Therapy for Therapists
Sacramento and online in California
As therapists, we spend so much of our lives holding space for others. We listen, we validate, we offer hope, and we walk with clients through their most painful experiences. But who holds space for us?
Andy Price, LMFT provides therapy for therapists in Sacramento and online across California, giving therapists a space to be a human.
Providing therapists support with:
Burnout and compassion fatigue
Secondary trauma from carrying stories of pain, grief, and injustice.
Perfectionism, self-criticism, and imposter syndrome
Professional identity
Imposter syndrome and feelings of not being “good enough” despite years of training.
Nothing related to work whatsoever – this is a space where you get to be you the person, not you the therapist. There is no need to have the right answer. This is your space to not have it all together.
In therapy, you get to put down the pressure of holding it all together and give yourself permission to be a person..
Going Beneath the Surface
Many forms of therapy focus on learning coping skills or managing symptoms. These approaches can be incredibly helpful, especially when you’re feeling overwhelmed.
But sometimes people reach a point where they want to go deeper than coping skills or symptom management.
Depth therapy, or depth psychology, helps you understand the patterns that are continuing to show up in your life and create new experiences to help you feel deep, lasting change.
My Approach to Therapy
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We’ll explore how past life experiences, relationships, and unconscious patterns continue to shape your life. You’ll be guided to make sense of these experiences and increase your ability to make decisions that help you live your life in a more authentic way.
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Attachment experiences (our early childhood and past relationship experiences) impact how we experience relationships, conflict, vulnerability, and safety. We'll work to understand the emotional patterns that developed in relationships and begin creating new ways of connecting with others.
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Parts work, informed by internal family systems, can help you understand the different parts of you that took on protective roles to help you survive. This may include parts that feel self-critical, avoidant, or perfectionist.
Underneath these protective parts are more vulnerable parts of you, parts that often carry the pain of past experiences.
In therapy, we’ll work to increase compassion for your protective parts and build the emotional safety to connect with the more vulnerable parts of your experience.
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Experiential therapy helps you create new emotional experiences. Instead of just telling a narrative of events and analyzing (or intellectualizing) them, you’ll be guided to explore what is happening on an emotional level. Over time, you’ll be guided to express the emotions you’ve been holding inside (in other words, feeling your feelings)
I believe that everyone already has the answers they need inside themselves.
But sometimes our life experiences make it difficult to access these answers or to trust ourselves. This may be because of:
Experiences in current or past relationships
How others perceive your identity
An inner critic
Being assigned labels that just don’t fit
What to Expect
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Permission to Be a Messy Human
You may have spent much of your life taking care of other people. You may have internalized a belief that you should put aside your own needs in order to support the needs of others. You may have learned to “hold it together” and now struggle to show others your inner emotional world.
After spending so many years focusing on the needs of others and hiding your inner emotional world, it may feel hard to connect with your feelings. You may have a hard time identifying your needs.
Therapy is a space where there are no right answers. There is no expectation for you to focus on anyone other than yourself. This is your space to be your full self - messiness and all.
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Seeing What Has Previously Been Unseen
Many of the patterns showing up in our lives happen outside our conscious awareness.
In therapy, we’ll slow things down to notice:
The stories you automatically tell yourself
The expectations you’ve been carrying
The emotions underneath those stories and expectations
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Feeling Instead of Avoiding
Past life experiences have often left the impression that certain emotions aren’t safe to feel. You may have learned to hide your sadness, push away your anger, or ignore your own needs.
Through therapy, you can build the emotional safety to make space to express these emotions.
As you learn that you can experience these more vulnerable emotions without it feeling overwhelming, you’ll be able to move through the emotions, rather than continuing to carry the weight of them.
FAQs
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This practice is a good fit for adults seeking trauma therapy that goes beyond coping skills and symptom management, and instead delves deep into their experiences. Many of my clients are looking for an LGBTQ+ affirming therapist, are recovering from relational or childhood trauma, and want to understand and change long-standing emotional and relationship patterns.
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My style is compassionate, authentic, honest, and direct.
We’ll begin by getting to know you, exploring your history, your relationships, and beginning to recognize the ways you’ve learned to survive.
As we get to know each other, I’ll point out things you may not be noticing yourself. When helpful, I believe in the power of care-frontation: being direct and challenging you in a way that comes from care, compassion, and curiosity.
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This practice may not be the best fit if you’re currently experiencing an acute mental health crisis or need intensive structure and stabilization. Please see my Resources page for a list of support that can better serve your current needs.
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Therapy for therapists can provide a space to explore burnout, compassion fatigue, burnout or vicarious trauma, or your sense of professional identity. It can help support perfectionism, self-criticism, and imposter syndrome.
Therapy can also be about nothing related to work whatsoever. Many therapists want a space where they are not the therapist. I will not expect you to have all the answers. This is your space to be your full self.
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NO. Unless you happen to find this type of question helpful, I will not expect you to take on the role of therapist during your own therapy sessions.
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Andy Price provides therapy for therapists in person in Sacramento and online across California.
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I offer convenient online scheduling. If you’re ready to get started, go here to schedule your first session. If you have any questions, feel free to email me at andy@andypricetherapy.com
Hi, I’m Andy (they/them)
I’m a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist. I am passionate about helping people build authentic, connected, and affirming relationships—with themselves, their partners, and their communities.
I specialize in working with queer and trans individuals, couples, and non-monogamous relationships, supporting them as they navigate challenges of identity, sex and intimacy, relationships, political stressors, and life’s tough moments.
Beyond my clinical work, I’m a researcher and speaker. My research centers queer and trans well-being and relationships. I have presented at professional and academic conferences on topics such as gender identity, LGBTQIA+ chosen family, and experiential and narrative therapy.
I value authentically showing up as myself, which means I’ll show you my personality, share my sense of humor with you, and also sit with you in moments of pain. I hope that authentically showing up as myself empowers you to authentically be yourself.