Therapists in 90039
Shari Gerstenberger:IFS, EMDR, Couples, SexTherapy
Marriage & Family Therapist Associate, MA, AMFT
2 Endorsed
Los Angeles, CA 90039
As an AMFT and Certified Somatic Coach, I work with clients across the lifespan—including teens, adults, and couples—on anxiety, depression, trauma, and relationship challenges. My warm, collaborative approach integrates talk therapy, somatic practices, EMDR, and IFS to support healing and self-understanding. I have specialized training in sex therapy but also work broadly with identity, communication, and emotional regulation. Whether rebuilding trust, processing trauma, or strengthening connection with yourself or others, I offer a supportive, sex-positive, nonjudgmental space where authenticity is welcomed and shame has no place.
As an AMFT and Certified Somatic Coach, I work with clients across the lifespan—including teens, adults, and couples—on anxiety, depression, trauma, and relationship challenges. My warm, collaborative approach integrates talk therapy, somatic practices, EMDR, and IFS to support healing and self-understanding. I have specialized training in sex therapy but also work broadly with identity, communication, and emotional regulation. Whether rebuilding trust, processing trauma, or strengthening connection with yourself or others, I offer a supportive, sex-positive, nonjudgmental space where authenticity is welcomed and shame has no place.
Are you looking for a therapist that feels relatable and like a real person? If you're anything like I was when I first saw a therapist as a young adult, you crave that authenticity from your counselor. I promise to never ask you "and how does that make you feel?" with a straight face. Don't get me wrong, I *will* ask about your feelings, but I'm not into going through the motions and acting a role. Do you want to spend the time and effort it takes to get down past surface symptoms to the real deep work, to be able to live more comfortably in your own skin, to be able to feel your emotions, not just think them? If so, contact me.
Are you looking for a therapist that feels relatable and like a real person? If you're anything like I was when I first saw a therapist as a young adult, you crave that authenticity from your counselor. I promise to never ask you "and how does that make you feel?" with a straight face. Don't get me wrong, I *will* ask about your feelings, but I'm not into going through the motions and acting a role. Do you want to spend the time and effort it takes to get down past surface symptoms to the real deep work, to be able to live more comfortably in your own skin, to be able to feel your emotions, not just think them? If so, contact me.
These complicated and stressful times can take a toll on our relationships with others and with ourselves. How we relate to ourselves, loved ones, and our community during times of stress and transition can be a challenge and can define whether we feel safe and/or satisfied with our lives. It can determine how well we function in the world and whether we thrive. Relationships can feel disconnected, big transitions can leave you reeling, or grief and anxiety often show up like uninvited guests.
These complicated and stressful times can take a toll on our relationships with others and with ourselves. How we relate to ourselves, loved ones, and our community during times of stress and transition can be a challenge and can define whether we feel safe and/or satisfied with our lives. It can determine how well we function in the world and whether we thrive. Relationships can feel disconnected, big transitions can leave you reeling, or grief and anxiety often show up like uninvited guests.
Are you feeling overwhelmed, confused, or "in a funk?" Are you at a point in your life when your ideas of where you should be don't match up with where you are? Does it seem as though there is no way out of your current situation? I can help you navigate your way through these feelings to a place where you have more clarity and choice about what you think, feel, and do. With a sensitive and non-judgmental therapist, you will gain the ability to explore the parts of yourself that will bring about the changes you desire and more.
Are you feeling overwhelmed, confused, or "in a funk?" Are you at a point in your life when your ideas of where you should be don't match up with where you are? Does it seem as though there is no way out of your current situation? I can help you navigate your way through these feelings to a place where you have more clarity and choice about what you think, feel, and do. With a sensitive and non-judgmental therapist, you will gain the ability to explore the parts of yourself that will bring about the changes you desire and more.
Let's collaborate to help you move towards more insight, peace and fulfillment. I understand that every person has their own unique struggle and I want to help you to be able identify your blocks and strategize ways through them. Therapy can heal wounds from the past and take us into the present where we can make choices that help to put us on a path that we truly desire.
Let's collaborate to help you move towards more insight, peace and fulfillment. I understand that every person has their own unique struggle and I want to help you to be able identify your blocks and strategize ways through them. Therapy can heal wounds from the past and take us into the present where we can make choices that help to put us on a path that we truly desire.
There's nothing more important in therapy than the connection between client and therapist. When you feel safe and supported, real healing and transformation become possible. I provide compassionate support to teens, adults, and families facing a variety of challenges, including disordered eating, perinatal and parenting struggles, and trauma. My goal is to walk alongside you on your journey toward self-discovery, helping you embrace your most authentic self with confidence and clarity. My approach is warm, calming, and down-to-earth, offering a safe space where you can feel truly seen and heard.
There's nothing more important in therapy than the connection between client and therapist. When you feel safe and supported, real healing and transformation become possible. I provide compassionate support to teens, adults, and families facing a variety of challenges, including disordered eating, perinatal and parenting struggles, and trauma. My goal is to walk alongside you on your journey toward self-discovery, helping you embrace your most authentic self with confidence and clarity. My approach is warm, calming, and down-to-earth, offering a safe space where you can feel truly seen and heard.
I help children, teens, and adults struggling with anxiety and obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD). Many people I work with feel stuck in cycles of worry, intrusive thoughts, including distressing or taboo thoughts, or behaviors that are hard to control. I also support neurodivergent clients navigating anxiety, emotional overwhelm, and major life transitions. I provide evidence-based treatment, including Exposure and Response Prevention (ERP), the gold-standard therapy for OCD, to help clients gradually face fears and regain confidence and freedom.
I help children, teens, and adults struggling with anxiety and obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD). Many people I work with feel stuck in cycles of worry, intrusive thoughts, including distressing or taboo thoughts, or behaviors that are hard to control. I also support neurodivergent clients navigating anxiety, emotional overwhelm, and major life transitions. I provide evidence-based treatment, including Exposure and Response Prevention (ERP), the gold-standard therapy for OCD, to help clients gradually face fears and regain confidence and freedom.
If you’ve been in therapy before and are looking to achieve deeper insights Into the choices you’ve made, or understand why you’re still anxious or depressed, I may be the therapist for you.
If you’ve been in therapy before and are looking to achieve deeper insights Into the choices you’ve made, or understand why you’re still anxious or depressed, I may be the therapist for you.
Sometimes, our relationship to others, and ourselves, has lost its footing. We may even find ourselves feeling disconnected and overwhelmed by difficult emotions. Though we often push through life’s challenges alone, the truth is, we don’t have to. In our time together, I hope to collaborate with you in identifying the patterns, thoughts, and feelings that may be blocking you from a happy relationship to yourself and others, even if it feels beyond words at this time. I believe an environment of warmth, curiosity, and creativity can help us heal in ways we may have never thought possible.
Sometimes, our relationship to others, and ourselves, has lost its footing. We may even find ourselves feeling disconnected and overwhelmed by difficult emotions. Though we often push through life’s challenges alone, the truth is, we don’t have to. In our time together, I hope to collaborate with you in identifying the patterns, thoughts, and feelings that may be blocking you from a happy relationship to yourself and others, even if it feels beyond words at this time. I believe an environment of warmth, curiosity, and creativity can help us heal in ways we may have never thought possible.
‘Am I living a life that feels deeply satisfying and truly expresses me?’ For many creative people, this sits beneath anxiety, depression, burnout, or trauma, even if you can’t name it yet. You may vanish inside perfectionism, success, or over-functioning to stay safe and acceptable. Therapy becomes a place to question inherited “shoulds” and self-protection, and turn the measure of worth from approval to authenticity so you can live by choice, not compulsion. I also run relational process groups (see bottom). For many clients, group work becomes a living laboratory alongside individual therapy, supporting depth and integration.
‘Am I living a life that feels deeply satisfying and truly expresses me?’ For many creative people, this sits beneath anxiety, depression, burnout, or trauma, even if you can’t name it yet. You may vanish inside perfectionism, success, or over-functioning to stay safe and acceptable. Therapy becomes a place to question inherited “shoulds” and self-protection, and turn the measure of worth from approval to authenticity so you can live by choice, not compulsion. I also run relational process groups (see bottom). For many clients, group work becomes a living laboratory alongside individual therapy, supporting depth and integration.
Relationships can be challenging. They are the most essential things in our lives, and yet we’re rarely taught how to navigate them. You want to feel happy and fulfilled, but maybe you aren't quite sure how to get there.
Relationships can be challenging. They are the most essential things in our lives, and yet we’re rarely taught how to navigate them. You want to feel happy and fulfilled, but maybe you aren't quite sure how to get there.
Modern life is challenging for a variety of reasons. I believe we’re all doing the best we can, but sometimes we don’t know why life isn’t going as well as we'd like. Whether you’re struggling with relationships, loneliness, career ambitions, or fulfillment, therapy provides a safe environment to better understand what’s troubling you. The therapeutic space is sacred to me because vulnerability requires trust and leads to healing. Sometimes, we need permission to feel. Other times, we need to uncover our authentic selves. No matter the personal challenge, I will provide you with curiosity and acceptance.
Modern life is challenging for a variety of reasons. I believe we’re all doing the best we can, but sometimes we don’t know why life isn’t going as well as we'd like. Whether you’re struggling with relationships, loneliness, career ambitions, or fulfillment, therapy provides a safe environment to better understand what’s troubling you. The therapeutic space is sacred to me because vulnerability requires trust and leads to healing. Sometimes, we need permission to feel. Other times, we need to uncover our authentic selves. No matter the personal challenge, I will provide you with curiosity and acceptance.
I take an integrative and collaborative approach to treatment, depending on clients’ goals, problems, and personalities. My current areas of practice include, but are not limited to: anxiety, OCD, panic disorder, phobias, depression, stress management, trauma, grief, and relationship problems. With over 13 years of experience working in entertainment and media, I excel at treating artists and creative professionals. Outside of private practice, I currently work as a supervisor at the UCLA Anxiety Disorders Clinic.
I take an integrative and collaborative approach to treatment, depending on clients’ goals, problems, and personalities. My current areas of practice include, but are not limited to: anxiety, OCD, panic disorder, phobias, depression, stress management, trauma, grief, and relationship problems. With over 13 years of experience working in entertainment and media, I excel at treating artists and creative professionals. Outside of private practice, I currently work as a supervisor at the UCLA Anxiety Disorders Clinic.
Whatever big feelings are coming up, you don’t have to go through them alone. I provide a safe space for voicing the hard things, breathing through them, and healing. When working one on one, I attune the client's emotional state. The anxiety/depression/grief that is showing up, for example, how can we greet it like an old friend who means well? Where is it showing up in the body? Is there a subconscious pattern being repeated? Sometimes we stay with the type of suffering that is familiar out of fear of the unknown. Let's learn to set boundaries, work through trauma, and navigate a life transition.
Whatever big feelings are coming up, you don’t have to go through them alone. I provide a safe space for voicing the hard things, breathing through them, and healing. When working one on one, I attune the client's emotional state. The anxiety/depression/grief that is showing up, for example, how can we greet it like an old friend who means well? Where is it showing up in the body? Is there a subconscious pattern being repeated? Sometimes we stay with the type of suffering that is familiar out of fear of the unknown. Let's learn to set boundaries, work through trauma, and navigate a life transition.
Patrick M. McCloskey
Marriage & Family Therapist Associate, MA, AMFT
4 Endorsed
Los Angeles, CA 90039
Life can feel overwhelming, isolating, or difficult to make sense of at times. Therapy offers a space to slow down, better understand yourself, and feel supported through whatever you're carrying. I believe meaningful change begins in the context of feeling seen, understood, and connected.
Life can feel overwhelming, isolating, or difficult to make sense of at times. Therapy offers a space to slow down, better understand yourself, and feel supported through whatever you're carrying. I believe meaningful change begins in the context of feeling seen, understood, and connected.
I'm glad you're here! I'm a therapist dedicated to creating a warm, supportive, and affirming space where clients can feel safe exploring their experiences and working toward meaningful change. I believe therapy should be collaborative, compassionate, and tailored to each person’s unique needs. Together, we can explore how past experiences, attachment patterns, and relational dynamics have shaped the ways you relate to yourself, your body, and others.
I use an integrative approach tailored to each client’s needs, drawing from attachment-based and psychodynamic work while incorporating practical, evidence-based tools when helpful.
I'm glad you're here! I'm a therapist dedicated to creating a warm, supportive, and affirming space where clients can feel safe exploring their experiences and working toward meaningful change. I believe therapy should be collaborative, compassionate, and tailored to each person’s unique needs. Together, we can explore how past experiences, attachment patterns, and relational dynamics have shaped the ways you relate to yourself, your body, and others.
I use an integrative approach tailored to each client’s needs, drawing from attachment-based and psychodynamic work while incorporating practical, evidence-based tools when helpful.
I'm passionate about working with folks to help them access a deeper self-understanding, an improved connection to others, and growth that emerges through the powerful forces of healing. My clients include adolescents, individual adults, couples, and families experiencing a broad scope of concerns. I emphasize and foster connection, compassion, and collaboration, and strive to not only see and hear my clients, but to also understand them and the multiple contexts within which they exist, in the safety of a judgement-free zone.
I'm passionate about working with folks to help them access a deeper self-understanding, an improved connection to others, and growth that emerges through the powerful forces of healing. My clients include adolescents, individual adults, couples, and families experiencing a broad scope of concerns. I emphasize and foster connection, compassion, and collaboration, and strive to not only see and hear my clients, but to also understand them and the multiple contexts within which they exist, in the safety of a judgement-free zone.
Welcome. Whatever you might be going through or wondering about, it is worthy of attention and care. I see therapy as a non-shaming, collaborative process that invites you to come home to yourself. I work relationally, meaning our relationship is a central part of the work. I value candid communication and sitting with what is, as I believe it allows us to explore your experiences with genuine trust and depth. I aim to help clients heal from developmental trauma, disrupt unwanted patterns, and live more authentically and joyfully.
Welcome. Whatever you might be going through or wondering about, it is worthy of attention and care. I see therapy as a non-shaming, collaborative process that invites you to come home to yourself. I work relationally, meaning our relationship is a central part of the work. I value candid communication and sitting with what is, as I believe it allows us to explore your experiences with genuine trust and depth. I aim to help clients heal from developmental trauma, disrupt unwanted patterns, and live more authentically and joyfully.
Many of us contend with worry, feelings of failure and stuckness, inadequacy, despair, perfectionism, parenting, grief, and difficulties navigating relational differences. In our work together, we'll identify these problems and determine what they are getting in the way of. Collaborative conversations will allow us to listen for your hopes and values and explore how these reveal new possibilities for making the life you want. Please email me to set up a consultation so I can hear more about your hopes for therapy and answer any questions about the process.
Many of us contend with worry, feelings of failure and stuckness, inadequacy, despair, perfectionism, parenting, grief, and difficulties navigating relational differences. In our work together, we'll identify these problems and determine what they are getting in the way of. Collaborative conversations will allow us to listen for your hopes and values and explore how these reveal new possibilities for making the life you want. Please email me to set up a consultation so I can hear more about your hopes for therapy and answer any questions about the process.
The type of clients who will get the most out of working with me are curious about exploring the makings of their inner-world, why they find themselves in the relationships that they do and how their defenses keep them safe but stuck.
I work well with ambitious individuals prone to self-criticism or perfectionism who come to find themselves feeling disillusioned and untethered from their work, relationships and bodies. My goal is to help clients build the emotional muscle and vulnerability necessary to increase self-awareness, authenticity, connection and agency in their lives and in their relationships.
The type of clients who will get the most out of working with me are curious about exploring the makings of their inner-world, why they find themselves in the relationships that they do and how their defenses keep them safe but stuck.
I work well with ambitious individuals prone to self-criticism or perfectionism who come to find themselves feeling disillusioned and untethered from their work, relationships and bodies. My goal is to help clients build the emotional muscle and vulnerability necessary to increase self-awareness, authenticity, connection and agency in their lives and in their relationships.
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Number of Therapists in 90039
400+
Average cost per session
$200
Therapists in 90039 who prioritize treating:
| 94% | Anxiety |
| 94% | Social Anxiety |
| 94% | Health Anxiety |
| 94% | Driving Anxiety |
| 87% | Depression |
| 84% | Relationship Issues |
| 81% | Relationship Anxiety |
Average years in practice
10 Years
Top 3 insurances accepted
| 86% | Aetna |
| 65% | Cigna and Evernorth |
| 65% | Optum |
How Therapists in 90039 see their clients
| 71% | In Person and Online | |
| 29% | Online Only |
Gender breakdown
| 75% | Female | |
| 21% | Male | |
| 4% | Non-Binary |