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Meet Ingrid Nishimoto, LCSW

It’s time to reclaim your story.

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Therapy for Millennial Women in Granada Hills and across CA

You might be here because you feel caught between two worlds. Maybe you’re…

  • Feeling overwhelmed with a crushing genetic cancer risk diagnosis and having to decide about prophylactic surgeries. How do you choose between managing your risk and planning for an unknown future? 

  • Realizing that you can’t keep your legs split in both worlds and you need to choose–complying with your parents’ demands or moving forward with the life you long to build. 

  • Nervous about dating again and re-evaluating what it means to chart your unique path so you can truly flourish in your relationship.

A woman with glasses and long dark hair smiling, standing next to green leafy bushes, wearing a colorful floral blouse.

How I work

In our sessions, I will create and hold a brave space for you to be present with all parts of yourself. Here’s what that looks like…

THERAPY WITH ME is…

  • A space to slow down, listen deeply and face the messiness of life

  • Curated tools and resources to make you breathe a little easier 

  • Excavating deeply held but easily confused core beliefs

  • Inviting you to notice your sensations and befriend your body

  • Bearing compassionate witness together to your heartaches 

  • Space to reprocess with EMDR those painful moments you’d rather forget

THERAPY WITH ME isn’t…

  • Easy answers 

  • Rushing to get through the hard feelings 

  • Just symptom management

  • Pressure to arrive at wholeness

  • Always comfortable, but it is orienting towards your wisdom

  • What you get from ChatGPT: you get a human showing up as her full self, being attuned to the intricacies of  your face, tone and body language, so you experience true connection

GUIDING PRINCIPLES

  • Compassionate Curiosity

    Every action and feeling comes from somewhere–a narrative that worked for a long time. What does it feel like to be you, and what does it feel like to revise the script? 

  • Bodily Wisdom

    Start listening to what’s always been there. We will attune to bodily sensations and movements, and notice how they’re speaking to you. 

  • Respect for every story

    Whatever you’ve done (or not done), wherever you come from, you’re welcome here. You are worth attending to. 

  • Hope

    However bleak it feels, I will always hold a candle of hope for you. 

  • Creativity & Imagination

    I think in images and metaphors, so I will weave in movie scenes, poetry, and book references to expand your scope for imagining other worlds. 

Why trust me with your valuable time and story? 

  • You’ve asked ChatGPT, but you haven’t gotten the deeper answers you really need.

  • You’ve listened to the influencers and learned some helpful coping skills, but you still haven’t experienced the lasting change you’re seeking.

  • You’ve talked to your friends, but they don’t quite get you in this unique season.

My personal experience with hereditary cancer risk, religious trauma, and the immigrant experience means I get the emotional complexities of where you’re coming from, even if you don’t spell out all the details. While the specifics may differ, I understand the experience of feeling confused, frustrated, and angry at our systems, leaders and ancestors for their well-intended, but inadequate guidance.

I’ve been honored to traverse a wide variety of emotional landscapes with clients for ten years–the lows, the highs, and everything in between. No emotion is too big or too small to escape attention and care–it all matters, because you matter. 

Clients are often surprised by how…

Calm they feel, and are grateful for how much they can slow down, relax and quiet the mental chatter when we’re together. 

Much I feel their feelings with them. I can’t be a “blank slate” therapist–I feel deeply, and you may even see a tear roll down my cheek. 

I’m not neutral because I will always be cheering for you–even if that means I challenge you on beliefs or actions that are holding you back. 

  • Hereditary Cancer Risk

  • Purity Culture & Religious Trauma

  • Immigrant Experience

  • Eye Movement Desensitization & Reprocessing (EMDR)

My Background & Training

    • Licensed Clinical Social Worker, CA: LCSW #102145

    • Master of Social Work, Cal State Fullerton

    • Diploma in Christian Studies, Regent College 

    • Bachelor of Arts in Bible/Theology, Biola University

    • Certified in Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR)

    • Sensorimotor Psychotherapy (SP)

    • Trauma Resiliency Model (TRM)

    • California Society for Clinical Social Work

    • National Association of Social Work

    • EMDR International Association

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