Couples Therapy, Trauma, Anxiety treatment in Grass Valley + Online Throughout California
You Don't Have to Keep Living With the Same Painful Patterns.
The same arguments. Anxiety you can't quiet. Exhaustion from putting everyone else first. Guilt when you try to set boundaries.
Windy DiPietro, MA, LMFT
For over 30 years, I've helped individuals and couples heal old wounds, change painful patterns, and build healthier relationships.
When Understanding Isn't Enough
You may understand why you feel anxious, react defensively, or repeat the same relationship patterns, yet still struggle to change them.
That's because these responses often develop over years as ways to protect ourselves. Even when they're no longer helpful, they can be difficult to shift.
In therapy, we explore what's happening beneath the surface—working with your emotions, your body's responses, and the patterns that keep you stuck.
Together, we create space for new responses, healthier relationships, and lasting change.
"I've spent the past 20 years surrounded by other therapists, and Windy is by far one of the best. She is kind, compassionate, intuitive, nonjudgmental, and very well-versed in tools such as EMDR and EFT." — Catherine M., Licensed Counselor
I’m Windy DiPietro, MA, LMFT.
I help adults and couples reduce anxiety, heal unresolved trauma, and change relationship patterns so life feels calmer, clearer, and more connected.
With over 30 years of experience, my work is grounded as a trauma therapist/anxiety therapist, and Couples relational therapist that moves at a pace your nervous system can sustain.
An Integrated, Body-Aware Approach to Healing Anxiety, Trauma, and Relationship Patterns
Therapy for individuals and couples who want to understand what keeps repeating — and create steadier ways of relating, responding, and healing.
I refer people all the time. She is the best Nevada County has to offer in my humble opinion." C.F.
How This Work Is Different
Healing often needs more than insight. Anxiety, trauma, and relationship patterns live in the nervous system, in the body, and in the protective responses you learned long before you had words for them.
My approach is integrated, trauma-informed, and deeply respectful of the connection between body, mind, and spirit. I draw from EMDR, somatic awareness, nervous system regulation, and relational therapy to help you reach the places where anxiety, trauma, and relationship patterns often take root. We move at a pace your body can sustain, so change has room to settle into your daily life, your choices, and your relationships.
Couples learn to stay more present during difficult conversations, especially when old patterns of shutdown, pursuit, defensiveness, or withdrawal begin to take over.
Individuals build steadier relationships with themselves, their reactions, their boundaries, and the choices available to them in moments that once felt automatic.
This is a personalized, collaborative approach shaped by your needs, your history, and the kind of healing you are ready to do.
This work is for people who want more than coping.
What I Can Help You With
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EMDR and EFT
With EMDR (Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing) or EFT (Emotion Freedom
Technique) we can break through unhealthy conditioned beliefs, calm anxiety and fears that keep you stuck. -
Couples Therapy
A Mindful Experiential Approach for All Your Relationships. Do you desire increased intimacy? Find it difficult to state your truth? Dive into experiential couples therapy to have a richer life with all your loved ones.
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Trauma and Addictions
Healing Trauma and Addictions: Evolve Beyond Survival. Trauma and addictions you might think, What? These two are separate but I want to tell you they are not. Whether you have emotional eating, problems with substance, impulsive spending or, sex, trauma is the underlying wound.
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Calling in the One
Are you yearning for your life’s Great Love? Supporting single or married women in midlife create their desired relationships and live their desired future lives. Master the skills to a happy healthy loving relationship.
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Money Blocks
Are you ready to let go of your unconscious money blocks and start fresh on a path of creating freedom, independence and a healthy relationship with money? This program is designed to show you where your money blocks are.
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Therapy for Therapists, Healers, and Coaches
Are you losing sleep, constantly questioning if you did enough for your clients? This pressure can leave you feeling drained and overwhelmed. Has your passion for healing others turned into a source of stress and overwhelm?
