• Do you feel alone in your relationship?
• ​Do you want to re-spark intimacy in your relationship?
• Do you have a sexual dysfunction?
• Is your relationship or family in turmoil?​
• ​Is Anxiety, Depression or Emotional Pain keeping you trapped?
• Are you facing challenging events that are interfering with your life?
• Did you experience childhood trauma?
• Do you continue to carry the pain of trauma?
• Do you have strong body reactions like alertness, rapid heartbeats, panic, etc?
• Is your child experiencing angry outbursts, isolation, strong negative feelings, other challenging behaviors or trauma?​

CALL (657) 888-3222 TO FIND OUT HOW MY THERAPY SERVICES CAN HELP YOU​.

Struggles in intimacy, relationships, depression, Anxiety, PTSD, Trauma, and Emotional Pain can be life changing events and it affects everyone differently. Luisa Contreras, LMFT, LPCC provides therapy in Orange County and Los Angeles County. She works with clients who are experiencing the effects of trauma, emotional pain, difficulties in relationships, struggling with intimacy and/or sexual dysfunctions. 

As a relationship, intimacy, and trauma recovery expert, Luisa provides cutting edge therapy methods. She has a warm, emphatic, respectful, and compassionate presence to support your healing process and your emotional recovery. She will help you strengthen relationships with your loved ones, identify, process, and release core neurophysiological sources of emotional and/or body pain, trauma, and a variety of other challenging symptoms. Trauma recovery, intimacy, and strong connections with others can change the trajectory of your life and transform your future. 

FACING ANXIETY, DEPRESSION, EMOTIONAL PAIN, TRAUMATIC SITUATIONS
and other indescribable feelings can take a toll on you; affect your emotional well-being and your relationships. As a trauma recovery, relationship, and intimacy expert, Luisa is trained in evidence based practices and cutting edge therapy to help you recover and overcome the effects of trauma and emotional pain. Luisa will guide you to understand your feelings, experiences, body reactions, and identify patterns to heal from the pain, restore the present and transform your future. ​

DO YOU OR YOUR PARTNER HAVE LACK OF SEXUAL DESIRE OR INTEREST IN SEX?
If you want to have sex less often than your partner does, neither one of you is necessarily outside the norm for people at your stage in life, although your differences may cause distress.  As a sex, relationship, and intimacy therapist, Luisa creates a comfortable and safe environment to talk about sex with individuals and couples. Luisa helps clients facing sexual challenges as a consequence of trauma, infidelity, sex addiction, porn addiction, erectile dysfunction, low libido, mismatch libidos, chronic illness, vaginismus, sexless marriage, or other situations achieve a more satisfying sex life. 

FEELING ALONE, ISOLATED OR DISCONNECTED IN YOUR RELATIONSHIP
Unprocessed trauma, dishonesty, pain, affairs, or other life challenges can shatter and impact your relationship with your partner. In couples therapy, Luisa helps you identify the negative problematic cycles that are creating an abyss in your relationship and she will guide you to create new cycles of bonding interactions. Luisa is trained in Sex Therapy, Gottman Method Couples Therapy and Emotionally Focused Therapy (EFT) to assist couples in rebuilding connection, intimacy, and trust in order to restore the relationship. ​

YOU ARE IN LOVE, BUT NOT SEXUALLY AROUSED 
For many, emotional intimacy is essential for sexual intimacy. Often, decreased arousal is not simply due to a breakdown in intimate communication, but from a larger issue, a loss of trust in your partner, financial or family stressors, or unresolved issues from the past. Luisa guides each individual and couple to identify the root of the problem, help strengthen your connection with your partner, and transform unsatisfying sexual and relationship patterns to a more fulfilling sexual life.

YOUR TEEN APPEARS DEPRESSED, TEARFUL, IRRITABLE, ENGAGING IN SELF-HARMING BEHAVIORS, STRUGGLING SOCIALLY, ACADEMICALLY OR EMOTIONALLY
Left untreated these issues can worsen, and may lead to substance abuse, eating disorders or into other serious and chronic problems. In individual therapy, Luisa will guide your teen to make sense and learn how to manage overwhelming emotions and stressful events. Through family therapy, Luisa will help you a closer and stronger relationship with your teen.

YOUR CHILD HAS EXPERIENCED TRAUMA, PERSISTENT TANTRUMS, WORRY, FEAR, OR ANXIETY
Adults often think that trauma, grief, conflicts in the family, divorce, and other life changing events are dismissed and with time forgotten by children if you do not talk about it. However, children are susceptible to the same emotional pain that adults feel and these experiences are not something you just get over as you grow up. Emotional struggles, life changing events, and the effects of trauma unfold across a lifetime. Luisa provides tailored therapeutic therapy services to allow your child to understand emotions, express them through play and will help you cultivate the healing process of your child.