Therapy for anxiety, trauma, and life transitions in Santa Monica
EMDR • CBT • Mindfulness-Based Therapy
Thoughtful, trauma-informed support for every stage of life
Zobra Hemphill-Ward, LMFT, works with children, teens, adults, and families using a compassionate, strengths-based approach that supports healing, emotional regulation, healthier relationships, and meaningful personal growth.
Specialties at Wellnezz
Every client brings a unique history, set of challenges, and set of strengths. Therapy is tailored with care, using evidence-based approaches that meet each person where they are.
Child Therapy
Childhood is a critical time for emotional, social, and cognitive development. Some children struggle to express overwhelming feelings, process difficult experiences, or navigate challenges at home, in school, or in relationships with peers.
Therapy is designed to help children feel safe, supported, and understood through trauma-informed care, developmentally appropriate interventions, and play-based expression that encourages emotional growth, resilience, and stronger coping skills.
Play Therapy
Play therapy helps children communicate in the language most natural to them. When children do not yet have the words for difficult emotions or experiences, play can become a powerful bridge to expression, understanding, and healing.
Through play therapy, children can process feelings, strengthen emotional awareness, build healthier ways of thinking and responding, and gain confidence while feeling less pressure than they might in a more verbal approach.
Parent Coaching
Parent coaching offers practical tools, thoughtful guidance, and collaborative support for caregivers navigating behavioral challenges, emotional outbursts, transitions, family stress, and day-to-day parenting concerns.
The focus is not only on behavior management, but also on strengthening the parent-child relationship, improving communication, and helping parents respond with greater calm, clarity, and confidence.
Teen Therapy
Adolescence is often a time of intense growth, self-discovery, and emotional change. Teens may struggle with anxiety, school pressure, identity development, family conflict, mood changes, relationships, or feeling misunderstood.
Therapy offers a supportive and culturally responsive space where teens can build self-awareness, strengthen coping skills, improve communication, and develop the confidence to make healthy, empowered decisions.
Adult Therapy
Adult therapy provides a safe, nonjudgmental space to explore current challenges, longstanding patterns, and the emotional impact of life experiences. This work supports healing, clarity, resilience, and a more grounded sense of self.
Clients often seek support for anxiety, trauma, self-esteem, burnout, relationship concerns, life transitions, family dynamics, work stress, grief, and the desire to feel more connected and balanced in daily life.
Trauma & Anxiety Support
Trauma and anxiety can affect relationships, emotions, self-trust, stress levels, and day-to-day functioning. Therapy is designed to help clients understand these experiences more clearly, feel less overwhelmed, and begin building steadiness from the inside out.
With compassionate support and evidence-based treatment, clients can begin to process difficult experiences, reduce emotional reactivity, and move toward greater calm, confidence, and emotional regulation.
Common concerns addressed in therapy
Services are personalized, but many clients come in looking for support in these areas.
Children
- Anxiety, fears, and separation concerns
- Behavioral challenges and emotional outbursts
- ADHD and Autism Spectrum Disorder
- School stress and peer difficulties
- Trauma, grief, and family transitions
Teens
- Academic stress and chronic pressure
- Anxiety, panic, and emotional overwhelm
- Depression, mood changes, and irritability
- Identity development and self-esteem
- Family conflict, grief, and adjustment challenges
Adults
- Trauma, anxiety, panic, and phobias
- Burnout and work-related stress
- Relationship and communication issues
- Self-esteem and personal growth
- Career transitions, parenting support, and grief
EMDR therapy for healing and reprocessing
EMDR therapy is designed to help clients move beyond unresolved experiences, reduce emotional distress, and reclaim a stronger sense of balance and well-being. The goal is to help the brain reprocess distressing material so it no longer feels as overwhelming in the present.
This process can help clients respond to life with greater clarity, calm, and control while replacing painful, limiting beliefs with more adaptive and empowering perspectives.