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
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.
You Deserve a Therapist Who Gets It: Mental Health Care for the Kink Community
Finding a good therapist is hard enough. Finding one who won’t flinch, pathologize, or quietly judge the way you love and connect? That’s a different
When Faith Becomes a Wound: Religious Trauma and Healing for Queer Communities
Maybe you grew up being told that God made a mistake when God made you. Maybe you prayed, harder than you’ve ever prayed for anything,
You Were Never the Problem: How Systems Create Mental Health Barriers for BIPOC and Queer Communities
If you’ve ever left a therapy session feeling more exhausted than when you walked in — like you spent the whole hour explaining yourself instead
Healing from the Harm: Why Conversion Therapy is Dangerous and How to Recover
Introduction: The Silence After the Storm In the golden state of California, we often view ourselves as a beacon of progress and inclusion. Yet, for
Beyond Talk Therapy: Why Somatic Healing is the Missing Piece for Trauma Recovery
Have you ever felt like you’ve “talked your trauma to death” but your body still feels like it’s on high alert? You can logically understand
Expert Care, Accessible Rates: Understanding the Sliding Scale at AMR Therapy
In the California mental health landscape, finding a specialist in religious trauma, LGBTQ+ identity, or non-monogamy often comes with a staggering price tag. It is not uncommon to see
