Empowering Therapy for Relational & Complex Trauma in the San Francisco Bay Area & Throughout California |
Heal Your Past, Transform Your Future
Your past is a fact of life, but it doesn't have to rule your life.
Trauma isn't something you make up. And It's not something you can just think your way out of. Left untreated, childhood abuse and neglect can reverberate through your adult relationships making it difficult for you to get close to other people and feel safe in your own body. You don't have to keep wondering what's wrong with you. And you don't have to live life on an emotional rollercoaster.
With the right support, you can break free from your past and begin to feel at ease within yourself, your life, and in your relationships with others.
With the right support, you can break free from your past and begin to feel at ease within yourself, your life, and in your relationships with others.
You want healthy, fulfilling relationships, but
instead you're:
- Frustrated with feeling misunderstood.
- Feeling like you lost yourself trying to make others happy.
- Getting caught in the same toxic relationship cycles.
- Getting stuck in self-critical, self-blaming loops that send you spiraling.
- Afraid your past trauma will ruin your relationships.
- Feeling broken, damaged, and unlovable.
- Feeling numb and disconnected, like an observer in your own life.
- Putting up walls to protect yourself.
- Feeling anxiety and depression instead of finding peace.
- Tired of wondering what's wrong with you.
This doesn't haven to be the end of your story.
There is hope.
Hi, I'm Smadar Salzman and I can help you.
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I provide relationship therapy using an individualized, down-to-earth approach. My clients walk away from therapy with me empowered to conquer their challenges, equipped with practical tools to help them achieve their goals, and feeling optimistic about their future.
I'm a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist and Certified Complex Trauma (CPTSD) Professional with nearly two decades of experience. I specialize in helping adults who've experienced abusive and neglectful relationships overcome feeling out of control and damaged in order to create meaningful relationships with themselves and others. Together we’ll understand the full impact of what you've been through on your self-esteem and your relationships. We'll help you heal from it without having to relive it. Healing is possible! Reach out today to start feeling more stable, secure, and connected to yourself and others. |
You don’t have to keep feeling broken and unlovable. And you don’t have to struggle alone.
I can help you understand your relational programming and build healthy relationships with yourself and others.
My Specialties
Diverse populations are always welcome in my practice, including all cultures, sexual orientations, genders, and relationship structures.
You’re here because a part of you believes that life can get better, that you can start feeling better.
I believe it can get better for you, too.
Healing from relational abuse and neglect starts with feeling safe enough to open up in a validating and empowering therapeutic relationship.
Maybe you've been in therapy before, read all the self-help books and blogs, listened to all the podcasts... but still feel stuck.
The real healing from Relational and Complex Trauma (C-PTSD) comes from uncovering and addressing the full impact of the trauma on your self of sense and your relationships. Deep relational wounds are healed relationally through feeling safe, learning to sit with the pain as it comes up rather than pushing it away, and integrating all parts of you in an accepting, non-judgmental therapeutic relationship.
Maybe you've been in therapy before, read all the self-help books and blogs, listened to all the podcasts... but still feel stuck.
The real healing from Relational and Complex Trauma (C-PTSD) comes from uncovering and addressing the full impact of the trauma on your self of sense and your relationships. Deep relational wounds are healed relationally through feeling safe, learning to sit with the pain as it comes up rather than pushing it away, and integrating all parts of you in an accepting, non-judgmental therapeutic relationship.
Life doesn't have to stay this way.
The Process
1. Book Your Free Consultation
Let's chat! I'll answer any questions you have and you can be sure we're a good fit.
2. Get The Support You Need
Join me each week to explore, process, and practice. Be open and ready to deepen your understanding of yourself and the impact of relational trauma on your life. Together, we'll develop the tools you need to grow and thrive.
3. Start Feeling Better
Get unstuck from the constant, predictable loop of feeling out of control and damaged. Find peace of mind and begin living a more peaceful, calm, and connected life.
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.
- Improve your relationship with yourself and feel safe in your body.
You need a therapist who's authentic, relatable, and experienced to help you understand and transform your relational programming.
Click the button below to see my availability and schedule your free consultation online- no need to play email or phone tag.
We'll align around logistics. You can ask me questions. I'll share more about how I work. And you can decide if I'm the right therapist for you.
We'll align around logistics. You can ask me questions. I'll share more about how I work. And you can decide if I'm the right therapist for you.
Testimonials
"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." |
"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." |
"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." |
"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. " |