Trauma & Relationships
- Relational & Complex Trauma
- PTSD
- Couples Therapy
- Co-parenting & Divorce Support
- Developmental / Intergenerational Trauma
Trauma therapy in Newport Beach & online across California
Koan Depth Therapy
Attachment • Trauma • Depth Psychology
“Be patient toward all that is unsolved in your heart,and try to love the questions themselves.”Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poet
Trauma therapy in Newport Beach
Depth-Oriented Trauma Therapy
Therapy offers a place to slow down and listen differently to what keeps repeating, the ways you learned to protect yourself, and what may be longing or waiting to be heard beneath the surface of everyday life.
Symptoms often carry meaning. The anxiety, the numbness, and the patterns you keep finding yourself in are not random. They may be expressions of an inner experience that has not yet found words or entered conscious awareness.
Healing often asks more of us than insight alone. It can involve understanding how our earliest relationships shaped the ways we experience ourselves, other people, and the world, while creating room for something new. My work draws from attachment science, parts work, neurosomatic approaches, and depth psychology, grounded in curiosity, compassion, and respect for your culture and your story.
I look forward to meeting you.Celia Fierro, M.A., Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist
Therapy services
Areas of Focus
Many of the concerns that bring people to therapy are interconnected. Anxiety, relationship struggles, grief, trauma, or a persistent feeling of being “stuck” often emerge from deeper patterns shaped by early relationships, life experiences, and the nervous system. My work focuses less on treating symptoms in isolation and more on understanding the underlying themes that connect them.
Anxiety, Identity & Life Transitions
- Grief
- Existential Issues
- Shame & Self-Esteem
- Anxiety / Depression
- Codependency
Expanded Healing
- Psychedelic Preparation & Integration
- Ketamine-Assisted Psychotherapy
About Celia
Education & Ongoing Study
My clinical work is informed by formal training in psychotherapy alongside continued study in art, consciousness, contemplative practice, and depth psychology. Together, these disciplines invite a way of working that is both clinically grounded and deeply attentive to the complexity of human experience.
Current Doctoral StudiesDepth Psychology — Pacifica Graduate Institute
Clinical TrainingM.A., Clinical Psychology — Pepperdine University
Advanced CertificatePsychedelic-Assisted Therapies & Research — California Institute of Integral Studies, CIIS
Foundational StudiesB.F.A., Fine Art — Laguna College of Art + Design
Contemplative Studies & Creative WritingNaropa University, Boulder, Colorado
What Are Koans?
A koan is a paradox, question, or story from Zen tradition that invites reflection beyond logic and opens space for new ways of seeing.
Like a koan, therapy is not always about finding the right answer.
Sometimes it is about learning to sit with a question long enough for a deeper truth to emerge.