Therapists in Los Angeles, CA

Dígame, if you just want to talk about life, stress, or just have life goals you want to reach and need motivation to take the leap. Dígame if you’re looking to focus on your mental health, heal from traumas, and/or break intergenerational cycles. Dígame about your nervios/anxiety, el espanto/trauma, or cuando te pusistes mal/depression. Let’s translate wellness and mental health into our inherent rights as defined by you. I use a Person Centered, Culturally Driven approach; Decolonizing our minds, hearts, and behaviors to break cycles and barriers. Individuals, Couples, and Families welcome. Platicas disponibles en español.

Damon Holzum, LCSW. I bring a fresh, passionate and compassionate approach to your concerns and engage with you as someone desiring a powerful, nurturing, and solutions focused experience. My focus is an integrative approach blending CBT, experiential, Gestalt, and narrative therapies to assist you and your significant other or family to thrive within your environment and understand your thoughts and feelings to be the best you. I engage with all genres of individuals and focus on sex-positive therapy, polyamory, alternative sexual practices and the destigmatization of all things sexual and intimate within your relationships.

Challenging relationship and family dynamics can throw our universe out of balance. Setting boundaries with others allows us to live with greater intentionality, as we become more in touch with the power to choose with whom and how we engage. Defining your boundaries begins with strengthening your sense of self, empowering you to firm up when others are poking at you.

Therapy is a deeply personal, multifaceted journey inward in an already complex world. To those who choose to venture down this road, the process can leave one feeling emotional and vulnerable, but it will also be healing, enlightening and enriching. Taking steps down this path is a virtuous act and I am here to honor you and your process. Together we will gently explore what may be causing you pain. Healing is at the heart of my practice - what you will experience with me is empathy, non-judgmental compassion, and authenticity. My therapeutic style is warm, energetic and engaged.

Perhaps you've found yourself in a space where your needs seem to consistently take a back seat, and the essence of who you are fades into the background. If you’re experiencing the weight of chronic codependency, relational trauma, or the aftermath of narcissistic abuse, you're not alone. You're seeking a way to liberate yourself from the emotional chains that bind you to these draining dynamics. Together, in a space of understanding and empowerment, we’ll explore the intricacies of your experiences, validating your journey and guiding you toward breaking free from this cycle.

As a sex and relationships therapist, I support individuals and couples in working through discrepancy in desire, betrayal and lack of trust due to infidelity, sexual compulsivity, sexual trauma, sexual inexperience, STI/STDs, sex therapy, ENM, healthy relationships, sexual dysfunction such as erectile dysfunction and vaginismus, and more. I use a warm and nonjudgmental approach to support clients in releasing shame to get to the root of healing. I believe that all clients have the inner resources and tools with which to navigate life’s challenges and that it is my job to support clients in identifying and strengthening these tools.

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 and dynamic:

Welcome to my profile! I’m Jose Zarate, and I have earned a Master's degree in Counseling with a specialization in Marriage, Couple, and Family Counseling from California State University, Sacramento. As an Associate-Professional Clinical Counselor, I am passionate about helping individuals overcome emotional distress, depression, performance stress, childhood trauma, anxiety, PTSD, and dissociative symptoms. I also find joy in working with couples, providing a safe and nurturing space for them to explore challenges, deepen their understanding of each other, and cultivate a thriving partnership.

I am a bilingual Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist and a certified Cognitive Behavioral Therapist. I am also a Doctor of Psychology and full-time counselor at Pepperdine University. I received my postgraduate training at the Beck Institute of Cognitive Behavior Therapy – the pioneer of Cognitive Behavior Therapy. I specialize in solution-focused and evidence-based treatment to help you improve your life in the most efficient way. I also utilize attachment theory to address relationship dynamics that tailors to your needs. I am passionate about neurobiology and can provide you with the most advanced tools from medical research.

I work with individuals, couples, and families in issues across the relationship spectrum. I have an expertise in the intersection of relationship concerns and disability/neurodivergence. I work with individuals and their family members looking for sexuality education and self-identity exploration, as well as coaching on dating skills and beginning relationships. I engage with couples to work on relationship enhancement and sex therapy. I also am a trauma-informed therapist, working with both victims, perpetrators, and couples experiencing sexual and relationship violence.

Feeling stuck, overwhelmed or caught in an endless loop of personal challenges? If so, you are not alone. Therapy is where you can heal from current stressors, past wounds, and negative thoughts or behavior patterns that unconsciously create recurring problems in life. As an affirmative clinician, I treat LGBTQ clients, ADHD, autism, anxiety, depression, shame, self-criticism, and trauma disorders. My practice is rooted in helping people improve their self-worth, daily focus, motivation and executive function skills. I also support people navigating relationship and family conflict, grief/loss and career challenges/transitions.

Kati Phillips is a certified emotionally-focused therapist with advanced training in sex therapy and LGBTQ-affirmative therapy. She works with adults, adolescents, couples and folks in consensual non-monogamous relationships.

I am a Mindfulness and Trauma Resilience trainer who believes success and happiness result from a balanced mindset. Being stuck in unhealthy patterns, failing to accomplish the change we desire, or sustaining the nurturing relationships we deserve are all issues we expect to resolve on our own, but when we can't we feel defeated. Therapy is support that helps unearth our own best solutions while increasing skills and practices that grow fulfillment.

I work with individuals, couples, and families struggling with addiction and unhealthy coping mechanisms, sexual and relationship issues, sexuality and internalized shame, codependency and individuation, anxiety and burnout. My focus is to help clients discover and live in alignment with their values. I have experience in and strongly encourage 12 Step programs for additional support when applicable. I also specialize in providing guidance and integration for psychedelic assisted psychotherapy.

When things are hard, you don't have to be alone in your suffering. I offer a nurturing and judgement free space that can help you begin to traverse through the challenges that bring you to therapy. We can address the current issues that bring you pain and look at the past and earlier experiences to engage with unconscious factors that may be influencing your struggles and heartache. I offer my commitment to help you find growth, relief and the lasting change you may be looking for.

I am Tracy Satterfield Tordella, a Licensed Clinical Social Worker in CA. My approach to therapy is direct, supportive, and collaborative. I specialize in grief and loss, maternal mental health, including perinatal and postpartum mood disorders, and assisting couples with communication and healthy relationships. During our first session, we will explore your reasons for seeking therapy at this time and expectations of the therapeutic process. We will also discuss past experiences with therapy and the benefits and challenges during those experiences.

Is anxiety, depression, stress, or substance use interfering with your ability to live a meaningful life? Are you feeling lonely, empty or unfulfilled? The goal of therapy is to facilitate personal growth and help you improve your life. I believe there is no one-size-fits all approach to therapy, so this can take many shapes and forms depending on your needs. Whether you're looking to build self-awareness, strengthen your relationships, change your unwanted habits, better manage your stress or just feel better emotionally - I am here to help!

I engage in conversations that explore the ideas and understandings you have of yourself, others and of the world. Together we identify your strengths and values so that you may generate productive and effective choices that enable you to achieve the goals in life you desire.

Do you desire to move forward but don’t understand what may be holding you back? Are you seeking a supportive partner in your healing process? What is important to you when working with a therapist? I follow the notion that the relationship is one of the most important aspects of the healing process and utilize it as one of the main tools in the work with my clients. Whether it is processing trauma, exploring anxiety or depression, addressing relationship issues, or getting through a transitional phase of life, among many other reasons, sometimes therapy with a strong therapeutic relationship as a foundation can make a difference.