Purity Culture Therapy in Granada Hills, Northridge & online across CA

Re-orient to the truth of your body.

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This wasn’t the life you imagined when you were 12, or even 30.

God keeps disappointing you, and you wonder if you still believe in a good God. 

Maybe you’re…

  • Starting to deconstruct your long-held religious beliefs, realizing that what felt like safety was actually trauma. 

  • Excelling at work, but you feel a pang when you come home to an empty house. 

  • Feeling guilty about getting “too physical” too soon with a new romantic interest. 

  • Realizing your beliefs have changed from 20, 10 and even 2 years ago. You still resonate with the tenets of your faith but you’re re-evaluating the “clothes” of it. 

  • Wondering if you can still have your own family because your biological clock is ticking.

  • Clear on your checklist of ideal partner traits, but the guys on the apps are anything but. 

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It’s bleeding into your daily life.

Maybe it looks like…

  • You’re angry at God for forgetting about you. 

  • You don’t feel like you “belong” anymore to the church that nurtured you for years. 

  • It’s the holidays (again), and while you want to be merry and celebrate, you feel like you don’t belong when you hang out with your happily married friends with kids. 

  • You’re growing in your career but you’re having trouble deciding which professional direction to go to because you don’t know if you need to relocate to find a partner. 

  • You’re contemplating buying a home for the stability and you’re grieving that you don’t have someone to share it with. 

  • You disagree politically with others in your faith community and don’t feel accepted.

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Therapy with me can help you de-construct and re-construct what you truly believe about dating and faith.

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Imagine…

After working together,
you may notice:

  • Feeling stronger in your core self and confident about your decisions

  • More peace about where you find yourself 

  • You can speak up with more ease about your boundaries and desires 

  • You spend less time second guessing yourself and actually LIVING your life 

  • You trust and know that your life now matters, whatever it looks like 

  • Knowing and embodying your worth in decisions big and small

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Fireflies lighting a forest path symbolizing hope and transformation after religious trauma

In our sessions together, we’ll…

  • Slow down your heartbeat and deepen your breath. Settle into your body’s wisdom and trust her guidance. 

  • Bring compassion to your younger self and restore your sense of wholeness to discern what you want. 

  • Explore what “naming your truth” looks like–rediscover the truth of who you are, and what living a full life means now. 

  • Dig into what faith and belonging look like for you. Re-evaluate what and how you were taught, and its impact on you now. 

  • Use EMDR to reprocess painful moments

  • Help you chart a path that is wholly yours–informed by your beliefs and values, but not controlled. You take agency and find your voice.

Therapist Ingrid Nishimoto specializing in purity culture and religious trauma therapy in Granada Hills, California

Therapy for Purity Culture
can help you…

Show up for your life now, not the elusive life that you’re waiting for.

Know that your body is good and worth inhabiting, even with its unfulfilled desires.

Name the deeper hope that lies inside of you, and take steps towards it.

Dive into what you actually believe, and move into a congruent dance.

FAQ

  • Purity culture refers to the movement in the 90s and 2000s that emphasized sexual purity, modesty and strict gender roles for evangelical teens and young adults. Girls and women were taught that they were responsible for male sexual behavior, and were thus to dress and act accordingly. Women immersed in purity culture later reported lasting effects of anxiety, shame and trauma.

  • Maybe you were told by pastors that you have to behave a certain way, or you’ll be punished. Maybe you grew up believing that true faith means excluding those who aren’t in the fold. Maybe a trusted religious leader sexually abused someone in the congregation, but was never held accountable. 

    With a Bachelor’s in Bible and Theology, a graduate Diploma in Christian Studies, and decades of being human, I’ve deconstructed and continue to reconstruct what I actually believe. While grief has accompanied this, I find peace and resolution in living more in alignment with reality. I am passionate about others finding this peace through deep excavation of their beliefs.

  • You’re in the right place! The fact that you’re on this page means something is resonating with you. You don’t need to know everything right now–you can book a free consult and you can get a feel for me and my work, and decide if that fits what you need in this season. 

  • You can expect a time that’s completely carved out for whatever emotions, beliefs, thoughts and sensations occupy you. I will be deeply present with you. You will feel space to share whatever part of your story feels right to you, and we will identify some goals that align with you. You may feel yourself unclench and unfurl as you relax and welcome all parts of yourself.

Your life now
is worth investing in.

Ready to take the first step? Book a free 20 minute phone consult today.
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