ifs & EMDR Therapist | murrieta + Online Across California
Beyond Talk: Therapy for Deep Lasting Change
Tana Noonan, LMFT, specializes in Trauma, Anxiety, burnout, and Relationship Stress
For adults who are curious & thoughtful but also want therapy that effectively gets to the root of what keeps them stuck. I help with trauma, anxiety, burnout, and relationship challenges using an integrative approach of mind and body techniques like EMDR, IFS, and Somatic Therapy.
I KNOW
You're Done Pretending Everything is Fine.
Hey there, I’M Tana
I believe you're already whole. You're just burdened by experiences that taught you otherwise.
MY JOB ISN'T to "fix" you. It's to create enough safety for you to find your way back to yourself.
I'm a therapist, a wife, a mom, and someone who's done enough of my own work to know that healing doesn't happen on a fixed timeline, and it definitely doesn't happen when you don't feel seen, heard, and accepted.
I've worked in public mental health, detention settings, crisis response, inpatient treatment, and with survivors of violent crime and trafficking. Those years taught me two things: people are incredibly resilient, and the systems designed to help them are often too limited to do the job well.
I saw how trauma doesn't just live in your memories; it shows up in your relationships, your sense of self, your body, your whole worldview. And I knew I wanted to help people heal at that level. But I couldn't do that in settings where "stabilization" meant getting people functional enough to be discharged, rather than actually addressing what was driving the crisis in the first place.
So in 2019, I started my private practice. I wanted to create a space where people could go deep, move at their own pace, and do the kind of work that actually sticks—not just symptom management.
Is This for You?
Who I Work With
I work with people whose inner world is complicated—and who need a therapist who gets that.
You Might Be:
A complex trauma survivor whose past keeps showing up in your present
A high-performer (including creatives navigating perfectionism and blocks)
Late diagnosed Neurodivergent (ADHD, Autism, and other neurodivergences)
Someone for whom traditional therapy hasn't worked—or made things worse
How I Work
I follow you, not a protocol.
I trust that your system knows what it needs, and my job is to help you access that.
I'm direct.
I won't sugarcoat things, but I also won't judge you. I can sit with not knowing, with silence, with messiness.
I measure progress differently.
Not by whether you're "better" on some arbitrary timeline, but by whether you feel more like yourself, safer in your body, clearer about what you need, and more able to make real choices instead of just reacting.
I get neurodivergence.
I understand neurodivergence from the inside. I'm late-diagnosed ADHD myself, so I know what it's like when your brain doesn't work the way therapy assumes it should. We move at the pace your system needs—not the pace insurance companies or productivity culture says you should. [Learn more about my neurodivergent-affirming practices →]
Sound like you?
Working with me is…
Collaborative — we get curious together about what's happening in your system
Paced for your nervous system, not a treatment manual
Trauma-informed and neurodivergent-affirming
Focused on lasting change, not just symptom management
Working with me is not…
A place where you have to perform or hide parts of yourself
Rushed toward "healing" before you're ready
Focused on your productivity, perfection, or doing it "right"
A quick fix — we're going for deep, real change
Find The Support That’s Right For You.
You’ve already done the hard part. Realizing something needs to change. I’ll help with the next steps.
professional background:
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I don't follow rigid protocols—I follow you. My approach integrates the methods below based on what your system needs.
Internal Family Systems (IFS) The foundation of how I work. IFS sees your mind as naturally made up of different parts—some protect you through anxiety, perfectionism, or shutdown; others carry old wounds. We'll help you build a relationship with these parts, understand what they're protecting you from, and release the burdens they carry. This isn't about managing parts of yourself—it's about leading them.
EMDR & EMDR Intensives EMDR helps process traumatic memories so they stop running your life. I use Attachment-Focused EMDR to address early relationship wounds that still affect how you see yourself and connect with others. For deeper or faster work, EMDR Intensives offer extended sessions (sometimes over consecutive days) to focus on specific trauma without the stop-start of weekly therapy.
Somatic & Nervous System Work Trauma lives in your body, not just your thoughts. Using Somatic Experiencing and Polyvagal Theory, we'll work with the physical sensations, nervous system responses, and body-based protective strategies that keep you stuck in hypervigilance, shutdown, or dysregulation.
Attachment Repair Your earliest relationships shaped how you relate to yourself and others. We'll explore attachment patterns—not to blame your past, but to understand why certain relationships feel triggering, why intimacy feels unsafe, or why you keep repeating patterns you hate.
DBT Skills (as needed) When emotion regulation, distress tolerance, or interpersonal effectiveness skills would be useful, I integrate DBT tools—but always in service of the deeper work, not as a substitute for it.
An Integrative Approach I don't limit us to one framework. We'll weave these methods together based on what you need—addressing the emotional, cognitive, somatic, and relational layers of your experience.
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Credentials:
Licensed Marriage & Family Therapist (LMFT #53258), California
MA in Clinical Psychology, Chapman University
Core Certifications:
Certified EMDR Therapist | Parnell Institute (2020)
Certified Clinical Trauma Professional (CCTP) (2020)
Certified ADHD Clinical Services Provider (ADHD-CCSP) (2024)
Certified in Dialectical Behavior Therapy (2009)
Advanced Training:
Internal Family Systems (IFS)
Somatic Experiencing (SE)
Polyvagal Theory
Supporting Victims of Human Trafficking, Mass Violence, and Critical Incidents
Recognition:
Certificate of Recognition from San Bernardino County for crisis response following the December 2, 2015 terrorist attack at Inland Regional Center
FAQs
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I don't accept insurance directly, but I provide Superbills and work with Thrizer to help you get reimbursed through your out-of-network benefits. Most clients get 50-80% reimbursed depending on their plan. [Learn more about fees and insurance →]
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Traditional talk therapy often focuses on insight or coping strategies—understanding why you feel anxious or learning to manage it. IFS and EMDR go deeper: we're not just talking about your anxiety, we're working directly with the part causing it and helping it release what it's protecting you from. Instead of managing symptoms, we're reorganizing your internal system so the symptoms don't need to be there anymore.
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I work with complex trauma, severe dissociation, layered neurodivergence, and intense parts. I won't be scared off by your intensity or tell you you need a "higher level of care" when what you actually need is a therapist who can handle complexity. If I'm genuinely not the right fit, I'll tell you—but "too much" isn't the reason.
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No. Especially with EMDR, you don't need to retell or relive what happened. We can process traumatic memories without going through every painful detail. And with IFS, we move at the pace your protectors trust—if parts aren't ready, we don't push. Your system leads; I follow.
You already know something needs to change
What are you waiting for?
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