Do you keep getting hurt in relationships?

Unresolved family dysfunction, childhood trauma, and childhood emotional neglect can lead to painful patterns in adult relationships. Together, we can work on breaking these cycles, creating healthier connections, and fostering emotional safety.

Do you keep repeating the same patterns in relationships that leave you anxious & depressed? 

Ongoing trauma or neglect during childhood often results in repeating destructive patterns that trigger anxiety, depression, self-harm, impulsivity, and addiction in adulthood. I can help you understand these patterns, heal from past wounds, and build more secure, fulfilling relationships that nature your growth.

Do you feel alone, numb, or spiral into intense overwhelming feelings out of nowhere? 

Dissociation and rage can be signs of unresolved Complex Trauma (CPTSD). They're coping skills that helped you survive, but now get in the way. I provide a safe space to explore these troubling experiences, helping you regulate emotions and reconnect with your true self.

Do you secretly feel feeling broken, damaged, or unloveable?

You sometimes create distance in relationships out of fear that if people see the real you, they'll leave. This can look like people-pleasing, being what others expect of you, or leaving before you're left. 

You know something needs to change... you're just not sure what, or how.

You're in the right place.

Hi, I'm Smadar. I know you're not broken, you're injured— and with the right therapy, you can heal.

Healing Relational and Complex Trauma

I specialize in working with individual adults struggling with the effects of relational and complex trauma. Early experiences shape how we perceive and navigate relationships, often leaving us stuck in patterns that no longer serve us. My approach focuses on creating a safe, supportive environment to help you heal from childhood wounds and establish more secure connections.

Restoring Emotional Balance

If you’re feeling overwhelmed by intense emotions, numbness, or dissociation, I can help. I understand how trauma and childhood neglect can lead to feeling disconnected from yourself and others. Together, we’ll work on building emotional resilience, so you can manage overwhelming feelings and regain a sense of control and stability.

Guided by Experience and Compassion

As a therapist with nearly two decades of experience treating dissociative disorders, family dysfunction, and adult children of parents with mental illness, I bring a compassionate and informed approach to therapy. Whether you’re an individual or a couple looking to break the cycle of trauma, I provide a space where you can safely explore your past and create a healthier future.

Online Therapy in California, Florida, Michigan, Nevada, and Vermont.

About me

​You don't have to struggle alone.

​I can help you heal your past and transform your future.

You can build healthy relationships with yourself and others.

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Specialized support for survivors of family dysfunction, childhood trauma & abusive relationships.

Relational & Complex Trauma

Dissociative Disorders

Childhood Emotional Neglect

Couples Counseling

Therapy for Therapists

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My practice is a welcoming space for everyone, including people from all cultures, ethnicities, religions, sexual orientations, genders, relationship structures, and neurodivergent people.

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You're here because of part of you believes that life can get better.

I believe it can get better for you, too.

​You're not alone.

Maybe you've tried therapy before but still feel stuck.

You’ve been in therapy, read the books, listened to the podcasts, but still feel bad about yourself and unhappy in your relationships. Healing from relational abuse and emotional neglect starts with feeling safe enough to open up in a validating, empowering therapeutic relationship.

I'm a different kind of therapist.

Not all therapists are trauma-informed, and even fewer are experienced with C-PTSD. Real healing from relational and complex trauma involves addressing the full impact of trauma on your sense of self and relationships—not just talking about the past or reliving it. True healing doesn’t require constantly revisiting the trauma in therapy.

Healing from Complex Trauma requires more than techniques.

Real healing from complex trauma goes beyond surface-level approaches. Trauma affects your neurobiology, often keeping you stuck in survival mode. True healing happens in safe, trusting relationships where you can process the pain and begin to shift out of survival mode. In therapy, we’ll focus on integrating all parts of yourself, helping you reclaim a sense of wholeness in a supportive, non-judgmental space.

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Getting started is simple. Here's how:

1. Book a free 15-minute consultation online here.

2. Show up to sessions to explore, process, and practice together. ​

​3. Get unstuck from the constant, predictable loop of feeling out of control and damaged.

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Therapy should be a place where you feel safe, seen, supported, and empowered.

​I can help you to:

• Work through unresolved past relational trauma and abuse affecting your current relationships.
  
  
• Create better boundaries in relationships with family and friends.
  
  
• Work through challenges and anxiety around dating and intimacy in order to have healthy romantic relationships.
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• Improve your relationship with yourself and feel safe in your body.

You can find peace of mind and begin living a more calm, connected, stable life.

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In my clients' words:

"With Smadar’s help I began to see how relational trauma, when not directly confronted and dealt with, can end up creating a lifelong pattern of avoidance and dysfunction. ​Smadar is very good at what she does."
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"Smadar is a phenomenal therapist. ​With her help, I started peeling back my many layers of dysfunction as a child of mentally ill and alcoholic parents. I’m less afraid of relationships and intimacy now than I’ve ever been before."
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"​It took a long time for me to find a therapist who challenges me but also validates me. ​It’s taken several years of nonstop work to begin feeling like a whole person. I’m more stable and more fully integrated now than I’ve ever been."
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​-Client

"The future feels less hypothetical. I'm starting to get glimpses of it. For the first time in my life I'm becoming who I truly am, and living the life I truly want. I'm truly thankful for how you've supported me and helped me to grow. "
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I SPECIALIZE IN THERAPY FOR LASTING CHANGE

Break free from painful relationship patterns rooted in family dysfunction and childhood trauma so you can build the healthy, connected relationships you crave.

Schedule a Consultation Here