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.
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The tools that help you finally tackle that closet are the same tools that help you tackle a breakup, job loss, or overwhelm.
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Working with a trauma therapist means you get both ​
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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.
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We stay with it. Listen. Validate. Until it opens.
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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.
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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.
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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!
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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
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But, honestly, I don't need to sell you - you’ll know with this first project whether we’re a good match.