Stephanie Sorady, LCSW, MSW(She/Her/Hers)

Most of Stephanie's clients are accomplished women who look fine from the outside. They're successful, capable, and often the person everyone else leans on. Inside, they're exhausted — anxious, over-responsible, and quietly wondering why all that achievement still doesn't feel like enough.

Many of them grew up as the eldest daughter, the parentified child, or first-gen daughter, the one who learned early that love was something you earned by being useful. They became experts at holding it together. What they never learned was how to put it down.

Luz Trauma Therapy is a virtual practice founded on the belief that real healing happens at the root, not just in managing symptoms, but in understanding where they came from and why the nervous system learned to work so hard. The practice specializes in EMDR, a gold-standard trauma therapy that works beneath the level of insight and talk, helping the nervous system finally release what it's been holding.

Stephanie Sorady, LCSW, is EMDR-certified, bilingual in English and Spanish, and a first-generation eldest daughter herself. She brings both clinical training and lived understanding of intergenerational dynamics, bicultural stress, and the invisible labor so many of her clients carry. She frequently works with Latine and LGBTQIA+ adults, as well as high-achieving individuals navigating masked ADHD alongside perfectionism and anxiety.

Associate therapist Brenda Alvarez, M.S., AMFT, is a bilingual Mexican immigrant clinician whose holistic, community-centered approach honors mind, body, spirit, and lived experience. She supports clients navigating trauma, identity, systemic oppression, and life transitions with warmth and healing justice at the center.

Sessions are available virtually across California and Florida, in English and Spanish, so clients can do this work from wherever they feel most at ease.