Encinitas Counseling

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Encinitas Counseling on Calle Magdalena provides individual, couples, and family psychotherapy led by Elana Zagorsky, LCSW, who holds an MSW from San Diego State University and has practiced in the San Diego mental health system since 2011. Zagorsky is a certified Emotionally Focused Therapy practitioner and EMDRIA-trained EMDR clinician, a dual-modality credential that parallels the integrative trauma resolution work at Acupuncture Continuum. Specialization areas include perinatal mood disorders, couples conflict, anxiety, depression, and adjustment challenges during major life transitions. Her clinical background includes co-directing the Alliant Couple and Family Clinic, outpatient crisis intervention, and patient advocacy within the judicial certification hearing process, a scope that extends to naturopathic coordination with Gaia Naturopathic and Acupuncture Clinic for clients managing physiological stress responses alongside talk therapy. Complex cases involve phased EMDR desensitization combined with EFT attachment-repair cycles for couples processing relational trauma rooted in early attachment disruption.