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THERAPY FOR LIFE TRANSITIONS · CORONADO, CA
Life transitions often challenge your sense of identity, stability, and direction.
There's a particular kind of disorientation that comes with change — even change you chose, even change that is objectively good. The person you were in the previous chapter of your life knew who they were. The person you're becoming isn't quite formed yet. In between, it can be hard to know what to hold onto.
Life transitions therapy isn't about getting through the change as quickly as possible. It's about moving through it with intention — understanding what you're leaving behind, what you're carrying forward, and who you want to be on the other side.
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 APPROACH THERAPY FOR LIFE TRANSITIONS
Life transitions work draws on our depth-oriented, psychodynamic foundation — we're interested in who you've been, not just who you're trying to become. We combine that with attachment-based relational work, values clarification, and where relevant, practical tools from CBT and ACT.
For military transitions specifically, we bring direct experience with the particular challenges of leaving service: the loss of identity, structure, and brotherhood or sisterhood that military life provides; the difficulty of translating a military career into civilian terms; the existential questions about purpose that often surface. This is real work, and it deserves real, informed support.
Transitions therapy often begins with a broad exploration: where you are, where you came from, and what the change is asking of you. Over time, work becomes more focused — on specific patterns that are limiting your movement forward, on the values and strengths you want to build the next chapter around, on relationships and roles that need tending.
Some people come for a defined period of transition work. Others find that it opens into deeper, longer-term work. Both are fine. We follow your lead.
When the life you knew no longer fits, and what’s next isn’t fully clear.
There's a particular kind of disorientation that comes with change — even change you chose, even change that is objectively good. The person you were in the previous chapter of your life knew who they were. The person you're becoming isn't quite formed yet. In between, it can be hard to know what to hold onto.
Life transitions therapy isn't about getting through the change as quickly as possible. It's about moving through it with intention — understanding what you're leaving behind, what you're carrying forward, and who you want to be on the other side.
We tend to expect difficulty in "bad" transitions — divorce, loss, illness. What surprises people is how disorienting positive transitions can be: a promotion, a move to a new place, the end of a long season of struggle, a relationship becoming more serious. Even when things are going well, change asks you to let go of a familiar self, and that's a genuine loss.
Attachment theory gives us useful language here: transitions destabilize the internal working models — the maps we use to navigate life, relationships, and identity. Therapy helps you revise those maps deliberately rather than defaulting to old patterns that no longer fit.
"Life transitions aren’t just about what’s changing around you—they’re about what’s shifting within you, often asking you to let go of who you were before you fully know who you’re becoming."
OUR APPROACH
We don't start with a protocol.
We start with you.
At True North Clinical Counseling, our approach to trauma is careful, paced, and deeply relational. We don't move straight to processing. We begin by building the safety and internal resources that make healing possible — because those foundations aren't prerequisites you arrive with, they're something we build together. From there, we work at a pace that is always yours to set.
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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THERAPY FOR LIFE TRANSITIONS IN CORONADO
Sometimes the hardest changes are those that happen beneath the surface.
In a place like Coronado—where life can look steady and picturesque on the surface—many people quietly move through periods of change that feel anything but stable. Military relocations, deployments and reintegration, career shifts, relationship changes, and evolving identities can all create an underlying sense of uncertainty, even in an otherwise grounded community. These moments often don’t announce themselves as crises, but they can still leave you feeling unmoored, questioning your direction, or trying to adjust faster than you’re ready for. Therapy offers a space to slow that process down, make sense of what’s shifting, and find a way forward that feels more aligned and steady.
ALL LIFE TRANSITIONS (EVEN POSITIVE ONES) HAVE AN IMPACT
Research on stress and life events has shown that individuals experiencing a high number of major life changes—such as relocation, career shifts, or relationship changes—are significantly more likely to experience mental and physical health difficulties in the following year.
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.
THERAPY FOR LIFE TRANSITIONS: GETTING STARTED
What to Expect
1
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.
2
Therapeutic Engagement
Beginning with intake, we provide evidence-based care in an empathetic, safe space as we walk alongside you through healing and growth.
3
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.
