Shrink It with CJ Horner, LPC, LPCC
Licensed in Georgia & California
San Diego resident
Virtual Telemental Health
Therapy that starts with a closet, not a couch
Shrink internal pain from the OUTSIDE
Virtual Organizing with a therapeutic lens
You've tried to get organized before. It didn't stick.
Boxes still taped shut from the move. The stack of unopened bills you keep walking past.
It's not laziness — it's trauma, grief, burnout, life.
That pile of books, laundry — isn't just stuff. It's everything you haven't had room to feel.
It doesn't have to stay this big.
Let's shrink it — the pile, and everything it's been holding.
The tools that help you finally tackle that closet are the same tools that help you tackle a breakup, job loss, or overwhelm.
Working with a trauma therapist means you get both
While some blocks live in a room - others are in your routine, your daily systems. You've tried alerts, lists, apps. No bueno.
— even if you only came for the closet.
Being stuck doesn't mean anything is broken. There's a reason — we're simply going to honor it.
Here, we will build the scaffolding, the emotional structure, that will hold you up.
WE start with the task — not the story.
Decide about going deeper later or never.
Genuinely, your call.
When you hit a block
You will hit a block. That's not a setback — it's the work.
When it happens, we slow down.
We listen — to the body's reaction, the thoughts that scream stop, the beliefs that surface, the panic, the shame, even the flat-out "I don't wanna." Nothing here is rushed past or explained away.
We stay with it. Listen. Validate. Until it opens.
Remember, you're sitting with someone who's spent over two decades in the hard stuff. Naming what's happening, calming an overwhelmed nervous system, calling out the judgmental shame gremlins when they show up — that's all my job. That's why I'm here.
How it works
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Sessions are virtual. You're in your space, doing the work with your own hands — I'm there to guide, notice, and help build your Protocol as we go.
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Your first project is usually 3 sessions — we'll confirm that together once we've talked through your specific goals. Each session runs 90 minutes, just shy of two traditional therapy sessions, so there's real room to work.
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Between sessions, you'll have a little "homework." Together, we develop your personal Protocol — not my way of organizing, yours.
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Short surveys along the way help track both the project and what's happening emotionally underneath it. Let's make sure there's value and progress in what we're doing.
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If you decide to do a second project, we'll take a break first — usually a month, or whatever timeframe makes sense for you — so you can notice how the work actually changed outside, as well as inside.
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Why project-based, not coaching? Project-based therapy gives you the flexibility and pacing of a project, without losing access to the depth of therapy if you want it.
Your Next Steps: paperwork to check the small print, then a full working session together to make sure this is a good investment of your time, energy, and money. Welcome In!
This might be a good fit if:
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Talk therapy isn't your thing
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Traditional therapy has made things worse in the past
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You want a low-stakes way to see if we're a good match
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You'd rather try therapy on a project basis than commit to something open-ended
WHo is this for?
What life experiences make you a natural organizing guide?
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22 year trauma therapist with a journey through religious deconstruction, depression, trauma, and PTSD
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I'm Neurodivergent with a knack for pattern recognition, naming internal experiences, and appreciation for unique habits
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I know how to utilize the nervous system to reclaim your space
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Moving 8 times in 14 years, including cross country clears clutter
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Being an IKEA Guide to friends (read: product knowledge, space saving IQ, budget conscious, can actually follow their furniture instructions)
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Living life as a Virgo, IYKYK (piles, processes, systems)
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The Container Store makes me giddy, even without buying anything, but reusing what we have is the true dopamine hit
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Now living in 500 sq feet (& loving it) with a bedroom, office, kitchen, gym, living room, and a small library on top of the frig
But, honestly, I don't need to sell you - you’ll know with this first project whether we’re a good match.