It can feel intimidating and lonely to have the desire for more connection to ancestors and cultural practices; maybe you don’t have anyone in your life to ask for guidance, maybe your family disconnected themselves as a means of survival, maybe you have imposter syndrome about not being “ _________ enough” to engage with traditional practices, or maybe you just want your therapist to be able to work with your spiritual/ancestral/cultural practices as part of your therapeutic process. 

Our therapists don’t just pay lip service to this shit, we live it out. We deeply value connection to the wisdom in ancient ways of knowing and relating to living and non-living beings. We do our own work to cultivate these connections for ourselves and feel confident in our ability to hold space for your specific relationship to these wisdoms. 

If you have questions about what this looks like, please feel free to reach out or request a consultation with one of our therapists. 

Maybe you know that you have experienced trauma(s); maybe you think to yourself “it wasn’t that bad” but are also left feeling overwhelmed and anxious all the time. Either way, you know something has to change because right now you are simply white-knuckling your way through life. You are constantly in your head- worrying, self-criticizing, wondering who’s mad at you or what you did wrong, trying to predict everyone else’s feelings and needs, and blaming yourself when anything goes wrong. Your body is suffering and you have gotten really good at functioning through your physical symptoms. It feels like you can’t slow down or else everything will fall apart. 

What’s ironic, though, is from the outside, you look like you have it all figured out, all together. You are the boss at work and at home and always make sure shit gets done and everyone is taken care of. It’s hard to ask for help and you’re worried what people think about you. You are a hustler! You work hard and don’t shy away from a challenge. But you also hustle for acceptance, for love, for safety. You hustle to prove your worth. 

But it doesn’t have to feel this way. You have been telling yourself stories about who you are and what you are worth. You have beliefs about others and strategies for connecting while also staying safe. You learned these stories, beliefs, and strategies somewhere. You have a place in your heart that hurts and so you stay stuck in self-protection mode. Let’s find that place in your heart and heal it for good! Let’s get you unstuck! 

You might be scared that going to therapy, focusing on yourself, learning how to love yourself and set boundaries might make things worse, might drive people away – but I promise the world will not stop spinning if you start therapy. You might be scared that looking at that hurt place in your heart will lead you to a deep dark hole that you won’t be able to climb out of – but it’s therapy can guide you through that dark place safely so you can come out the other side lighter, happier, and more fulfilled. 

Check out our trauma + attachment specialists and schedule a free consultation to see if we are a good fit for you!

When you think about what you love the most in this world, you’re likely thinking of a person or people. Relationships. They are an inevitable part of being human; we are wired to depend on our relationships for survival, and the quality of our relationships deeply impact the overall quality of our lives. They can be magical, fulfilling, beautiful, and safe places to rest our souls, but they can also be stressful, exhausting, terrifying, frustrating, harmful, and lonely places that leave us feeling bad about ourselves and powerless to make changes. 

Working with an attachment-based therapist can help you to understand the ways in which your experiences with attachment figures (parents, caregivers, ex-partners, friends, etc) and other humans (school bullies, shitty coworkers, that one terrible doctor that made you feel blamed and shamed, etc) are impacting how you view yourself and how you feel in relationships with others. 

Therapy to address attachment + relationships can help you by:

-healing wounds from childhood

-disrupting harmful patterns in your relationships

-supporting healthy boundaries

-developing healthy interdependence

-changing the way you relate to yourself (and others)

-connecting you to your own values 

-building self-trust and self-compassion

-nurturing a felt sense of what it feels like to be in a safe and unconditionally loving relationship

When you start by focusing on your own healing, you will be amazed at how much power you have to change what isn’t working and create a life filled with joy and absolutely magical relationships. 

Check out our attachment specialists and schedule a free consultation to see if we are a good fit for you!

Being mixed and coming from multiple cultures is dope! So many different influences shape our identities and sense of self. We are multifaceted and beautiful. Being mixed can also be complex and can come with it’s own unique set of challenges and painful experiences. Those challenges can start at home with our own families and can continue out in the world in the ways we are coded and treated by others - and most painfully, they can exist within ourselves and the way we experience wholeness and belonging in community. 

We believe that working with a therapist that has lived experiences in these areas and can combine that experience with clinical expertise can help folks to make sense of and integrate those painful challenges. When you have a gentle, non-judgmental space to sort through all the experiences, feelings, and stories of your life, you may just begin to connect with yourself, your cultures, and your communities with more peace, ease, and joy. 

Check out our biracial and multicultural therapists and schedule a free consultation to see if we are a good fit for you!

You know you are “supposed to” love yourself and your body, you’re “supposed to” celebrate your uniqueness and embrace your imperfections - you want to be the empowered and self-confident person you show to the world and curate on social media…but inside you feel completely alone, unseen, misunderstood, disconnected, deeply self-critical and insecure. You feel so much pressure from your family, friends, work, society, everybody! You long to be accepted. To feel acceptable. 

Working with a trans-identified, liberation-focused, and trauma-informed therapist that specializes in body image can be a total game changer. Together, we can gently approach and untangle all the harmful beliefs that are keeping you stuck and in pain. We can get to the roots of the problem and lovingly heal the core wounds. 

You may feel scared, intimidated, or ashamed to talk about how you’re feeling with another human, and we get that. Our approach focuses on getting to know all of you, building an actual, authentic relationship, and doing the therapy at a pace that feels safe. Our folks get it because we have been there - either us or our loved ones are trans. We combines our lived experiences with clinical expertise to work from an intersectional and deeply human perspective.

Check out our therapists and schedule a free consultation to see if we are a good fit for you!

Love can be incredibly healing. It often teaches us the power of vulnerability and just how good it feels to be seen, heard, and deeply understood by our loved ones. It’s no wonder shit goes totally wrong when you can’t be vulnerable with your partner. We sometimes find ourselves repeatedly getting into a negative cycle, leaving us exhausted, frustrated, and straight up scared. We want nothing more than to get out of the cycle and find the connection that brought us together in the first place, but how?  

That’s where we come in. Our couples therapists specialize in digging deep, so you and your partner can get a better understanding of how your past experiences are impacting the way you show up with each other. They can help you explore attachment wounds to better understand what the fuck is going wrong and whats keeping you from hearing each other and feeling safe and validated. 

Our approach is also systemic and intersectional - we understand the impact that oppression and discrimination have on individuals and how that can make navigating relationships that much more challenging. We hold space for the traumas of transphobia, homophobia, toxic/compulsory monogamy culture, racism, colonialism, and all the isms that impact non-dominant cultures and identities. You and your partner(s) deserve a therapist that will hold your relationship challenges with dignity and understanding. 

If it feels like you are stuck in a cycle, stuck inside yourself, stuck in the same argument, or fighting the feeling of being stuck in the relationship - our couples therapists can guide you through the conflict, conversations, and difficult feelings to find your way back to each other. 

Check out our couple’s therapists and schedule a free consultation to see if we are a good fit for you!

What is therapy?! We think and talk about this all the time at hella good. We know that psychotherapy is “the treatment of disorders found in the DSM” - but what if we’re critical of the DSM? What if we believe that “symptoms” are actually a normal part of human diversity and most often a response to the environments, systems, and relationships we exist within? What are we “treating” in an individual if we believe the pathology causing distress lies not in the individual, but in a lack of balance or harmony or justice in those environments, systems, and relationships? 

We got into the field to help - to use our strengths in service of healing, yet we found that “treating” individual distress felt like a band-aid, or a game of whack-a-mole, because we weren't changing the conditions for which the distress/symptoms were a warning bell. 

So now we approach therapy, less as the treatment of symptoms, and more as the healing of wounds caused by the interconnected systems of power that shape our world and ultimately disconnect us from our nature. We approach therapy as though all humans are naturally whole, and the goal is to reconnect to that wholeness. 

We use the language of anti-colonial or decolonize as an umbrella term for non-indigenous ways of existing in the world that disconnect humans from our interdependence with one another and with nature. It’s an umbrella term to describe supremacy culture, individualism, capitalism, extraction, all the isms and phobias that create false categories (racism, homophobia, etc), power over, accumulation, conditional belonging, and right or wrong/us and them thinking. We work hard to investigate the ways colonization is impacting our lives and the lives of our clients as a way to divest from systems that harm individuals and the collective. 

If you have questions or are interviewing therapists to ensure they are a good fit for you and your values - check out our therapists and schedule a free consultation to dig into it with us!

Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR) is a therapeutic technique that doesn’t require or focus on language, but instead focuses on the parts of your brain that have stored distressing, overwhelming, or traumatic experiences. Therapists must gain additional training to utilize EMDR safely and it is a super effective approach for decreasing distressing symptoms relatively quickly. 

Brainspotting is also a therapeutic technique that focuses on processing trauma non-verbally. It uses the individual’s visual field to access and process stored trauma. 

We like to use EMDR and brainspotting in the context of a more holistic approach that focuses on safety, relationship, and deep healing work. Our therapists use these tools while approaching therapy from an intersectional and systemic lens - grounding the work in the big picture of your whole self. 

If you’re curious about these approaches and how they might work for you, check out our therapists and schedule a free consultation to ask your questions, get a better idea of what to expect, and see if we are a good fit for you!

Sometimes, life can life pretty damn hard. Changes, transitions, loss come out of nowhere and really throw us for a loop. It can feel like you are upside down, lost, and drowning all at the same time and we go back and forth between feeling numb and feeling way too much.

A therapist that specializes in navigating the complex and layered mental/emotional experiences of life changes can be a game changer. Someone to hold space, unpack your feels, and help you get your feet back on solid ground.

When tough things happen, we feel tough emotions - you’re not bad or wrong for feeling the way you do. In fact, at hella good we tend to think of that as the most human. So let us support you through the tough time and help you to move through the tough emotions. Without shaming or blaming any part of you or your experiences.

Check out our therapists and schedule a free consultation to see if we are a good fit for you!

While Latinx people are not a monolith, there are some shared historical and cultural experiences that have impacted us for generations. The colonization of our people has shaped our history and impacted the way we relate to our culture and to each other. Immigration, religion, and capitalism influence our collective sense of safety and freedom and deeply disconnect us from our more indigenous and ancient sense of community and belonging. For generations, we have survived these systems and experiences in ways that we are beginning to understand as harmful to our spirits. So how do we navigate our deep love and connection to family and culture while also rejecting and healing the fucked up survival mechanisms we’ve all thought were normal for so long?

Our LatinX therapists understand that this is a very tender and complex process - to heal intergenerational trauma while staying in connection to family and culture. We understand how it may feel risky or even like betrayal to go to therapy and talk about your pain at the hands of your own family/culture. Our therapists hold so much compassion and understanding for your family while also allowing you space to feel your feelings. We believe that your healing process is actually in service not only of your liberation, but the liberation of your family, community, and the collective. 

So no matter how your pain manifests (anxiety, depression, isolation, loneliness, rejection, feeling misunderstood or disconnected, etc) working with a LatinX therapist who understands the roots of the trauma can help to heal the wounds and create a sense of self and belonging that you can feel proud of. 

Check out our LatinX therapists and schedule a free consultation to see if we are a good fit!

So the cool thing about working with a neurodiversity affirming therapist is that we understand what it feels like to exist in a world that definitely was not designed for neurodiversity - we can identify and hold space for the complexity of this experience; both the pain/grief/challenges and the beauty/special abilities/strengths of it all. 

We work from a liberation focused lens, which in terms of neurodiversity means we deeply normalize the diversity of human functioning on every level. We can address your other therapeutic needs while holding the neurodiversity affirming lens, we can support your recent diagnosis and unmasking process, we can hold space for the grief of capacity limitations and the joy of discovering life changing accommodations, we can help you build out a life centered on working with your neurotype rather than against it, and we can work through the trauma of growing up in a super fucked up, ableist society

We are also intersectional AF - we understand that being neurodiverse is only one aspect of all that is you! All your other identities, cultures, and experiences shape who you are and how you experience yourself and the world around you. We bring in all the layers so you can deepen your self-understanding and self-compassion. 

Check our our neurodiversity affirming therapists and schedule a free consultation to see if we’re the right fit for you. 

People pleasing is so painful! It’s the worst! And we know we do it; oftentimes, we even know when we’re doing it, but it feels like we have no control over it. It feels like if we set a boundary (who’s she?) or say no (never heard of him) we would literally implode. Obviously that’s not real, but that’s how it feels!! It gets in the way of our relationships, it keeps us from showing (or even knowing) our true selves, our wants, needs, desires, and it keeps our bodies in a state of hyper-arousal, which is difficult to function through. 

At hella good, we think about people pleasing as a really smart way we figured out how to meet our most basic, fundamental human need: connection and belonging. Being part of a pack, so to speak. Humans are wired to one another for survival - we literally need other humans in order to survive outside the womb. And when other humans meet our need to survive in fucked up ways, we figure out how to remain in control by keeping the other humans happy with us. Enter: people-pleasing. 

We don’t have a “5 ways to beat people pleasing” list or a “4 weeks to free yourself from people pleasing” workshop - we believe it takes some time and some deep healing to feel safe enough to stop people pleasing. We work with this often and have effective approaches for your specific experiences and wounding. 

Check out our people pleasing specialists and schedule a free consultation to see if we are a good fit for you!

We love non-monogamy! We love relationship anarchy! We love freedom and autonomy!

If you read our little page about decolonial therapy, you know we believe that monogamy and nuclear families, while totally valid choices, are also a far cry from “the village” we all need to thrive as humans. For that reason, we deeply support, celebrate and believe in the healing and liberatory power of non-monogamous and non-nuclear family relationships and family structures. 

We work with every aspect of non-monogamy; whether you are struggling in your relationships, or have been solo poly for years, or are being challenged by jealousy or conflict with a metamor, or are part of a thriving polycule, or just want a therapist who gets it…we got you. Our therapists have lived experience, clinical expertise, and values alignment with non-monogamous relationships. 

We also understand and support relationship anarchy and non-nuclear family structures - we want to be on that golden girls shit! However you form your familial, intimate, and sexual villages, we love to see it, and we are hella good at supporting it.

Check our our ENM specialists and schedule a free consultation to see if we are a good fit for you!

Sex!! So much comes up when we talk about sex and sensuality - they are powerful concepts and we tend to have powerful experiences with them….for better or worse. At hella good, we like to use their power for good (get it?); we tend to lean into our more painful experiences with sex/sexuality/sensuality/body in a way that liberates us from shame and brings us to a place of freedom, connection, love, and life-giving self-expression.

If you are looking to explore your relationship to sexuality, heal your relationship to sex, develop your relationship to your senses, and liberate your relationship to play, power, and fantasy through kink and bdsm - you have come to the right place. 

Our therapists specialize in holding gentle space and guiding restorative healing processes around the relationship to our sensual selves. Whether that’s focused on healing particular harm(s) done, reconnecting you to what has been lost through systems of oppression, or deepening your sensual practices, we would love to join you on that journey. 

Check out our sexuality specialists and schedule a free consultation to see if we are a good fit for you!

Who says therapy and witching can’t go together? (Who says therapy isn’t a form of love magic, for that matter?!) If you want your therapy experience to include, explore, or enhance the witchy magic in your life and lineage then we want to support that!

Our therapists believe in the transformative and generative power of all things witchy, we practice and expand our own relationships to witchy shit - we even pull tarot during team meetings! There are infinite ways we can bring witchy shit into the room with us during therapy - we can incorporate witchy practices into your therapeutic process; we can explore your relationship to witchcraft, magic, and generative spirituality; or we can hold space and join you in using your witchy practices in service of your healing. 

If you are curious about what this could look like, check out our witchy therapists and book a free consultation to see if we’re a good fit for you!