Therapy and Counseling in 91436: Encino, CA.

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.

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Are you struggling with feelings of anxiety, depression, and negative thoughts? I am here to support you on your journey towards inner peace and well-being. My therapeutic approach combines evidence-based practices with ancient wisdom to help you navigate life.

Life is full of ups and downs and many times it's too difficult to manage the downturns on our own. I will help you navigate this difficult time in your life by providing you emotional support in a safe and nonjudgemental place, as well as the TOOLS to help you cope.

Whatever difficulties you are experiencing as a therapist, I'd like to help. Utilizing cutting edge counseling approaches, we can work together to help you recover from these issues and get back on track. I will help you create a roadmap to healing that’s right for you.

Meetings often feel like focused conversations that happen to take on tough problems. I'll ask you what's going on, and together we take it from there. My approach is to help you focus on whatever you may be facing, not to seek a label or diagnosis.

I love couples' therapy most of all---helping strengthen bonds between people. I love individual therapy as well, and some family therapy. I also help restructure lives due to separation/divorce, including co-parenting therapy and co-parenting education.

At Aspire Therapy, we strive to help you to be your best self. We recognize the power of accomplishment, the need for support and time for reflection and planning to follow your dreams.

Creating space in our lives to reflect and process is important for our well- being, and maintenance of healthy relationships. Therapy provides an opportunity to validate our experiences.

Knowing when to ask for help is a sign of true strength. I provide a safe, confidential, and non-judgmental environment to help you gain a new perspective from someone who can speak to you honestly & openly; something friends & family can't always provide.

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.

Have things become too much to handle on your own? Are you in need of support, guidance and some new ways to cope? I see individuals, couples, and families for therapy. I look forward to hearing from you, and working together to make things better.

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.

I am passionate about helping clients raise their level of self-awareness and transform themselves and their relationships into the level they have always wanted and dedicated to helping you discover new ways of challenging old patterns of thoughts and behaviors.

My psychotherapeutic approach in working with clients is strength-based and solution-oriented. I work closely with you, collaborating and building a personal connection while supporting your strengths and highlighting areas of growth.

I will help you realize your full potential by accessing the internal resources you already have. Therapy can help with managing anxiety, relationship problems, life transitions, stress, depression, parenting, maternal and postnatal issues. Spanish, LGBT affirming.

Perhaps now is the time to work on un-healed situations from the past so that you can release the pain and move on. Guidance from a counselor can help!The counseling process will lead you to let go of the heavy weights so that you can live your life to the fullest.

I am the director of the La Vie Center with over 30 psychologists, MFT's and staff therapists with a wide range of fees and specialties, and we have been helping people since 1980. Because of our size and our experience we will have a counselor that is right for you.

I work with a community of therapists committed to the understanding and transformation of emotional life. It is our goal to help people engage in this process through dialogue that is direct and authentic. If not me, I can direct you to one of my colleagues.