EMDR & Trauma Therapy · Beverly Hills, CA
Heal the Pattern Where It Was Formed.
Depth work for the relationship cycle that keeps repeating. EMDR and trauma therapy for professionals and established creatives in Beverly Hills and across California.
Free ConsultationNo card, no commitment
HIPAA-CompliantEncrypted & confidential
EMDRIA-CertifiedAttachment-Focused EMDR
The Pattern
The Same Ending, A Different Face.
Another relationship just closed the way the last one did. The same kind of person you have chosen before. The same place it went quiet. The same ending arriving with a face you almost recognized before it happened.
You watched yourself pick this again. You saw the early signs, told yourself this time would be different, and somewhere in the middle of it felt the old reaction take over the part of you that knows better.
This has been with you longer than you care to admit. You have read the books, done the work in past therapy, had the long honest conversations with yourself. Still, every direction you turn looks like the same closed door with a slightly different handle.
If any of this sounds familiar
- The same kind of person, chosen again under a different face
- Early signs you saw clearly, and moved toward anyway
- Insight you can explain better than most, that has not changed the reaction
- The trigger arriving a beat before a single thought finishes forming
The face changes. The ending does not. You can explain where this comes from more clearly than most people explain their own lives. Knowing has not changed the reaction you keep regretting.
The Approach
EMDR That Reaches the Imprint Beneath the Symptom.
Early relationships leave an imprint in the nervous system and the emotional brain, a physical memory of how connection felt when you were too young to choose anything about it. When a present moment rhymes with an old one, that imprint fires the old response a beat before thought arrives. That is why you can understand the pattern completely and still watch it run.
Inside-out healing of the imprint, attuned to the particular way your pattern runs.
EMDR is a structured way of helping the nervous system finish processing an old experience so it stops firing in the present. Attachment-Focused EMDR shapes that work around early relationship wounds, the slow relational kind of injury rather than a single dramatic event, because the trauma underneath a repeating relationship pattern is almost never one moment you can point to.
- Reach the early imprintYour past therapy mapped it accurately but never moved it
- Finish what stayed unprocessedThe experience the nervous system never closed stops driving the present
- Loosen the automatic reactionThe response you regret loses its grip, because the thing firing it has changed
- Keep your intensity intactUnderstood as information about you, never treated as a flaw to manage down
- Recover creativity and follow-throughThe parts that go quiet whenever the old threat reactivates
- Relate and create from freedomThe freedom you can already sense in yourself underneath the pattern
This is depth work at the root, one integrated approach shaped around the particular pattern you carry and the life you have already built around it.
Request a Free ConsultationThe Path
How Inside-Out Healing Unfolds.
Nothing reopens before you have the footing to hold it. Here is how the work moves, in the order it moves, at the pace you set.
01·
Stabilize and Reconnect
Safety and grounding inside the work come first, the capacity to feel something fully without being flooded by it, and a clear read together on the patterns and triggers running underneath the life that works.
The ground steadies under you.
02·
Process and Transform
EMDR and Attachment-Focused EMDR carry psychoanalytic and relational depth straight into the imprint underneath the pattern, processing the unresolved experience itself rather than your account of it, so the change reaches where insight could not.
What ran automatically becomes something you can influence.
03·
Integrate and Create
Old wounds and old defenses stop quietly organizing your decisions. Creativity, authentic expression, and relationships that last come back within reach, and the work moves from something you understand to something you live.
Unlived potential becomes lived.
Why trust me
EMDRIA-Certified, Attachment-Focused EMDR trained.
I am certified through EMDRIA and trained in Attachment-Focused EMDR, the form of this work built for early relational wounds rather than single-event trauma. For someone whose pattern traces back through a long line of relationships rather than one moment, that distinction is the difference between work that touches the actual injury and work that only circles it.
Psychoanalytic depth behind the processing.
A certification in psychoanalytic therapy and training in the neuroscience of how emotional bonds form keeps the processing connected to the story and the early bond still driving the pattern. This is the part most prior work left out, and it is why the change holds once the sessions end.
Two decades with high-functioning, creative minds.
Across roughly twenty years, the people I work with are professionals and established creatives whose outside life works while a relational pattern keeps running underneath it. Your emotional intensity arrives as something to be understood and worked with, never pathologized.
About me
Depth that reaches the imprint, not only the insight.
I'm Mihaela Ivan Holtz, Psy.D., LMFT. For roughly two decades I have worked with professionals and established creatives whose outside life works while a relational pattern keeps repeating underneath it. I bring EMDR, Attachment-Focused EMDR, and psychoanalytic depth together into one integrated approach, so the change reaches the imprint itself and holds at the root instead of fading once the sessions stop.
The room is reflective, paced, and attuned. The work goes where the pattern was formed, not only where it shows up, and it moves at the pace you set. Your emotional intensity is treated as information about you, never as something to manage down.
— Mihaela Ivan Holtz, Psy.D., LMFT · Creative Minds Psychotherapy
Credentials & practice
- Psy.D., Clinical Psychology · LMFT, Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist
- EMDRIA-Certified · Attachment-Focused EMDR (AF-EMDR) Certified
- Certified in Psychoanalytic Therapy
- In person in Beverly Hills and West Los Angeles · online across California
Why has insight not changed this for me?
Insight lives in the thinking brain, which is why every honest conversation and every good book landed there and went no further. The imprint driving the pattern was laid down long before language, in the nervous system and the emotional brain, and that is where this work goes.
Is EMDR going to make me relive everything in detail?
No. EMDR helps the nervous system finish processing an old experience without requiring you to narrate every detail of it again, at the pace you set rather than the pace of an agenda.
How is this different from the therapy I have already done?
Most prior work stays at the level of understanding and coping, which is real and which you have already done well. This integrates EMDR, Attachment-Focused EMDR, and psychoanalytic depth to reach and process the imprint itself, so the change holds at the root.
Do you see clients outside the Los Angeles area?
Sessions are in person in Beverly Hills and West Los Angeles, and online for clients located across California.
I am high-functioning and successful. Is this work for me?
Yes. It is built for capable, psychologically minded people whose outside life works while a relational pattern keeps repeating underneath it, the people for whom knowing has never been the same as changing.
Take the first step
When you're ready, here's what's next.
No long forms. No cold sell. One conversation, and then an honest read on whether this is the right next step for you, or a different one.
HIPAA-Compliant
Encrypted & confidential
Secure Submission
Your details stay with me
EMDRIA-Certified
Attachment-Focused EMDR
Limited availability this month
Start where the pattern was formed
Start With One Conversation.
Tell me a little about what keeps repeating. I will reach out to set up your free consultation, in person in Beverly Hills or online across California.
There is no script to get right. A sentence or two about the pattern is plenty to begin.
You have done the understanding already. This is the work that moves what understanding alone could not reach, at the root and at the pace you set.
Call direct at (310) 424-0292, or fill out the form to get the conversation started. The consultation is genuinely free. No card, no commitment. I will discuss session fees on the call if EMDR turns out to be a fit. Sessions are in person in Beverly Hills and West Los Angeles, and online for clients located across California.