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Salt Psychotherapy, Annie Brogger, MS, LMFT

I come alongside people in their process of gaining wholeness and healing through the therapeutic re

I help people find wholeness and healing through the process of the therapeutic relationship. Together, we will work to restore and reclaim all the parts of you, so that you can thrive in life and relationships.

12/31/2025

Happy New Year from Salt Psychotherapy!
This year, are you ready to take care of your heart? Are you ready to find a secure place for your tears? Did you know that your salty tears contain two hormones: leu-enkephalin, your body’s natural pain-killer; and oxytocin, which helps to soothe and mend a broken heart?

We want to extend an invitation to you to begin the brave process of letting go of the idea that you need to keep the fight up to heal yourself by yourself. You get to exhale this year, and in so doing may you begin the gentle and sometimes slow practice of learning to rely on someone else for care. This takes an incredible amount of courage, especially if most of what you’ve experienced in this uncertain life is let down.

At Salt, we are advocates for self-care, but more importantly, we champion the parts of you that are learning how to let another person in to care for you. We hope you can create an opening in your soul to tell someone (a wise and caring therapist) the truth about who you are and all you’ve been through, to learn that all the parts of you are deeply beloved.

All of us therapists at Salt find a great honor in caring for our clients with careful, steadfast, sensitive keeping. We specialize in trauma-informed, depth oriented work and seek customization and precision so that your tears bring beauty from ashes, peace and life from discontent. We delight in witnessing our clients wake up to the world with clear eyes that have been touched by the warmth and grace of attunement.

We help people with a variety of matters— depression, loneliness, anxiety, early trauma, relationship struggles, or just an all around ache and longing for wholeness and healing.
We are here for you! You can bring your tears, your whole heart to Salt.

Our biggest desire is to be a safe place for you to heal.
🤍 Annie

12/24/2025

Here is to wishing you peace during this holiday season. May you remember to be gentle and kind to yourself, especially in the tender moments.

This season is hard for so many of us. The proclamation of joy and cheer everywhere often doesn’t feel congruent with our internal reality. If you find yourself feeling low or lost in grief, struggling through depression, loneliness, or anxiety, I want you to know it’s okay. It’s okay to be right where you’re at. Find your people or that person and remember, so many feel the same as you. Hold boundaries if you need to with family. Take time to honor and care for your nervous system. Journal, move, go for a walk, and above all, breathe. Remember, what you feel on the inside is always valid.

Stay near the humblest part of Christmas, this is where you’ll find yours and others hearts.
Annie 🤍

12/05/2025

How to Begin Meeting Your Inner Child — Gently, Safely, Without Overwhelm

Meeting your inner child isn’t a technique. It’s a relationship — a slow, tender return to the part of you who once felt everything without anyone there to help hold it.

First, we must begin with safety.

It doesn’t need to be anything dramatic— just simple, steady safety.

It can look like—
A softened breath.
A warm blanket.
A hand over your heart.
A therapist or trusted presence who helps your body settle enough for your truth to rise.

Approach this younger part with curiosity, not force.

The inner child often appears in subtle ways:
a sudden tightness in the chest,
a wave of shame,
the urge to hide,
the exhaustion that feels much older than the moment.

Let the body speak — but listen to your heart for meaning.

The inner child carries both:
the raw feeling and the unfinished story.
Sensation tells you that something hurt.
The psyche tells you why it mattered.

And if it becomes overwhelming, that’s not a failure, you’re not doing anything wrong.
That’s history.
History, alive in the body, signaling a younger part who had no witness — and who should never be approached alone.

So, Dear One, go slowly.
Slower than you think.

The heart opens in small increments, not grand gestures.

Honor every small shift — they’re not small at all.
A softening breath.
A moment of self-kindness.
A loosening of the inner critic.
These are signs your inner child is no longer alone.

Because this work isn’t about going backward. It’s about bringing forward the presence, safety, and compassion you deserved all along.

This is the path to healing.
🤍Annie

11/29/2025

The Inner Child: Where Body and Soul First Met

The child within us is not a concept — it’s the living place where body, psyche, and soul first met.

Annie 🤍

Before we had words, the heart and body felt everything. Joy. Fear. The ache of disconnection. The warmth of being seen. Those early experiences shaped how our nervous system learned to protect us and how our heart learned to open — or close.

When no one was there to help us hold what we felt, the body stored the pain and the mind created stories to make sense of it. The “inner child” is the part of us that still carries both: the raw feeling and the unfinished story.

Healing that child is not about regression — it’s about integration, about connecting with the truest, pure part of who you are.
It means meeting the parts of us that were once alone in their pain with the presence we needed then and can offer now.

This is where body and psyche begin to speak the same language again — where we feel what we once had to hide, and hold what we once had to split off.

The heart becomes the bridge between who we were and who we are becoming.

11/13/2025

“When the Heart Reopens”

Lately I’ve been feeling a quiet ache watching how we talk about the nervous system online.

Somatic healing is powerful. Learning to regulate, to breathe, to notice our body’s signals — these are vital steps toward safety.

But healing doesn’t end there.

The body holds trauma, yes — and so does the psyche. Our nervous system often adapts to feelings we never got to feel, to stories that went unwitnessed. When the pain was too great, and we didn’t have a loving attachment figure to help us feel, regulate and contain the overwhelming emotions, the heart closed, and the body learned to carry what consciousness could not.

True healing happens when these two parts — body and psyche — begin to meet again. When the sensations of the body and the meaning of the story finally find each other.

This can only happen in safety — not just a clinical kind of safety, but a relational and soulful one. The kind that comes from being with someone trustworthy, steady, and attuned. The kind that allows the heart to risk softening again.

Because the heart is both the container and the destination of healing. It’s where the unremembered feelings can finally be felt, held, and integrated.

Facing what once felt unbearable isn’t about re-living pain; it’s about reclaiming wholeness. The heart that once closed to survive learns it can stay open and stay safe.

That is the quiet work of real healing — where body, mind, and soul remember each other again.
🤍Annie

10/10/2025

“the truth is,
at first and for a while,
it is lonely and messy
and maybe the bravest thing
you will ever do.

to love yourself
back together.”

-Alysia Quinn

10/02/2025

Public Service Announcement from Salt— ☺️

Just our reminder that while fall is around the corner, it’s still sunny with clear beaches because all the vacationers have gone home. We highly recommend salt water and Salt Psychotherapy! A swim in the ocean after a good therapy session is medicine for the body and soul! 🤍🤍

📸 from the most recent Salt, Body, Breath, and the Sea event. Hope to see you at our next gathering!

09/23/2025

“You are okay, dear soul.
Every living thing aches as it changes.” 🫶🏼

Jaiya John
Fragrance After Rain

09/17/2025

Doing the hard work of therapy links together places on the inside that have been split because of trauma.

Stepping your feet into a process of wholeness and healing changes you so that you can live differently from those who wounded you.

09/10/2025

Thoughts for the hurting during su***de prevention month—Salt Psychotherapy cares for you! 🤍

Depression is real.
It often grows from the ache of feeling unloved, unseen, or without value. And when shame whispers, “don’t reach out,” silence can become deafening.

This is why agape love matters. It’s unconditional, soul-nourishing love that calms shame, steadies a weary nervous system, and reminds us: you are worth love simply because you exist.

Life does break us sometimes. Pain is heavy. Feeling low doesn’t mean something is wrong with you—it means you are human. Our hearts and nervous systems are wired for connection, even when despair says otherwise.

Deep pain does not disqualify you from love, belonging, or worth.
Your presence matters more than you know.
Annie 🫶🏼

If you or someone you love is struggling, please call or text 988 for immediate support.

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08/10/2025

What is the purpose of therapy?

It’s about returning someone to themselves. To the wholeness that’s been buried under years of survival. To the parts of them that were never welcomed, now being named with compassion.

And it’s about trust—letting someone in, slowly, so that what was once unbearable might begin to feel survivable in the presence of another.

Annie 🤍

07/23/2025

Featuring and — two gifted therapists at Salt who do what they love, and what they do so well: creating a space where every part of you is welcome to be seen, heard, and held.

Here, you don’t need to leave anything at the door. You’re invited to bring your whole self, even if it’s just one chapter at a time.
We’ll hold the safety.
You bring your story.

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1000 Quail Street, Suite 120
Newport Beach, CA
92660

Opening Hours

Monday	9am - 8pm
Tuesday	9am - 9pm
Wednesday	9am - 9pm
Thursday	8am - 8pm
Friday	8am - 5pm

Website

http://www.saltpsychotherapy.com/

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