internally feeling stressed, disconnected, or quietly overwhelmed.
I also understand how hard it can be to find a therapist who truly grasps the nuances of that life. The ambition. The responsibility. The cultural and relational layers. The invisible stress that does not always look like trauma but lives in the nervous system all the same.
This practice was created for people who are balancing it all, longing for a space to feel deeply understood, and ready to make meaningful change.
At Holistic Trauma Therapy®, we work at depth first. We specialize in trauma in all its forms, including developmental trauma, complex PTSD, attachment wounds, sexual trauma, religious trauma, and workplace trauma. We understand how trauma shapes the nervous system, relationships, identity, and leadership capacity, and we know insight alone is rarely enough. We integrate parts work, somatic therapy, holistic EMDR, and nervous system regulation, working not only with what happened but with how your body adapted to survive it.
In this practice, therapy is depth-oriented, relational, and intentional. Our goal is not simply symptom relief. It is integration. Embodiment. A return to yourself. If you are ready to move beyond survival and into a fuller, freer, more grounded life, we would be honored to walk that journey with you.
Led by Chief Traumatologist Seema Sharma, SEP, LMFT, LPCC, Founder and CEO
25+ years senior leadership across Fortune 500 companies
PhD candidate in Integral and Transpersonal Psychology, emphasis in the contemplative neurobiology of consciousness studies, CIIS
Somatic Experiencing Practitioner, EMDR-trained, IFS-trained, AASECT Certified Sex Therapist, Advanced Professional Trauma Training through ISST-D
Trained directly under Peter Levine, Gabor Maté, and Dan Siegel
Pasadena office, Newport Beach office, and virtual care throughout California
What we hold in this practice.
The performing child often becomes the performing adult. Healing complex PTSD, attachment wounds, emotional neglect, and the developmental trauma that shaped who you had to be in order to survive your earliest relationships.
Reclaiming your body, your boundaries, and your capacity for closeness after sexual abuse, harassment, betrayal, or relational violation. AASECT-informed, somatically grounded, and held with the tenderness this work requires.
For the leader, the founder, the executive, the physician, and the high achiever whose nervous system has been carrying what their career rewarded. Burnout, harassment, identity collapse, and the quiet trauma of high-stakes professional life.
Full Clinical Spectrum
High-control religion, spiritual abuse, faith deconstruction, and the long path back to your own knowing.
When a relationship taught you to doubt your own perception, the wound is not only in what happened. It is in the self that learned not to trust itself.
The transitions that ask everything of a body and rarely get held with the depth they deserve.
Explore the full method behind how we work.
Meet the Team
Every clinician at Holistic Trauma Therapy® has been chosen for their depth, their training, and their alignment with the practice's commitment to full-spectrum, trauma-informed care. Our team holds specialties across complex trauma, religious and spiritual trauma, LGBTQ+ affirming care, family and relational trauma, and the lived experience that makes this work credible.
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Seema Sharma, SEP, LMFT, LPCC
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Gabriella "Gabi" Siguenza, AMFT, APCC
TRAUMA THERAPIST IN NEWPORT BEACH
Gabi works with individuals, couples, and families who want to take healing to the next step. She integrates somatics with parts work to allow clients to go deeper. Specializing in women, BIPOC, and marginalized clients with childhood trauma.
THE ARC OF THE WORK.
INSIGHT.
We begin by understanding your story. Together we explore the patterns shaped by childhood trauma, attachment wounds, cultural inheritance, and the nervous system adaptations that became your way of moving through the world. Insight gives language to what once felt confusing, shameful, or simply unnameable.
EMBODIMENT.
Insight alone is not enough. Trauma lives in the body. Through somatic therapy, holistic EMDR, and nervous system regulation, we work with how your body learned to survive, tracking sensation, building internal safety, and gently releasing what has been stored for years. Embodiment is where healing moves from understanding into lived experience.
TRANSFORMATION.
As insight meets embodiment, transformation becomes possible. Old protective patterns soften. Relationships shift. Your nervous system stabilizes. You begin responding rather than reacting. This is not about becoming someone new. It is about integrating the parts of you that had to fragment in order to cope, and coming home to a self you may have been waiting your whole life to meet.
Pasadena, Newport Beach, and Virtually throughout California.
Holistic Trauma Therapy® serves clients in person at our Pasadena office at 65 N. Madison Avenue and at our Newport Beach office at 1000 Quail Street, and virtually throughout California, including Los Angeles, the San Gabriel Valley, Orange County, San Diego, the Bay Area, and the rural and coastal communities where specialized trauma care is harder to find. For some clients, particularly those new to somatic work or EMDR, in-person sessions can deepen the work. For others, the privacy and continuity of virtual therapy is exactly what their healing needs. We help you decide what fits.
We are currently accepting new clients.
What others tell Say.
“A highly experienced clinician with the ability to work deep into the psyche to help with long-term change instead of short term symptom solutions. She is able to hold space and safety to work through the deepest of challenges..”
— CRAIG PETERS, LMFT“Seema is a highly trained and skilled trauma therapist. Her presence is calming and soothing, and yet she is also direct and to the point. She is warm, empathic, and understanding. She is my go-to referral for individuals and couples who suffer from trauma.”
— NATALIE GOLDBERG, LMFT“I am astounded by the depth of Seema's expertise in such a variety of topics. She knows so much, and her knowledge integrates seamlessly with her therapeutic work. She is warm, caring, and masterful in guiding her clients to their goals..”
— CAITLIN LABRIE, PSYDTrained under the field's most influential teachers. Peter Levine for Somatic Experiencing, Gabor Maté for Compassionate Inquiry, and Dan Siegel for Interpersonal Neurobiology.
A clinical team committed to depth. Every clinician is selected for their training, their alignment with the practice's full-spectrum approach, and their commitment to working at the depth this clientele requires.
Recognized for the work. As featured in Medium, GOOD, VoyageLA, and CanvasRebel.
Questions people often ask before reaching out.
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Holistic trauma therapy is an integrative, depth-oriented approach to trauma healing that addresses the mind, body, nervous system, relationships, and sense of meaning together rather than separately. At Holistic Trauma Therapy®, this begins with depth and parts work and includes somatic therapy, nervous system regulation, holistic EMDR, attachment-informed psychotherapy, transpersonal psychology, and culturally attuned care. The goal is not symptom management but integration, helping you return to yourself at every layer.
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For many trauma survivors, insight alone is not enough. Talk therapy can help you understand your patterns, but trauma also lives in the body and nervous system in ways that conversation cannot fully reach. Holistic Trauma Therapy® combines depth-oriented psychotherapy and parts work with somatic work, holistic EMDR, and nervous system regulation, so healing happens not only in your understanding but in your body, your relationships, and your daily life.
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Holistic Trauma Therapy® is a private-pay practice and is not in-network with insurance. Most clients with PPO plans can submit superbills for partial out-of-network reimbursement, and we provide these monthly along with guidance on how to request reimbursement from your insurer.
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Our Pasadena office is at 65 N. Madison Avenue, Suite 707, Pasadena, CA 91101. We also see clients at our Newport Beach office at 1000 Quail Street, Suite 220, Newport Beach, CA 92660. We offer in-person sessions in Pasadena and Newport Beach, and virtual sessions throughout California, serving clients in Los Angeles, the San Gabriel Valley, Orange County, San Diego, the Bay Area, and beyond.
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We specialize in trauma therapy for high-achieving individuals, who are often professionals, senior leaders, and executives, as well as survivors of childhood and complex trauma, sexual trauma, and religious trauma, and culturally complex clients including BIPOC and immigrant-family clients. Our clinicians also hold specialties in LGBTQ+ affirming trauma care, family and relational trauma, and neurodivergent adult trauma therapy.
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When you contact us, you will receive a response within one business day. We will schedule a complimentary consultation with the clinician most aligned with what you are carrying. The consultation is a chance for you to ask questions, share what feels right to share, and decide, without pressure, whether the fit feels right. You do not have to know exactly what to say. You only need to be ready to begin.
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Holistic Trauma Therapy® provides outpatient trauma therapy and is not a crisis or emergency service. If you are in immediate danger or experiencing thoughts of harming yourself, please call or text 988, the Suicide and Crisis Lifeline, or go to your nearest emergency room. When you are safe and stable, we are here to begin the deeper work.
You do not have to keep carrying this alone.
If something in you is ready, not certain, not fully prepared, just ready, that is enough to begin. Healing can start gently. We will move at the pace of your nervous system, not ahead of it.
Pasadena office · NEWPORT BEACH office · Virtual care throughout California · Currently accepting new clients