Kate Nesbitt is a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist. She received her Bachelor of Art’s Degree in Human Behavior Psychology and her Master’s Degree in Counseling Psychology, with an emphasis in Spiritual Psychology.

Kate began her career counseling children in the Santa Monica school system, working extensively with the effects of trauma on early childhood development and family systems.  Kate moved from working with children and their families to opening a private practice in Santa Monica where she has focused on helping adults with a wide range of challenges, from anxiety, depression, and post-traumatic stress disorder, to relationship problems and life transition issues. Kate is particularly proud to be working, in partnership with the Veteran’s Administration Choice Program, treating veterans with PTSD resulting from their military experiences.

Kate has participated in numerous trainings over the years that have added to her expertise in trauma treatment. She studied Body/Mind Integrated Therapy with Dr. Ronald Alexander for five years early in her career. This modality, drawing upon Buddhist, Gestalt and Attachment Theory psychologies, increases clients’ awareness of their bodies in order to be more grounded, and to feel and process their difficult emotions. Kate is also trained in the trauma treatment modalities of EMDR and Brainspotting.

Finally, Kate is trained in Comprehensive Resource Management (CRM). Kate regards CRM as a beautiful coming together of all of the modalities she has learned over the past 20-plus years combined with new, cutting edge techniques backed by a clear understanding of our neurobiology. She is delighted to now use this gentle system that helps to integrate the mind, body and spirit by utilizing the breath, and mindful awareness of the body and emotions, to provide clients with the possibility for deep healing from all manner of trauma.

” My therapeutic goal is to be a witness, champion, 

and a co-creative guide to a life path that gently unfolds and

 awakens. Therapy is an invitation to create a life fully engaged and embraced.”

Kelli Sherine Fisher LMFT

Kelli received her MA in Clinical Psychology from Antioch University Los Angeles. Her clinical orientation is Attachment Theory and Positive Psychology with an emphasis on Narrative Theory.  Post graduation, she began working in the field of addiction plus mental illness. Upon realizing the level of trauma beneath both challenges, she began focusing on Somatic Therapy to help gently address the suffering she was witnessing. This focus now informs her practice and the results are amazing.

She is currently using as her main trauma processing modality, Comprehensive Resource Model (CRM). CRM is the cutting edge in trauma therapy. It is an advanced technique that incorporates many somatic/ spiritual / neurophysiological modalities into one discipline. She is also a Somatic Experiencing Practitioner (SEP) through Peter Levine’s Foundation for Human Enrichment and she holds level 1 & 2 EMDR training through Laura Parnell’s attachment based EMDR Institute.

Prior to becoming a psychotherapist, Kelli was an Orthopedic Massage Therapist with a BS in Sports Medicine/ Exercise Science. She continues to practice this healing art celebrating 30+ years. This interest in life science continues in Kelli’s studies in Neuroscience and her fascination with Somatic Therapies’ ability to resolve trauma and change neurobiology.

Kelli has also spent 30yrs. studying indigenous cultures and spirituality and these studies inform her practice as well. She has a deep respect for nature and she integrates native practices into her work in a very organic and supportive way.

She is also an accomplished textile artist so she also understands the challenges of going into the void and creating beauty. And in her spare time, she is a marmalade & jam maker, jewelry designer and gardener.