Symptoms matter and they're often part of a larger picture.
A trauma-informed approach recognizes that what you're experiencing doesn't happen in isolation. Your nervous system, life experiences, relationships, beliefs, and the ways you've learned to adapt all influence how you think, feel, and respond today.
Rather than focusing only on reducing symptoms, we work to understand how these experiences and patterns may be connected, how they're showing up today, and what will best support healing and meaningful change.
Therapy Beyond Symptoms
You’ve been holding a lot for a long time. Maybe it’s time for someone to hold space for you.
Many of the people I work with have spent years building careers, caring for families, responding to what life has asked of them, or doing work they care deeply about. Over time, without even realizing it, so much of your attention can shift toward what's needed around you that you stop checking in with yourself—and what once felt manageable may not feel as manageable anymore.
In this space, you don’t have to perform, explain everything away, or keep it all together. You’re met where you are, without assumption or pressure to be anything other than human.
Therapy here isn't about rushing toward a "better" version of yourself. It's about slowing down, understanding what's happening for you, making sense of the patterns and experiences that may be contributing to it, learning new skills where they're needed, and gaining clarity around what may need to shift.
This Work Is Deeply Human
- Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist (#153927) — CA Board of Behavioral Sciences
- Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist (#14278341-3902) - UT
- M.S. Psychology, Marriage & Family Therapy — Grand Canyon University
- B.A. Psychology — William Jessup University
- Certified Clinical Trauma Professional — Evergreen Certifications
- EMDR Trained (EMDRIA) — Trained by Certified EMDRIA Trainer Kim Johnson, LCSW
- Postpartum Support International — Trained in Perinatal Mood & Anxiety Disorders
- Gottman Method Couples Therapy Level 1 & 2
- Trained in Assisting Individuals in Crisis & Group Crisis Intervention by ICISF
- Trained in Imago Relationship Therapy (Couples)
- Certified First Responder Provider — International Trauma Training Institute
Professional Credentials and Training
I bring clinical expertise into the room, along with lived experience. I understand the pressure of being the one others rely on—and how much can go unseen beneath the surface. My background in high-responsibility environments deepened my understanding of the pressure many people experience everyday.
This place is for those who are often leaned on, rarely checked on, and long overdue for a space of their own.
a highly-credentialed Therapist, but also a Trauma Survivor, Wife of a First Responder, and a Mom.
I'm Hailey Palos
Your Story Is Already Valid.
You don’t have to justify what you’ve been through to deserve support. Whether your experiences have names or just a quiet impact on your everyday life, we’ll make space for it, and for what’s next.
The Body Keeps Score, So We Work With It.
Talk therapy is helpful, but trauma lives in the body. I incorporate somatic awareness, EMDR, and nervous system-informed strategies to help you move through what's been stored, not just talked about.
No Templates. No Performances.
I don’t expect you to arrive in session as your most regulated self. Therapy with me doesn’t require polish or performance. We work with what’s real, not with who you think you should be by now.
How We'll Work Together
This grounding guide was developed to support increased regulation and development of a personal plan for engaging skills to support regulation based on the level of stress, overwhelm, or activation being felt in a moment.
The activation scale supports the understanding that at certain heightened experiences, certain grounding tools may feel harder to use than others (ex. using breathwork when feeling a sense of panic can be challenging, but visual orienting may support grounding in that moment).
Grounding Guide
Free download
Life Between Sessions
More Than a Therapist
