Vesna L. Westbrook. CPTSD, autism, HSP, giftedness

I work with clients who are (highly) sensitive and/or gifted, who struggle with anxiety or complex trauma, and/or who are curious about their neurodivergence. I also work with therapists. Sensitive people have a finely attuned nervous system, they experience life deeply, yet don't always feel easily understood by others. Growing up, they may have experienced not fitting in, and have adapted to a largely non-sensitive world in various ways that didn't always serve their best interest. I support my clients on their path to finding their voice, experiencing genuine relationship, purposeful work, and reclaiming their space in the world.

I help sensitive individuals reclaim their peace and their power. My approach is depth-oriented, transpersonal, relational, existential-humanistic. For the integration of trauma, I offer a blend of modalities, including bilateral stimulation/EMDR, Somatic Experiencing, Kiloby Somatic Inquiry, Ancestral Work. I work in an identity- and culture-affirming way.

I work with adults, couples, and youth aged 12+. My own international background helps me to work within different cultural contexts. I offer sessions in English and in German and have extra availability during early mornings and weekends as needed. Please contact me to schedule a complimentary 20-minute consultation. I look forward to hearing from you!

Call or Email Vesna L. Westbrook. CPTSD, autism, HSP, giftedness now for a free 15 minute consultation - (530) 270-3224

Practice at a Glance

Available both in-person and online

Immanence Therapy

San Francisco, CA 94114

Center for Transformational Therapy

357 Providence Mine Road

Nevada City, CA 95959 map

Currently accepting new clients online (video/phone). Extra early morning and weekend availability. Offering free 20-minute consultations.

I specialize in Neurodivergence incl. HSP, Giftedness, 2e+, Trauma and PTSD and Anxiety

$275 Per Session

I see individuals, couples and families

Vesna Lubina Westbrook, MA, LMFT: Immanence Therapy, an Integrative Psychotherapy practice rooted in San Francisco and Nevada County. Hello!

Vesna L. Westbrook. CPTSD, autism, HSP, giftedness

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Practice at a Glance

Available both in-person and online

Immanence Therapy

San Francisco, CA 94114

Center for Transformational Therapy

357 Providence Mine Road

Nevada City, CA 95959 map

Dr Rachael Vaughan, menopause, ADHD and burnout

Currently accepting new clients online (video/phone). Extra early morning and weekend availability. Offering free 20-minute consultations.

I specialize in Neurodivergence incl. HSP, Giftedness, 2e+, Trauma and PTSD and Anxiety

$275 Per Session

I see individuals, couples and families

Vesna Lubina Westbrook, MA, LMFT: Immanence Therapy, an Integrative Psychotherapy practice rooted in San Francisco and Nevada County. Hello!

Finances

Fees

Individual Sessions $275
Couple Sessions $300
Sliding scale: apply if you may be eligible

Payment Methods

American Express, Discover, Health Savings Account, Mastercard, Paypal, Visa

If you would like to use your insurance, I can provide a superbill to submit for reimbursement.

Vesna L. Westbrook. CPTSD, autism, HSP, giftedness

Marriage & Family Therapist, MA, LMFT

Call or Email us for a free 15 minute consultation now - (530) 270-3224

If you would like to use your insurance, I can provide a superbill to submit for reimbursement.

Vesna L. Westbrook. CPTSD, autism, HSP, giftedness

Marriage & Family Therapist, MA, LMFT

Call or Email us for a free 15 minute consultation now - (530) 270-3224

Qualifications

Marriage & Family Therapist: Vesna Lubina Westbrook

Verified by Psychology Today Licensed by State of California / 146191 Vesna Lubina Westbrook

Education and Years In Practice

In Practice for 12 years

Attended California Institute of Integral Studies, MA, Graduated 2019

Additional Credentials

Certificate from American Philosophical Practitioners Association CC00339 / 2015

I hold an additional certification in Philosophical Counseling from the American Philosophical Practitioners Association (APPA).

Vesna L. Westbrook. CPTSD, autism, HSP, giftedness

Marriage & Family Therapist, MA, LMFT

Call or Email us for a free 15 minute consultation now - (530) 270-3224

I hold an additional certification in Philosophical Counseling from the American Philosophical Practitioners Association (APPA).

Vesna L. Westbrook. CPTSD, autism, HSP, giftedness

Marriage & Family Therapist, MA, LMFT

Call or Email us for a free 15 minute consultation now - (530) 270-3224

Specialties and Expertise

Top Specialties

Neurodivergence incl. HSP, Giftedness, 2e+
Trauma and PTSD
Anxiety

Expertise

Autism
Career Counseling
Codependency
Coping Skills
Divorce
Domestic Abuse
Domestic Violence
Eating Disorders
Grief
Immigration, Diaspora, Cultural Identity issues
LGBTQ+
Life Coaching
Life Transitions
Marital and Premarital
Neurodivergence
Parenting
Peer Relationships
Pregnancy, Prenatal, Postpartum
Relationship Issues
Self Esteem
Spirituality
Stress

I work with clients on the higher end of the spectrum of sensitivity, attunement, empathy, and intuition. Frequently, anxiety is one of the main issues. I bring a transgenerational lens to my work with complex trauma and PTSD. As a transpersonal depth therapist, I consider your understanding of spirituality and existential themes an essential resource in the healing process.

Vesna L. Westbrook. CPTSD, autism, HSP, giftedness

Marriage & Family Therapist, MA, LMFT

Call or Email us for a free 15 minute consultation now - (530) 270-3224

Vesna L. Westbrook. CPTSD, autism, HSP, giftedness

Marriage & Family Therapist, MA, LMFT

Call or Email us for a free 15 minute consultation now - (530) 270-3224

18 Endorsements

Marriage & Family Therapist, LMFT

Vesna is extremely skilled with helping highly sensitive and gifted people, including kids and teens to navigate the world with less overwhelm and exhaustion. She also sees high functioning autistic spectrum people.

Spencer Campbell

Marriage & Family Therapist, PhD, LMFT

Vesna is an intelligent and thoughtful clinician. She is grounded and compassionate and is skillful in her ability to support her clients in healing anxiety, depression, and trauma, and discovering their authentic selves. I highly recommend!

Jamye Waxman

Vesna is authentic and intentional in her words and actions, and a fantastic therapist for sensitive people. Her warmth, compassion and caring shine through as a clinician and human. She is gentle and firm and can offer a strong container for her clients.

Sheila Rad

Marriage & Family Therapist, LMFT, JD, MBA

Vesna has a multi-faceted approach to client challenges, using deep knowledge of human behavior + expansive awareness of the human spirit. A patient, loving companion, creating therapeutic space, for each client’s unique healing journey of self-discovery.

Agnes Cartry-Jacobsen

Marriage & Family Therapist, MA, LMFT, CCHT

Vesna is a deep thinker and inspiratrix of inquiry. Vesna brings a philosophical and spiritual lens to the work and is passionate about stimulating her clients to approach life and its difficulties from a deeper, and out-of-the box perspective.Recommended!

Mihai Algiu

Vesna, is a highly intuitive clinician, deeply steeped in knowledge of the 'unseen' and the 'mystery' yet also grounded in psychological, somatic and practical therapeutic modalities that can help one navigate one's way out of the maize of our suffering.

Carolina Sang

Marriage & Family Therapist, LMFT

Vesna is gifted in her ability to create a uniquely safe and loving container for Highly Sensitive and Intuitive clients. I also appreciate her wisdom, and sensitivity to issues of diversity and inclusion.

Connor Moss

Vesna is deeply empathic, contemplative, and caring. She shines in supporting people with trauma and questions about spirituality. Anyone who works with Vesna is in good hands!

Mitsue Nakagaki Karaman

Marriage & Family Therapist, LMFT, LPCC, LMHC

With a gentle yet inquisitive eye and a sense of calm, Vesna has the ability to support clients who may be in deep suffering. Her expertise in transpersonal depth work can create a space for deep spiritual healing.

Brian Allen

Marriage & Family Therapist, MA, LMFT, APCC

Vesna is a gifted and caring therapist. She is skilled in working with highly sensitive people and has a wonderful ability to attune and support. Her perspectives on Depth and Transpersonal psychotherapy encourage meaningful exploration and growth.

Zina Petrov

Counselor, LPCC-S, MFT

In my connection with Vesna I have come to appreciate her exquisite skill and intuition at incorporating experiential and processing tools. I truly believe that your work with Vesna will be profoundly meaningful and healing.

Betsy R Ginsburg

Vesna is a highly intuitive and insightful person whose warmth and gentleness is key to the therapeutic relationship. The presence that she offers has the power to make you feel seen and cared for in a beautiful way.

Sarah Ibañez Fisher

Marriage & Family Therapist, LMFT

I've known Vesna for years now and have seen her dedicate herself to the craft of psychotherapy. She is caring, grounded, and wise and this is evident in her clinical work. I highly recommend her, particularly in working with adolescents & families.

Trauma, Psychedelic Integration,Ketamine, Somatics

Marriage & Family Therapist, MA, LMFT , CHP, EMDR

Kind, attuned trauma work specializing in sensitivity. A truly skilled practitioner!

Jennifer Hartmann

Marriage & Family Therapist, LMFT, RYT

Vesna has a soft strength that allows you to feel safe in her presence, and able to be vulnerable, with enough space to breathe and process. She is adept at using a variety of modalities and interventions that integrate and heal mind, body, and spirit.

Somatic Integration Therapy, Dédzin A. Kriteman

Marriage & Family Therapist, LMFT, LMT

Vesna is a kind and considerate therapist with rare insight and skill which works very well with complexity, nuance and neuro-divergence. She is a depth and transpersonal therapist who is dedicated to exceptional results for her clients.

Michelle Cosley

Counselor, MA, LMHCA, LMFTA

Vesna is a thoughtful and skilled therapist who considers many different sides to an issue before coming to a conclusion. She is knowledgeable in treating trauma, anxiety, and many other issues. I would highly recommend her as a therapist.

Juliette Leonore Delventhal

Vesna is a highly skilled practitioner who brings to each encounter a warm, grounding presence, open curiosity, and deep insight that support her clients to tap into their own innate wisdom to find healing.

Client Focus

Age

Teen ,

Adults ,

Elders (65+)

Participants

Individuals ,

Couples ,

Family

Communities

Bisexual Allied ,

Gay Allied ,

Lesbian Allied ,

Non-Binary Allied ,

Queer Allied ,

Racial Justice Allied ,

Single Parent ,

Transgender Allied

I also speak

Bosnian ,

Croatian ,

French ,

German ,

Icelandic ,

Italian ,

Serbian

Age

Teen ,

Adults ,

Elders (65+)

Participants

Individuals ,

Couples ,

Family

Communities

Bisexual Allied ,

Gay Allied ,

Lesbian Allied ,

Non-Binary Allied ,

Queer Allied ,

Racial Justice Allied ,

Single Parent ,

Transgender Allied

I also speak

Bosnian ,

Croatian ,

French ,

German ,

Icelandic ,

Italian ,

Serbian

Treatment Approach

Types of Therapy

Ancestral Work
Coaching
Cognitive Behavioral (CBT)
Culturally Sensitive
Eclectic
EMDR
Emotionally Focused
Energy Psychology
Existential
Experiential Therapy
Family / Marital
Family Systems
Feminist
Gestalt
Gottman Method
Humanistic
Integrative
Jungian
Multicultural
Narrative
Neuro-Linguistic (NLP)
Philosophical Counseling
Psychoanalytic
Psychodynamic
Rational Emotive Behavior (REBT)
Relational
Strength-Based
Transpersonal
Trauma Focused

I am a transpersonal depth therapist: My insight-oriented approach is best suited to clients who are looking to integrate spiritual and/or existential resources and themes into the therapeutic process. Experiential and processing tools, such as EMDR and other trauma-informed modalities, may come in as needed.

Vesna L. Westbrook. CPTSD, autism, HSP, giftedness

Marriage & Family Therapist, MA, LMFT

Call or Email us for a free 15 minute consultation now - (530) 270-3224

Vesna L. Westbrook. CPTSD, autism, HSP, giftedness

Marriage & Family Therapist, MA, LMFT

Call or Email us for a free 15 minute consultation now - (530) 270-3224

Groups

Highly Attuned: Growth for HSPs and empaths

Hosted by

Vesna Lubina Westbrook

This group offers guided process, support, and community for highly sensitive people (HSPs), gifted souls, empaths, and intuitives. Topics will include boundary setting and communication, increasing energy and preventing exhaustion, relationship dynamics, working with your intuition, and infusing life with a greater sense of purpose. If you would like to understand yourself better, make sense of spiritual experiences, and develop your gifts, this may be your group. We meet every other Sunday over Zoom.

Expertise

Anxiety

Spirituality

Trauma and PTSD

Types of Therapy

Trauma Focused

Age

Adults

Group Meets

Every other Sun

Location

San Francisco, CA 94114

Email Vesna Lubina Westbrook about this group or call - (530) 270-3224

Location

Primary Location

Immanence Therapy

San Francisco, CA 94114

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Additional Location

Center for Transformational Therapy

357 Providence Mine Road

Nevada City, CA 95959