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INDIVIDUAL THERAPY · CORONADO, CA
The most important relationship you've never tended to is the one with yourself.
Sometimes it's a specific thing. A relationship that keeps breaking down the same way. A period of anxiety that won't lift. A loss that has changed the shape of everything. And sometimes it's harder to name than that — a sense that something is off, that you're not quite living the life you meant to be living, that the version of you that shows up in the world isn't the whole story.
Individual therapy is a space to slow down, look honestly, and work with what's actually there.
In-person at 1111 5th St, Coronado · Telehealth statewide · Private pay
FREE CONSULTATION
15 minutes · No obligation
In-person or telehealth
MEANING · HEALING · DIRECTION · PRIVATE PAY · LICENSED CLINICIANS · CORONADO, CA
HOW WE WORK
Our approach to individual therapy is depth-oriented and integrative. We're not interested in quick fixes or symptom management for its own sake — though symptom relief absolutely matters. We're interested in what's underneath: the early experiences, relational patterns, and internalized beliefs that shape how you move through the world now.
Depending on your history and what you're working on, your therapy may draw from:
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Psychodynamic and depth-oriented approaches — to understand the unconscious patterns and relational histories that organize your present experience
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Attachment-based work — to explore how early relationships have shaped your sense of self, your capacity for closeness, and your response to perceived threat or rejection
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Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) — to identify and shift the thought patterns and behaviors that amplify distress
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EMDR — where symptoms are connected to specific memories or traumatic experiences that haven't been fully processed
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Somatic and mindfulness-based approaches — to develop genuine nervous system regulation rather than effortful suppression
We don't apply a single protocol to everyone. We start with you — your specific history, your goals, the way you've learned to cope — and build from there.
The gap between who you appear to be and what you're carrying.
There's no single right reason to come. The adults who reach out to us are often managing something that feels too complicated, too layered, or too private to address anywhere else. Some are high-functioning by most measures — and exhausted by the effort it takes to stay that way. Some are going through something acute: a relationship ending, a career pivot, a loss. Some are dealing with things that have been present for years — anxiety, depression, old wounds — and have finally decided they don't want to just manage anymore.
Common reasons people seek individual therapy with us include:
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Anxiety, chronic worry, or a nervous system that never seems to fully rest
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Depression, low mood, or a persistent sense of emptiness or flatness
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Trauma — past or ongoing — and its effects on relationships, self-image, and daily life
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Relational patterns that repeat across different relationships
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Major life transitions: career changes, moves, loss, identity shifts
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Military life: deployment stress, reintegration, transition out of service
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A desire to understand yourself more deeply and live with greater intention
"Something changes when you are genuinely seen by another person. Not managed, not advised, not reassured — seen. Most of us have spent years becoming very good at presenting the version of ourselves that holds it together. Therapy is the place where that version can finally rest, and where the work of understanding what's underneath can begin."
OUR APPROACH
We don't start with a protocol.
We start with you.
At True North Clinical Counseling, our approach to anxiety is integrative and trauma-informed. We start with your specific history — the relational experiences, the early learning, the patterns that have organized your nervous system's responses — and work from there.
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy
CBT helps identify the thought patterns that amplify anxiety — catastrophizing, threat overestimation, all-or-nothing thinking — and builds practical skills to interrupt them. Within a trauma-informed framework, we also trace where those patterns originally came from.
Somatic & Mindfulness-Based
For many people, anxiety lives in the body first. Somatic approaches and mindfulness practices teach you to notice what's happening internally without being swept away by it — building genuine regulatory capacity, not just coping skills.
Attachment-Based Relational Work
Chronic anxiety is often rooted in early relational experiences. Attachment-based therapy addresses those roots — not to revisit the past endlessly, but to understand how it organized the nervous system and to build something genuinely different.
EMDR
Where anxiety is connected to specific traumatic experiences or memories, EMDR helps the brain complete the processing that trauma interrupted — so the memory becomes something that happened, rather than something still happening now.
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THE CORONADO CONTEXT
A community where struggle stays private.
Coronado is a particular kind of community. High-achieving, image-conscious, and in many ways private. Many of our individual therapy clients have been managing their struggles quietly for a long time before they pick up the phone. If that resonates, you're not alone — and it's not a reason to wait longer.
We also serve a significant number of military-connected adults: service members navigating the psychological weight of their role, spouses carrying the invisible labor of military family life, and veterans in the complex process of figuring out who they are after service. We understand these realities and work with them directly, not around them.
A NOTE ON THE BENEFIT OF PRIVATE PAY
Choosing private-pay therapy means your care is never shaped by what an insurance company will authorize. The pace, the depth, the focus — all of it is determined by you and your clinician, not a billing code.
MEET THE PRACTICE OWNER
Dr. Jenny Palmiotto
Psy.D., LMFT #47573 · Founder, True North Clinical Counseling
Dr. Jenny Palmiotto is a licensed Marriage and Family Therapist with deep expertise in relational, attachment-based, and trauma-informed therapy. With extensive training in Emotionally Focused Therapy (EFT) and relational models, she guides clients through meaningful healing by helping them explore core emotional patterns and strengthen connections. She founded True North Clinical Counseling to bring depth-oriented care to the Coronado community — the kind of thoughtful, relational work that addresses the root, not just the symptom.
GETTING STARTED
What to Expect
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Free Consultation
We offer a free 15-minute consultation to assess your treatment goals and possible next steps. We prioritize both clinical and relational fit.
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Therapeutic Engagement
Beginning with intake, we provide evidence-based care in an empathetic, safe space as we walk alongside you through healing and growth.
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Applied Growth Work
Together we integrate practical tools, skills, and reflection so you can generalize new learning and make sustainable changes in everyday life.
Individual therapy in Coronado is available in-person at our private office or via secure telehealth throughout California.
LOCATION
1111 5th St, Suite 2, Coronado
ALSO AVAILABLE
Telehealth Statewide
PAYMENT
Private Pay Only
CORE SERVICES
Trauma Therapy
Depth-oriented, paced trauma treatment for adults navigating PTSD, complex trauma, and adverse history.
EMDR Therapy
One of the most evidence-supported trauma treatments — often reaching what years of talk therapy couldn't.
Depression Therapy
For the flatness beneath the functioning — depth-oriented care for adults who look fine on the outside.
Life Transitions
For adults who've outgrown who they were and aren't yet sure who they're becoming.
