Balance and Bloom Therapy

Balance and Bloom Therapy In person in San Diego or virtual throughout CA, AZ, & VA.

Balance and Bloom Therapy is a trauma informed modern therapy practice that specializes in CPTSD, eating disorders, couples, LGBTQ+, and EMDR for adults, couples, and families.

We’re so excited to officially welcome Marisa Glisan, LMFT to the Balance & Bloom Therapy team 🌿Marisa works with adults...
05/27/2026

We’re so excited to officially welcome Marisa Glisan, LMFT to the Balance & Bloom Therapy team 🌿

Marisa works with adults and couples virtually in California! She specializes in high performers, military leaders, physicians, and CEO’s who have high stress, burnout, impossible expectations, & loneliness.

She works with couples (&dual career couples) navigating relationship distress, infidelity, parenting challenges and identity shifts, and intimacy struggles.

Her approach is warm, relational, trauma-informed, and deeply grounded in helping clients feel seen, understood, and emotionally safe. She integrates EFT, attachment-focused work, EMDR, existential therapy, and parts work to support meaningful and lasting healing.

Whether you’re struggling in your relationship, feeling emotionally stuck, carrying childhood wounds into adulthood, or trying to reconnect with yourself again, Marisa creates a space where healing doesn’t have to happen alone.

✨ Now accepting virtual clients throughout California
✨ Offering therapy for adults & couples

Go follow her .lmft and follow the link in our bio to book an intro call with her to see if working with her would be a good fit!

We’re incredibly grateful to have her on our team 🤍

05/21/2026

Running on caffeine and on the verge of a mentyB but I’ll be fiiinnneee 🫠

05/20/2026

Just me? 🤪

Just an average Monday. 🫶🏼But with so much intention, love, and tenderness as we heal from childhood beliefs that have r...
05/18/2026

Just an average Monday. 🫶🏼

But with so much intention, love, and tenderness as we heal from childhood beliefs that have remained stuck (or kept us stuck) in adulthood.

We slowly move through, relearning, letting go and building new beliefs about ourself, our worth, and others along the way.

It’s fu***ng beautiful and I am so here for it.

05/14/2026

I have DC blood type.
is literally what gets me through.

I wish I was joking?!

Right now I’m giving myself a whole lot of grace. A whole lot of compassion. A whole lot of letting things be messy as I drop the ball on some things. And trying my best. And a whole lot of Diet Coke.

MOTHER. May we celebrate all the complexities that come with motherhood.. the creating of life and beyond. Throughout al...
05/10/2026

MOTHER.

May we celebrate all the complexities that come with motherhood.. the creating of life and beyond. Throughout all the seasons, changes, challenges, moments when your heart is going to leap out of your chest and the moments where your heart may feel broken into a million pieces.

You’re doing amazing and deserve to be celebrated every day for all that you do. Your work is deeply important. We see you & love you.

Happy Mother’s Day.

“I had a great childhood! I had food and a roof over my head and there wasn’t anything crazy big that happened.”Is what ...
04/05/2024

“I had a great childhood! I had food and a roof over my head and there wasn’t anything crazy big that happened.”

Is what I hear from sooo many of my clients. Who are also saying “but I’m sooo anxious and depressed. I have low self esteem, and my relationships are suffering.”

As we unpack what their childhood looked like.. we slowly sort out traumatic experiences that just seemed normal to them.. but we’re less than ideal for their nervous systems.

When we view their symptoms through the lens of trauma.. it makes sense they would feel so incredibly anxious.. because they have been in flight or fight since they were a young child as they survived the unendurable.

There is space for you to be heard. To unpack what it was like for little you.

It’s not just “how it was”. It was sh*tty experiences and your pain is valid.

Follow me .and.bloom for more people pleasing and trauma healing content!

I am currently accepting new clients virtually in CA and AZ. Click the link in my bio to schedule an intro call. ✨

Please remember that social media is not a replacement for professional mental health services. It is here for educational and entertainment purposes. ✨

“I had a great childhood! I had food and a roof over my head and there wasn’t anything crazy big that happened.”Is what ...
04/05/2024

“I had a great childhood! I had food and a roof over my head and there wasn’t anything crazy big that happened.”

Is what I hear from sooo many of my clients. Who are also saying “but I’m sooo anxious and depressed. I have low self esteem, and my relationships are suffering.”

As we unpack what their childhood looked like.. we slowly sort out traumatic experiences that just seemed normal to them.. but we’re less than ideal for their nervous systems.

When we view their symptoms through the lens of trauma.. it makes sense they would feel so incredibly anxious.. because they have been in flight or fight since they were a young child as they survived the unendurable.

There is space for you to be heard. To unpack what it was like for little you.

It’s not just “how it was”. It was sh*tty experiences and your pain is valid.

Follow me .and.bloom for more people pleasing and trauma healing content!

I am currently accepting new clients virtually in CA and AZ. Click the link in my bio to schedule an intro call. ✨

Please remember that social media is not a replacement for professional mental health services. It is here for educational and entertainment purposes. ✨

How does this statement resonate with you 👇🏼“I fu**ed up” vs. “I’m such a f**k up”Because there is definitely a differen...
03/11/2024

How does this statement resonate with you 👇🏼

“I fu**ed up” vs. “I’m such a f**k up”

Because there is definitely a difference!

Guilt is a feeling you get when you did something wrong, or perceived you did something wrong. Shame is a feeling that your whole self is wrong, and it may not be related to a specific behavior or event.

When you feel guilty about the wrong thing you did, you can take steps to make up for it and put it behind you. But feeling shame is much more complex. You may have been convinced early on that YOU ARE the thing that’s wrong so it may feel hard to really “come back” to feeling more positive about yourself.

People who grew up in abusive environments, can easily get the message that they are undeserving, inadequate, and inferior.

Shame literally gets woven into your self esteem, self image, and self concept.

So how do we change this?

1. Talk about what you’re feeling with someone who is safe. (Support system or therapist)
2. Journal to really express and explore some of these deep feelings.
3. Have some self compassion for yourself, are we being a bully to ourself or a mentor?
4. Connecting with your inner child and being who they needed back then when they weren’t feeling like a “good kid”

Share with someone who may need this!

Follow me .and.bloom for more people pleasing and trauma healing content!

I am currently accepting new clients virtually in CA and AZ. Click the link in my bio to schedule an intro call. ✨

Please remember that social media is not a replacement for professional mental health services. It is here for educational and entertainment purposes. ✨

Address

4550 Kearny Villa Road
San Diego, CA
92123

Opening Hours

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

Telephone

+16194310035

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