Meet Dr. Jamie Camphouse
I am a clinical psychologist who specializes in understanding and treating traumatic experiences, whether one-time acute trauma or ongoing developmental childhood trauma. I work with you to untangle the web of confusing memories, triggering emotional responses, and relational difficulties that come from these adverse experiences as well as the symptoms associated with them, including dissociation/multiplicity, identity confusion, anxiety, depression, and poor self-esteem.
I am an inclusive and affirming therapist, specializing LGBTQIA+ care. I believe it is crucial to both recognize and embrace the unique aspects of being queer in today's world.
I am formally trained in spirituality and integrating psychotherapy with different faith orientations; an area of specialty being religious harm and spiritual abuse. I am able to journey with you to learn new ways of being after leaving a faith tradition you may have once held closely (this also includes experiencing harm from high-control groups).
My style of therapy is relational and attachment oriented, focusing directly on early attachment ruptures and the deeper impact they might have on your current life situations and relationships. I recognize these attachment dynamics also play out in the therapeutic relationship and, together, we will use such moments to deepen your understanding of self in relation to others.
Knowing that traumatic experiences impact both our minds and our bodies, I specialize in somatic and brain-based approaches to therapy to offer integrative trauma healing. These approaches include training in Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR), Havening, and Polyvagal Theory.
When a skills approach is necessary, I will pull from both Dialectical Behavioral Therapy (DBT) interventions and Exposure and Response Prevention (ERP).
I know that every person is unique and will assess what form of treatment will be most helpful during our first few sessions. I am passionate about truly attuning to who you are to better understand your lived experience in order to offer the best care possible. My hope is that you will feel both emotionally held and psychologically safe within our work so you can move toward wholeness and, ultimately, freedom.
Specialties
- acute trauma/ PTSD
- unresolved childhood trauma / CTPSD
- LGBTQIA+ identity development
- religious harm/ abuse
- prenatal/postnatal identity
- high achievers & perfectionists
- health anxiety & other anxiety-based disorders
- dissociative disorders
Advanced Trainings
- EMDR Training from EMDR Humanitarian Assistance Programs
- Trauma Recovery Training through Harbor UCLA Trauma Recovery Center
- Intensive Trauma Training through Trauma Rotation at SSM Hospital
- Formal DBT Training through Harbor UCLA Trauma Recovery Center
Education
- Fuller Graduate School of Psychology: Doctorate in Clinical Psychology
- Concentration: Trauma
- Fuller Graduate School of Psychology: Masters in Clinical Psychology
- Azusa Pacific University: BA in Psychology with a concentration in Child & Family
- Dissertation
- Risk, Resiliency, and Identity Within Social Justice and Human Rights Activism: A Critical Literature Review
- In this study, I examine the risk and resilience factors of social justice activists and also identify the ways in which identity influences these factors.