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Find Relief, Build Confidence, Strengthen Your Relationships

Therapy for Couples, Adults, and Teens

Practical tools. Compassionate support. Meaningful change, one conversation at a time.

Virtual, in the Napa Valley and throughout California

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Your Mind Won't Stop Running the Numbers

Sarah worries for hours every day. Her job, her family, the bills, a pain in her side that probably means nothing, and probably means everything.

She can’t seem to turn it off. By bedtime her shoulders are up around her ears and sleep won’t come, so she lies there and worries about not sleeping too.

What wears her down most is watching the worry crowd out the parts of her life she actually loves.

If that sounds familiar, I want you to know it makes sense. And it can change.

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You Can't Relax Until You Know They're Safe

Emma‘s partner travels for work, and the moment they leave, something in her goes on alert.

She calls. She texts. She confirms they landed, and then confirms again. Her coursework slides, because most of her attention is out on the highway running through everything that could go wrong.

What worries her most is what the worry is doing to them. All that reassurance she keeps needing is quietly pushing them away, and even when they’re finally in the same room, something feels distant.

Anxiety like that almost always has an origin. Once we find it, it loosens its grip.

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Every Test Comes Back Clean and You Still Aren't Convinced

Nigel is certain something is seriously wrong with him.

He’s had the workups. He’s seen the specialists. Every result comes back fine, and every fine result buys him about a day of relief before the searching starts again.

He knows the symptom pages by heart now. His reviews at work are slipping because so much of his day goes to reading them, and the people closest to him have run out of ways to reassure him.

What he hasn't put together yet is that the fear itself is producing a fair number of the symptoms he's chasing. That's a loop, and loops can be interrupted.

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Your Teen Is Disappearing Behind a Closed Door

Daniel is sixteen, and lately he can’t make it to school.

His heart pounds, his breath goes shallow, the room tilts, and within minutes he’s convinced something is terribly wrong, seemingly out of nowhere. His grades are slipping, his friends are drifting, and the more it happens, the smaller his world gets.

As his parent, you feel it from the other side of that door. You want to help, and you don’t know how to reach him.

There's a reason this is happening to Daniel. Once he understands it, the panic stops feeling random, and it starts feeling manageable.

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The Same Argument, On Repeat

Maggie and Joel have been married eight years, with two little ones and a household that never stops asking for more.

Maggie feels like she’s carrying it all and no one notices. Joel feels like nothing he does is ever enough. So the dishes become an argument, the argument becomes blame, and they go to bed on opposite edges of the bed, both feeling alone in a marriage they once couldn’t wait to start.

Underneath most fights sit quieter questions: do you still see me? Am I in this alone?

That's the conversation worth having, and I can help you have it.

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Six Months Later and You Still Can't Get Past It

Sophia and Jackson have been together ten years. Six months ago, he found out about the affair.

She’s sorry. She has said so a hundred times, she means it, and she wants to rebuild what they had. Jackson doesn’t know whether he can. The images arrive uninvited, usually at night, and when she tells him where she’s been he wants to believe her while some part of him keeps checking anyway.

They are both exhausted, and neither one has walked out the door. That matters more than either of them realizes right now.

Trust can be rebuilt. It takes honesty, patience, and something solid to hold onto while you do it.

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You Share a Bed and a Calendar and Not Much Else

Elena and Armando have been drifting toward opposite ends of the house for about three years now. Between her job and the kids, Elena is running on empty by nine o’clock, and touch feels like one more thing being asked of her.

Armando reads that as rejection, so he stops reaching, and the distance becomes official. They both want to be closer, and neither one knows how to open that conversation without it turning into a referendum on the marriage.

There's a way to have it. I've sat with a lot of couples while they found it.

Therapy Cleans the Window You're Looking Through

I think of therapy a little like tending a garden. Together we figure out what to water, what to prune, what to gently pull, and where you've needed sunlight all along.

You’ll learn to notice what you’re feeling in your body, what to do with those feelings so they don’t run you, and how to ask for what you need without starting World War III.

The patterns that feel impossible right now have a logic to them. Once we find it, you get your footing back.

Hi, I'm Nicole.

I'm a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist, and for more than sixteen years I've sat with couples, adults, and teens through the hardest seasons of their lives. What I care about most is simple: that you feel genuinely heard, understood, and supported.

You won't find me hiding behind a clipboard.

I’ll laugh with you when something’s funny and tear up with you when it’s all too much.

There’s no need to perform or to have the right words. You can ask me anything, and I’ll answer you plainly.

The Tools I'll Put in Your Hands

My background is in Dialectical Behavior Therapy, which I practiced for fourteen years in a state hospital setting, alongside Family Systems work and trauma-informed care. With couples, I draw on the Gottman Method and Emotionally Focused Therapy.

In plain terms, that means I’ll give you real, usable tools, and a real human across from you while you learn them.

Whether you’re quieting anxious thoughts, helping your teen find their footing, carrying grief or loss or an old trauma, or finding your way back to the person you married, my approach is collaborative, warm, and tailored to you.

We’ll work at your pace, and we’ll work toward the changes that actually matter to you.

Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist Nicole Terrazas

Email me to schedule a free consultation call

Services

Individual Therapy Couples Therapy Teen Therapy

Specialties

Anxiety Trauma Recovery Grief and Loss

Where These Stories Lead

Sarah learned to stop wrestling her worried thoughts and let them pass like clouds drifting across the sun. She got kinder with herself, trusting she’s doing the best she can in any given moment while still reaching for better. Her evenings became hers again.

Let's Take the Hard First Step Together

Asking for help can feel difficult. It's also where everything starts to change.

I’ll give you a place to speak openly, without fear of being judged, and we’ll work toward what matters most to you. If you’re ready to begin, I’d be honored to walk alongside you.

(510) 913-3293 nicole.diahanne@gmail.com Virtual, in the Napa Valley and throughout California