Hailey Palos

Registered Associate Marriage and Family Therapist (CA #126447), Registered Associate Professional Clinical Counselor (CA #9838)

Creating a place that is truly empathetic in understanding and collaborative in finding the processes that will work for your life.

There are so many reasons that you may find yourself exploring therapy. Whether you’ve been to therapy before or this is brand new, I know this can be uncomfortable or a point of hope when connecting with the right therapist where long-lasting change becomes possible. 

Whether it’s in your life as a first responder, first responder spouse, helping professional, postpartum parent, trauma survivor (including birth trauma), or individual living with a chronic illness; you deserve to feel hopeful, encouraged, unburdened, and balanced in all areas of your life. 

I’m not here to tell you “what” to do. Instead, we’ll work as a team to identify and develop the steps that can help you make forward progress in your life. We will follow a pace that helps you feel open to sitting in the maybe uncomfortable things that bring you here. 

I bring my clinical knowledge and lived experience to how we work together. We won’t have the exact same story, but I hope there can be some comfort in knowing that I have invested in my own trauma healing as a survivor of childhood trauma, navigator of first responder family life, and mom to an adorable toddler and angel baby. While I don’t sit with any preconceived notions, I do come with a depth of empathy because of my lived experience. When I say “I get it”, I mean it.

  • I am not your stereotypical cardigan-wearing, quiet, fluffy therapist. We work as a team to identify what brings you here and how, if at all, we would like to change or expand this. My goal is to give understanding, education, and practical skills that help you process what brings you here now and how they can be applied in the future.

    I don’t have all the answers, but I do have skills and processes that can help you experience the change you’re looking for.

    I hold a bachelor's degree in psychology from William Jessup University and a master's degree in professional counseling with an emphasis on marriage and family from Grand Canyon University.

    I utilize a combination of treatment modalities as they best fit your needs, including EMDR, CBT, DBT, motivational interviewing, trauma-informed methods, experiential therapy, and emotionally-focused therapy. We’ll get creative by adapting tools to fit you.

    I am also the co-host of The Mental Cover Podcast (@thementalcover on Instagram), a First Responder spouse, and a mama.

A little More about me…

Ideal Saturday? My spouse is off and we spend time as a family taking our little one to a new experience and then unwinding with a movie

The greatest thing about being a therapist? Witnessing and helping others find hope in whatever it is that brings them to the room. It’s the most important, in my opinion, piece of therapy. 

What are you most proud of? Being open to learn as a mom in a way that is ongoing and without shame. It took time and healing to get the openness needed to be here in this way. 

Favorite way to move your body? Dancing. I take a hip hop class and go as much as possible. 

    • First Responders and their Families

    • Postpartum, Pregnancy, and Infertility

    • Parenting

    • Anxiety

    • Depression

    • Co-dependency

    • Grief & loss

    • Life Changes

    • Trauma

    • Couples

    • Chronic Illness

    • Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR)

    • Polyvagal Theory

    • Somatic Experiencing (Beginning Level Student)

    • Cognitive Behavioral Theory (CBT)

    • Holistic Approach

    • Culturally Informed

    • In-person at Roseville, CA office

    • CA virtual sessions

    • $145 per 50-minute session

    • In-network with:

      • Aetna

      • Blue Shield of CA