Online Trauma Therapy in California for Queer, BIPOC, and Marginalized Clients
Led by clinicians with lived experience who bring both expertise and real-world understanding
Specialized Therapy for Complex Lived Realities
We work with clients navigating religious trauma, non-monogamy, identity exploration, and racial trauma, as well as the complexity of living across multiple identities. This is not one-size-fits-all therapy. Our work is grounded, nuanced, and built for real life.
Therapy that honors your whole self. No code switching. No explaining.
Our clinicians integrate lived experience with clinical training to offer therapy that is culturally aware, direct, and grounded in real-world experience. We focus on depth and specialization, not generic care.
Ann Russo
Founder and Clinical Director
Blanca Ayala
Marriage and Family Therapist
Nic Caballero
Licensed Clinical Social Worker
Lorena Fiori
Licensed Professional Clinical Counselor
Tiffany Hill
Licensed Clinical Social Worker
Lorena Fiori
Licensed Professional Clinical Counselor
Tiffany Hill
Licensed Clinical Social Worker
Kristina Esquivel
Licensed Clinical Social Worker
Meet the
AMR Team
A group of providers with both clinical expertise and lived experience, offering nuanced, trauma-informed care grounded in real-world understanding.
AMR Therapy and Support Services
Online therapy, support services, and coaching in California for individuals, couples, families, and groups seeking specialized, trauma-informed care.
What We Help With
We support clients navigating religious trauma and faith deconstruction, non-monogamy and relationship dynamics, gender and sexuality, racial trauma and cultural stress, and neurodivergence, burnout, and overwhelm. We also work with anxiety, depression, and life transitions through a trauma-informed and identity-aware lens.
Specialties
We provide therapy for queer and transgender clients, people of color, neurodivergent individuals, sex workers, and those in kink, polyamory, and consensually non-monogamous relationships. We specialize in religious trauma and faith deconstruction, including the intersection of religion with gender, sexuality, and identity. Our work focuses on identity, relationships, and complex trauma, including recovery from shame-based systems.
Therapy Orientation
AMR Therapy offers multiple therapy modalities, with a clinical emphasis on EMDR therapy, Brainspotting, cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT), somatic therapy, attachment-based therapy, and sex-positive therapy to treat trauma, PTSD, anxiety, depression, identity stress, and relationship challenges.
Blog
Take a look at our blog for insight and support.
Healing Sexual Shame After Purity Culture
If you grew up in a purity culture environment, you were probably taught that your body was a problem to be managed. Desire was dangerous.
Opening a Monogamous Relationship: Challenges, Communication, and Therapy Support for Couples Exploring Polyamory
The decision to transition from a monogamous relationship to a polyamorous one is rarely simple. For some couples, the conversation begins with curiosity. For others,
Climate Anxiety and Mental Health: How to Cope When Worry About the Future Becomes Overwhelming
Climate change is one of the most significant challenges facing our world today. As news stories about rising temperatures, natural disasters, environmental degradation, and uncertainty
Religious Trauma and High-Control Religion: When Faith Becomes Emotional and Psychological Harm
For many people, faith communities provide connection, purpose, comfort, and belonging. Religious and spiritual traditions can offer meaningful guidance during life’s most difficult moments and
Memorial Day Is More Complex Than the Story We’re Usually Told
At AMR Therapy, we work with many clients navigating the emotional weight of identity, belonging, grief, and intergenerational trauma. Holidays like Memorial Day can bring
When Consent Is Worn Down: Sexual Coercion, Abuse, and Healthy Boundaries in Relationships by Tiffany Hill, LCSW – she / her
One of the hardest truths to name is that sexual abuse does not always look like what people expect. It is not always violent in
