Jill Sumiyasu, LMFT

Something meaningful in your life isn't working, even though on the outside things look fine. You've tried therapy, you have insight into your patterns, and something still isn't shifting. That's exactly who I work with. Before becoming a therapist, I spent most of my adult life as an executive in investment management. Driven, accomplished, always moving. What I didn't realize until my 50s was that the constant motion was keeping me from slowing down enough to feel. Therapy changed that profoundly enough that I left my career, went back to school, and became a therapist myself. That history is part of why I work the way I do. My approach is depth-oriented rather than symptom-focused, drawing on psychodynamic work, Internal Family Systems, Somatic EMDR, and mindfulness-based practice. I'm also certified in Ketamine Assisted EMDR, which pairs low-dose ketamine with trauma reprocessing rather than treating the medicine and the therapy as separate things. For ketamine-assisted psychotherapy, medical care and prescribing are handled by Journey Clinical. I don't handle or administer medicine. My role is the therapy, and I think that separation matters. I also work with people who had a psychedelic experience somewhere else, at a retreat, in a ceremony, or with another provider, and are trying to make sense of what happened afterward. You don't need to have worked with me before for that. Licensed in California as an LMFT (#137796) and an LPCC (#14512).