Healthy Minds Wellness Center

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Healthy Minds Wellness Center in San Carlos provides trauma-focused counseling from a San Diego suite on Navajo Road in the 92119 ZIP, near the Lake Murray residential corridor that connects to the Cowles Mountain trailhead. The practice is led by Jessica Millanponce, LCSW, whose clinical framework centers on trauma-informed care using EMDR, Internal Family Systems therapy, Brainspotting, the Flash Technique, somatic mind-body work, grounding exercises, and Emotional Freedom Technique tapping. Millanponce's EMDR and Brainspotting intensives condense multiple processing sessions into extended blocks, and her San Carlos office draws clients from the same Navajo Road wellness corridor as Flourish Acupuncture & Wellness, which addresses the somatic dimensions of anxiety and PTSD through acupuncture-based modalities. The practice offers both in-person sessions at the Navajo Road office and telehealth appointments throughout California, expanding access for clients across east county and beyond. Her IFS-informed approach treats trauma not as a single event but as a system of protective parts developed in response to adverse experiences, distinguishing it from clinics that rely solely on cognitive-behavioral protocols. Trauma-informed yoga rounds out the therapeutic toolkit, and clients working through physical manifestations of PTSD benefit from concurrent body-based rehabilitation at practices such as PhysioFixx Physical Therapy in San Carlos. Millanponce's intensive format processes bilateral stimulation sets across sessions lasting up to three hours, with structured resourcing intervals built into each block.