Therapists in Pasadena, CA
My ideal client may feel overwhelmed by anxiety, depression, or the effects of trauma, whether recent or long-standing. They might be struggling with self-esteem, navigating grief, or feeling burnt out from life’s many demands. Some may have experienced emotional or domestic abuse, while others are managing work-related stress or social anxiety. At their core, they seek relief, understanding, and tools to move forward. They want a safe space to share their struggles without judgment and hope to find a therapist who will support them in building a stronger, healthier version of themselves.
My ideal client may feel overwhelmed by anxiety, depression, or the effects of trauma, whether recent or long-standing. They might be struggling with self-esteem, navigating grief, or feeling burnt out from life’s many demands. Some may have experienced emotional or domestic abuse, while others are managing work-related stress or social anxiety. At their core, they seek relief, understanding, and tools to move forward. They want a safe space to share their struggles without judgment and hope to find a therapist who will support them in building a stronger, healthier version of themselves.
Hello. Reaching out for mental health support can feel daunting—especially when you've been through a great deal—but you don’t have to navigate it alone. Having a trusted professional to guide, support, and walk alongside you can make a meaningful difference in your healing journey. Together, we will work toward emotional balance, mental clarity, and behavioral stability—all essential foundations for a more fulfilling and purposeful life. Healing is possible, and taking the first step is a powerful act of strength and self-care.
Hello. Reaching out for mental health support can feel daunting—especially when you've been through a great deal—but you don’t have to navigate it alone. Having a trusted professional to guide, support, and walk alongside you can make a meaningful difference in your healing journey. Together, we will work toward emotional balance, mental clarity, and behavioral stability—all essential foundations for a more fulfilling and purposeful life. Healing is possible, and taking the first step is a powerful act of strength and self-care.
Many of us are shaped by our experiences and aren't fully aware of the effects these experiences have in our everyday lives and relationships. We question our feelings, our thoughts and our reactions. But, they all tell a story. Our approach to treatment is attachment-based and client-centered. The emphasis is placed on exploring your values, experiences and what is important to you. Sometimes speaking to family and friends just isn't enough. We can help guide you through the process of knowing yourself and being able to understand, accept and express your emotions.
Many of us are shaped by our experiences and aren't fully aware of the effects these experiences have in our everyday lives and relationships. We question our feelings, our thoughts and our reactions. But, they all tell a story. Our approach to treatment is attachment-based and client-centered. The emphasis is placed on exploring your values, experiences and what is important to you. Sometimes speaking to family and friends just isn't enough. We can help guide you through the process of knowing yourself and being able to understand, accept and express your emotions.
My name is Benjamin Preisendorf (LMFT 146703). I believe in helping people recognize that their ability to succeed has always been there and just needs to be recognized and tapped into. Using interventions and tools I help them identify where struggles have originated and be confident in the direction they choose to go.
My name is Benjamin Preisendorf (LMFT 146703). I believe in helping people recognize that their ability to succeed has always been there and just needs to be recognized and tapped into. Using interventions and tools I help them identify where struggles have originated and be confident in the direction they choose to go.
I became a therapist to help people address their fears, manage their struggles, and find hope again. Education is key to effective treatment, and I make sure you understand what you're going through. I'm here to listen to your story. I've been described as helpful, compassionate, and supportive—but I can be assertive when needed. I want to ensure every step you take in treatment is the best one for you on your road to recovery. Together, we can make it happen. At NOCD, my team and I specialize in providing evidence-based treatment for people with OCD.
I became a therapist to help people address their fears, manage their struggles, and find hope again. Education is key to effective treatment, and I make sure you understand what you're going through. I'm here to listen to your story. I've been described as helpful, compassionate, and supportive—but I can be assertive when needed. I want to ensure every step you take in treatment is the best one for you on your road to recovery. Together, we can make it happen. At NOCD, my team and I specialize in providing evidence-based treatment for people with OCD.
As an older adult, you are facing a new set of challenges. Whether it’s the death of a loved one, a medical condition, caregiver stress, or a change in living arrangements, you’re feeling down and overwhelmed. You’re tired of waking up tired. The stress or sadness feels like it’s taking over. You’re ready to start having some good days. You want to start feeling like yourself again.
As an older adult, you are facing a new set of challenges. Whether it’s the death of a loved one, a medical condition, caregiver stress, or a change in living arrangements, you’re feeling down and overwhelmed. You’re tired of waking up tired. The stress or sadness feels like it’s taking over. You’re ready to start having some good days. You want to start feeling like yourself again.
Welcome/Bienvenidos! I am a bilingual (Spanish and English) LMFT specializing in anxiety, depression, trauma, stress, grief, life transitions, cultural stress, and women's issues. I am honored to be a part of your journey towards wellness, inner growth, healing, and fulfillment. I am committed to provide a safe, supportive, and non-judgmental space to help you discover your strengths, instill hope, and decrease your emotional distress.
Welcome/Bienvenidos! I am a bilingual (Spanish and English) LMFT specializing in anxiety, depression, trauma, stress, grief, life transitions, cultural stress, and women's issues. I am honored to be a part of your journey towards wellness, inner growth, healing, and fulfillment. I am committed to provide a safe, supportive, and non-judgmental space to help you discover your strengths, instill hope, and decrease your emotional distress.
Do you feel stuck? Do you get easily overwhelmed with tasks? Are you a harsh self-critic? Are you experiencing career or school burnout? Are you struggling to balance life demands? Are you a parent struggling to juggle all the family needs? Do you find it difficult to talk about these struggles with those around you? If you answered yes to one or more of the above, we may be a good fit to work together! I have a passion for working with those experiencing burnout, including career burnout, parenting stressors, student life, and challenges related to navigating life as someone who is neurodiverse.
Do you feel stuck? Do you get easily overwhelmed with tasks? Are you a harsh self-critic? Are you experiencing career or school burnout? Are you struggling to balance life demands? Are you a parent struggling to juggle all the family needs? Do you find it difficult to talk about these struggles with those around you? If you answered yes to one or more of the above, we may be a good fit to work together! I have a passion for working with those experiencing burnout, including career burnout, parenting stressors, student life, and challenges related to navigating life as someone who is neurodiverse.
Are you navigating a major life or identity transition? Feeling overwhelmed, stuck, or misunderstood? Whether you’re facing fertility challenges, preparing for pregnancy, adjusting after birth, or experiencing deep shifts in your sense of self or creativity as an artist, my goal is to empower clients to embark their healing journey.
I support women and LGBTQIA+ individuals — especially those who are high-achieving, creative, and outwardly capable but carrying internal stress, perfectionism, or unresolved trauma. Together, we explore how past attachment wounds, life transitions, and body-mind experiences impact your relationships.
Are you navigating a major life or identity transition? Feeling overwhelmed, stuck, or misunderstood? Whether you’re facing fertility challenges, preparing for pregnancy, adjusting after birth, or experiencing deep shifts in your sense of self or creativity as an artist, my goal is to empower clients to embark their healing journey.
I support women and LGBTQIA+ individuals — especially those who are high-achieving, creative, and outwardly capable but carrying internal stress, perfectionism, or unresolved trauma. Together, we explore how past attachment wounds, life transitions, and body-mind experiences impact your relationships.
It's all about change, isn't it? Something in your life has gone off and it's confusing, difficult, painful. Or maybe it's never been quite right, and now you're ready to address it. But what to do? And how? And to what end? How do you find your way, how do you find yourself in a changing world?
It's all about change, isn't it? Something in your life has gone off and it's confusing, difficult, painful. Or maybe it's never been quite right, and now you're ready to address it. But what to do? And how? And to what end? How do you find your way, how do you find yourself in a changing world?
I’m an LMFT and Art Therapist who believes real change begins with understanding yourself more fully—your emotions, experiences, and the patterns that shape your life. If you’re feeling overwhelmed, misunderstood, or disconnected from yourself/others, I’ll help you untangle what’s going on and guide you back toward a sense of clarity and alignment. I specialize in working with adults experiencing depression, anxiety, trauma, ADHD, Autism, chronic illness, and addiction.
I’m an LMFT and Art Therapist who believes real change begins with understanding yourself more fully—your emotions, experiences, and the patterns that shape your life. If you’re feeling overwhelmed, misunderstood, or disconnected from yourself/others, I’ll help you untangle what’s going on and guide you back toward a sense of clarity and alignment. I specialize in working with adults experiencing depression, anxiety, trauma, ADHD, Autism, chronic illness, and addiction.
Shaina Goelman is a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist. Shaina was born and raised in Los Angeles, California. She got her BA from Emerson College in Boston, Massachusetts. Shaina worked in the entertainment industry for eight years before going back to school to study Psychology. Shaina received her masters from Pepperdine University in Clinical Psychology.
Shaina Goelman is a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist. Shaina was born and raised in Los Angeles, California. She got her BA from Emerson College in Boston, Massachusetts. Shaina worked in the entertainment industry for eight years before going back to school to study Psychology. Shaina received her masters from Pepperdine University in Clinical Psychology.
I’m a queer, relational therapist with a warm, collaborative, and gently direct approach. Relationships are at the center of my practice—whether with yourself, your body, or the people in your life. How do we create relationships and lives that reflect our values, even within systems that weren't built for us? That's the question that most inspires my work.
I’m a queer, relational therapist with a warm, collaborative, and gently direct approach. Relationships are at the center of my practice—whether with yourself, your body, or the people in your life. How do we create relationships and lives that reflect our values, even within systems that weren't built for us? That's the question that most inspires my work.
Now accepting new clients for telehealth or outdoor sessions. "Ultimately it is the quality of our relationships that will determine the quality of our lives" - Esther Perel. Our relationships are everything. When our connections with each are not what we hope for, it is natural to feel unsteady in the world or even sad or anxious. We often get in our own way from finding and maintaining our deepest connections with those we love. Looking to our past can give us clues to our future and how to "live our best lives" (I think Oprah coined that one!). I offer telehealth sessions as well as outdoor sessions in a local park TBD.
Now accepting new clients for telehealth or outdoor sessions. "Ultimately it is the quality of our relationships that will determine the quality of our lives" - Esther Perel. Our relationships are everything. When our connections with each are not what we hope for, it is natural to feel unsteady in the world or even sad or anxious. We often get in our own way from finding and maintaining our deepest connections with those we love. Looking to our past can give us clues to our future and how to "live our best lives" (I think Oprah coined that one!). I offer telehealth sessions as well as outdoor sessions in a local park TBD.
My approach to treating OCD is direct and compassionate. I'll help you identify your values and develop exposures involving the things that are important to you. I enjoy learning about people and helping them through difficult situations. At NOCD, my team and I specialize in providing evidence-based treatment for OCD. Our deep understanding of its nuances enables us to properly diagnose and treat it. We have received training in Exposure Response and Prevention Therapy (ERP)—the gold standard treatment for OCD. When you start with NOCD, you’ll either work with me or be paired with one of my colleagues, based on your preferences.
My approach to treating OCD is direct and compassionate. I'll help you identify your values and develop exposures involving the things that are important to you. I enjoy learning about people and helping them through difficult situations. At NOCD, my team and I specialize in providing evidence-based treatment for OCD. Our deep understanding of its nuances enables us to properly diagnose and treat it. We have received training in Exposure Response and Prevention Therapy (ERP)—the gold standard treatment for OCD. When you start with NOCD, you’ll either work with me or be paired with one of my colleagues, based on your preferences.
For 25+ years I've specialized in working with children, adolescents, adults, couples and families to help them live with more confidence, connection, and aliveness. I bring extensive experience in therapy, supervision, consulting, and research in the areas of child, teen, & family life, social and emotional development, sexuality, and building solid and nurturing relationships. I work with clients in a talk therapy approach that is warm, interactive, and active, but that is also flexible in including support for new behaviors, creative expression, and practical help in developing new skills for living.
For 25+ years I've specialized in working with children, adolescents, adults, couples and families to help them live with more confidence, connection, and aliveness. I bring extensive experience in therapy, supervision, consulting, and research in the areas of child, teen, & family life, social and emotional development, sexuality, and building solid and nurturing relationships. I work with clients in a talk therapy approach that is warm, interactive, and active, but that is also flexible in including support for new behaviors, creative expression, and practical help in developing new skills for living.
Increased insight and an empowering outcome. Working through identifying the core, root challenge that is influencing any distress.
Increased insight and an empowering outcome. Working through identifying the core, root challenge that is influencing any distress.
Do you struggle with constant worry and perfectionism? Does anxiety affect your ability to connect with others and your life in a meaningful way? Are you going through a current life transition or stressor with which you are struggling to adapt? Difficulty in your current relationships? Through my years providing therapy and supervising students who are learning how to become therapists, I have developed an expertise in these areas. I provide Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT), Cognitive Behavior Therapy (CBT), and exposure therapy.
Do you struggle with constant worry and perfectionism? Does anxiety affect your ability to connect with others and your life in a meaningful way? Are you going through a current life transition or stressor with which you are struggling to adapt? Difficulty in your current relationships? Through my years providing therapy and supervising students who are learning how to become therapists, I have developed an expertise in these areas. I provide Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT), Cognitive Behavior Therapy (CBT), and exposure therapy.
Mixed Roots therapy is a group private practice that creates healing spaces for people with complex identities and stories, leading them to often have trouble finding places to belong. We work with individuals and couples who are hurting, stressed, and overwhelmed. We suffer in a multitude of different ways from trauma, grief, depression, isolation, anxiety, anger, low self-esteem, and discrimination, to name a few. It is common to feel stuck, trapped, confused, or lost in these emotional states and patterns, and this is where people usually are when they find us.
Mixed Roots therapy is a group private practice that creates healing spaces for people with complex identities and stories, leading them to often have trouble finding places to belong. We work with individuals and couples who are hurting, stressed, and overwhelmed. We suffer in a multitude of different ways from trauma, grief, depression, isolation, anxiety, anger, low self-esteem, and discrimination, to name a few. It is common to feel stuck, trapped, confused, or lost in these emotional states and patterns, and this is where people usually are when they find us.
We all have wounds. Whether they be from complex trauma, grief, chronic pain/illness, relationship difficulties, or other hardships in life, we all have emotional scars. But we also all have the innate, inherent capability to heal, grow, & positively change. If you need guidance, validation, support, & greater insight, you've come to the right place. I specialize in trauma-informed care, adverse childhood experiences (i.e., child abuse/neglect), domestic/intimate partner violence, sexual assault, chronic health conditions/invisible disabilities, LGBTQIA+ affirming care, BIPOC advocacy, & mood disorders.
We all have wounds. Whether they be from complex trauma, grief, chronic pain/illness, relationship difficulties, or other hardships in life, we all have emotional scars. But we also all have the innate, inherent capability to heal, grow, & positively change. If you need guidance, validation, support, & greater insight, you've come to the right place. I specialize in trauma-informed care, adverse childhood experiences (i.e., child abuse/neglect), domestic/intimate partner violence, sexual assault, chronic health conditions/invisible disabilities, LGBTQIA+ affirming care, BIPOC advocacy, & mood disorders.
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Number of Therapists in Pasadena, CA
2,000+
Average cost per session
$179
Therapists in Pasadena, CA who prioritize treating:
| 91% | Anxiety |
| 91% | Social Anxiety |
| 91% | Health Anxiety |
| 91% | Driving Anxiety |
| 85% | Depression |
| 75% | Relationship Issues |
| 71% | Self Esteem |
Average years in practice
11 Years
Top 3 insurances accepted
| 89% | Aetna |
| 69% | Cigna and Evernorth |
| 55% | Anthem |
How Therapists in Pasadena, CA see their clients
| 53% | In Person and Online | |
| 47% | Online Only |
Gender breakdown
| 78% | Female | |
| 21% | Male | |
| 1% | Non-Binary |