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Online Breakup Therapy Across California

Attachment-focused support for adults struggling after a breakup

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You might be functioning on the outside… going to work, answering texts, showing up…but internally, everything feels off.

Since the breakup, your mind won’t slow down. You replay conversations, scan for meaning, wonder what you missed, and feel pulled back into memories you didn’t ask for.

Mornings can feel especially heavy.

Nights are worse.

The quiet gives your thoughts too much room.

For many people, a breakup activates old attachment wounds and unresolved trauma —

Especially if you have an anxious, avoidant, or mixed attachment style.

The body remembers past losses, even when the mind tries to reason its way out.

This isn’t weakness.

It’s your nervous system trying to restore safety after connection was lost.

Breakup therapy focuses on why this hurts so deeply — not just how to distract yourself from it.

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Hi! I’m Nicole, Breakup Therapist

I offer online breakup therapy to adults throughout California who are navigating the emotional aftermath of a relationship ending — whether the breakup was sudden, long-anticipated, mutual, or deeply unwanted.

You don’t need to live in Long Beach to work with me. If you’re in California and your nervous system is still living inside the loss, online therapy allows us to work together from wherever you are

Why Breakups Can Feel So Overwhelming

Breakups don’t just end a relationship — they disrupt your sense of safety.

When an attachment bond breaks, the nervous system often interprets it as a threat. That’s why logic doesn’t touch the pain. You can know the relationship wasn’t healthy and still feel panicked, abandoned, or emotionally unrecognizable to yourself.

This can look like:

Waves of panic or emotional crashes that come out of nowhere
Obsessive thinking about your ex or the relationship
A deep sense of rejection, loss, or unworthiness
Feeling untethered from your identity, routines, or future

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How Online Breakup Therapy Can Help

If you’re healing from a breakup and live anywhere in California, online therapy allows us to work together without geography being a barrier.

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