Giulia Defant, LMFT

Trauma-responsive, LGBTQ+ affirming therapist supporting adults and couples navigate trauma, relationships, eating disorders, and more.

I bring specialized training in trauma, couples work, and eating disorder treatment. My work is grounded in psychodynamic therapy and integrates experiential and somatic approaches such as EMDR, Ketamine-Assisted EMDR (KA-EMDR), Ketamine-Assisted Psychotherapy (KAP), Trauma-Informed Yoga, and Ecotherapy. Rather than focusing solely on insight, these approaches allow us to work with the emotions, patterns, and nervous system responses that often lie beyond words. Whether you're navigating trauma, relationship challenges, body image concerns, or a desire for deeper self-understanding, therapy can create new possibilities for how you relate to yourself, others, and the world around you.

Over the years, I've come to see many of the patterns that cause us pain—anxiety, self-criticism, perfectionism, people-pleasing, disordered eating, disconnection, or substance use—as ways our systems have survived and adapted to difficult experiences. I believe many of our struggles are not simply individual problems, but responses to the relationships, systems, and conditions we navigate. As a queer, white, Italian immigrant, my lived experiences continue to shape both who I am and how I show up as a therapist. I am guided by values of inclusivity, community care, collective liberation, disability justice, Indigenous sovereignty, and environmental stewardship. When I'm not working, you'll likely find me outside, walking among redwoods, practicing yoga, and tending to relationships I cherish.