You understand your patterns. You still feel stuck in them.
Something tells you that you need to get to the source.
Depth and somatic psychotherapy to help individuals and couples heal from complex trauma, PTSD, relationship challenges, anxiety, addiction, body image, depression, and burnout.
Most approaches treat what’s visible. I help people heal the patterns beneath it.
Book a free 15-minute consult →The patterns
When you need more than traditional talk therapy
Stuck in the cycle
You understand your patterns, but you still find yourself caught in cycles of reactivity, disconnection, and fear.
Pain that lives in the body
You sense that much of your pain comes from childhood. You feel it in your body, but it’s hard to put into words.
Turning toward, not away
You’ve been numbing, or trying every healing modality under the sun, and you’re starting to see that you’ve been running from your pain. Something in you knows that healing means turning toward it, but that feels too scary to do alone.
Waiting for the other shoe
There’s a persistent sense that something bad could happen at any moment, and you’re not sure why.
Beyond validation
You know you need more than validation. You need support that actually shifts the patterns underneath.
If any of that sounds familiar, here’s what I want you to know: none of it is a failure of effort or insight.
It’s what happens when trauma lives in the nervous system, below the reach of talk and understanding. Your body adapted to survive something real, and it’s still running that old program. The way through isn’t more analysis. It’s working with the body itself, where the pattern actually lives, so healing happens at the level the wound occurred.
This is the work I do, and I don’t do it from behind a clipboard.
I’m Krista Sabados, a licensed marriage and family therapist in Huntington Beach, and I come to this work as a human first. I’ve had to find my own way through patterns that insight alone couldn’t change. That experience doesn’t make your story the same as mine. It means I know what it feels like to stand where you are, wondering why nothing you’ve tried has lasted.
I’ll meet you with warmth, honesty, and curiosity, but I won’t simply listen while the same painful loop repeats session after session. I’ll help you notice the pattern while you’re living it. I’ll challenge the places where survival has become mistaken for identity. And together we’ll work with your nervous system so change happens somewhere deeper than insight alone.
My practice, Source Healing, is built around depth work: getting to the source of your pain and transmuting it. I trained in the Comprehensive Resource Model directly under its developer, Lisa Schwartz — an approach designed for trauma that talk therapy couldn’t reach — and I weave it together with Internal Family Systems, somatic work, and, for those who want it, a spiritual dimension that honors the whole of who you are.
So what could life actually look like?
Your body as a place you live, not a thing you manage. Mornings that don’t start with dread. A nervous system that can settle. Saying no without a three-day guilt spiral. Feeling your feelings without being flooded by them. Trusting yourself again.
Not becoming someone new. Returning to the self that was there all along.
You don’t have to do this alone, and you don’t have to know exactly what you need before reaching out. Start with a free 15-minute consultation, and we’ll talk about what’s been happening and whether this work is the right fit.
Pathways of healing
Ways to work with me
Every path begins with a free consultation, so you can feel whether this is right before anything else.
Therapy · California
Complex Trauma
You don’t need another explanation of why you’re hurting. You need a different way of working with the part of you that still believes it has to survive.
Explore →Anxiety
Anxiety isn’t the enemy. It’s your nervous system trying to protect you with outdated information. Together we help it learn something new.
Explore →Couples
The argument isn’t really about the dishes, the text message, or the money. It’s two nervous systems protecting old wounds in the only ways they know how.
Explore →Beach (Walk-and-Talk) Therapy
Depth work in motion. Sessions on the sand in Huntington Beach, where nature, movement, and somatic trauma work meet.
Explore →Therapy Intensives
Want to go deeper, faster? Extended sessions for focused, transformative work at the source.
Explore →Beyond the Therapy Room
Coaching & Healing
Growth and transformation drawing on the full toolkit: mindfulness, breathwork, spiritual practice, and a guide who has walked the territory. Available worldwide.
This is coaching, not therapy, and not a substitute for it.
Explore →For Organizations
Burnout has a source too, and it’s rarely what the wellness program is treating. Discovery-driven workshops and group facilitation built from what your people are actually living, not from a template.
Explore →