Thasja Hoffmann, LMFT, LPCC

The focus of therapy work is in building your observational self through increasing your meta-awareness through different healing modalities. 

 meta-awareness – the ability to observe your thoughts, feelings, sensations and impulses as they are happening. When we have that awareness, then we can choose what we do next.

 Thasja has been helping people heal for over 20 years. 

Through Thasja's inspiring studies in EMDR and somatic studies with experts such as, Pat Ogden (with her work in somatic therapy), along with Peter Levine, who is a leading expert in trauma healing as well as with one of the leading trauma experts, Bessel van der Kolk (who wrote The Body Keeps the Score), Thasja has been interested in the nervous system and its' regulation. She found answers to many of the issues she was seeing in therapy through Dr. Steve Porges's work with Poly Vagul Theory and Dr. Daniel Siegel's cutting-edge work which reveals the ways in which neural processes are fundamentally shaped by interpersonal relationships throughout life.  This led to her studies with Karen Pando-Mars (AEDP therapy trainer). 

At Westside Therapy Services, countless individuals have improved their mental health and heal from their trauma.