Relational Therapists in Alhambra, CA

Humans are relational beings and relationships play an important role in our everyday lives. When relationships get off track, it can be overwhelming. I work with individuals, couples, and families to help relationships heal. I seek to help individuals, couples and families navigate a wide range of challenges pertaining to relationships. I have an interest in relational concerns around sexual dynamics as well as improving relational vulnerability and connection. I work from both a contextual and systems perspective to honor how an individual's intersections of identity influence how they interact with and are received by the world.

We naturally go through life transitions, difficult experiences, and relational issues. Those struggles we experience expand into issues of self-esteem, anxiety, depression, and self-confidence. The goal is to be able to get through these transitions, improve our relationships, and develop a more positive view of ourselves. I provide services to help you seek a deeper understanding of who you are through exploration, while learning skills to manage difficult transitions as they arise in life. Let's work on your goals together, while building skills and awareness to allow yourself to continue living a happy and most fulfilling life.

St. Clair Alexander is a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist (LMFT). He came to the profession with experience in pastoral care and counseling (1984 to 2004). He suspended his pastoral ministry to complete studies in marriage and family therapy; then earned his DPH in Families Studies (2004 to 2011). In 2006 he began a career in Marriage and family therapy working with Couples, families, and individuals.

If you have a hard time remembering when you felt good or really cared about yourself, therapy CAN help. You can make changes in relationships and life that bring you DEEP SATISFACTION. I help you know yourself better so you may better help yourself. I'm interested, caring, and professional. It's been my honor to help clients find relief, deepen relationships and recover from trauma. Many of the most successful people in our communities have worked through adversity and taken non-traditional paths to success. Let me help you find yours!

Many of you will experience dramatic and sometimes shocking changes in your or your loved one's health, relationships or careers. I have over 28 years of experience helping people and their families cope with a wide variety of chronic and terminal illness, relationship changes, adjustment, grief and loss. Using your strengths, I will help you work through these difficult changes to help you adjust to their impact on you and your loved ones.

I am a clinical psychologist with extensive background in both psychotherapy and assessment. Many of the clients I have worked with in psychotherapy have backgrounds of abuse and trauma, grief and loss, depression and anxiety, relationship breakdowns, and/or adjustment difficulties to career and life transitions. My psychotherapy approach draws from humanistic relational psychoanalysis, cognitive-behavioral therapy, and a biopsychosocial view of persons. I work collaboratively with my clients to set the goals and pace of the psychotherapy process.

Seeking help is a sign of inner strength. Perhaps things don’t seem to go the way you wanted in your personal, family, and/or professional life. You might be hitting a wall in your relationships, missing out on promotions, or feeling a sense of emptiness despite your accomplishments and accolades. You might feel stuck and lonely, your usual ways of managing life no longer serve you well. You might wonder “What is wrong with me?” “Something is missing in my life” "I am just not good enough." I hope that through our therapeutic collaboration, you would start to explore the question of “What happened to me?"

Healing is a deeply personal journey, and integral to this process is having a nonjudgmental space where you can feel safe and heard. Therapy can be that safe place to explore aspects of your identity you may never have addressed, reconnect with wounded parts of yourself, and foster a greater sense of acceptance to help you to handle the many stresses of life. Whether your concerns involve childhood trauma, life transitions, or relationship issues, I will meet you where you currently are with empathy and patience.

Have you ever experienced something deeply distressing that it holds you back from living your life? No matter how hard you try to suppress it, those negative feelings seem to resurface when you desperately need it to go away. Feeling a loss of control can cause you to feel defeated, lonely, and unmotivated. You don't need to go through this alone and this feeling doesn’t need to be permanent. I am committed to providing a nonjudgmental space for you to make sense of these experiences. I am a strength-based therapist that utilizes an integrative and client-centered approach. Let’s work collaboratively to help you heal and grow.

Have you or your child been demonstrating a change in mood and/or behavior recently? Has your/his/her work/academic performance been negatively impacted? Are you ready to meet with someone to try and figure out how to ameliorate those symptoms together?

We’ve all inherited something. Height. Skin color. The way we laugh. But we’ve also received invisible things. Our sense of safety. Confidence. Narratives about our worth and ways of thinking and seeing the world. We are recipients of those around us in both beautiful and painful ways. And—whether we want them or not—these are the things we build our life on. However we are not merely what we have received, we also get to choose. We get to live a life that reflects the deepest and truest parts of ourself and extend that into the world and to the ones we love.

Trauma-informed therapy for emotional wellness through a gentle, Christ-centered approach.

Hi! Does it seem like its just getting harder to tolerate any stress? Do you find yourself caught in a cycle of reactions, often feeling down about yourself? Or Is your past holding you back in ways that perhaps are not helping you thrive in the present? When our past experiences control us, our ability to choose our responses diminishes, impacting us emotionally and physically, often leading to feelings of depression, anxiety, and shame. These struggles can affect how we connect with others. But there’s hope. I view therapy as a collaborative and empathic journey that foster well-being on m a mental, physical and spiritual level.

Struggling to find a sense of meaning in life? Are you interested in exploring your personal, professional or any other area of your life to make improvement or meaningful changes? I help individuals with compassionate, non-judgmental and caring support. I feel passionate about the power of healing that comes from exploring the long term effects of childhood trauma, grieving and loss. I collaborate with you to gain insight and awareness of those barriers getting in the way to reach your goals, gain understanding, clarity and build on your strengths to create more of what has meaning in your life.

If you are wanting more peace, and satisfaction in your relationships, sexuality, and inner life, I would be honored to help you achieve this. I welcome you to include your faith into your psychotherapy. Often inner conflicts can produce anxiety, out of control behavior, depression, and even panic. Psychotherapy can help you in significant ways- through examining your motivation and actions, learning new skills for communicating and listening, understanding your strengths and weaknesses, finding clarity about issues you feel conflicted about, making sense of trauma and difficult experiences, and thinking through practical options.

I believe that seeking professional help is a strength and not a weakness. I value individuals for who they are, and I appreciate their pain and struggle. I make every effort to understand my client's needs, and I make it a priority to meet with my clients at their starting point. Along the way, I do my best to provide my clients with safe and healthy environment.

Located in a quaint neighborhood, The Place Within has been serving the counseling and mental health needs of Monrovia and the San Gabriel Valley for over 30 years. We offer AFFORDABLE COUNSELING to adults, children, teens, families and couples. Our name suggests a core belief that informs our philosophy of life and our work as therapists. Deep within each of us is a source of wisdom, joy, and peace that can be tapped under the right circumstances. If you are having trouble finding and using your "Place Within," we are dedicated and trained to assist and support you with that inner journey.

We all go through emotional storms where we feel emotionally and physically stuck; we worry too much and lose control of ourselves. Do you find yourself thrown off balance by your childhood trauma? Childhood traumatic experiences such as abandonment, abuse, and neglect lead to social anxiety. My approach is solution-focused and tailored to your needs and goals. I am committed to providing a profound sense of safety and offering compassionate and actionable guidance to all my clients.

I take a holistic and integrative approach to therapy, blending western and eastern healing practices, evidence based approaches, and trauma informed care. I believe that you are the expert of your own life. I will collaborate with you, explore past experiences that have shaped who you are today, and figure out what's keeping you from living the life you want. This isn't always an easy process. It takes courage and hard work, but the rewards are great. I provide an environment that is curious, empathetic, supportive, and down to Earth. I'll help you discover your strengths and become more in-tune with your emotions. You can do this!