Healing Trauma
Freeing Minds

Creating safety within Client’s lives through therapeutic intervention that allows for the processing of pain and the ability to live life to the fullest.

"All human beings should try to learn before they die, what they are running from, and to, and why."

- James Thurber

"All human beings should try to learn before they die, what they are running from, and to, and why."

James Thurber

My Services

Learn more about the services I offer that fit your mental health needs

Individual therapy

True healing is integration with the mind, body, and relationships.

Individual therapy creates a validating and empowering space where nothing has to be performed, managed, or explained away.

My work begins with safety, because only when you feel genuinely safe can the deeper work of remembering, mourning, and healing really begin.

This includes the personal, the intergenerational, and the collective wounds that come from living in systems that too often harm people based on race, sexuality, religion, or culture.

From there, we focus on reconnection because who we become is inseparable from the quality of our relationships and our place in community. I draw on somatic therapy, EMDR, Coherence Therapy, DBT, CBT, and CPT, tailoring the approach to what you actually need.

EMDR

Some wounds don’t respond to words alone.

Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR) is a powerful, research-backed therapy that works beneath the level of language, using bilateral stimulation to help the nervous system process what it has been holding.

The brain naturally wants to heal, and EMDR gives it the conditions to do so; allowing memories that once felt raw, overwhelming, or always-present to finally settle.

For those navigating addiction, EMDR can be particularly transformative, because so much of what drives compulsive behavior is unprocessed pain seeking relief.

By addressing the underlying trauma rather than the symptom alone, EMDR helps loosen the grip that substances or behaviors have taken hold.

The result is not erasure, but integration: the past becomes something you have, rather than something that has you.

Group therapy

Group counseling is one of the most effective and underutilized forms of therapy available. In a confidential, carefully facilitated setting, members gain insight not just from the therapist but from one another where they learn to give and receive honest feedback, practice new ways of relating, and witness their own patterns reflected back in a safe environment. For many people, the group becomes the first place they have ever felt fully seen.

Walk & Talk therapy

Experience therapy incorporated with movement and grounding in nature. Sometimes processing life’s challenges while moving can create new insight and utilizes the body’s natural healing ability.

Hello, I’m Ethan King, a Licensed Professional Counselor with dual expertise in trauma studies and addiction counseling. I hold a Master’s degree from Concordia University Irvine and an additional Master’s from King’s College London with a focus on trauma studies.

My practice address trauma across multiple dimensions from individual’s experiences to systemic and community-level trauma. This comprehensive approach led me to obtain my Licensed Chemical Dependency Counselor license, enabling me to provide integrated support for individuals facing substance use challenges.

I believe that empathy and curiosity are fundamental to the healing process, creating clear pathways through pain and suffering toward recovery and growth.

What I Can Help With

Specialized support for trauma, anxiety, self-image, addiction, and more—tailored to your needs.

Anxiety and Depression

Helping you find traction amidst the pain of the past, and uncover the experiences that formed the beliefs that keep you ruminating and stuck.

Self-Image

Through building mastery and understanding your behavioral patterns, help restore your natural self-respect.

Trauma and PTSD

Find safety and yourself again through EMDR and other cognitive modalities that can help you process your painful memories so that they are not forgotten but integrated.

EMDR

Find resolution for those memories or behaviors you seem stuck with through this modality.

Men’s Issues

Learn to understand your emotions and uncover your identity and the way you want to present your masculinity.

Addiction

Understand the origins of the pain that keeps you going back to certain behaviors and substances.

Religious Trauma & Deconstruction

Process your hurt from religious institutions and find healing during the midst of your pain.

Decolonial Processing

Heal from colonial harm, or honestly facing your own complicity in it, takes courage. This is a space to process both, and to find the clarity and will to fight for something better.

Beyond Diagnosis

Within my work, I challenge the traditional diagnostic models that often pathologize normal reactions to abnormal circumstances.

Science Informed Care

I draw on the latest research while remaining critical of whose experiences that research has historically centered, prioritizing approaches that are both evidence-based and culturally humble.

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