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.
When You Grew Up as Your Family’s Translator
You were reading eviction notices out loud at nine years old, translating what the doctor really meant by “we need to run more tests,” and
When Your Sibling Could Do No Wrong
Your sibling missed curfew and it became a funny story at dinner. You missed curfew once and it got brought up for years. The golden
Why Trying Something New Feels Riskier Than It Used To
You sat in the parking lot before the class you actually wanted to take, rehearsing reasons to just drive home. You bought the supplies for
Going Back to School While Everyone Still Needs You
The reading gets done after the kids are asleep, usually somewhere around midnight, and the alarm for work still goes off at six. You sat
The Hidden Cost of Being “The Strong One”
You’re the one people call at midnight. The one who stays calm when everyone else falls apart, who remembers everyone’s medication schedule and everyone’s birthday,
The Real World Doesn’t Come With Instructions: Quarter-Life Crisis Therapist California
Nobody warns you that graduating, moving out, or starting your first real job could feel like grief. If you’re looking for a quarter-life crisis therapist
