Online Therapy for Therapists and Helping Professionals in California.

You spend your days holding space for other people. Here, you do not have to be the therapist.

Inner Stride Therapy offers trauma-informed online therapy for therapist, social workers, counselors, psychologists, and other helping professional across California who are thoughtful, curious and committed to developing a deeper relationship with themselves.

You may already understand your patterns intellectually and still struggle with burnout, perfectionism, over-functioning, anxiety, relationship stress, and old relational wounds.

Therapy here is not about teaching you what you already know.

It is about helping you move from understanding yourself to relating to yourself with greater trust, compassion, emotional safety, and clarity.

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You May Be the Person Everyone Relies On

You know how to stay present when someone else is overwhelmed

You recognize patterns. You understand attachment. You may know what healthy boundaries are supposed to look like.

And yet, your own inner world may be harder to tend to.

You may notice that you understand your triggers but still feel activated by them, struggle to rest without guilt, feel responsible for other people’s emotions, or hold yourself to standards you would never expect from a clinet or loved ones.

You may know exactly what you would tell someone else in your situation- and still wonder:

“Why is this so hard for me?”

Being a therapist (or helping professionals) does not make you immune to being human.

When Insight is Not Enough

Clinical knowledge can help you understand where a pattern came from.

But understanding does not always change what happens when the pattern is activated.

You may still:

  • over-function when you feel uncertain

  • become self-critical when you make a mistake

  • feel responsible for keeping relationships stable

  • pull away when you feel vulnerable

  • struggle to receive support

  • analyze your feelings instead of experiencing them

At Inner Stride Therapy, we work with the space between knowing and living differently.

The goal is not to become better at managing yourself.

The goal is to build a more trusting relationship with yourself.

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A Different Kind of Space for Therapists

  • You do not need to impress me with how self-aware you are.

  • You do not need to explain everything perfectly

  • You do not need to know the clinical formulation.

  • You can simply arrive as yourself.

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What You May Gain From Therapy

Therapy can help you develop greater self-trust, healthier boundaries, more emotional flexibility, and a more sustainable relationship with yourself and your work.

You may begin to:

  • recognize your needs sooner

  • set boundaries with less guilt

  • receive care more comfortably

  • understand emotional reactions without immediately judging them

  • reduce perfectionistic self-pressure

  • separate caring from taking responsibility for everyone

  • stay more connected with yourself during comflict

  • feel less driven by the need to perform competence

  • reconnect with rest, creativity, relationships, and parts of your identity outside of work

    A meaningful shift may sound like:

    “ I can trust myself even when I do not have everything figured out.”

Therapy for Therapist, Helping Professionals, and High Functioning Adults

I work with adults throughout California who may be navigating:

  • You continue showing up, but the emotional cost of caring for others is becoming harder to ignore.

  • You feel responsible for doing things well, keeping things together, and anticipating what other people need.

  • You understad your patterns and still find yourself activated by distance, conlict, rejection, or uncertainty.

  • You know how to care for other people. Allowing yourself to cared may feel much more vulnerable

  • Marriage, divorce, career changes, dating, leadership, caregiving, grief, and questions about identity can bring old patterns closer to the surface

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