Trauma & PTSD
Trauma Therapist in Newport Beach & Orange County
Arolyn Burns, LMFT, LPCC is a trauma therapist in Newport Beach who has worked with trauma clients since 1997. She treats PTSD, childhood and developmental trauma, betrayal trauma, and medical trauma using EMDR, clinical hypnotherapy, and somatic regulation, from her Corona del Mar office and virtually across California.
Written and clinically reviewed by Arolyn Burns, LMFT, LPCC
Psychotherapist · EMDR Certified · Certified Hypnotherapist · Author of Anxiety Annihilated · Practicing since 1997
Trauma treated here
- PTSD and post-traumatic stress symptoms
- Childhood developmental trauma, neglect, and abuse recovery
- Complex and intergenerational trauma
- Betrayal trauma — infidelity, deception, broken trust
- Medical trauma and frightening diagnoses
- Accidents, assault, and single-incident trauma
- Traumatic loss and complicated grief
- Trauma driving anxiety, panic, phobias, or chronic pain
What trauma-informed treatment means in practice
Trauma is not only a memory. It is a whole-body pattern: an alarm system that stays switched on, a body that braces for danger, and coping strategies that once kept you safe and now cost you sleep, relationships, or peace. Treatment respects that those strategies were adaptive before it asks you to change them.
Practically, this means stabilization comes first. You will have reliable ways to settle your nervous system before any memory is processed. Pacing is collaborative — nothing is forced open on a schedule — and each session is closed down deliberately so you leave regulated rather than raw.
The A.R.O.L.Y.N. Method™ framework
Trauma work here follows a six-part framework Arolyn developed across her career: Assess the trigger and nervous-system baseline; Reframe survival responses as learned rather than permanent; Observe internal experience with mindful awareness; Learn to shift the pattern with EMDR, hypnotherapy, and somatic tools; Yield the survival responses that no longer serve you; and Normalize safety, self-compassion, and stability.
The framework is what keeps a course of therapy coherent when several modalities are in play, and it gives you a map of where you are in the process rather than an open-ended series of appointments.
Office and virtual sessions
In-person trauma sessions take place at 2333 E Coast Highway #C, Corona Del Mar, CA 92625, serving Newport Beach, Costa Mesa, Irvine, Laguna Beach, and the wider Orange County area. Secure video sessions are available to clients located anywhere in California. Appointments are Monday to Wednesday 11am–8pm and Thursday 11am–2pm, by appointment only.
Who you would be working with
Arolyn Burns, LMFT, LPCC is a Newport Beach psychotherapist specializing in anxiety, phobias, trauma and chronic pain. She provides EMDR therapy and clinical hypnotherapy and has been practicing since 1997.
- CA LMFT #MFC40173, LPCC #LPC54
- M.A. Clinical Psychology, Azusa Pacific University
- 10× Best Newport Beach Therapist
- 2333 E Coast Highway #C, Corona Del Mar, CA 92625
Creator of The A.R.O.L.Y.N. Method™, the framework behind this work.
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In-person appointments at 2333 E Coast Highway #C, Corona Del Mar, CA 92625, and secure video sessions anywhere in California. Mon–Wed 11am–8pm, Thu 11am–2pm (by appointment only).