Gina Nobuko Ramos, Marriage and Family Therapist: Mindful Psychotherapy

05/13/2025

What self awareness, growth and self acceptance can feel like

05/12/2025

When we learn to welcome direct and compassionate ways to address the charge held in the nervous system, healing moves into the open spaces of the heart, body and mind.

"No recovery from trauma is possible without attending to issues of safety, care for the self, reparative connections to others, and a renewed faith in the universe.”

As trauma therapists, our role isn’t just to witness – it’s to teach our clients how to build safety from the inside out. That means helping them listen to their bodies, care for exiled parts, and explore connection in ways that feel manageable and real.

Recovery isn’t something we do to clients. It’s something we co-create, moment by moment, through presence, attunement, and gentle guidance back to what was lost: trust, connection, and self-compassion.

09/30/2024

We often feel the generosity of creativity and can feel resistive impulses arrive in tandem. Consider how each are impersonal universal forces moving, as if waves upon a shore. Whatever you choose to do, just notice and accept each, and then step in.

05/02/2024

We all need reminders that change for the better is a process. Our thoughts, emotions and behaviors take time to evolve into a different version of who we want to be!

(I have a personal preference for the word responsibility rather than fault. Just saying!)

02/17/2024

ginanramos.com

When I first created my website in 2006, on my own, I pieced it together with whatever I had.

With this launch, there were many talented hands involved: a kind website designer, and generous photographers.

In the process, I had to figure out my visual aesthetics, and trust my voice.

It's a good time to launch it in the lunar year of the dragon!

Psychotherapy requires you to become path-walkers, courageously taking an internal adventure into redefining yourself. As you give voice to the lost parts of yourself, you resume the quest of becoming a more embodied self. Questions naturally emerge, guiding your way through challenges into possibil...

07/30/2023

Currently, my website is being updated. I'm very excited to be working it. It's been taking some time for me to sit with the new imagery, and update its content.

In the meantime, here's a reflection of the process. I discovered, quite by accident, how certain images created a window into our imagination, and psyche.

11/02/2022

We connect throughout our life, and how it can evolve into something more loving.

Early relational experiences are encoded in our neural circuitry in the first 18 months of life. Stored as implicit memory, these patterns remain outside our capacity for conscious reflection, secretly shaping the lenses through which we imagine ourselves, others, and the world.

In those moments when we feel unsafe, the templates open and come online, coloring our perception. In response, we tend to numb or shutdown, or else become flooded with unbearable feeling. We long to return to safety as we are wired to rest there.

For it is from that neural scaffolding of safety that we can play, explore, be creative, spontaneous, flexible, emotionally supple, and able to take the risks that relationship will always ask of us.

Our expectations in relationship are organized in a fragile little nervous system that yearns for connection. The neural pathways are tender and responsive, as we seek attuned, right-brain to right-brain resonance with those around us, as well as with those within us. We want to feel felt, have our experience held and mirrored, and for a holding space in which we can explore unstructured states of being.

While traumatic encoding is deeply embedded, it can be rewired. While it may feel entrenched, there is hope. Even if your early environment was one of empathic failure, developmental trauma, and insecure attachment, it is never too late. The wild realities of neuroplasticity and the courage of the human heart is unstoppable and an erupting force of creativity.

As long as breath is present, the opportunity for safety and connection is available. Both the somatic narrative as well as the verbal narrative can be revisioned and brought up to date in a way that is poetic, kind, and majestic enough to companion you into unknown territory.

No matter what is happening in your life, you can start right now, in this moment. The opening for reorganization is always here and wired deep within you. Don’t give up. Love will never give up on you.

Please remember this and remind those in your life that there is always hope, not only some fanciful hope, but a hope that is wired into the true holiness of your body, soul, and nervous system. https://mattlicataphd.com

08/28/2022

Although this is the Feminine Principle of Crone Wisdom, facing our grief is universal. I think of it as the Yin element held within the Tao, of moving through the course of an internal gaze into the shadows, until we perceive the light from within.

The Crone is our psychic home. She is the mature place of inner knowing that you have earned by fighting your way out of the underworld.