Therapy and Counseling in 90013: Los Angeles, CA.

I can help you live with greater freedom, peace, trust, creativity, courage, and empowering love. I offer professional counseling, life coaching, or spiritual direction for individuals, couples, children, and families in person or online.

It's ok to not be ok right now... you can get through this. From the outside, you appear to have it all together… Yet on the inside, you may feel like you're barely holding it together. You may feel stuck in a relationship, a job, or your own life. I get it.

For over forty years, Dr. Brainerd has worked with individuals, couples and families to help them understand and find relief from emotional distress and solutions for troubling and puzzling problems. He combines working on problems with enhancing the quality of life.

CREATE THE LIFE YOU WANT. Your life’s not working the way you'd like? Find out why and change it. - Struggling with anxiety, depression, trauma, gay/lesbian/bisexual issues, addictions (substances or behaviors)? These are some of the special areas where I can help.

For over 20 years, I have practiced as a licensed psychotherapist and nutritionist specializing in eating disorders and body image. My objective is to provide a compassionate atmosphere for individuals to explore and express themselves safely and confidentially.

The safety of our conversations will help you discover the connections between your emotional pain and the actions needed to heal yourself for a more productive, resilient, and peaceful life.

I believe in the power of the therapeutic relationship and have witnessed firsthand how impactful & transformative it can be. In-person and online, my clinical approach is integrative and customized to meet each individual client’s life circumstances, needs, & wishes.

I focus on helping you (and those in the room- if applicable) deepen and explore your relationships from what you may carry with you; our work can create new chapters and new meaning through a collaborative and empowering approach that fosters autonomy.

My passion is for women of all ages and cultures to move forward again when they feel stuck, and to re-write the direction of their own stories. I invite you to explore how psychotherapy can facilitate healing, transformation, and empowerment in your life.

I consider it a privilege to listen to an individual's story and walk alongside with them, for a while, on their journey through life, helping them reach their full potential.

Here is what I seek to provide; a safe environment of trust and confidentiality, to cultivate honest self-expression, to embrace self-acceptance and respect diversity and to encourage personal growth and integrity.

Welcome, I am a Licensed Board Certified Psychotherapist and work with children, adolescents, adults, couples, & families. I have extensive training and experience working with a wide range of problem areas such as depression and anxiety to crisis interventions.

I provide a family focused approach addressing the complex developmental needs of children, adolescents, and their families in addressing anxiety, depression, ADHD, and behavioral concerns.

With each person I treat, I stress the use of Christian principles to solve psychological problems. As I generally practice therapy with Christian clients, I utilize scripture and prayer along with other more standardized psychological interventions...

I offer supportive space to explore your unique journey towards healing and personal growth. Together, we'll navigate your concerns with empathy, restore balance and foster positive transformation. Let's embark on a path of self-discovery and embrace a brighter future.

I believe that through relationships profound healing and change can occur, more than just techniques and procedures. Through our relationship, I offer I safe environment for you to explore what's not working, and moving toward the life you really want and dream of!

Therapy gives us an opportunity to find and give voice to our authentic selves, achieving healing in the process. I am passionate about working with couples, adults, and teens who have become stuck in destructive patterns and are looking for change.

I offer counseling for teens and pre-teens, men, women and couples. I specialize in individual and couples counseling, managing narcissism, ADHD, anxiety, depression, trauma and PTSD. I teach clients how to set boundaries and communicate more effectively.

TELEHEALTH (encrypted video-chat) visits available now. One of the only Board-Certified Clinical Psychologists, he previously served as a psychologist at the UCLA Medical School and was the former Chief Psychologist at Mt Sinai South Nassau Medical Center in NY.

Whether you feel weighed down by sadness, consumed by worry, haunted by the past, or unseen in your relationships, I am here to offer you validation and understanding. You are more resilient than you sometimes feel, and you deserve to feel in charge of your own life.

Let me show you the path to chronic happiness -- We'll work together, to get you the tools you need to eliminate symptoms first, and then work on the underlying causes. Call for your free 20 minute phone consult. 310-850-4707.

Are you tired of feeling stuck? I provide an empathic, stimulating and collaborative approach that will help you turn obstacles into opportunities for understanding and growth. We can work together to help you to stop surviving your life and thrive in it instead.

"Feeling stuck or overwhelmed by life’s challenges? I offer an empathetic, direct, and collaborative approach to therapy, treating you with respect while helping you identify and overcome roadblocks. Together, we’ll work to create positive change.

I work collaboratively with my clients to help address their concerns in a holistic and compassionate manner. I enjoy (and have had success with) working with clients who have had previous therapy experiences that did not go as they had hoped.

As I meet with each new individual or family I seek to provide a place where they can safely share their story and what is getting in the way of them thriving. I love that each of my clients brings a different story with a different conflict they are looking to solve.