About Alyssa Walls
Trauma Therapist
Sacramento

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Finding a trauma therapist in Sacramento
can be anxiety-provoking.

It was hard enough to decide to seek help because you feel like you should be able to figure this out on your own. But you had a moment that was the last straw and you hopped online.

Maybe you started on one of those directories with hundreds of therapists listed and got overwhelmed looking at the profiles full of psychobabble and acronyms you didn’t understand. How do you choose the right person?

Maybe you’ve been in therapy before and you felt like the therapist just didn’t ‘get’ you, or they listened and nodded while you vented but they didn’t offer any real solutions.

Or maybe this is your first time in therapy and you’re nervous to tell a complete stranger all your personal business. I get it.

Finding the right trauma therapist is kind of like dating—there’s got to be a connection.

Am I your trauma therapist in Sacramento?

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Alyssa Walls, LMFT #93427

Hi, I’m Alyssa. [I should tell you before we meet that although my name is spelled A-l-y-s-s-a, it’s pronounced “uh-lee-shuh.” Like Alicia Keys.] I’m a Sacramento native.

I want to live in a world where women (and men, and non-binary folks) spend less time beating themselves up and trying to shrink, and more time sharing their gifts, speaking their minds, and making this world a better place. So I’ve made it my mission to help people live more authentic, fulfilling lives.

I do my best work with those who long to feel at peace but are paralyzed by anxiety and self-doubt, and feeling overwhelmed.

I support my clients in dismantling the beliefs that keep them scared and small, so they can approach whatever life throws their way from an empowered place.

What It’s Like to Work with Me

People have described me as an old soul with a wise, calming presence. It’s my hope that the space I hold for you in my Midtown Sacramento office serves as a little oasis of calm amidst the turbulence of your daily life.

I know from 15 fulfilling years as a therapist and from my own healing journey that the biggest thing standing in your way is that worried, self-critical voice inside your head.

I nurture self-compassion. I’ll be your biggest supporter until you can be your biggest supporter.

My style as a therapist is gentle, but I won’t hesitate to be direct and straightforward with you when it feels like you’re not being honest with yourself. I challenge clients, from a loving place, to help them get unstuck and grow.

I don’t foster dependency. I’ll help you uncover your strengths and lean into your natural wisdom, until you feel confident to do the rest of the healing on your own.

Frequently Asked Questions about Alyssa Walls, LMFT
Trauma Therapist in Sacramento

  • I’m a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist #93427

    I’m also a certified IFS-Informed Somatic Trauma Therapist.

  • My specialties include: attachment issues including anxious attachment, codependency, Highly Sensitive Persons, people pleasing, perfectionism, relationship issues, self-worth struggles, and trauma.

    The types of trauma I work with include: attachment trauma, childhood trauma including childhood emotional neglect, complex trauma (CPTSD), developmental trauma, relational trauma, and preverbal trauma.

  • Like most modern therapists, I’m an integrative therapist, meaning that I incorporate more than one theoretical orientation into the work I do. The main modalities I use are somatic therapy and Parts work (Internal Family Systems), with a focus on attachment.

    Somatic therapy helps you get out of your head and into your body, and regulate your emotions by completing stuck nervous system stress responses (i.e., fight, flight, or freeze).

    Parts work (IFS-informed) helps you step into your wisest Self and cultivate compassion for your inner child, your inner critic, and all the Parts of you that create inner conflict.

    An attachment lens helps us see how your early relationships with caregivers set the blueprint for how you relate in adult relationships, especially with romantic partners. This isn’t set in stone and you can rewrite these patterns, once you’re conscious of them.

  • I work with adults in California who want to heal emotionally, cultivate greater self-love, and live more authentic, fulfilling lives.

    The vast majority of my clients live in the greater Sacramento area, as I do my best work in person.

    Many of my clients tend to identify with one or more of the following identities:

    I’m also knowledgeable and affirming of polyamory and other consensually non-monogamous relationship structures, and of BDSM and kink. I’m sex-positive and body-positive. Sex and sexuality are topics you’re welcome to talk about in therapy.

    If you’d like to bring your whole, multifaceted self into therapy with all of your intersections, I’d love to work with you!

  • I’m a straight, cisgender, multiracial woman of Filipinx, black, and white descent. I’m the daughter of an immigrant. And a childhood trauma survivor.

    Though not a member of the LGBTQ+ community myself, I take pride in being the best ally I can be and I’m always learning.

    I’m a progressive therapist. Many folks seeking therapy look for a therapist whose values align with theirs, so that they can feel as safe as possible in therapy. I try to decolonize therapy as much as I can. Again, I’m always learning (or rather, unlearning).

    I bring my identities to therapy and so do you. Many of my clients share some overlap in identities with me. For example, I work with many women of color.

    Many clients choose to explore racial identity, racial stress and trauma, and/or women’s issues in our work together, though there is no pressure or expectation for you to do so.

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