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Greta Pankratz, LCSW with Santa Maria Counseling

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Greta Pankratz, LCSW with Santa Maria Counseling

Licensed Clinical Individual and Family Therapist

I am a subject matter expert for the state of CA, an EMDR Consultant in Training with the EMDR Center of Southern CA and provide Clinical Supervision to post-graduate therapists working on their license.

08/13/2025

Back to school anxiety? I personally have utilized ERP to help my own kids cope with the coming fall season. Reach out if you have an questions or are seeking therapy yourself

08/12/2025

Back to school anxiety? I personally have utilized ERP to help my own kids cope with the coming fall season.

03/20/2025

🧰 Recommended resource:

Finished this end of 2024 and loved it!!

🥰 It’s been top of my recommended books with clients and for the therapists I train.

📕 Stephanie writes a beautifully honest, tragic and well-written memoir of her life with trauma, therapies and brings awareness to the abuse in the Asian-American and other immigrant communities.

03/19/2025

Obsessive Compulsive Disorder is a serious but treatable mental health condition. I am a certified Exposure and Response Prevention provider, a treatment for OCD.

Look for one in your area and get working!

Also follow for more resources and expertise 🙌🏻

04/03/2024

Tell your friends!! Perfect chance to meet other therapists so you can answer your friend’s questions— “do you know a good therapist for someone who loves spaghetti, only wants to be seen at 6am, needs a specialist in arachnophobia and can only afford to pay $5?”…haha j/k 😂

Seriously though, we live in a rural area, resources are sparse, let’s meet each other!!

01/30/2024

Realization is more than insight or an eye opening moment. Realization is emotional and embodied. Done hastily, it can trigger dissociation or other ways of leaving the window of tolerance.

When considering working on your trauma, ask yourself “why is this trauma still locked up in me?”, then consider, is it possible is safer locked up than exposed to a person or situation that isn’t highly trained to help you with it?

All of us EMDR certified have done hundreds of hours of training and supervised practice AFTER 6 years of college (minimum) and 3-5 years supervised experience. Most of us then go on to learn advanced treatments for dissociation, insecure attachment, parts work, brain mapping, biofeedback etc.

Is it possible parts of you and your trauma are waiting until they feel safe to be worked on with someone who knows their sh:t and who skilled enough to refer out to someone with more skill if needed?

Realization creates transformation in your subconscious. Realization orients the cells in your body to 2024. Realization stops trauma from spreading to the next generation. 💗

01/18/2024

Heavy topic. I’m sorry about that. Read on if you want to know more. 💕

If you’ve ever read a book or learned about sexual abuse victims and felt like you had a lot in common with them, minus any memory of actually being sexually abused, is this a possibility for you?

Also called Covert Abuse, it is just that, covert, hidden, hard to detect, easily flies under the radar. Often gets mislabeled as the kid is so “kind” or “mature” or “wise”, I could go on. Then the child’s natural gifts get exploited to meet the needs of the adults around them.

If this could fit for you or someone you love, google it. Here’s a few of my other favorite resources that talk about this, Dan Alander, Adam Young, Jay Stringer and “Silently Seduced”. 🙌🏻

Therapy helps too. It’s a specialty of mine. Find a therapist who knows how to work with this to start healing today. 💪🏻

11/18/2022

Before COVID, we had 40+ coming to these events. It’s time to start again.

🙌🏻we are opening the group up to anyone registered or licensed with the BBS and working in SLO or SB area.

🤲find your next office mate, boss, mentor, supervisor, mentor, coach and friend.

🤗I can’t wait to see you all again there!

11/07/2022

I wrote an article about EMDR 👁️ for my local Chamber of Commerce! 💗

http://santamaria.com/news/details/emdr-psychotherapy

10/17/2022

Resource 💡

Podcast: A Little Bit Culty

As a trauma specialist, I am a part of helping lots of people recover from HIGH DEMAND groups (some of which are a little bit Culty).

Prior to this podcast, my favorite resource is a book called “Take Back Your Life”. In it, it recommends asking 20 questions prior to joining any group, club or membership. Cults are not just religious!!

Marriages can be a lot like a cult.
Gyms can be Culty.
Self-help groups can be a little bit (or a lot) Culty.
Families can be a little bit (or a lot) Culty.
Etc.

Sarah and Nippy interview great guests and will help you think more sharply about what you are getting involved in. 🧠

10/10/2022

Working on my ERP certification for OCD treatment. 👍🏻

My timing is impeccable, I finished training the day OCD awareness week starts with the IOCDF. 🎉

There is a big overlap between OCD and PTSD (already a specialist in treating the latter set of letters). I am so looking forward to offering more effective treatment for those with OCD in Santa Maria! ☺️💗

10/09/2022

I moved to a bigger space!! Everyone is loving the bigger couch and the secret exit ☺️

Address

1505 South Shepard Drive , Suite 204
Santa Maria, CA
93454

Opening Hours

Monday	7:30am - 5pm
Tuesday	7:30am - 2pm
Wednesday	7:30am - 2pm
Thursday	7:30am - 2pm
Friday	7:30am - 3pm

Website

http://www.smcounseling.com/

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