Integrative, specialized, evidence-based treatment in Santa Barbara for individuals and families experiencing symptoms of obsessive compulsive and related disorders, anxiety, trauma, and PTSD.

Pazan Integrative Family Therapy offers comprehensive, neuroaffirming, and trauma-informed therapy for individuals across all stages of life. Grounded in curiosity, compassion, connection, and safety, our integrative and attachment-focused practice specializes in working with clients experiencing symptoms of obsessive-compulsive and related disorders, anxiety, trauma, and PTSD.

Therapy modalities utilized

  • EMDR

    Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR) therapy is backed by extensive research, proving its effectiveness for trauma-related conditions. EMDR facilitates the rapid processing of distressing life events and attachment injuries, promoting long-term psychological stabilization without the need for detailed verbal processing or homework. When there are co-occuring symptoms of trauma and OCD, integrating interventions (such as EMDR and ACT-Informed ERP) can be highly effective.

  • ACT-Informed ERP

    Exposure and Response Prevention (ERP) uses systematic exposure and deliberate response prevention to retrain the brain's reaction to fear and uncertainty, fostering long-term psychological flexibility and improved daily functioning. Mindfulness and acceptance strategies  increase psychological flexibility. Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) encourages individuals to accept automatic internal experiences without defense, defuse from unhelpful mental narratives by seeing them as transient events rather than absolute truths, and commit to values-based actions that enrich life, regardless of the presence of discomfort.

  • Written Exposure Therapy

    Written exposure therapy (WET) is a brief, structured cognitive-behavioral intervention designed specifically for posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD). WET was developed from a systematic line of research examining the necessary and sufficient components for an effective PTSD intervention. Numerous studies have shown it to be effective in reducing PTSD symptoms stemming from a wide range of traumatic events.

  • Play Therapy

    Through play, children’s natural medium of expression, children are supported in processing big feelings and emotions, difficult life transitions, trauma, and grief. As a research-backed clinical modality, play therapy uses the symbolic language of play and the expressive medium of toys to help children communicate and make sense of complex internal experiences. Play therapy is frequently used alongside other evidence-based approaches, including EMDR and ACT-informed ERP, to provide a comprehensive, developmentally sensitive treatment.

  • SPACE Treatment

    SPACE stands for Supportive Parenting for Anxious Childhood Emotions and is a parent-based treatment program for children and adolescents with anxiety, OCD, and related challenges. Although children do not have to attend SPACE sessions - they are the patients! When SPACE treatment is successful children feel less anxious and function better following treatment. Some of the main anxiety related problems treated with SPACE: Separation anxiety, Social anxiety, Generalized anxiety, Fears and phobias, Selective mutism, Obsessive-compulsive disorder, Picky Eating and ARFID.

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