Trauma may mark your story, but your life still holds capacity for joy, depth, and beauty. My role is to help you find it.
I understand how easy it is to lose yourself when you’re holding multiple roles and responsibilities. Old wounds, stress, and expectations can quietly shape how you show up in your relationships and within yourself.
This practice was built for people who are expected to hold it together (professionals, first responders, parents, and trauma survivors) even when things feel like they’re quietly unraveling behind the scenes.
Therapy for People Who Carry a Lot, and Keep Going Anyway
You’ve held it together longer than most. Maybe you’re ready for someone to hold space for you.
Being part of a first responder family and navigating my own experiences with birth trauma has shown me how unresolved stress quietly influences our relationships, identity, and the way we show up in therapy. I don’t bring assumptions about who you should be or how you should feel. I meet you where you are, exactly as you are.
Therapy shouldn’t be about erasing your pain or rushing you toward a “better” version of yourself. It’s about giving you space to breathe, to be seen, and to build something meaningful in the life you’re already living.
This Work Is Deeply Human
- Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist (#153927) — CA Board of Behavioral Sciences
- Registered Associate Professional Clinical Counselor (#9838)
- 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
- 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, but also lived experience. I understand what it means to show up for others while holding a private weight. I’ve built this practice for people like you 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
