Psychotherapy that nurtures the ground beneath

About Inara Center

Our Approach to Therapy

إنارة “Inara” in Arabic means illumination. At Inara Center for Psychotherapy, we offer trauma-informed, culturally responsive, and queer-affirming therapy to support healing and release, reconnection to ancestral roots, and the cultivation of a deeper sense of belonging, dignity, and groundedness.

Our work is eclectic and deeply individualized, shaped around each client’s unique needs, identities, lived experiences, and the personal and systemic realities that have informed them.

It would be a privilege to help tend the ground beneath you — so that, with greater rootedness and care, you may grow into your fullest, most authentic, and illuminated self.

Our Specialties

We can help treat

Trauma

Trauma therapy offers a safe, supportive space to process painful

Anxiety

Anxiety therapy can help you understand the thoughts, fears and

Parenting

Parenting therapy offers support for navigating family stress, parent-child conflict,

Addictions

Addiction therapy provides a supportive, nonjudgmental space to explore the

Eating Disorders

Eating disorder therapy helps you explore your relationship with food,

Codependency

Codependency therapy can help you recognize people-pleasing patterns, strengthen boundaries,

Trauma

Trauma therapy offers a safe, supportive space to process painful

Anxiety

Anxiety therapy can help you understand the thoughts, fears and

Parenting

Parenting therapy offers support for navigating family stress, parent-child conflict,

Addictions

Addiction therapy provides a supportive, nonjudgmental space to explore the

Eating Disorders

Eating disorder therapy helps you explore your relationship with food,

Codependency

Codependency therapy can help you recognize people-pleasing patterns, strengthen boundaries,

A specialized focus on ISTDP

ISTDP is a depth-oriented therapy that helps uncover, process and release buried emotions and defenses that have formerly perpetuated painful patterns in one's life.

Our Therapies

How we help you heal

ADOLESCENT

Adolescent therapy provides a supportive, developmentally attuned space for teens to build emotional regulation, strengthen identity, navigate challenges and grow with greater confidence.

PSYCHODYNAMIC

Psychodynamic therapy is a depth-oriented approach that helps uncover the unconscious patterns, early experiences and relational dynamics that continue to shape present-day emotions and

EFT

EFT is a couples therapy approach that helps partners move beyond painful cycles of conflict or distance and create greater emotional safety and connection.

BRAINSPOTTING

Brainspotting is a brain-body therapy approach that helps access and process unresolved experiences, emotions and somatic patterns held beneath conscious awareness.

ISTDP

ISTDP is an active, emotion-focused approach that helps uncover unconscious patterns, reduce emotional avoidance and create meaningful, lasting change.

Couples

Couples therapy helps partners better understand their relationship patterns, communicate more openly and navigate conflict with greater care, connection and intention.

EMDR

EMDR is a trauma-informed therapy approach that helps the brain process painful experiences so they feel less emotionally overwhelming in the present.

Individual

Individual therapy offers one-on-one support for exploring your thoughts, emotions, relationships and patterns so you can move through life with greater clarity and self-awareness.

Couples

Couples therapy helps partners better understand their relationship patterns, communicate more openly and navigate conflict with greater care, connection and intention.

ISTDP

ISTDP is an active, emotion-focused approach that helps uncover unconscious patterns, reduce emotional avoidance and create meaningful, lasting change.

BRAINSPOTTING

Brainspotting is a brain-body therapy approach that helps access and process unresolved experiences, emotions and somatic patterns held beneath conscious awareness.

EFT

EFT is a couples therapy approach that helps partners move beyond painful cycles of conflict or distance and create greater emotional safety and connection.

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Schedule an appointment with INARA Center

Contact us today to schedule an appointment to meet with one of our professional therapists.

The Inara Team

Meet Our Clinicians

Audrey Moreno

Associate Marriage and Family Therapist, AMFT 141738

Mia Murray

Associate Clinical Social Worker, ACSW #130751

Megan Baker

Associate Marriage and Family Therapist, AMFT #160332

MONA SABA VALERIANO

Licensed Clinical Social Worker #27612

MONA SABA VALERIANO

Licensed Clinical Social Worker #27612

Megan Baker

Associate Marriage and Family Therapist, AMFT #160332

Mia Murray

Associate Clinical Social Worker, ACSW #130751

Audrey Moreno

Associate Marriage and Family Therapist, AMFT 141738