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Chelsea Sutter is a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist based in Tustin, CA who works with teens, adults, couples, and families navigating burnout, complex trauma, chronic stress, and relationship challenges. She frequently works with helping professionals, such as other therapists, physicians/nurses, first responders, teachers, or attorneys. Many of her clients feel emotionally exhausted, disconnected from themselves, or stuck in patterns of over-functioning, people-pleasing, and survival mode.
Chelsea offers a warm, collaborative, and trauma-informed approach to therapy that supports nervous system regulation, self-understanding, and sustainable healing. She integrates modalities including Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT), Internal Family Systems (IFS), Brainspotting, and somatic work to help clients learn how to shift away from survival mode and into a space that’s compassionate and balanced.
As a neurodivergent and HAES-aligned therapist, Chelsea values authenticity, body trust, and compassionate care that honors each client’s unique lived experience. She has extensive experience supporting neurodivergent individuals and those healing from relational trauma/complex trauma and emotional fatigue.
Chelsea earned her Master’s degree in Marriage and Family Therapy from Chapman University, and provides both in-person therapy in Tustin and virtual sessions throughout California.
Years of Experience: 7 years
ADHD - Skill-building and support around organizational challenges, distracted attention, procrastination; building and maintaining healthy routines and structure
Attachment issues - Development of effective relational and communication skills; insight into family attachment patterns;fostering healthy family relationships.
Autism spectrum disorder - Support understanding the diagnosis and related challenges and strengths; skill-building in areas of daily routine, transitions, coping with overwhelming sensory experiences, social skills, and emotion identification and regulation
Medical professionals' mental health - Support navigating work-related expectations and stress; addressing issues of burnout, hierarchical pressures, and vicarious trauma
Burnout - Managing and recovering from stressors that lead to feelings of decreased motivation and disconnection from the self; practicing effective self-care and finding ways to relax both physically and mentally
Complex PTSD (C-PTSD) - Recovering from the impact of long-term, repeated traumatic events, such as emotional abuse and neglect
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