Amy Grace Sullivan
Trauma-informed psychotherapy for women healing emotional patterns, restoring nervous system safety, and returning to themselves.
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.
We Are Not Broken
My work is grounded in the belief that we are not broken—
And healing is not about fixing what is broken.
It is about understanding what we learned to survive—and helping it return to safety.
My path to this work did not begin in a classroom—it began in my body.
My Path to This Work
I first came to yoga while rehabilitating a knee injury from my years
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, emotion, identity, and change.
It became a way of understanding myself.
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.
More than 15 years later, I’ve had the privilege of traveling internationally
to lead yoga teacher trainings, retreats, and workshops, while writing, speaking,
and being featured in publications including Yoga Journal.
Those years taught me how 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.
My work naturally deepened into Yoga Therapy, where I trained through Loyola Marymount University.
It felt like the next step: moving beyond practice into deeper integration, wholeness, and healing.
And then psychotherapy called.
I tried to talk myself out of that, too.
I remember saying to a new therapist,
“Therapy doesn’t work. I can’t go back to school—I’m going to be 50.
What about all of this, that, everything…”
…and yet, a month later, I enrolled.
I pursued my Master’s in Counseling Psychology at Pacifica Graduate Institute in Santa Barbara,
where my passion for psychology, trauma healing, depth work, and the work of Carl Jung deepened.
Today, I integrate psychodynamic therapy, attachment theory, EMDR, parts work (IFS),
somatic therapy, Polyvagal theory, mindfulness, and yoga-informed practices into my clinical work.
Because healing requires more than insight.
It requires relationship, safety, and a way back to yourself.
How I Work
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 healing unfolds in something more alive than absence.
Healing happens in connection.
Therapy is one of the most intimate and paradoxical relationships you will ever enter:
you know very little about me, 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.
And I don’t believe in complete invisibility.
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.
It is to be 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
running the show behind the scenes.
I will laugh with you and I will challenge you.
I will help you challenge the belief systems formed from a wounded self.
We will explore your protective and reactive strategies
But most of all, I will challenge you to be kinder to yourself.
And I am determined to be the therapist I never had.
What I Bring
I bring a strong intuitive presence, a deep respect for emotional complexity,
and a belief that healing happens in relationship.
I also bring humanity.
I have lived a full, messy, meaningful human life, and I bring that lived understanding into the room in a grounded and thoughtful way.
I also carry lived experience of sexual trauma,
which has deeply shaped my understanding
of what it means to survive, fragment, and
slowly gather the pieces of yourself back into wholeness.
I know what it means to rebuild trust with yourself.
I know what it means to return.
I am also a natural teacher.
I find real joy in helping people understand what is happening within them—
offering language, insight, and practical tools so they can move through their inner world
with more confidence, clarity, and self-trust.
Because understanding can create compassion.
And compassion can create change.
The Work of Return
In many ways, I see this work as helping people gather the scattered pieces of themselves—
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, coherence, and healing.