JUKO HOLIDAY, PH.D
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​Compassionate Support
​for Life’s Hard Seasons
 

Online Therapy
​for Individuals, Couples & Families in California
Helping people stay present, connected, and grounded through grief, illness, relationship challenges, caregiving, major life transitions, and unexpected loss that changes everything.​
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 I support people when life no longer resembles the one they had planned

Some losses change more than circumstances,
they alter our sense of identity, safety, meaning, and belonging.


 Whether you are grieving the death of a loved one, recovering from a traumatic event, living with chronic illness, caring for someone you love, or facing a life transition you never imagined would be so hard, the experience can feel profoundly disorienting.

​When what you have lost is beyond what most people experience in a typical lifetime, processing the pain and learning to be present while you figure out what's next is can leave you drained and overwhelmed.

Compassionate and qualified support can help you discover who you are now, free of judgment and any expectation to return to an identity that no longer reflects who you are.

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Therapeutic Modalities & Influences

Therapy with me draws on several evidence-based approaches, woven together depending on what our work calls for.
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Person-Centered Therapy:  My role is not to push you toward a predetermined outcome, but to offer steady attention, honesty, warmth, and respect for the wisdom already present in you.

Somatic Therapy: Difficulty lives in the body as much as the mind. We pay attention to sensation, breath, and nervous system responses as meaningful information, not background noise.

Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT): This work is less about eliminating pain than changing your relationship to it. We look at what matters to you, what pulls you away from it, and how to take small, workable steps toward a life shaped by your values.

​Narrative Therapy: The stories we carry about ourselves shape what feels possible. Together, we listen for the inherited, protective, or outdated stories that have become too small, and make room for language that is more honest, spacious, and alive.
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Interpersonal Process Therapy: Developed by Edward Teyber, this approach works with what happens between us in the room as a window into broader relational patterns, and as a direct vehicle for change.
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Contemplative Practice: Thirty years of meditation practice informs everything I do. Presence itself is a clinical tool.
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S​igns it’s time to stop carrying it all alone

Difficulty sleeping, or sleeping too much
Changes in appetite
Loss of interest in things that used to matter
​Isolating yourself from friends and supportive circles
Feeling guilty for not being able to get back to life and work

Difficulty getting out of bed or getting through the day
Feeling disconnected from the people around you
A sense of isolation and feeling no one around you truly understands
Crying without warning, or feeling unable to cry at all
Difficulty concentrating or making decisions
A quiet but persistent feeling that something essential is missing

​You deserve support without apology or shame.

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Juko M. Holiday, PhD, AMFT #126486 
Supervised by Pat Katsky, PhD, MFT #6308
​Providing telehealth psychotherapy services to clients located in California.

If you are in crisis, help is available. 
Call or text 988
It’s free, confidential, and available 24 hours a day. 

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