Services
- Individual
About My Clients
I work with clients who are great at looking like they have it all together. They work hard, show up for everyone, and keep things moving. Inside, though, they often feel anxious, exhausted, or stuck in the same patterns no matter how hard you try to break free. My clients are thoughtful, capable people who often carry the weight of difficult childhoods like growing up with emotionally immature, neglectful, or abusive parents, or have had past painful experiences that still echo in the present.
My Background and Approach
I am Dr. Caitlin Stell, a licensed clinical psychologist specializing in childhood trauma, C-PTSD, EMDR, and perinatal mental health. I am an EMDRIA-certified EMDR therapist and a certified perinatal mental health provider (PMH-C). I help adults working through anxiety, depression, grief, attachment wounds, and major life transitions, including the shift into parenthood. My style is warm, collaborative, and honest. I blend psychodynamic depth with practical, evidence-based tools like EMDR, CBT, DBT, and ACT, so you can understand the patterns keeping you stuck and build real skills to feel better now. I offer virtual therapy across California, New York, New Jersey, Connecticut, Colorado, Florida, and Rhode Island, with limited in-person availability in Orange County, California.
My Personal Beliefs and Interests
Life is hard, and reaching out for help is hard too. But you were never meant to carry all of this alone, and I believe that deeply. So much of what feels unbearable feels that way because you have been holding it by yourself for so long. Good therapy, simply and profoundly, lets us know it's ok to be who we are and feel what we feel in a place of safety and understanding. I believe that therapy is a place to explore the hard parts and the good parts with someone who gets it and is genuinely on your side to help you find your way through. You do not have to have it all figured out right now. You do not have to be ready for all of it. You just have to be ready to stop doing it by yourself, and we can take it from there, together.