You Don't Have to Keep Carrying This Alone.
Trauma therapy, couples therapy, and EMDR — offered with warmth, depth, and genuine care. Serving adults and teens throughout California, in person and online.
Shuriee Gioieni, LMFT · Lompoc, CA · Weekly sessions & intensives available
You Remember a Time When Life Felt Lighter…
Something Shifted — And You Haven't Felt Like Yourself Since.
Maybe it happened slowly — a quiet unraveling you barely noticed until one day the weight of it was undeniable. Or maybe there was a single moment that changed everything, and life has felt different ever since.
You're still showing up. Still doing your best. But inside, something feels off — a heaviness you can't quite shake, a distance from yourself you don't know how to close.
Emotionally exhausted, wondering when relief will finally come
Feeling like you're carrying something no one else can see
Disconnected from your own feelings, needs, or sense of self
Replaying moments you desperately want to move past
On edge — or completely numb — and wishing you felt different
Lonely in it, even when you're surrounded by people who love you
You are not broken. You are overwhelmed — and you don't have to heal alone.
I work with adults and teenagers who are ready to stop surviving and start actually living. Using trauma-informed care, EMDR, somatic therapy, and attachment-based approaches, we'll work gently and deeply — at your pace, in your own time.
When Your Relationship Hurts, Everything Else Does Too.
It didn't start here. There was a time when being together felt easy — when you laughed more, fought less, and just felt like home to each other. Somewhere along the way, that got harder to find.
Now conversations turn into arguments. Silence fills the spaces where closeness used to be. You love each other — but love alone doesn't always feel like enough anymore.
The same arguments keep happening, with no real resolution
You feel more like roommates than partners
Intimacy — emotional or physical — has quietly faded
One of you shuts down while the other reaches out, and you keep missing each other
You want to fix it, but don't know where to begin
Using Emotionally Focused Therapy (EFT) and EMDR with a compassionate, non-blaming approach, I help couples break out of painful cycles and find their way back to each other — not just to coexist, but to truly reconnect.
Your relationship brought you here. Let's help it bring you back together.
Hi, I'm Shuriee — And I'm So Glad You Found This Page.
I became a therapist because I believe healing is one of the most courageous things a person can do — and I wanted to be someone who walks alongside people while they do it.
I specialize in trauma, relationships, attachment wounds, and the deep emotional patterns that shape how we see ourselves and love other people. My approach is warm, honest, and genuinely collaborative. I bring my whole self into the room — which sometimes means sitting quietly in the hard stuff with you, and sometimes means a moment of unexpected laughter. Both are part of healing.
I believe nothing is off-limits here. Trauma, shame, big emotions, complicated relationships, the things you've never said out loud — this is a space where all of it is welcome, without judgment.
A Holistic, Body-Based Approach
I work with the whole person — mind, body, and nervous system. That's why I integrate somatic therapy, EMDR, movement, mindfulness, and nervous system regulation into our work together. Healing doesn't just happen in the mind. It happens in the body too, and I'll help you access both.
If you're ready to feel more grounded, more like yourself, and more at peace — I'm here.
Trauma Therapy
Trauma is sneaky. It doesn't always announce itself. Sometimes it shows up as anxiety you can't explain, relationships that keep falling apart, or a constant feeling of not being enough — long after the thing that hurt you is over. You may have told yourself it wasn't that bad. That others had it worse. But your body has been keeping score, and now it's asking to be heard.
You don't have to stay stuck in what happened. Healing is possible — and it starts with a safe place to begin.
Couples Therapy
In the beginning, it felt so good — the closeness, the laughter, the ease of just being together. But relationships are living things, and sometimes they carry us through seasons that leave marks. Wherever you are right now — in constant conflict, quiet distance, or somewhere in between — this is not the end of your story. Couples therapy is about learning to understand each other more deeply, communicate more honestly, and rebuild the bond that brought you together in the first place.
You love each other. Let's help that be enough to work with.
EMDR
Some experiences don't heal just by talking about them. EMDR helps your brain do what it couldn't do on its own — fully process and integrate painful memories so they lose their grip on your present.
EMDR Intensives are designed for people who want to go deep on a flexible schedule. Instead of 50 minutes a week, we dedicate full focused days to your healing — which means faster relief and real, lasting progress.
EFT Couples Therapy & Couples Intensives
Emotionally Focused Therapy gets underneath the arguments to find what's really going on. Because most couples aren't fighting about what they think they're fighting about — they're fighting to feel close, safe, and valued by the person they love most.
EFT helps you both understand your emotional cycles, break out of patterns that keep you stuck, and build a relationship where you genuinely feel secure with each other.
Somatic Therapy
Your body has been part of your story all along. Somatic therapy helps you listen to it — and gently release what it's been holding.
Through grounding practices, breathwork, and mindful body awareness, somatic work helps calm your nervous system, reduce anxiety and overwhelm, and bring you back into a felt sense of safety in yourself. It's especially powerful for trauma survivors, anyone who feels stuck in their head, or people who've tried talk therapy and wanted to go deeper.
Getting Started Is Simpler Than You Think.
Your healing shouldn't begin with a complicated process. Here's how we take the first step together:
STEP 1
Schedule a Free Consultation
Book a free 20-minute call where we get to talk, you can share what's brought you here, and we'll see if we feel like a good fit. There's no pressure and no commitment — just an honest conversation.
STEP 2
Begin Your Healing Journey
Together we'll decide whether weekly sessions or an intensive format works best for your life. From there, we dive in — gently, collaboratively, and completely at your pace.
STEP 3
Create Lasting Change
This is where the real work lives. We'll build self-compassion, heal what's been stuck, strengthen your relationships, and help you feel like yourself again — maybe for the first time in a long time.
Your healing starts with one simple step. Ready to begin?
You've Survived So Much Already.
You don't have to keep surviving. You deserve to actually live — to feel present, connected, and genuinely okay in your own life and in your relationships.
When you're ready, I'm here. And I'll meet you exactly where you are.
