Who individual therapy fits
Most people who come to us start with individual therapy. It fits when:
- The work is about you — your patterns, your history, your experience — and not primarily about a relationship that needs both people in the room
- You want a steady weekly or biweekly hour to think out loud with someone who's tracking the throughline
- You're working with anxiety, depression, identity, trauma, life transitions, work and burnout, or any combination
- You don't want a five-tools-in-six-sessions protocol; you want a real, ongoing relationship with a clinician
What a session looks like
Sixty minutes. In-person at our Pasadena office or by telehealth on a HIPAA-compliant video platform. The first session is mostly logistics and a meet-and-fit conversation. From there, we work — sometimes structured (CBT, ACT, EMDR), sometimes more open-ended depending on the work. Notes are kept in a HIPAA-compliant electronic record. Confidentiality holds with the standard California exceptions (see Treatment Consent).
Modalities we use
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) — including specific protocols for anxiety, OCD, depression, and trauma
- Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) — particularly useful for chronic distress that isn't going to resolve quickly
- EMDR — for trauma memories that haven't integrated
- Internal Family Systems (IFS) — for older, parts-based patterns
- Cognitive Processing Therapy (CPT) — for PTSD, particularly when meaning-making is stuck
- Mindfulness- and somatic-based approaches — for the body part of mental health, which doesn't respond to insight
What it can help with
Anxiety, depression, trauma, gender dysphoria, coming out, family conflict, and the rest of what's in the conditions list.
You don't have to figure this out alone
If this sounds like the kind of work you'd want to do, reach out — we'll start with a no-pressure first session.