Black and African American Therapists in West Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA
Jeshurun Joseph
Clinical Social Work/Therapist, LCSW
1 Endorsed
West Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA 90034
My client-centered approach to therapy places my clients at the forefront of their own healing journey as I guide and support each one of them. I believe that individuals are the experts of their lives and that my role is to provide a safe and nurturing space for growth. My goal is to assist in identifying strengths and inherent characteristics to fuel resiliency in each client. Clients are coached to understand that decisions made, relationships entered into, and responses to triggers are integral in the healing process by recognizing that trauma in its many forms impacts engagement in repetitive and/or negative behaviors.
My client-centered approach to therapy places my clients at the forefront of their own healing journey as I guide and support each one of them. I believe that individuals are the experts of their lives and that my role is to provide a safe and nurturing space for growth. My goal is to assist in identifying strengths and inherent characteristics to fuel resiliency in each client. Clients are coached to understand that decisions made, relationships entered into, and responses to triggers are integral in the healing process by recognizing that trauma in its many forms impacts engagement in repetitive and/or negative behaviors.
Clarity Family Therapy Services
Marriage & Family Therapist, MA, LMFT
4 Endorsed
West Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA 90025
From CBT, DBT, EMDR, African-American female therapists, LGBTQ+ identifying therapists, Asian, Latina, Iranian, We are here to help you.
We support adults, couples, families, and individuals navigating anxiety, depression, trauma, stress, addiction, and relationship challenges. Our therapists offer evidence‑based, compassionate care tailored to each client’s needs. We’ve also added a Specialized Child Therapist to our team who accepts most insurance plans.
From CBT, DBT, EMDR, African-American female therapists, LGBTQ+ identifying therapists, Asian, Latina, Iranian, We are here to help you.
We support adults, couples, families, and individuals navigating anxiety, depression, trauma, stress, addiction, and relationship challenges. Our therapists offer evidence‑based, compassionate care tailored to each client’s needs. We’ve also added a Specialized Child Therapist to our team who accepts most insurance plans.
Life can be complicated, and there isn’t a handbook for managing issues like anxiety, depression, addiction, and relationships. It’s important to know that you’re not alone, and these challenges are opportunities for growth. You’re probably here because you feel it’s time to “do something different.” Let our team at Meridian Counseling guide you on this journey.
Life can be complicated, and there isn’t a handbook for managing issues like anxiety, depression, addiction, and relationships. It’s important to know that you’re not alone, and these challenges are opportunities for growth. You’re probably here because you feel it’s time to “do something different.” Let our team at Meridian Counseling guide you on this journey.
A life transition experience can be positive or negative, planned or unexpected. Some transitions happen without warning, and they may be quite dramatic, as in cases of accidents, death, divorce, job loss, or serious illness. Other life transitions come from positive experiences such as getting married, going away to college, starting a new job, moving to a new city. Even though events like these are usually planned and anticipated, they can be just as life-altering as the unexpected events. Whether positive or negative, life transitions cause us to leave behind the familiar and force us to adjust to new ways of living.
A life transition experience can be positive or negative, planned or unexpected. Some transitions happen without warning, and they may be quite dramatic, as in cases of accidents, death, divorce, job loss, or serious illness. Other life transitions come from positive experiences such as getting married, going away to college, starting a new job, moving to a new city. Even though events like these are usually planned and anticipated, they can be just as life-altering as the unexpected events. Whether positive or negative, life transitions cause us to leave behind the familiar and force us to adjust to new ways of living.
Hi! I'm Rayven Battles, a Licensed Clinical Social Worker and a Registered Nurse in California. I hold a Master’s in Social Work from California State University, Los Angeles and a Master's in Nursing from University of California, Los Angeles. I provide therapy for a wide range of mental health concerns, including anxiety, depression, mood disorders, psychosis, post-traumatic stress, grief, and personality disorders. Clients often describe me as calm, compassionate, and easy to talk to. I provide a supportive space where clients can explore their emotions, gain insight, and build the skills needed to enhance their mental health.
Hi! I'm Rayven Battles, a Licensed Clinical Social Worker and a Registered Nurse in California. I hold a Master’s in Social Work from California State University, Los Angeles and a Master's in Nursing from University of California, Los Angeles. I provide therapy for a wide range of mental health concerns, including anxiety, depression, mood disorders, psychosis, post-traumatic stress, grief, and personality disorders. Clients often describe me as calm, compassionate, and easy to talk to. I provide a supportive space where clients can explore their emotions, gain insight, and build the skills needed to enhance their mental health.
Dr. Derek Novacek specializes in evidence-based treatments for anxiety, depression, and relationship issues. His collaborative, strengths-based approach prioritizes the client's unique experiences while integrating essential sociocultural factors. Clients often seek support in navigating emotional challenges and cultivating deeper connections. They desire a safe space to explore their feelings and develop effective coping strategies. Ultimately, their goal is to achieve personal growth, enhance relationships, and build resilience. Dr. Novacek is dedicated to empowering individuals on their journey toward healing and fulfillment.
Dr. Derek Novacek specializes in evidence-based treatments for anxiety, depression, and relationship issues. His collaborative, strengths-based approach prioritizes the client's unique experiences while integrating essential sociocultural factors. Clients often seek support in navigating emotional challenges and cultivating deeper connections. They desire a safe space to explore their feelings and develop effective coping strategies. Ultimately, their goal is to achieve personal growth, enhance relationships, and build resilience. Dr. Novacek is dedicated to empowering individuals on their journey toward healing and fulfillment.
As a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist (LMFT), I have extensive experience working with individuals, couples, families, and groups dealing with a wide array of challenges. Whether you’re dealing with anxiety, depression, relationship problems such as codependency, infidelity, or other concerns, trauma, anger, grief, addiction, or other issues, I would be honored to walk with you to discover a better way forward in life.
As a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist (LMFT), I have extensive experience working with individuals, couples, families, and groups dealing with a wide array of challenges. Whether you’re dealing with anxiety, depression, relationship problems such as codependency, infidelity, or other concerns, trauma, anger, grief, addiction, or other issues, I would be honored to walk with you to discover a better way forward in life.
I specializes in MFT and ABA. While working with clients, I supports their work by identifying behavior patterns, identifying healthy replacement behaviors, and support my client’s understanding of emotional and cognitive states. Through the understanding of the self, my clients learn how their behaviors impact their environments. And more importantly how they can make changes to enhance their life, relationships, and experiences in their daily environments. I have experience working with adults, couples, groups, and children.
I specializes in MFT and ABA. While working with clients, I supports their work by identifying behavior patterns, identifying healthy replacement behaviors, and support my client’s understanding of emotional and cognitive states. Through the understanding of the self, my clients learn how their behaviors impact their environments. And more importantly how they can make changes to enhance their life, relationships, and experiences in their daily environments. I have experience working with adults, couples, groups, and children.
You weren’t meant to navigate relationships alone.
I believe healing happens in connection - with ourselves and with the people who matter most to us. My approach to therapy is collaborative and relational: the wisdom and strength you need already exist within you. My role is to help you uncover them.
Whether you and your partner feel stuck in repeating arguments, becoming emotionally distant, unsure how to reconnect; or your family is struggling with communication, conflict, and major life transitions, I provide a supportive space to slow down, understand one another, and create meaningful change.
You weren’t meant to navigate relationships alone.
I believe healing happens in connection - with ourselves and with the people who matter most to us. My approach to therapy is collaborative and relational: the wisdom and strength you need already exist within you. My role is to help you uncover them.
Whether you and your partner feel stuck in repeating arguments, becoming emotionally distant, unsure how to reconnect; or your family is struggling with communication, conflict, and major life transitions, I provide a supportive space to slow down, understand one another, and create meaningful change.
Somatic therapist for women of color navigating relational trauma, anxiety, and nervous system dysregulation — in CA and GA.
Maybe you’ve spent years showing up fully for everyone else — your relationships, your career, your family — caught in cycles you can't break: shutting down in conflict, over-giving until depleted, carrying generational patterns in your body. You've tried to talk it out, but it hasn’t been enough.
I work with women of color in California and Georgia ready to go deeper. Working with how your story lives in your body to regulate your nervous system, heal relational wounds, and feel grounded.
Somatic therapist for women of color navigating relational trauma, anxiety, and nervous system dysregulation — in CA and GA.
Maybe you’ve spent years showing up fully for everyone else — your relationships, your career, your family — caught in cycles you can't break: shutting down in conflict, over-giving until depleted, carrying generational patterns in your body. You've tried to talk it out, but it hasn’t been enough.
I work with women of color in California and Georgia ready to go deeper. Working with how your story lives in your body to regulate your nervous system, heal relational wounds, and feel grounded.
Hello, I’m Maya, a Relationship Practitioner supporting Corporate Professionals and Entrepreneurs, offering individual and couple support worldwide. Insurance is accepted for California individuals and couples receiving perinatal wellness counseling for pregnancy, postpartum, birth loss, and abortion care. Private pay is available for all other services.
My work is structured, direct, and growth-focused. I help clients strengthen communication, rebuild trust, regulate conflict, and navigate major life transitions with clarity, stability, and support without sacrificing performance or purpose.
Hello, I’m Maya, a Relationship Practitioner supporting Corporate Professionals and Entrepreneurs, offering individual and couple support worldwide. Insurance is accepted for California individuals and couples receiving perinatal wellness counseling for pregnancy, postpartum, birth loss, and abortion care. Private pay is available for all other services.
My work is structured, direct, and growth-focused. I help clients strengthen communication, rebuild trust, regulate conflict, and navigate major life transitions with clarity, stability, and support without sacrificing performance or purpose.
Renee Shanee
Marriage & Family Therapist Associate, MA
4 Endorsed
Online Only
Waitlist for new clients
My clients are resilient and working towards breaking the cycles of generational/intergenerational trauma by creating new paths, traditions, and coping strategies. They trust that working through and learning from past experiences develops confidence and healthy coping skills. My clients believe that well-being is grounded in self-awareness and connection to the body. They are motivated to build the skills that allow them to participate fully in healthy relationships.
My clients are resilient and working towards breaking the cycles of generational/intergenerational trauma by creating new paths, traditions, and coping strategies. They trust that working through and learning from past experiences develops confidence and healthy coping skills. My clients believe that well-being is grounded in self-awareness and connection to the body. They are motivated to build the skills that allow them to participate fully in healthy relationships.
As a Black queer trans man, my focus is on creating an affirming, compassionate, open, and explorative space that meets people where they are and only serves to assist them in getting themselves where they want to be.
I hold the belief that we grow and change through relationships and because of that my style is relational, trauma informed, collaborative and social justice centered. It is not my job or purpose to help create tools for capitalism. I believe there are no predetermined paths or timelines for healing, and that the best way to get where you want is to focus on what keeps you safe, allows you time to rest and helps you create the community you want and need to thrive.
As a Black queer trans man, my focus is on creating an affirming, compassionate, open, and explorative space that meets people where they are and only serves to assist them in getting themselves where they want to be.
I hold the belief that we grow and change through relationships and because of that my style is relational, trauma informed, collaborative and social justice centered. It is not my job or purpose to help create tools for capitalism. I believe there are no predetermined paths or timelines for healing, and that the best way to get where you want is to focus on what keeps you safe, allows you time to rest and helps you create the community you want and need to thrive.
Choosing new possibilities is a courageous act. If you’ve found your way here, you may be feeling deep sadness, loneliness, anxiety, frustrated or just simply tired. Perhaps you're curious to discover and create a new relationship with yourself, your partner(s) or understand and manage neurodiversity. When it comes to sexuality, love, or neurodivergence, many of us are carrying around old stories, misinformation, and the pain of difficult experiences that we want to be free of. If you are wrestling with love, sexuality and/or are multi-passionate and neurodivergent. I can work with you so you and your relationships can flourish.
Choosing new possibilities is a courageous act. If you’ve found your way here, you may be feeling deep sadness, loneliness, anxiety, frustrated or just simply tired. Perhaps you're curious to discover and create a new relationship with yourself, your partner(s) or understand and manage neurodiversity. When it comes to sexuality, love, or neurodivergence, many of us are carrying around old stories, misinformation, and the pain of difficult experiences that we want to be free of. If you are wrestling with love, sexuality and/or are multi-passionate and neurodivergent. I can work with you so you and your relationships can flourish.
Are you being challenged by emotional and psychological concerns? Are they preventing you from leading the life you’d like to be living? Are your usual ways of coping are becoming less and less effective? It would be an honor to be allowed to join you on your journey towards better well-being. In therapy we'll work with all aspects of yourself; the person and the performer. We integrate these in a way that is authentic and fulfilling to you. In addition to sport and performance psychology, my clinical interests include sleep, eating/body image concerns, romantic and sexual relationships, social anxiety, and emerging adulthood.
Are you being challenged by emotional and psychological concerns? Are they preventing you from leading the life you’d like to be living? Are your usual ways of coping are becoming less and less effective? It would be an honor to be allowed to join you on your journey towards better well-being. In therapy we'll work with all aspects of yourself; the person and the performer. We integrate these in a way that is authentic and fulfilling to you. In addition to sport and performance psychology, my clinical interests include sleep, eating/body image concerns, romantic and sexual relationships, social anxiety, and emerging adulthood.
I help empathic professionals feeling drained by constant demands and boundary fatigue. If you struggle with people-pleasing, imposter syndrome, or difficulty advocating for yourself, you’re not alone. We blend talk therapy with somatic tools to help you reclaim your energy, regulate your nervous system, and set healthy limits. Together, we’ll build self-compassion and confidence so you can thrive personally and professionally—caring for others without losing yourself. My approach is warm, practical, and tailored to your unique needs, helping you find balance and strength in your daily life.
I help empathic professionals feeling drained by constant demands and boundary fatigue. If you struggle with people-pleasing, imposter syndrome, or difficulty advocating for yourself, you’re not alone. We blend talk therapy with somatic tools to help you reclaim your energy, regulate your nervous system, and set healthy limits. Together, we’ll build self-compassion and confidence so you can thrive personally and professionally—caring for others without losing yourself. My approach is warm, practical, and tailored to your unique needs, helping you find balance and strength in your daily life.
I’m so glad you’re here. This is a meaningful step toward living a life that feels aligned with your values and purpose. Seeking support takes courage, and I respect the bravery it takes to begin this journey. I provide a safe, supportive space where you can explore your challenges, heal, and grow. My approach is rooted in creating connection, building resilience, and helping you reconnect with your inner wisdom. Together, we’ll develop tools to navigate life’s complexities and work toward a balanced, fulfilling, and authentic life. I’m here to support you every step of the way.
I’m so glad you’re here. This is a meaningful step toward living a life that feels aligned with your values and purpose. Seeking support takes courage, and I respect the bravery it takes to begin this journey. I provide a safe, supportive space where you can explore your challenges, heal, and grow. My approach is rooted in creating connection, building resilience, and helping you reconnect with your inner wisdom. Together, we’ll develop tools to navigate life’s complexities and work toward a balanced, fulfilling, and authentic life. I’m here to support you every step of the way.
As a Black therapist dedicated to creating a healing space rooted in safety, authenticity, and respect.
In addition, Mecka also continued her Mental Health specialty at Capella University for a certification for Mental health. My work focuses on anxiety, depression, trauma, life transitions, relationship challenges, self-esteem, and identity exploration. Together, we explore emotions, patterns, and experiences while developing growth and emotional well being.
As a Black therapist dedicated to creating a healing space rooted in safety, authenticity, and respect.
In addition, Mecka also continued her Mental Health specialty at Capella University for a certification for Mental health. My work focuses on anxiety, depression, trauma, life transitions, relationship challenges, self-esteem, and identity exploration. Together, we explore emotions, patterns, and experiences while developing growth and emotional well being.
Hello! My name is Randy , and I am a clinician dedicated to providing a compassionate, inclusive, and highly adaptable therapeutic experience. My practice is built on the belief that every individual’s journey is unique, and I am committed to meeting you exactly where you are. With extensive experience working with diverse populations—including Children, Families, , Transitional Age Youth (TAY), and postgraduate professionals—I pride myself on high multicultural competence. I offer a safe, affirming space that respects all human values, gender identities, LGBTQ+ and sexually transitional consumers and social backgrounds.
Hello! My name is Randy , and I am a clinician dedicated to providing a compassionate, inclusive, and highly adaptable therapeutic experience. My practice is built on the belief that every individual’s journey is unique, and I am committed to meeting you exactly where you are. With extensive experience working with diverse populations—including Children, Families, , Transitional Age Youth (TAY), and postgraduate professionals—I pride myself on high multicultural competence. I offer a safe, affirming space that respects all human values, gender identities, LGBTQ+ and sexually transitional consumers and social backgrounds.
I specialize in working with adults with ADHD, parents of neurodivergent children, members of the BIPOC community with inter-sectioning identities, teenagers, and young professionals who are ready to stop swimming upstream and start building a life that actually fits them. My approach is warm, collaborative, and deeply person-centered, blending CBT, and DBT with a genuine belief that you already have everything you need inside of you. I'm here to help you find it.
I specialize in working with adults with ADHD, parents of neurodivergent children, members of the BIPOC community with inter-sectioning identities, teenagers, and young professionals who are ready to stop swimming upstream and start building a life that actually fits them. My approach is warm, collaborative, and deeply person-centered, blending CBT, and DBT with a genuine belief that you already have everything you need inside of you. I'm here to help you find it.
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FAQ - Black and African American Counselling
As an African American, why might I wish to see a therapist who is African American?
Working with an African American therapist can often mean that you start from a place of shared understanding with a therapist rather than having to explain your experience from scratch. A therapist who shares your racial identity is more likely to understand the specific pressures shaping your mental health, including navigating racism, cultural identity, and the overall experience of being Black in the United States. They are also more likely to understand the role that family, community, and cultural expectations play in your life without requiring a lengthy explanation. This shared foundation can create a greater sense of safety in the therapeutic relationship and make it easier to open up at the start of therapy.
Are there Black therapists who specialize in working with Black men or Black women?
Yes, many Black therapists have specific experience working with Black men or Black women. While therapists who work with Black clients broadly address concerns relevant to all genders, like anxiety or depression, those with a gender-specific focus are equipped to work with you on the particular ways that race and gender may intersect. For example, some therapists may specialize in working with Black women on topics like body image or maternal mental health, while other therapists may work with Black men on topics such as relationships or masculinity.
Do Black therapists offer marriage and couples counseling?
Yes, many Black therapists are trained in couples and marriage counseling and can work with partners navigating a wide range of relationship challenges. Therapists who identify as Black may have a better understanding of the cultural dynamics surrounding marriage, family roles, and conflict that are specific to African American communities and can work with you and your partner without making assumptions about your background.
How might I inquire about a therapist’s experience working with Black clients?
The initial consultation, which is typically a brief phone or video call, is the right time to raise a therapist’s experience working with Black clients. You can ask specific questions, such as "Do you have experience working with Black clients?" or more broad questions, such as "How do you approach cultural identity in your practice?". During the initial consultation, you can also ask whether they have undertaken training in cultural competence and how they would handle a situation where a cultural misunderstanding arose in therapy. A therapist who responds to these questions thoughtfully and without defensiveness is a good sign they are equipped to work with you effectively.
Who is included in Psychology Today's directory of Black therapists?
The directory of Black therapists includes therapists who have self-identified their ethnicity in their profiles. Psychology Today uses this information to assist clients in finding a therapist who can provide a cultural match. However, not all therapists choose to disclose their ethnicity in their profile, and they may not appear in search results for this reason. In situations where the number of therapists who have identified as Black is limited, the directory will also show therapists who have undergone specific multicultural training or have extensive experience working with clients from relevant cultural backgrounds.