Relationship Issues Therapists in Santa Monica, CA

My goal as your therapist is to guide you in developing a deeper understanding of your identity, empowering you to make life choices that align with your values. Collaboratively, we will explore how past experiences have shaped present challenges, examining their impact on your thoughts, beliefs, and feelings. Within our therapeutic relationship, I prioritize authenticity, humor, warmth, and a sense of safety. This commitment creates a safe space for you to further your self-awareness and develop skills necessary to foster positive behavioral and emotional changes.

Are past traumatic experiences, being an adult child of a dysfunctional home, incest survival experiences, addiction issues, phobia, panic, anxiety, C-PTSD or depression affecting your success? Are distractions impacting your optimal performance abilities at work, in your intimate relationships, or in relationships with family members or with yourself? Are you surviving instead of thriving? I provide accelerated Psychotherapy for individuals and couples who are challenged by performance loss and emotional unhappiness. Also offer Diagnosis evaluation for addiction, mood, personality, and adult Autism spectrum. HSP and Kink friendly.

I use a variety of practices and therapies, including: EMDR, Somatic Experiencing, CBT, Motivational Interviewing, and Trauma Informed Therapy. My process is always to ask you, the client, what it is you want, what would that look like, and what is in your way. Then we collaborate to get you there!

As a licensed therapist specializing in working with young adult and college-aged women, I understand the unique challenges and opportunities you face. From academic pressures and career exploration to relationship dynamics and personal growth, this stage of life can be both exciting and overwhelming. My approach is rooted in collaboration and empowerment. I believe in creating a safe and supportive space where you can openly explore your thoughts, feelings, and experiences without judgment. Let's work together to develop the skills and self awareness needed to navigate life's transitions with confidence and resilience.

I specialize in therapy with children, adolescents, parents, and families, dealing with life transitions and crises impacting social, emotional, academic, and interpersonal functioning. Goals may include working through a difficult transition, relieving specific troubling symptoms, building coping strategies to manage difficult feelings (anxiety, depression, frustration), improving communication, improving the quality of relationships, increasing social skills, reducing conflict, improving conflict resolution and problem solving skills, and gaining greater insight and awareness for personal growth.

I help individuals achieve levels of happiness, fulfillment and success that were otherwise thought to be unachievable. My passion lies in helping clients radically change their beliefs about themselves, others and the world to achieve their goals. I believe the keys to success are establishing a trusting, collaborative relationship, and providing honest, direct feedback in an empathetic and non judgmental way. I believe each of my clients has all of the tools and resources within themselves to achieve whatever dreams they have and to reignite passion in their lives. I also offer ketamine assisted psychotherapy to eligible clients.

I started my therapy journey with children in 2014. Working with children and their parents was challenging and I loved it. My journey with children ended after 4 years after I decided to try adult therapy. I started working with adults in 2017 in a hospital on weekends and later in 2018 full time. Throughout my whole career I've used Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, which has proven to be the most effective in meeting treatment goals. It's been about 8 years now and I primarily work with adults.

We are a team of Stanford and UCLA educated psychologists with expertise in evidence-based treatments for anxiety, depression, OCD, BPD, and trauma. Our approach to therapy helps you identify patterns of thinking that no longer serve you and manage emotions that interfere with living your best life. Our goal is to teach you techniques that, once mastered, will allow you to continue the work of therapy independently. Our treatment approaches include CBT, ACT, DBT, and the gold-standard trauma treatments, CPT and PE.

My compassionate and active approach to therapy is one that can rapidly improve a willing client's life. Clients have the opportunity to experience healing and transformation as they integrate a sustainable sense of well-being. I teach techniques that provide for ongoing self-care and self-sufficiency. I offer my clients concrete tools and therapeutic experiences for shifting their patterns and healing their pain; they become empowered and live more authentic and satisfying lives. Couples build attunement, improve communication and overcome individual and relational patterns that prevent intimacy.

Are you ready for a change? I am a licensed Clinical Psychologist with an office in Torrance, CA across from the Del Amo Mall. I believe in everyone's ability to live a better life through healing and change in a sportive, caring environment designed to attend personal needs. I provide individual and family therapy to address the many struggles and life issues we all face. My practice includes psychological testing (IQ, SSI, PTSD, Personality, Education, Development, Autism/ADHD diagnosis). I strive to meet every client where they are and tailor specific treatment to facilitate growth and happiness through positive change.

Today is a good day to heal and transform. Jennifer Stone works from a mindfulness meditation lens with compassion for all that is brought to the session. She holds body sensations, thoughts, emotions and all material with tenderness that can create a safe, accepting container for healing. You will learn to "get out of your head", and trust your body, respond to stress in healthy ways, and grow self-love and confidence. She uses a combination of tools from a trauma informed lens in psychotherapy sessions, including mindfulness meditation, IFS, CBT, visualization, breath practices, and somatic inquiry to get to root of the problem.

I work with a wide range of diverse presenting problems affecting individuals, couples, families, and groups. I bring a wealth of experience treating populations with substance use disorders, process addictions, mood disorders, eating disorders, personality disorders, mental health issues, and forensics for people interacting with the legal system. Some areas of specialty include Trauma, Addiction, Gambling Disorder, Dual Diagnosis, and Life Transitions.

Specializing in the treatment of Anxiety, historical Trauma/PTSD, and the grief that accompanies trauma by providing evidence-based techniques. EMDR Certified Therapist. Therapy can improve your quality of life, relationships, communication, self-talk/self-image, and safety in your body and mind. You may also discover strengths already within you that can help you with your healing. Please send an email or leave a voicemail message and receive a response within 24-hours.

In your search for a therapist, you will want someone who both understands what you are going through, and who is passionately committed to working with you to figure out where you want to go and how to get there. Therapy is above all a process and journey of self discovery which requires a guide who is patient and supportive, and at the same time encouraging and persistent to help you understand your self and the often hidden patterns of your life and relationships that hold you back.

**Accepting New Clients** Many of my clients come to me during times of uncertainty and stress -- feeling lost or on edge, experiencing turmoil in their relationships, or generally overwhelmed and eager to find solutions. I believe that our problems have deeper roots and if not addressed can cause unconscious and unwanted patterns that affect our relationships with ourselves, others, and our perception of our reality. I hope to partner with you toward self-discovery, empowerment, self-compassion, and responding instead of reacting from a place of peace rather than urgency.

Welcome, my name is Angelika Kulyasova, PsyD, and I am a licensed clinical psychologist in the state of CA who specializes in trauma, dual diagnoses, modification of negative emotions, behavioral problems (youth and young adults), and stress-related dilemmas. I have vast experience and comprehensive knowledge working with dual-diagnosed (for instance, substance use and depression) clients as well as clients with anxiety, trauma, depression, and stress-related /transitioning/behavioral issues.

30 years providing... Couples Therapy... Marriage Counseling.... PreMarital Counseling. When good love slides into bad patterns I can help you communicate, reduce anger & improve intimacy. It's frustrating when love gets out of sync. Learn how to diffuse resentments, lower tensions & solve problems together more smoothly. Need to rejuvenate your connection? We'll work together as you reduce arguments, increase cooperation & stop power struggles. Sessions are a safe, neutral atmosphere designed to reduce your stress & distractions, allowing you to focus on what's important to you & your partner.

I am a UCLA and Pepperdine trained clinical psychotherapist specializing in the treatment of grief/loss and eating disorders. Dealing with grief and loss is one of the hardest things we have to do as humans. I use evidence-based treatments such as cognitive-behavioral therapy to help clients cope with the emotional pain so they can process the loss in the best way possible and move forward with their lives. I also help people with eating disorders live their best life. I am the author of the bestselling book Foodaholic The Seven Stages To Permanent Weight Loss and am maintaining my own 60 pound weight loss for many years.

Life and its challenges can get pretty overwhelming! I strive to work collaboratively with people to create positive changes in a caring and non-pathologizing environment for those who are struggling with a variety of problems. My guiding approach to effective therapy focuses on seeing the problem as separate from the person. I believe that people are the experts of their lives. I choose to sit in a place of curiosity to help you uncover already present strengths or develop new approaches to life's challenges.