Family Therapy in 90010

I have over fifteen years of experience working with clients of all ages and situations who need support navigating their stressors and finding ways to thrive. I have extensive training and experience working with individuals experiencing an array of symptoms including depression, anxiety and those who have experienced trauma. Some clients are new to therapy while others may be coming back from a break. Despite the circumstance, many can feel “stuck” while working on personal growth, improving important relationships, or healing from grief and loss. I work to help people through this feeling and find ways to move forward.

We are pack animals and we truly need each other. And while relationships are a cornerstone of life, sometimes they become so challenging we wonder who we can even count on or how to begin to trust again. As a therapist specializing in working on relationships, I help both individuals and couples navigate these complexities. Working with me, you will learn how to develop a healthy relationship with yourself first and then with all the other important people in your life. With the right therapeutic support and an open heart, your life will begin to feel like an opportunity to seize instead of an obstacle to avoid.

Is your anxiety disrupting your day to day life? Are you struggling with work, relationships, adjustment to life transitions, or cultural pressures? You may be struggling now, but you can live an authentic life beyond the struggle. You can learn to alleviate confusion and pain. You deserve a safe space to feel and express without inhibition. You deserve to feel heard and seen without fear of judgment and shame.

I have worked for over two decades with adults, couples, adolescents, children and families in a variety of settings. My mission is to help people unlock their potential and work toward being the best they can be. Everyone deserves to thrive in life, not just exist. I have a diverse spectrum of experience and have worked with many life issues and situations. I see each person and their experience as unique. My mission is to help you understand this uniqueness and use it toward finding answers and reaching goals.

Looking for love is HARD, and navigating a relationship once you've found it can be even harder. But it doesn’t have to be! From dreading dating to new relationships to individuals recovering from a broken heart, and all those struggling to navigate new connections, my passion lies in helping clients define what they want the word relationship to mean to them. As not only a therapist but a dating coach with over half a decade’s experience, I practice a solution-focused, strength-based approach to navigate all types of connections – not just the romantic. My work is collaborative & dynamic:

If you have difficulty forgiving yourself for what you have done, said, or failed to say have relationship conflict, feel depressed, anxious, or have trauma, you need a therapist who is empathetic, knowledgeable, and experienced. In my many years practicing I've had the pleasure of teaching, writing, and helping individuals, couples, and families with vastly different problems. As everyone is different, I adapt to your particular needs. I listen and I partner with you to accomplish what works best for you as I know a wide array of treatment approaches. In fact, I have taught them. I have a very broad knowledge base to draw upon.

Have you been putting up with half-assed relationships because it seems better than nothing? Have you been giving your all to everyone and everything around you and wondering when are you going to get something back? Do you look at yourself in the mirror sometimes and say I don't like myself anymore? Have you been noticing that the things that are most important to you get the least amount of time energy and nurturing?

If you’re looking for a therapist who is basically David Rose meets early-00’s Britney (with a dash of Drag Race & a pinch of recycled WeHo go-go boy,) you’ve clicked on the right profile. But please don’t let my humor undercut the reverence & respect I have for the therapeutic process. Self-empowerment, radical acceptance & authentic human connection will be the cornerstone of our work. I utilize strength-based, affirmative & neuroscientific theory to guide us...but healing doesn't happen via theory. It lies in you -- your hopes, hardships, successes & infinite wisdom. Sometimes we'll laugh. Often, we'll cry. But either way...

I am an associate clinical social worker and I have been working in the mental health field for the past 12 years in settings including schools, homes, and the community. Throughout these experiences I have learned so much from my colleagues in the mental health field, but importantly, from the families and individuals themselves. My therapy practice is centered on an openness to understand others, a wealth of knowledge and skills to share, and building a healthy therapeutic relationship to support growth and understanding.

If you are reluctant about therapy, I get it. Not even sure what you’re doing here or where to begin? I can work with that! Stepping into therapy might come with a mix of hesitation and doubt, whether it’s fueled by personal curiosity or a nudge from your partner. Wherever you’re coming from, I embrace it – with an approach that’s both supportive and straightforward. Above all, I’m here to meet you where you are.

Did you have a complicated and unhealthy relationship with one or both of your parents growing up? Do you find that now as an adult you struggle to form healthy attachments to people including friendships and romantic relationships? Do you feel that you are damaged in some way and so you overcompensate with people pleasing and perfectionism which leads to anxiety? Do you feel like you are not where you should be in life and you feel hopeless about your future?

I provide therapy to patients of all ages suffering with anxiety and depression. I help patients going through life transitions. Within a trusting therapeutic relationship, the exploration of dreams and unconscious drives proves effective for a deeper understanding of challenges and blocks. Psychoanalytic, Psychodynamic, Gestalt, Play Therapy, Sand Tray and Art are theories that are core to my approach.

You are a unique individual, and your therapy should reflect that! I draw from a diverse range of modalities tailored to meet your specific needs. This world molds us into who we become, including the aspects we may find challenging to embrace. My fervor lies in using psychodynamic modalities including trauma-focused and attachment based approaches to uncover how those life experiences have shaped your thoughts and emotions, while also using aspects of Emotion Focused Therapy to help identify and discover those unhelpful thinking patterns and coping mechanisms that may be influencing you today.

Using humor, authenticity, and unwavering compassion, I approach healing and recovery from a place of empowered vulnerability. I acknowledge the multitude of complexities that come with the human condition and the various systemic barriers, developmental traumas, and life stressors that can impact an individual and perpetuate suffering. Rooted in advocacy and social justice, I collaborate with clients and creatively explore ways for us to fully embody their strengths and apply them harmoniously to heal emotional wounds that have kept them from fully participating in their lives.

Taking the first step to seek support can be scary or even risky, especially if you are a part of a culture that might not be familiar or accepting of mental health. I am familiar with the judgement, pressure, and shame that we bear in attempts to honor our different cultures. Together, we can make meaning out of your experience, explore the problems that weigh you down, and re-tell your story the way you prefer.

ATTENTION FAMILIES AND COUPLES: Are you and your partner struggling with communication? Do you find that you argue about things that are seemingly insignificant? Has your relationship evolved into a power struggle? There may be triggers in your relationships that create conflict that you simply are not aware. I can help to lower the reactivity and to help bring back the love and understanding you once had. Learn to disagree safely. Communication skills are my specialty. My Passion are those couples that are from different backgrounds or from different countries, biracial or where there is a significant age difference.

We use to have hard times whenever faced by difficulties that challenge our ego. Most of the time, we tend to avoid coping with these challenges, or we do deal with them in destructive ways, mainly because of not having learned more assertive functional ways to take care of ourselves, relationships and circumstances in life. My approach is focused on promoting your insight about why you think, feel and react the ways you do, supporting you to take advantage of your own potentials, improve skills and guiding you on taking good care of your core needs and expectations.

I believe no two people are alike and my approach is eclectic, deriving from many different modalities to better serve my client's needs. My style integrates humanistic, mindfulness and problem solving. We all have the ability to heal from anything life throws our way and I'm here to assist in uncovering your healing potential. My way of looking at therapy is simple, people come to me because they're experiencing some kind of pain. I help them come to terms with what that pain is, where it's coming from and how to manage and heal it.

Stressed at your job? Anxious? Depressed? I utilize coaching techniques along with psycho-therapeutic approaches to understand the impact of your stress on your significant relationships. We work collaboratively to achieve therapy goals. I have over 15 years of experience in Business Operations, Human Resources and Project Management and combine my work experience along with therapy skills to work effectively with Project Managers, Human Resource Executives, Software engineers and management executives in their work and home life challenges.