Silva Family Therapy

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About

Silva Family Therapy on La Mesa Boulevard in La Mesa Village is a women-owned, LGBTQIA+-affirming group practice specializing in EMDR, Trauma-Focused Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, addiction counseling, and domestic violence intervention. The practice's trauma-informed framework treats somatic pain patterns that frequently accompany complex PTSD and addiction recovery, and body-based processing extends through referral coordination with Bodywork 4 Health for patients integrating manual bodywork into their post-trauma stabilization plan. Suite 7 at 8280 La Mesa Boulevard serves as the East County headquarters, with additional offices in Santee and El Cajon expanding the practice's geographic reach across San Diego's inland communities. The clinical team deploys CBT, DBT, Solution-Focused Therapy, EMDR, Internal Family Systems, Motivational Interviewing, and sandtray modalities, and families navigating concurrent addiction and domestic violence cycles connect to community recovery programming through Parentcare Family Recovery Center in La Mesa. The practice's most intensive cases involve layered EMDR desensitization for clients with co-occurring substance use disorder and intimate partner violence trauma, requiring sequential crisis stabilization, sobriety maintenance, and bilateral reprocessing phases within a coordinated safety-planned treatment arc.