Amy Grace Sullivan
I am a psychotherapist, yoga and meditation teacher, retreat facilitator, and former yoga teacher trainer who brings a mind-body, depth-oriented approach to healing. My work is grounded in the belief that we are not broken—we are complex, layered human beings made up of lived experience, adaptation, and untold stories waiting to be understood.
My path to this work did not begin in a classroom—it began in my body.
YOGA:
I originally came to the yoga practice as a way to rehabilitate a knee injury sustained during my time as a collegiate athlete and professional dancer. What started as physical healing slowly became something much deeper: a way of understanding the relationship between mind, body, and emotion, and how we learn to move through pain, identity, and change, including my own.
Ironically, before becoming a yoga teacher, I tried to talk myself out of it. I remember telling my teacher, "I can't be a yoga teacher, I swear, I drink… shouldn’t I go to India and be anointed or something? I’m not even that nice.” And yet, life had other plans.
Over 15 years later, I have had the privilege of traveling internationally to lead yoga teacher trainings, retreats, and workshops, while also writing, speaking, and being featured in publications including Yoga Journal. These experiences began my education in shaping my ability to hold space for people in transition—those moments when life no longer fits the way it used to, and something new is asking to emerge.
Yoga Therapy:
While teaching group classes and offering yoga to private clients, my interest grew towards Yoga Therapy and I got certified at Loyola Marymount University. It was a natural progression from teaching yoga and wanting to offer more integrated wholeness and healing.
Psychotherapy:
Ironically, before becoming a psychotherapist, I tried to talk myself out of that, too. I remember telling this new therapist, "Therapy doesn't work! I can't go back to school, I'm going to be 50! what about all this, that, etc..."
... And yet, a month later (7 years ago), I pursued my Master’s in Counseling Psychology at Pacifica Graduate Institute in Santa Barbara, where my passion for psychology, Trauma healing, and Carl Jung/Depth Work deepened.
Today, I integrate psychodynamic therapy, Attachment theory, EMDR, Parts Work (IFS), Somatic Therapy, Polyvagal Therapy, mindfulness, and yoga-informed practices into my clinical work. And I am determined to be the Therapist that I never had.
Therapeutic Relationship:
In graduate school, I was taught to be a “blank slate” as a therapist—to reveal very little of myself so the focus remains entirely on the client. And while I deeply respect the intention behind that model, I’ve come to believe that healing unfolds in something more alive than absence—it happens in connection.
Therapy is one of the most intimate and paradoxical relationships you will ever enter: you know very little about me (except with I'm sharing now) and I come to know so much about you. Within that dynamic, I believe there is room for both boundaries and humanity. I don't believe in over-sharing or in complete invisibility.
Instead, I believe in authentic presence—being real enough that you feel safe, and boundaried enough that the space remains yours.
My role is not to be a blank slate, but a steady, grounded presence who walks alongside you—offering insight, attunement, and care as you explore the parts of yourself that may have been hidden, exiled, or left unspoken. And I will challenge you. I will challenge you to look at belief systems formed from a wounded self but I will mostly challenge you to be kinder to yourself.
What I Bring:
I have a strong intuitive presence, a deep respect for emotional complexity, and a belief that healing happens in relationship. I am also someone who has lived a full, messy, meaningful human life—and I bring that humanity into the room in a grounded and thoughtful way. I also carry lived experience of sexual trauma, which has shaped my understanding of what it means to survive, fragment, and slowly gather the pieces of oneself back into wholeness.
I am also a natural teacher. I find joy in helping you understand what’s happening within you—offering language, insight, and tools so you can better navigate your inner world with confidence and self-trust.
In many ways, I see this work as helping you gather the scattered pieces of yourself—not to erase what has been broken or buried, but to understand it, soften toward it, and begin to place it back into relationship with the whole.
My hope is that, over time, you begin to feel something like this:
What once felt like separate fragments are actually part of a living mosaic—
one that is still forming, still becoming, and still capable of great beauty and coherence.
From that place, you don’t just survive your story—
you begin to live it, with steadier ground beneath you and wings strong enough to carry you forward.