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.
Polyamory Therapist California: Working Through Jealousy
You felt the jealousy before you understood it. Your partner mentioned a second date with someone new, and your chest went tight, your thoughts started
LGBTQ+ Jealousy Therapist California: When Everyone Knows Your Ex
Your partner’s ex is in your friend group chat. She was at the same drag brunch last weekend, she’ll probably be at Pride, and you’re
BIPOC Family Shame Therapist California: The Comparison Trap
Your aunt brought up your cousin’s promotion again, right after asking why you still haven’t found someone or settled down or made whatever choice she
BIPOC Family Boundaries Therapist California: The Real Fear
You rehearsed the sentence in your head a dozen times before you ever said it out loud. Something small, maybe just “I can’t host this
Acculturation Gap Therapist California: Living Between Two Value Systems
You translate for your parents at the doctor’s office, then go to work and code-switch so hard you barely recognize your own voice by 5pm.
How Trauma Affects Sexual Intimacy (And What Can Actually Help)
Sex stops feeling like something you want and starts feeling like something you brace for. Or you go through it and feel nothing, like you’ve
