Angry, frustrated and sad? I have been working with individuals who are depressed for over 20 years. I am intensively trained in DBT and have been providing comprehensive DBT since the year 2000. Let's explore the tools I can offer as together we help you create a life of joy and satisfaction.

As humans we are capable of change and experience a range of thoughts, feelings, and ideas. Psychotherapy is dynamic and can help you to address anything from short-term problems to deep emotional trauma through many possible interventions. Engaging in therapy can help you to cope with changes while gaining insight, enhancing communication, improving self-concept, and meeting your goals. Whether issues you are facing are due to relationships, mental illness, addictions, trauma, or of another nature, I will be able to support you in setting goals, changing your thinking, and helping you to make your life better, one step at a time.

Since 2004 I have been in private practice providing supportive counseling and life coaching for individuals. couples and families. A graduate of Antioch University with a Master of Arts in Psychology, I work with people who are experiencing depression, anxiety, relationship issues, self-esteem issues, existential anxiety, or other life stressors, as well as a focus in maternal mental health including postpartum mood and anxiety disorders. My therapeutic approach involves understanding, compassion, exploration and insight. I am psychodynamic and existential in my approach, and welcome clients from a variety of backgrounds, spiritual traditions, and sexual orientations.

I am interested in helping people live meaningful and fulfilling lives and I work collaboratively and creatively with clients in the service of dignity, self-acceptance and personal agency. The inherent value, and innate resourcefulness within people can often be eclipsed and over shadowed by feelings of failure, depression, anxiety, guilt, shame and despair as well as traumatic events. Therapy offers the potential for a reinvention of selfhood and liberation from imprisonment to oppressive and limiting life stories. I will walk with you on this journey and assist you in discovering and uncovering what is most meaningful to you.

I empower individuals and their families to overcome acute mental health obstacles, and emotional instability to improve their relationships and overall quality of life. I have experience in providing group, family and individual therapy using a combination of culturally sensitive, clinically tested and evidenced-based interventions, with a focus on developing self-awareness and acceptance. I have worked with individuals and their families since 2012 in the West Los Angeles and West Hollywood area. Currently, I am a Marriage and Family Therapist specializing in Trauma.

Does fear or sadness hold you back from living your best life ? Are you in a mid-life or existential crisis and not sure how to make meaningful change ? Perhaps past relationships and traumas continue to sabotage you from your goals, or continue to limit you. You do not have to figure this out alone. Together we can work collaboratively to uncover patterns in thoughts and behaviors that do not serve you. Whether as an individual, or within a relationship, we will make meaningful change in your life.

I provide a safe, comfortable, and healing space in which to explore feelings, thoughts, and behaviors. I help individuals (adults and adolescents), couples, and families explore challenges, patterns, preferences, successes, and strengths. I strongly believe that greater awareness is the key to a personal growth. Increased awareness leads to acceptance (self and otherwise) and actions more reflective of one's values and desires.

I became a psychotherapist because I wanted to be "that someone" I always wished I had in my life. Someone who believes in you when you lose hope in yourself, and get stuck in what seems like perpetual darkness. I feel that my job is to help shed the first stream of light into the darkness, so together, we can see the bigger picture. Collaboratively, we'll explore your hopes, dreams, and goals. I will help you navigate, and walk by your side, until you reach them, or you are confident enough to do it alone.

One of my primary career objectives is help people helping themselves. I see Psychotherapy as a powerful tool for self-assistance and personal growth. My primary mission as psychotherapist is to encourage and assist people in finding ways to solve their emotional problems and develop more effective coping skills to deal with their issues. Through therapy people may find help to improve self-esteem, obtain self-confidence that promote a better quality life. Additionally, people may work on interpersonal relationship issues, fears, emotional conflicts, and traumas.

My practice focuses on helping individuals, couples, and families who are suffering from emotional or physical pain or the aftereffects of trauma. We help them resolve the traumatic experience, as well as its consequences (e.g. physical pain, stress, disability, depression, anxiety, insomnia, medication dependence, isolation, etc.) Although most of our patients have not responded to prior therapies, we've had outstanding success in helping them move from feeling a severe loss to finding a new and positive beginning. We love to work with people who are ready to change and eager to learn how to do it.

My specialty is treating the broad spectrum of anxiety disorders including: panic disorder, obsessive-compulsive disorder, generalized anxiety disorder, social phobia, blood draw/injection phobia, irritable bowel syndrome (IBS), tic disorders, and Tourette's Disorder. I use a cognitive-behavioral treatment approach that has shown the best treatment efficacy for each disorder listed above. For example, I would use "exposure-response prevention" for OCD , "habit reversal" for tics and Tourette's, "Mastery of Your Anxiety and Panic" workbooks for panic disorder, mindfulness based approach for IBS.

I am a Clinical Psychologist, Psychoanalyst and Forensic Psychologist with a wide range of experience in the diagnosis and treatment of substance abuse, alcoholism, acute addictive disorders, sexual disorders, paraphilias, and domestic violence issues. I have extensive experience in both the private and public sectors, evaluating business executives, members of the clergy, physicians and other professionals. I consider myself an expert in interviewing and psychometric testing and also testify as expert witness in psychological matters for defendants and prosecution.

Dr. Dorsa is a Clinical psychologist in private practice in West Los Angeles. She is a workshop leader who speaks on complex emotional issues. Her specialty is getting people out of the ruts in which they have been intractably stuck.Her combined experiences in Hospital and psychotherapy settings have given her a unique perspective for the daily difficulties people go through, when juggling work, social life, health conditions, and family dynamics.

You had imagined your life unfolding in this uniquely wonderful way; having a career that fulfilled you and you were excited about, a strong and committed relationship and a great group of friends who supported you and you share exciting experiences with. Now it feels like some areas are just ok and other seem to not be working at all. It also seems like others lives are going great when you look at social media. You feel stuck. Uncertain of the next move or even how to get back to a place of feeling confident and empowered.

Like any relationship, a good fit with your therapist is the foundation for getting started. In an atmosphere of safety and support, I’ll help you understand yourself in new ways, empowering you to change areas of your life that once felt stuck or overwhelming. Together, we’ll navigate these challenges while also being curious about the patterns and deeper meanings beneath the surface.

Do you feel stuck? Are you depressed or anxious? Is there conflict in your relationship? Do you feel ineffective as a parent? Perhaps you have tried therapy but it hasn't worked for you. My mission as a therapist is to assist you to move forward in a compassionate, encouraging way. I will empower you to problem solve effectively and improve your emotional wellbeing.

This is about you, your life, your relationships, and what is important to you. We can enhance your life, and I am honored to partake in that process. We all are bound by certain factors out of our control, our genes, our parents, upbringing etc. However, amid that construct, we can choose to be who we want to, and I can help with that endeavor. I love therapy, and I love being a therapist. I'm inspired by anyone who wants to change some aspect of themselves or their life.

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Feeling fatigued, burnout, overwhelmed, or even confused are very common issues my clients describe as their chief complaint. These symtoms may have underlying causes that lead to the need to seek healing and the wish to carve one's own path in life in a safe and caring environment. I have extensive experience working with individuals who want to understand and overcome their issues related to addiction, codepedency, trauma, attachment trauma, self-doubt, depression, anxiety, toxic guilt and shame.

My attention in therapy is very much on reconnection -- reconnecting to meaning in ones own life and reconnecting to others. Many of the individuals I see suffer from extreme anxiety or feelings of despondence. We will be working together to explore, manage and resolve what interferes with a sense of hope for the future. In working with families and couples, our joint focus will be to enhance communication, trust and openness.