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Ryan M. Wade, LMFT

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Ryan M. Wade, LMFT

I provide individual therapy for adults and adolescents in Newport Beach, CA. I also have an office in Los Alamitos, CA.

I specialize in treating trauma, PTSD, depression, anxiety, mood disorders and relationship issues.

07/09/2025

When we experience a traumatic event, it significantly alters our brain and body. However, it’s important we don’t lose hope.

Our brain is plastic and can be rewired. When we have a corrective experience in relationship or in the therapy office, we can change our brain and heal. 🦋

Brainspotting therapy is a great tool to heal from trauma and create significant lasting change. It works by tapping into the brain and bodies natural ability to heal itself and return to homeostasis. If you wanna know more about Brainspotting, check out my website at the link in my bio. ❤️‍🩹

06/26/2025

A great way to start working on improving our relationships is by exploring, understanding and healing attachment. Attachment is at the heart of it all ❤️. When conflict arises in relationship are attachment styles influence how we relate and respond to our partners. When we can understand our own attachment styles, as well as our partners, it makes it easier to navigate conflict and have more secure relationships.

☑️ Have you ever felt a deep sense of fear of being abandoned, even in stable relationships?

☑️ Do you sometimes have difficulty trusting others?

☑️ Do you feel difficulty opening up emotionally?

☑️ Do you have a strong emotional response if you perceive criticism or rejection?

☑️ Are you curious as to why these things happen for you in relationships?

Our attachment styles are shaped by our early childhood experiences with our caregivers. Attachment wounds can occur when our caregivers are not consistently responsive to our emotional and physical needs or if we experience neglect or abuse. 💔

The good news is that attachment styles are not permanent. Healing attachment wounds is possible and therapy and a great way to heal attachment. Is Brainspotting therapy. 🧠

Brainspotting accesses where trauma and negative life situations like attachment wounds are stored deep in the brain and in the body. Brainspotting taps into our nervous system natural ability to heal itself. For more information on this great therapy, you can check out my website at the link in my bio. ✨

06/11/2025

Have you wondered if you might be codependent in your relationships?

💔 Codependency is a learned way of interacting in relationships. People who develop codependent traits often had childhoods where they were experiencing chaos, abuse, or neglect.

💙 Codependent traits develop as a way of learning how to survive in relationship with someone who is unstable, inconsistent, or self-absorbed.

👩‍❤️‍👨 Codependent adults often get into relationships with people who are in need of support or guidance.

❤️ Sometimes codependents attract partners who are addicts or have mental health issues. This allows them to feel comfortable in their role of caring for and prioritizing the needs of their partner over themselves.

👏🏻Understanding where codependency comes from is an important part of healing.

🦋 A well trained trauma informed Therapist can help people heal from codependency and have healthier relationships.

📚 Al-anon is a support group for people who are in relationship with addicts or who struggle with codependent dynamics. A combination of therapy and Al-Anon can help people break free from codependent behaviors.

Follow for more on trauma informed therapy ❤️‍🩹

06/02/2025

When we do work on ourselves in therapy, we leave feeling different, behaving different, and relating different to our partners and friends.

Maybe we used to sacrifice ourselves when it didn’t work for us, or we didn’t feel safe being authentic in our relationship, where we sacrificed our needs for the sake of connection.

Maybe we’ve healed from our traumatic past and the people in our lives did not grow with us. This can be painful. It can even feel like a grief process because sometimes we have to let go of people, places and things that no longer serve us.

It feels like a loss, but it doesn’t mean that this type of change isn’t good for us. It means that we are on the right path when our old environment no longer suits us because we are not living in that unhealthy place anymore. ❤️❤️❤️

Don’t forget that you are worthy of being loved in the way that you deserve. Your needs and expectations in relationship are valid. You deserve to have people in your life. Who love you for who you are and truly care about how you feel 👏🏻❤️

05/27/2025

If you grew up in an environment where authenticity meant disconnection, then showing up as yourself in your relationships as an adult can feel unsafe.

As humans we have an innate need to feel emotionally and physically connected to our caregivers and also to our romantic partners. To be seen and valued for being our authentic self.

However, if authenticity was something that went along with shame or guilt, it might seem difficult to speak up or have an opinion.

The message was “abandon yourself or be abandoned”

With therapy, it’s possible to heal these attachment wounds, so we can be more authentically ourselves in our relationships and get to know who we are again. A relationship with a secure person can help us get more comfortable having a voice. 👏🏻❤️

05/23/2025

Trauma is not an event, but how an event overwhelms our body’s capacity to process what is happening. The experience is beyond what our system is capable of processing.

Trauma can become “stuck” in the nervous system because the body’s natural stress response, like fight-or-flight, may not fully complete, or the system might become overloaded, preventing the experience from being properly processed and stored.

The feeling of “stuckness” and reliving the past can be debilitating. Especially if you’ve tried therapy and are still struggling with trauma responses in your daily life.

Brainspotting therapy is a cutting edge technique that taps into our brain and body’s natural ability to heal itself. Brainspotting therapy accesses trauma where it is stored deep in the subcortical brain, and allows the nervous system to process and make sense of traumatic experience.

Brainspotting therapy can help trauma survivors get unstuck and update their nervous system to the present. This amazing therapy offers more rapid complete results than therapy alone. 🙌🏻

If you were someone you know, is looking to resolve trauma in a gentle and effective way, check out the link in my bio for more information on Brainspotting.

Overcoming trauma is possible! You deserve to go from surviving to thriving! ✨

05/19/2025

Trauma isn’t only the bad things that happened to us. It’s also the good things that we deserved and needed to experience that didn’t happen for us. 💔

One of the main psychological traumas that doesn’t get enough attention is emotional neglect. Often times people who experienced emotional neglect from their parents growing up will describe their childhood as “good” and that their parents were physically there for them. But they still experience significant attachment wounds as adults.

As human beings, we have an innate need to feel securely emotionally attached to our caregivers. When a parent is unable to emotionally connect with their children over their lifetime, it can create similar symptoms of trauma as other forms of abuse. Withholding of empathy and the desire to really know someone can have lasting effects that we don’t always recognize as trauma.

If emotionAl neglect is something you think you may have experienced growing up and it’s defying your relationships, therapy can help. Brainspotting therapy is a cutting edge technique that can help create rapid and complete healing from trauma.

If you would like more information on Brainspotting check out my website at the link in my bio💜💜💜

05/15/2025

Shout out to all the adult survivors of childhood trauma and abuse who are working towards healing.💜 You are enough, you are worthy, you deserve to thrive in your life. Keep going.

You can parent and love yourself in the ways you deserved but never got. Healing is possible.✨

05/12/2025

In therapy and in our personal relationships, feeling seen, heard, and understood is important to build trust and create safety.

However, when the therapeutic focus is primarily on validation, we as clinicians might be missing opportunities to assist our clients towards growth and creating change in their lives.

If you’ve been in therapy long-term, and struggle to notice improvements in your mental health and functioning, it could be that there is a lack of focus on action and creating lasting change.

Therapy should help you to feel empowered and more capable to navigate life difficulties. 🦋

Brainspotting therapy is a cutting edge therapeutic technique that helps clients who have experienced trauma to heal and create lasting and permanent change in their lives. It works by accessing where trauma is stored in the subcortical brain and in the body tapping into the nervous system’s natural ability to heal itself. If you’re interested in learning more about Brainspotting, check out my website at the link in my bio. 💜

05/03/2025

In case you were wondering, we don’t need to be fully healed to be in relationships. ❤️

A common misconception about working through trauma is that there will be a finish line to the healing. That at some point, our healing will be complete.

however, the reality is that no one is ever truly “healed” from past experiences. Healing is a continuous process of self-reflection, growth, and emotional maturity.

Traumatic experiences are often relational. We are traumatized in relationship to others by unmet needs, abuse, and mistreatment.

At the same time, relationships can facilitate healing. Strong, supportive relationships can provide a safe space for vulnerability, reflection, and emotional processing, which can be crucial for healing. Being in relationship can offer a corrective experience and can rewire the brain to promote rebuilding of trust closeness and what a healthy relationship looks like.

If you are in the process of working through trauma, you don’t have to wait if a relationship opportunity comes your way.

self-awareness is key. Being aware of your own needs, triggers, and emotional patterns can help you navigate relationships more effectively, even while you’re in a healing process. 💜🥰

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1000 Quail Street #106
Newport Beach, CA
92660

Opening Hours

Monday	2pm - 5:30pm
Tuesday	2pm - 5:30pm
Wednesday	9am - 5pm
Thursday	9am - 5pm

Website

http://ryanwadelmft.com/

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