Leonicia Castro – LMFT · Psychotherapy

Attachment-Focused EMDR & Trauma Therapy

A place to put down what you've been carrying alone.

Individual psychotherapy in San Francisco for trauma, chronic somatic symptoms held in the body, and all the parts of you to be met through Attachment Focused EMDR, Internal Family Systems (IFS), and thirty-four years of contemplative practices.

MAYBE THIS SOUNDS FAMILIAR

You don't need to have the words yet.

A history of trauma or abuse still shapes how safe the present moment feels.

Chronic pain, tension, or somatic symptoms that no test fully explains.

A sense of being cut off from love, creativity, curiosity, and pleasure.

Wanting to understand what's underneath the anxiety, rage, or numbness.

Patterns around food, substances, or relationships that feel hard to shift alone.

A pull toward deeper meaning, spirit, or expanded states of consciousness.

The Work

Three threads, one practice

Every person arrives with a different mix of cultural history, body & mind experiences, and belief systems. Sessions draw from whichever of these serves what’s actually in front of us in the present moment.

01 · EMDR

Attachment-Focused EMDR

Trained through the Parnell Institute and EMDRIA-certified, EMDR helps the nervous system finish processing what got stuck, using bilateral stimulation to access your own innate capacity to heal.

02 · RECOVERY

Recovery From Trauma

Trauma keeps us from being fully alive in the present. We work to clear what’s stuck, and consciously fill the space that opens with new, truer ways of being.

03 · BEYOND

Transpersonal Work

Trained through the Parnell Institute and EMDRIA-certified, EMDR helps the nervous system finish processing what got stuck, using bilateral stimulation to access your own innate capacity to heal.

About Leonicia

Thirty-four years on the cushion, thirty in the therapy room.

Leonicia works from a holistic model that treats mind, body, spirit, and community as one system, drawing on IFS, somatic/emotional mindfulness, internal and external relational dynamics, and Buddhist psychology traditions alongside clinical EMDR training. As a queer, non-binary, Asian Pacific Islander therapist, they hold space for BIPOC and Global Majority clients, the LGBTQIA+, Non-Binary, and Trans communities.

34 yrs

Vipassana Practice

30 yrs

Clinical Trauma Practice

LMFT

Parnell & EMDRIA Certified

Who This Is For

Specialties

Trauma & PTSD

First Responders

Developmental & Attachment Trauma

Domestic Violence

Grief, Death & Dying

Process Addictions

Psychedelic Integration

Spiritual Emergence & Kundalini

LGBTQIA+, Non-Binary & Trans

BIPOC & Global Majority

Ketamine Assisted Therapy

We are not human beings having a spiritual experience. We are spiritual beings having a human experience.

Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

Begin

A first conversation, no pressure attached.

A first conversation, a 20 minute Meet & Greet over phone or Zoom.