Discover The Transformative Path of Integrative Therapy
The Power Of Integrative Therapy
Integrative therapy will help you tap into deeper awareness and create your unique path to healing.
Become aligned with your unique intentions for your mental health and well-being. Align with your values, identify your strengths and resources, and cultivate mindfulness, self-compassion, acceptance, and gratitude.
This is an invitation to understand and accept your whole self.
This is an invitation to understand and accept your whole self
I work with individuals seeking support for mental health conditions including anxiety, panic, trauma, grief, attachment wounds, low self-efficacy, chronic pain, life transitions, and unhelpful relational patterns.
Together we can cultivate a new path of self-awareness, behavioral change, and self-care. Compassionate self-exploration includes increasing emotional awareness and self-efficacy, understanding the origin of your beliefs and wounds, and identifying your needs, values, strengths, and options while skillfully navigating obstacles to healing. I will support you in creating a richer connection with yourself and developing skillful navigation for life’s inevitable challenges. Your courageous work will help you create a fulfilling life with meaningful connection, self-empowerment, and purpose.
I use a holistic and interpersonal approach that utilizes a cultural, systemic, and attachment lens. An evidence-based therapeutic approach is tailored to your unique needs including somatic therapy, mindfulness, and self-compassion integrated with with third-wave cognitive behavioral therapies (CBT) such as acceptance and commitment therapy (ACT) and emotion efficacy therapy (EET).
Along with my master's degree in clinical psychology, I integrate a two-decade background in yoga therapy, in-depth training in mindfulness and self-compassion, and extensive training in somatic approaches to healing. All of which can be integrated into treatment plans when clinically appropriate.
“Emily Benaron strikes the balance between sharing both her thorough understanding of therapeutic modalities focused on the mind-body connection and her truly palpable compassion that cannot be missed in the experience of working with her. She truly takes the time to deeply navigate the worlds of somatic psychotherapy, mindfulness, and compassion-based practices, and make them an integral foundation of the support that she provides to her clients. She is truly a gem of a therapist in our community, and those who have the good fortune of being in her care can anticipate having a transformational experience.”
— Anahita Navab Holden, PhD, SEP
Focusing On Your Intentions For Well-being
When you take the time to explore and define what is truly important to you and why, everything changes. Your decisions then become aligned with your intentions. When you better understand the unhelpful patterns that hold you back, they become more visible. You may realize that you have agency. You can choose to be accountable to yourself and align your actions with what matters most. You develop self-trust. In our work, we get to be accountable together! You have an ally. With practice, you will be your own voice of accountability strengthening your confidence and your relationship with you!
Somatic Therapy & Embodiment
You are an incredible multidimensional being and many factors contribute to your wellness. You don’t have to be fixed. With this holistic approach, you are not viewed as a segmented human with problems that only affect one area that someone else needs to solve for you. You are seen and supported as your whole self and cared for with deep and heartfelt compassion.
A Holistic Approach To Mental Health Includes The Body
Somatic therapy invites us to explore how we experience life from the inside out. The body offers wisdom that is an integral part of the healing journey. Somatic therapy gently guides us to attune to our bodies with curiosity, kindness, and compassion. We learn to understand the nervous system's signals, increase our capacity to tolerate stress and cultivate a sense of safety. With the guidance of somatic interventions, we may uncover painful patterns, memories, and experiences that can be transformed, integrated, and healed. The wisdom of the body supports us grow into our fully embodied and empowered selves.
Foundations For A Calm + Present Mind
Mindfulness practices are designed to help focus and calm the mind. However, if you are coming to your mediation practice with high levels of stress and anxiety, it is often challenging to just sit and usually results in a lot of thinking, worrying, and rumination. This often ends with feelings of “being bad at meditation,” more anxiety, or feelings of failure.
My experience as a yoga therapist and extensive training in somatic interventions informs how I facilitate mindfulness practices in therapy. I will teach you tools to calm your nervous system such as breathwork, movement, sound, mantra, self-compassion, and visualization to prepare you for your meditation practice. As Dr. Shauna Shapiro says, “What you practice grows stronger.” This means that the more regularly you practice meditation with attainable goals, your brain is rewiring and creating new neural pathways for meditation to become more familiar with time.
Give Your Values + Dreams A Platform
You can start living a mindful and embodied life today!
Opening Up To The Expansiveness + Insight Of Your Inner World
A holistic approach to gaining increased awareness
Learning new ways to approach old problems
And intentionally creating your own path
Anxiety and Panic Disorder Clinic
of Santa Barbara
100 N. Hope Ave. Suite 12
Santa Barbara, CA 93105
805-364-2884
emilybenaronmft@gmail.com
Associate Marriage and Family Therapist #144918
Supervised by Jessica Zacarias LMFT #129512