Grayson Wallen is a California based Licensed Professional Counselor, and Certified Gottman Therapist and has focused his career to helping adult survivors of childhood trauma work through complicated emotions and conflicted relationships. Grayson also has significant experience helping people work through their feelings and faith together, especially after seasons of doubt, spiritual trauma and reconstruction. He draws from personal and professional training to help create therapy atmospheres that are experientially healing and promotes healing from the inside out. Grayson’s formal training is in Intensive Short-Term Dynamic Psychotherapy and the Gottman Method for Couples Therapy but he also has clinical training and expertise using Emotion Focused Couples Therapy as well as Accelerated Experiential Dynamic Psychotherapy. All of these philosophies of therapy account for, help and soothe traumatic experiences in a relationship focused way, either with a partner in couples therapy or the ways that trauma places functional limits in the therapy relationship with the therapist. Grayson is gentle and an expert in helping people see these patterns of relating with compassion and without shame, leading to healing and change that actually sticks.