Meet Tana Noonan, LMFT
You Don’t Need a Crisis to Deserve Support
I’m a licensed Psychotherapist specializing in high-achieving, driven adults who look "fine" on the outside but are exhausted underneath.
I Help You See Yourself Differently
— not as the problem, but as the person who survived the problem.
The shame you carry, the ways you shut down or overfunction or hide who you really are — they're evidence that something happened to you that was too big to carry alone, and you figured out how to get by.
And I help you do something new with that understanding: see the loops you're stuck in so you can step out of them, feel the painful things without drowning in them, speak what was never spoken out loud, and test out what works before you try it in the real world.
I work well people who are driven, look competent but are exhausted underneath, and those who are skeptical of therapy or worry they'll overwhelm or or disappoint their therapist. You won't.
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how i work
Before private practice, I worked in public mental health, detention settings, crisis response, inpatient treatment, and with survivors of violent crime and trafficking.
I learned a lot in those systems. I also watched people cycle through again and again. They were trying, but what I could offer (stabilization, coping skills, short-term symptom management) never reached the root of what was driving these cycles. I burned out — not from the work itself, but from knowing what people needed and not being able to provide it within those constraints.
I recognized the same loop in my own life. I stayed in jobs and relationships that wore me down, telling myself I just needed to try harder.
Years later, my ADHD diagnosis explained why I could give everything I had and still feel behind, why no achievement convinced me I was enough, and why I could look competent on the outside and feel like a fraud on the inside.
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I know what it's like to realize your entire self-concept was built on a misunderstanding. The work I did to understand and heal those patterns changed everything.
So in 2019, I opened my practice to offer what those systems couldn’t: work that goes to the root, grounded in the structure of proven protocols and flexible enough to adjust to what you actually need.
Over the years, I began combining Internal Family Systems (IFS), EMDR, and somatic therapy, from an attachment-focused, neurodivergent-affirming lens, to offer a multi-dimensional approach that addresses the mind, body, nervous system, and relational patterns all at once.
Credentials & Training
Licensed Marriage & Family Therapist in California (LMFT #53258)
Master's in Clinical Psychology, Chapman University (2009)
Trained EMDR Therapist (Parnell Institute, 2018)
Certified ADHD Clinical Services Provider (2024)
Level 1 (2025) and Level 2 (2026) training in Internal Family Systems with the IFS Institute
Training in Somatic Experiencing (2020) and Polyvagal Theory (2019).
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