Allison Rees, LMFT · California
Specialized care for first responders, veterans, and healthcare providers navigating occupational trauma, moral injury, and burnout. You don't have to explain yourself here.
Schedule a consultationI'm a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist in California with over a decade of experience in crisis intervention, harm reduction, and community care, and have a deep calling for working with those who carry trauma and identity issues.
I work with people who have seen a lot. First responders, veterans, healthcare providers, and members of the LGBTQIA+ community who are often carrying more than anyone around them knows. My job is to meet you where that weight actually lives, not where it's easiest to talk about.
My approach draws on evidence-based trauma modalities alongside Jungian depth psychology, somatic work, and harm reduction principles. I'm not precious about method. I'm focused on what works for you.
Schedule a consultationFirst Responders
Law enforcement, firefighters, EMTs, dispatchers. People who show up when others can't, and rarely get to talk about what that costs.
Veterans & Active Military
Those navigating the transition out, the things that followed them home, or the gap between who they were in service and who they're trying to be now.
Healthcare Providers
Nurses, physicians, paramedics, and mental health clinicians experiencing burnout, secondary trauma, or moral injury from the systems they work inside.
LGBTQIA+ Individuals
Affirming, informed care without the need to educate your therapist. This is a space where your identity isn't a variable to manage. It's just part of who you are.
Individual Counseling
In-person & TelehealthOngoing one-on-one therapy for PTSD, moral injury, occupational trauma, and burnout. Treatment is tailored to you, drawing on Brainspotting, TF-CBT, and somatic approaches depending on what fits. We move at your pace, not a protocol's.
Ketamine-Assisted Psychotherapy
Specialized modalityFor clients who have tried conventional approaches without sufficient relief, KAP offers a different entry point. Ketamine can soften psychological defenses and create space for deeper therapeutic work. The medicine is never the whole treatment. Preparation, the session itself, and integration together are what make it meaningful.
First Responder & Veteran Specialty Care
Population-specificCulturally competent care that doesn't require you to translate your world for me. I understand operational culture, the unwritten rules about how you're supposed to hold yourself together, and what it actually takes to ask for help in environments where that's not the norm.
Clinical Consultation
For cliniciansCase consultation for therapists and other clinicians working with first responders, veterans, or trauma populations. Drawing on nearly a decade of crisis intervention experience and specialized training to support your work with complex cases.
Most people coming to therapy for the first time, or for the first time with a new therapist, want to know what they're walking into. Here's how it actually goes.
Free 15-minute consultation
We talk. I want to hear what's going on for you, and you should be figuring out whether I'm someone you can actually work with. This isn't a sales call. It's a genuine check to see if there's a fit. You're allowed to talk to multiple therapists before deciding.
Intake session
We spend the first session getting grounded in why you're here and what you're hoping for. I'll ask questions, but I'm not running through a checklist. If something feels relevant to you, say it even if I didn't ask. We move at whatever pace makes sense.
Ongoing work
Sessions are typically weekly, though we'll figure out the cadence that actually serves you. Some weeks we'll go deep. Some weeks we'll stay near the surface. There will probably be moments that are hard, and there will probably also be moments that are lighter than you expected. Both are part of the work.
Transparency throughout
I'll often tell you what I'm noticing, what I'm thinking, or why I'm asking a particular question. I work relationally, meaning the relationship between us is part of the treatment. You're not a case I'm managing. You're a person, and this is a collaboration.
Coaching and therapy are related but meaningfully different. Therapy is a clinical service focused on diagnosing and treating mental health conditions. It's appropriate when you're dealing with trauma, PTSD, depression, anxiety, or other symptoms that are getting in the way of your functioning.
Coaching is different. It's not about treating a disorder. It's about working with someone who is already functioning well and wants to move with more intention, clarity, or purpose. Coaching is goal-oriented and forward-focused. We're not excavating the past. We're figuring out what you want and what's in the way.
Some people come to coaching after therapy, having done the deeper work and now wanting support translating that into their daily life, career, or relationships. Others come because they don't need therapy but do need a thinking partner who takes them seriously.
Coaching may be a good fit if you are
Working with first responders, veterans, and complex trauma presentations can be isolating as a clinician. The populations carry their own culture, and the cases can carry a particular kind of weight.
I offer consultation to licensed clinicians navigating complex trauma cases, occupational stress presentations, or questions around specialized modalities including Brainspotting and KAP.
My background includes nearly a decade of crisis intervention, CISM training, and direct work with high-stress occupational populations. I'm not here to supervise. I'm here to think alongside you.
Consultation is well suited for
Free 15-minute consultations available by phone or video. No commitment, no intake paperwork until you decide you want to move forward.