Los Angeles, California
Online Therapy for Los Angeles
Los Angeles is the one city on this part of the site where video is not the only honest answer. I am physically here, in Santa Monica, on the west edge of the county. So if you live in Silver Lake, Highland Park, Koreatown, or the Valley, coming in is a genuine option — it is just a decision about what an hour of your Tuesday is worth once the 101 and the 10 have taken their cut.
Most Los Angeles clients pick video anyway, and I think they are usually right. A session you can keep for two years beats a session you love and cancel every third week when a shoot runs long.
How Sessions Run
What video actually looks like from across LA
You sign in from wherever you can close a door: a home office in Eagle Rock, a car parked in a structure off Wilshire between meetings, a spare room in a duplex while a roommate wears headphones next door. Parked-car sessions are extremely common in this city and nobody needs to apologize for them.
The practical gain is not the fifty minutes, it is the ninety you were going to spend on either side of them. Los Angeles clients consistently tell me the drive was the reason previous therapy ended, not the therapy.
Who I See
Who I see across Los Angeles
Writers and crew between projects, agency and studio staff, physicians and nurses at Cedars and Keck and County, attorneys downtown, teachers in LAUSD, and a very large number of people who moved here at twenty-four with a plan and are now thirty-eight and reconsidering the plan in a way that feels less like ambition and more like grief.
I also see a steady group of people who have been in therapy here before — sometimes three or four times — and who describe the same thing each time: it was nice, it was supportive, nothing changed. That is usually not a comment on the previous therapists. It is a comment on the fact that nobody named the pattern out loud.
In the Room
What Los Angeles brings into a session
Income that arrives in bursts
Project work produces a nervous system that cannot rest during good months because it is already forecasting the bad one. We work on tolerating an unpredictable calendar rather than pretending you can make it predictable.
Distance as a friendship tax
Your closest people are forty minutes away in four different directions, so seeing them becomes an event rather than a habit. Loneliness in LA is rarely about having no one; it is about scheduling.
Comparison as an industry
In a town where other people's wins are published, your own progress gets measured against a feed. That is a specific distortion, and it responds to being examined slowly.
California Only
In person, on video, and where I can practice
In-person sessions happen at the Santa Monica office, and Los Angeles clients often mix the two — in the room monthly, on video the other weeks. I do not treat the video weeks as second tier.
One limit to state plainly: I hold a California license, PSY35842, and can only work with people who are physically in California at the time of the session — your body, not your mailing address. If you spend six weeks a year working in Atlanta, we plan around it.
Where to Next
What Los Angeles clients most often come in for
Free Consultation
Start with a conversation, not a commitment.
The first step is a free consultation call. We talk about what brings you here, what you have already tried, and whether working together makes sense. If I am not the right fit, I will say so and point you somewhere better.
- · You request a time on the form, and I confirm by email
- · Telehealth anywhere in California, or in person in Santa Monica
- · Private pay, with superbills for out-of-network reimbursement
- · 48 hours' notice for changes or cancellations
Or call the office at (213) 761-8555.