Trauma, Anxiety & Couples Therapy in Grass Valley + Online Throughout California
Therapy for the places that still feel tender, stuck, or unresolved.
A safe place to heal anxiety, trauma, and painful relationship patterns.
Windy DiPietro, MA, LMFT
30+ years of compassionate, trauma-informed, body-aware therapy for adults and couples.
You already know something needs to change.
Maybe it’s the anxiety that never fully quiets — the tightness you carry even when nothing is technically wrong.
There may be grief, old hurt, or a protective pattern shaping how you respond to the people closest to you.
Your relationship may feel caught in a painful rhythm of distance, defensiveness, or silence, with both of you longing for something to change.
Most people who find me have tried to manage things on their own for a long time. I understand how much effort that can take.
In therapy, we slow things down enough to listen to what your body, your emotions, and your relationships have been trying to tell you. From there, you can begin responding from a steadier, more grounded place.
That kind of shift can change everything.
"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?
