--- title: "Childhood Trauma Therapy for Adults | RhythmLife, Albany CA" description: "Therapy for adults healing childhood trauma with Anna Talamo, LMFT — Attachment-Focused EMDR, Matrix Reimprinting and Brainspotting. 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You're competent. You've built things. And some part of you is still organized around conditions that stopped applying decades ago. ## Please note I work with adults. This page is about adults carrying what happened to them as children — I don't provide therapy for children. ## What counts People routinely disqualify themselves. 'Nothing happened to me.' 'Others had it much worse.' 'My parents did their best.' All of that can be true and you can still be carrying something. What shapes a child isn't only the dramatic events — it's chronic unpredictability, an adult whose mood set the weather in the house, being the one who managed everyone else's feelings, being unseen, being bullied, illness or loss at the wrong moment, love that was conditional on performance. The nervous system records what it was like to be small and to need something that wasn't reliably there. It doesn't check whether the story sounds serious enough. ## How I work with it Slowly at first, deliberately. Attachment-Focused EMDR and Resource Tapping build internal steadiness — in a real sense, providing now what wasn't available then — before we approach anything difficult. Matrix Reimprinting is particularly well suited to this work: it uses EFT tapping to go to the moment a belief was formed and change your relationship to it, rather than only processing the event. For someone carrying 'I'm too much' or 'I don't matter' since age seven, that's often where the movement happens. Brainspotting helps when you can feel something clearly and have no words for it — common when the experience predates the language to describe it. ## On your family This work doesn't require you to blame anyone, confront anyone, or reach any particular conclusion about your parents. Some people's relationships improve; others gain clarity about distance. That's yours to decide. The work is about what you're carrying, not about assigning fault. Fit ## How it tends to turn up later - Difficulty trusting that good things last - Being the person who always copes - Chronic guilt, and feeling like a fraud in a life you actually earned - A hair-trigger for feeling dismissed - Numbness where feelings should be - Repeating one relationship pattern with different people If you're in immediate danger or thinking about harming yourself, call or text 988 (Suicide & Crisis Lifeline) or call 911. This page is not emergency care. ## Wondering whether yours "counts"? That's one of the most common questions I hear. Book a free 15-minute consultation. [Schedule a free consultation](/contact) RhythmLife Psychotherapy Anna Talamo, LMFT Healing beyond talk — trauma therapy blending EMDR, Flash Technique, EFT and Brainspotting. In-person in Albany, California and telehealth across CA and TX. 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