Founder · Clinical Director
Aia Ribadeneira
Psychotherapist · EMDR · Trauma & relational care
Healing is not about becoming someone new. It is about reclaiming the parts of you that had to go quiet in order to survive: and learning how to live, love, and lead from a steadier place.
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I am a psychotherapist and the founder of Aya Wellness. In my work with individuals, couples, and families, I see the same truths the field's most respected voices keep returning to: the body keeps score, connection is medicine, and lasting change happens when insight meets safety, skill, and practice.
People come to me when anxiety, depression, trauma, grief, or relationship rupture have made life feel smaller than it should: or when they are already high-functioning and ready for a deeper level of clarity, intimacy, and performance. My role is not to fix you. It is to help you understand your nervous system, rewrite old patterns, and build a life that feels like yours again.
How I work
My approach is warm, direct, and deeply collaborative. I draw on advanced training in trauma-focused care and relational work: including EMDR, EFT, TF-CBT, CPT, and psychodynamic therapy: always adapted to your story rather than forced into a single model.
Before private practice, my path wound through psychology research, early intervention, and education. That mix still shapes how I show up: curious about the science, rigorous about what works, and human enough to sit with what is hard without rushing you past it.
For clients exploring expanded states of consciousness, I offer ketamine and psychedelic therapy support: careful preparation and thoughtful integration so insight does not stay trapped in a single experience, but becomes part of how you live.