Still living with the fallout of trauma?
Maybe someone spent years teaching you to doubt your own memory, needs, or instincts. Or maybe one traumatic event changed how safe the world feels.
You did what you needed to do to survive: you adapted and became “resilient” when, frankly, there wasn’t much choice in the matter. But internally, you’re replaying the same conversations, bracing for problems that haven’t happened yet, or feeling so disconnected from your emotions that you wonder if they’re even there.
You’ve spent enough energy organizing your life around the harm.
It’s time to start rebuilding your sense of safety in the world, your confidence holding boundaries, and your trust in yourself.
LIVING WITH TRAUMA
I genuinely believe trauma survivors have superpowers because the hard things we survive can leave us with wisdom that changes more than just us.
ABOUT SONNET
Before becoming a therapist, I taught young children to read. One four-year-old girl has stayed with me for years.
She could keep up academically while dealing with more emotional distress than any child should, and I couldn’t stop wondering how different things might have been if someone had reached her sooner.
That question followed me into work with children affected by abuse and trafficking, and it became even more personal when a child I was close to was murdered.
My own therapy helped me grieve, process my trauma, and make sense of years spent working in difficult environments. The more I experienced therapy from the client’s side, the more obvious it became that I wanted to do this work too.
Now, I get to do work that feels like an honor: helping trauma survivors make peace with the past and build toward a life with more joy and purpose.
Mobius, my certified therapy dog, occasionally helps too. His credentials are being very calm and extremely handsome.
Meet Sonnet, a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist specializing in therapy intensives in San Francisco
Master of Arts in Counseling Psychology
University of San Francisco
EMDR Parts 1 & 2, EMDRIA-Approved
CompassionWorks
Certified Meditation Teacher
Anchor Meditation
Written Exposure Therapy for PTSD
Strong Star
Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction for Clinicians
The Mindfulness Lab
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Therapy Intensives
Process the grief, rebuild boundaries, and re-enter your life
I don’t want you to be a forever client who’s stuck revisiting the same trauma for years. I want you to get back to a meaningful life that isn’t built around simply surviving it.
During a therapy intensive, we treat your trauma with focused attention so it can finally take its place in your history, and you can decide where your life goes next.
EMDR & CBT Therapy Intensives In San Francisco
A five-hour, in-person therapy intensive combining EMDR and CBT to help you process relational and one-time event trauma.
Location: Union Square, San Francisco
Availability: Saturdays, 4-5 hours
Investment: $1600
Don’t worry, you won’t be dropped into your hardest memories and expected to power through
Even in this intensive format, you still have a say in the pace. You’ll have space to breathe, cry, laugh at the absurdity of being human, cuss your way through it, or say you need a minute.
By combining Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR) with Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT), we can work with both the trauma itself and everything it taught you to expect afterward. So while EMDR helps your brain process the memory, CBT untangles the beliefs and reactions that followed it into the rest of your life.
The day can be emotional and hard in places, but also incredibly energizing as you start trusting yourself again and recognize how much wisdom and power you already carry.
The same patterns that keep people trapped in trauma are often the ones most misunderstood.
Before helping others make sense of their dangerous relationships, I had to make sense of my own
When Dangerous Feels Like Home
A true crime memoir by Sonnet Daymont
SONNET'S BOOK
Before becoming a therapist, I worked as a live-in personal assistant to Gigi Jordan, whose murder trial began a 15-year case that made international headlines and eventually reached the Supreme Court.
But When Dangerous Feels Like Home isn’t only about that case.
It’s the story of how my own childhood made a dangerous person feel familiar, why I found myself pulled into the same cycle of charm and control, and what it took to break that pattern. It shows an example of making peace with a difficult past, choosing to live by one’s own values, and the benefits of service and choosing to live in integrity
MEDIA CONSULTATION
People make choices to survive dangerous situations that can seem impossible to understand
Media Consultation On Relational Trauma
With psychotherapist Sonnet Daymont
Relational trauma is often reduced to one question: Why didn’t they leave?
The real answer is far more complex, involving fear, survival, coercion, and the slow erosion of the person’s trust in themselves and the world.
Free media consultation is available for journalists, podcast producers, filmmakers, and television teams who want to tell these stories accurately and better understand the survivors living them.
Work with me individually
Your life gets to be about more than what happened to you
When the past takes its place in your history, your energy can finally go toward the life in front of you, with more joy, peace, and fun in it.
A five-hour, in-person therapy intensive combining EMDR and CBT to help you process relational and one-time event trauma. One Saturday in Union Square, 4-5 hours, & a $1600 investment.
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Frequently Asked Questions
During an EMDR and CBT therapy intensive, we can work through relational trauma and event trauma.
Relational trauma can involve abuse, control, betrayal, or manipulation by a partner, parent, family member, caregiver, boss, or another trusted person. One-time event trauma may include shootings, natural disasters, societal injustice, and trauma caused by the way institutions, communities, or the public respond afterwards.
Therapy intensives take place in person at my San Francisco office in Union Square on Saturdays and last four to five hours.
To book, choose an available date through the booking link. If no dates are available, please message me, and I’ll add you to the waitlist.
One four-to-five-hour intensive gives us roughly the same amount of therapy time as eight weekly EMDR sessions, which can be enough to process a single-event trauma.
More complex or long-term trauma may need a second intensive at least one week later. We’ll talk through what you want to process and what amount of time makes sense for you.
Therapy intensives are private pay and not billed directly to insurance. I can provide a superbill if you’d like to request out-of-network reimbursement, and also accept FSA/HSA cards.
Because you’re paying privately, you have the right to receive a written Good Faith Estimate showing the expected cost before your appointment.
If you don’t have insurance or aren’t using it for your therapy intensive, federal law gives you the right to receive a written estimate of the expected cost of your care.
Your Good Faith Estimate will show what you can expect to pay for the intensive. If your final bill is $400 or more above that estimate, you may be eligible to dispute the charge.
For questions or more information about your right to a Good Faith Estimate, visit www.cms.gov/nosurprises or call 1-800-985-3059.
Since I reserve four to five hours specifically for you, cancellations are billed in full. In the case of cancellations or reschedules, I will offer a new date for your intensive.
I encourage you to wait to book until you know you’re ready to protect the time for this.
My office is pet-friendly, and my therapy dog Mobius is available to sit with you. If you would like to have my trained therapy dog in the room, please let me know, and I’ll make arrangements.