Services & Specialties

Care that meets you where you are.

Evidence-based psychotherapy for individuals, couples, families, children, Veterans, and first responders throughout California — delivered via secure telehealth.

One practice. Many paths to healing.

No two people arrive at therapy the same way, and no two people need the same thing once they're there. Canyon Lake Therapy offers a broad range of specialties — all grounded in the same trauma-informed, evidence-based, deeply human approach.

Who we work with

Individuals

Adults navigating anxiety, depression, trauma, life transitions, grief, burnout, and more.

Children & Adolescents

Ages 5 and up. Trauma, anxiety, ADHD, behavioral challenges, and family stress.

Couples

Communication, conflict, intimacy, infidelity recovery, and relationship rebuilding.

Families

Family systems work, parenting support, and navigating major life changes together.

Veterans & First Responders

Specialized trauma care for military, law enforcement, fire, EMS, and their families.

Older Adults

Life review, grief, caregiver stress, aging transitions, and late-life depression.

Areas of specialization

Trauma & PTSD

Healing what the nervous system has been carrying.

Trauma leaves a mark — not just in memory, but in the body, in relationships, and in the way you move through the world. Using evidence-based protocols including Cognitive Processing Therapy (CPT), we help you process what happened and reclaim your life.

Single-incident trauma
Complex/developmental trauma
PTSD and C-PTSD
Combat and operational trauma
Accident and medical trauma
Childhood abuse and neglect
Sexual assault and MST

Anxiety & Worry

Quieting the mind that won't stop running.

Anxiety is exhausting — the constant what-ifs, the physical tension, the avoidance that keeps shrinking your world. CBT, ACT, and mindfulness-based approaches help you understand your anxiety, reduce its grip, and build a life that isn't organized around fear.

Generalized Anxiety Disorder (GAD)
Social anxiety
Panic disorder
Health anxiety
OCD-spectrum concerns
Phobias
Perfectionism and overthinking

Depression

Finding your way back to yourself.

Depression isn't just sadness — it's the flatness, the disconnection, the sense that nothing will ever feel good again. Therapy helps you understand what's driving the depression, rebuild momentum, and reconnect with meaning and relationships.

Major depressive disorder
Persistent depressive disorder (dysthymia)
Postpartum depression
Seasonal depression
Depression with anxiety
Grief-related depression
Burnout and emotional exhaustion

ADHD

Working with your brain, not against it.

ADHD affects far more than attention — it shapes how you manage time, relationships, emotions, and self-worth. Therapy provides practical strategies, emotional support, and a framework for understanding how your brain works so you can build systems that actually fit your life.

Adult ADHD
ADHD in children and adolescents
Executive function challenges
Emotional dysregulation
Rejection sensitive dysphoria (RSD)
ADHD and anxiety or depression
Academic and occupational impairment

Child & Adolescent Therapy

Supporting young people through big feelings.

Children and teenagers face real challenges — trauma, anxiety, school stress, family changes, identity questions, and more. We use age-appropriate, evidence-based approaches including Trauma-Focused CBT (TF-CBT) and involve caregivers as partners in the healing process.

Childhood trauma and abuse
Anxiety and school refusal
ADHD and behavioral challenges
Depression and self-harm
Grief and loss
Family transitions (divorce, relocation)
Identity and self-esteem

Couples Therapy

Rebuilding connection, one honest conversation at a time.

Relationships are hard — and asking for help is a sign of strength, not failure. Couples therapy helps you break destructive patterns, communicate more effectively, rebuild trust after betrayal, and rediscover what brought you together.

Communication breakdown
Conflict and gridlock
Infidelity and trust repair
Intimacy and emotional distance
Premarital counseling
Life transitions as a couple
Parenting disagreements

Family Therapy

Healing the system, not just the individual.

Family dynamics shape everyone in them. Family therapy helps identify patterns, improve communication, navigate conflict, and support individual members — especially children — through difficult transitions.

Parent-child conflict
Blended family adjustment
Sibling dynamics
Family response to trauma or illness
Divorce and co-parenting
Caregiver stress and burnout
Intergenerational patterns

Grief & Loss

Making space for what can't be rushed.

Grief doesn't follow a schedule, and it isn't only about death. Loss of a relationship, a career, a sense of safety, a version of yourself — all of it deserves space. Therapy provides a compassionate, unhurried container for the full complexity of grief.

Death of a loved one
Anticipatory grief
Complicated grief
Pregnancy loss and infertility
Relationship loss and divorce
Loss of identity or role
Grief after trauma

Life Transitions

Navigating change with clarity and intention.

Major life changes — even positive ones — can destabilize your sense of self and direction. Therapy helps you process what's ending, clarify what you want, and move forward with greater confidence and purpose.

Career change or job loss
Divorce and separation
Relocation
Retirement
Becoming a parent
Empty nest
Identity shifts and reinvention

Stress & Burnout

Recovering the self that got lost in the doing.

Burnout isn't just tiredness — it's a depletion of meaning, motivation, and self. Therapy helps you understand what drove you to this point, set sustainable limits, and rebuild a life that has room for you in it.

Occupational burnout
Caregiver burnout
Chronic stress and overwhelm
Work-life imbalance
People-pleasing and boundary challenges
Compassion fatigue
Secondary traumatic stress

Emotional Regulation

Learning to feel without being swept away.

When emotions feel too big, too fast, or completely shut down, it affects every area of life. DBT-informed skills, ACT, and mindfulness approaches help you develop a more flexible, compassionate relationship with your emotional experience.

Intense or overwhelming emotions
Emotional numbness or disconnection
Anger and irritability
Impulsivity
Mood instability
Borderline features
Trauma-related emotional dysregulation

Caregiver Support

Support for the people who support everyone else.

Caregiving is one of the most demanding roles a person can take on — and one of the least supported. Whether you're caring for a child with a disability, an aging parent, a partner with a chronic illness, or a loved one recovering from injury, the emotional and physical toll is real. Canyon Lake Therapy offers specialized support for caregivers navigating burnout, grief, identity loss, and the complex feelings that come with loving someone who needs so much.

Need help with transportation or equipment? Our Caregiver Support Fund may be able to help.

Caregiver burnout and compassion fatigue
Grief and anticipatory loss
Identity and role strain
Relationship stress within caregiving families
Parenting a child with a disability or chronic illness
Caring for aging parents or a partner
Navigating systems: medical, educational, and social services

All services delivered via secure telehealth.

Every service Canyon Lake Therapy offers is available statewide via HIPAA-compliant video therapy. No commute, no waiting room — just private, professional care from wherever you are in California.

Not sure where to start?

That's okay. Reach out and we'll talk through what's bringing you in and what kind of support might be the best fit.