Female Therapists in Isla Vista, CA
I help with anxiety, family conflict, first-generation student challenges, identity and self-esteem, life transitions, and relationship dynamics. In our sessions, I take a strengths-based approach because I believe you know your life better than anyone else. We'll explore techniques from cognitive behavioral therapy and mindfulness, and I will serve as a support guide, emphasizing your inherent strengths and talents you naturally possess to help you face challenges and grow. Together, we will work toward overcoming difficulties and making meaningful, positive shifts in your life.
I help with anxiety, family conflict, first-generation student challenges, identity and self-esteem, life transitions, and relationship dynamics. In our sessions, I take a strengths-based approach because I believe you know your life better than anyone else. We'll explore techniques from cognitive behavioral therapy and mindfulness, and I will serve as a support guide, emphasizing your inherent strengths and talents you naturally possess to help you face challenges and grow. Together, we will work toward overcoming difficulties and making meaningful, positive shifts in your life.
Kelli’s approach uses cognitive and dialectical behavioral therapies. Having personally experienced panic attacks, depression, and using substances to numb her emotions, Kelli brings a deep understanding of mental health struggles to her practice. Her time working with students at the Goleta Boys & Girls Club, where she led trips to national parks and camping spots, inspired her to pursue a career in counseling. She now focuses on finding healing through connection, nature, and mindfulness.
Kelli’s approach uses cognitive and dialectical behavioral therapies. Having personally experienced panic attacks, depression, and using substances to numb her emotions, Kelli brings a deep understanding of mental health struggles to her practice. Her time working with students at the Goleta Boys & Girls Club, where she led trips to national parks and camping spots, inspired her to pursue a career in counseling. She now focuses on finding healing through connection, nature, and mindfulness.
I help with anxiety, depression, and trauma. I am well-versed in supporting patients to work through family and generation trauma, religious trauma, and process challenges associated with identity and breaking cycles of abuse. I use a holistic, patient-centered approach to understand my patient’s lived experiences and support them.
I help with anxiety, depression, and trauma. I am well-versed in supporting patients to work through family and generation trauma, religious trauma, and process challenges associated with identity and breaking cycles of abuse. I use a holistic, patient-centered approach to understand my patient’s lived experiences and support them.
Dr. Kristen Strong fosters strong and collaborative relationships in therapy. She is genuine in her interactions, caring, non-judgmental, and encouraging, aiming to create a space where patients feel comfortable and supported to open up, grow, and work on challenging areas. Dr. Strong works alongside each patient to accomplish their goals.
Dr. Kristen Strong fosters strong and collaborative relationships in therapy. She is genuine in her interactions, caring, non-judgmental, and encouraging, aiming to create a space where patients feel comfortable and supported to open up, grow, and work on challenging areas. Dr. Strong works alongside each patient to accomplish their goals.
I help with anxiety, depression, autism, body image, career and life transitions, cultural issues and immigration, eating disorders, self-esteem, sex and intimacy, and women’s mental health.
I help with anxiety, depression, autism, body image, career and life transitions, cultural issues and immigration, eating disorders, self-esteem, sex and intimacy, and women’s mental health.
I am a licensed marriage and family therapist with a focus on the process of therapy. My approach is patient-centered, holistic, and insight-oriented, knowing that the mind and body are intertwined. I incorporate an eclectic mix of cognitive and dialectical behavioral therapies and mindfulness.
I am a licensed marriage and family therapist with a focus on the process of therapy. My approach is patient-centered, holistic, and insight-oriented, knowing that the mind and body are intertwined. I incorporate an eclectic mix of cognitive and dialectical behavioral therapies and mindfulness.
I am a bilingual licensed marriage and family therapist with over 10 years of experience. I am dedicated to racial equality and healing and am passionate about supporting Latinx communities.
I am a bilingual licensed marriage and family therapist with over 10 years of experience. I am dedicated to racial equality and healing and am passionate about supporting Latinx communities.
I have almost 20 years of experience helping adults with anxiety, depression, adjustment concerns, addiction, career and academic issues, health and lifestyle issues, and relationships. I collaborate with patients to understand the reason and scope of symptoms about what brings them to therapy and their lifestyle, culture, social relationships, and barriers to their fulfillment.
I have almost 20 years of experience helping adults with anxiety, depression, adjustment concerns, addiction, career and academic issues, health and lifestyle issues, and relationships. I collaborate with patients to understand the reason and scope of symptoms about what brings them to therapy and their lifestyle, culture, social relationships, and barriers to their fulfillment.
Nancy Chen Marden
Marriage & Family Therapist, MS, MFT
Verified Verified
1 Endorsed
Isla Vista, CA 93117
Welcome! As a licensed marriage and family therapist, I am committed to supporting individuals and couples on their journey towards healing, growth, and fulfillment. My practice is dedicated to the idea that the human spirit prevails in the midst of our deepest sufferings. As human beings, we all possess the innate capacity, courage, and wisdom to overcome adversities in life. With a compassionate and nonjudgmental approach, I provide a safe space for clients to realize their own potentials and empower them to prevail over obstacles, cultivate resilience, and live authentically.
Welcome! As a licensed marriage and family therapist, I am committed to supporting individuals and couples on their journey towards healing, growth, and fulfillment. My practice is dedicated to the idea that the human spirit prevails in the midst of our deepest sufferings. As human beings, we all possess the innate capacity, courage, and wisdom to overcome adversities in life. With a compassionate and nonjudgmental approach, I provide a safe space for clients to realize their own potentials and empower them to prevail over obstacles, cultivate resilience, and live authentically.
Ruby Conlan
Marriage & Family Therapist Associate, MA, AMFT
Verified Verified
4 Endorsed
Isla Vista, CA 93117
Are you looking for a safe space to make meaningful changes? I specialize in working with individuals of all ages who may be facing challenges such as unresolved trauma, anxiety, depression, or life transitions. I strongly value empathy, compassion, and trust within the therapeutic relationship. Understanding the unique needs of each client, I tailor personalized treatment plans to address your specific concerns.
Are you looking for a safe space to make meaningful changes? I specialize in working with individuals of all ages who may be facing challenges such as unresolved trauma, anxiety, depression, or life transitions. I strongly value empathy, compassion, and trust within the therapeutic relationship. Understanding the unique needs of each client, I tailor personalized treatment plans to address your specific concerns.
Throughout our lives, we are all presented with challenges, whether it be the environment and circumstances we are born into, experiencing a traumatic event or series of traumas, to unexpected stressors and changing roles and identities. If you find yourself stuck and needing support to navigate your way, I would be honored to help guide you through your journey. I am a licensed psychologist in California and work individually with adults of all ages. My style is warm, compassionate, and strengths based, while I can also be direct and challenge you to let go of old ideas and behaviors that may no longer be serving you.
Throughout our lives, we are all presented with challenges, whether it be the environment and circumstances we are born into, experiencing a traumatic event or series of traumas, to unexpected stressors and changing roles and identities. If you find yourself stuck and needing support to navigate your way, I would be honored to help guide you through your journey. I am a licensed psychologist in California and work individually with adults of all ages. My style is warm, compassionate, and strengths based, while I can also be direct and challenge you to let go of old ideas and behaviors that may no longer be serving you.
What gets in the way of you reaching your highest potential and or living your best life? Is it stress caused by work/ school, interpersonal relationships, family conflict, past trauma, anxiety, or even depression? Any of the above can impact your quality of life. Making the choice to seek support is the first step to improving your quality of life. As a therapist, I am dedicated to assist you in this process by providing a safe space, free of judgment where I can help you understand how your past and current behaviors, thoughts, and experiences impact your life.
What gets in the way of you reaching your highest potential and or living your best life? Is it stress caused by work/ school, interpersonal relationships, family conflict, past trauma, anxiety, or even depression? Any of the above can impact your quality of life. Making the choice to seek support is the first step to improving your quality of life. As a therapist, I am dedicated to assist you in this process by providing a safe space, free of judgment where I can help you understand how your past and current behaviors, thoughts, and experiences impact your life.
Charmaine Curtis Jacobs
Marriage & Family Therapist, LMFT, 123172
Verified Verified
Isla Vista, CA 93117
Changing old habits and building emotional resilience makes sense at any age. I base my theoretical approach on the widely researched neuropsychological findings of Attachment Theory. Underlying successful treatment is the richness of the therapeutic relationship. I use evidence based methods including CBT, Mindfulness and brief psychotherapy.
Changing old habits and building emotional resilience makes sense at any age. I base my theoretical approach on the widely researched neuropsychological findings of Attachment Theory. Underlying successful treatment is the richness of the therapeutic relationship. I use evidence based methods including CBT, Mindfulness and brief psychotherapy.
Are you fed up with suffering? You feel perpetually unsatisfied, overwhelmed, and on edge. Your mind is spinning about everything you need to accomplish today or about events that may happen in the future. You're always worrying. Your chest is tight, your jaw is clenched, and your body feels uneasy all the time. You find yourself getting angry and impatient with the people you love most. Your persistent thoughts bully you and tell you you're not good enough. You’re struggling to hold it all together.
Are you fed up with suffering? You feel perpetually unsatisfied, overwhelmed, and on edge. Your mind is spinning about everything you need to accomplish today or about events that may happen in the future. You're always worrying. Your chest is tight, your jaw is clenched, and your body feels uneasy all the time. You find yourself getting angry and impatient with the people you love most. Your persistent thoughts bully you and tell you you're not good enough. You’re struggling to hold it all together.
Openings for new clients with private pay, Lyra, Aetna, Oxford, United, and Oscar insurances. With a deep commitment to helping individuals, couples and families navigate life's challenges, I specialize in treating anxiety, panic attacks, depression, relationship conflicts, complicated family and sibling dynamics, narcissism, life transitions, body image, substance use/addiction, chronic pain, and grief. We have all faced difficulties in our lives and unfortunately, many of us don't have the healthiest ways to deal with uncomfortable feelings or experiences. That's understandable because we weren't necessarily taught these skills.
Openings for new clients with private pay, Lyra, Aetna, Oxford, United, and Oscar insurances. With a deep commitment to helping individuals, couples and families navigate life's challenges, I specialize in treating anxiety, panic attacks, depression, relationship conflicts, complicated family and sibling dynamics, narcissism, life transitions, body image, substance use/addiction, chronic pain, and grief. We have all faced difficulties in our lives and unfortunately, many of us don't have the healthiest ways to deal with uncomfortable feelings or experiences. That's understandable because we weren't necessarily taught these skills.
Tiana Leeds
Marriage & Family Therapist, MA, LMFT
Verified Verified
7 Endorsed
Isla Vista, CA 93117 (Online Only)
I also offer an online HSP group for women as well as trainings for therapists working with HSPs.
The heart of my work is helping women in their 20s and 30s who want to restore healing, peace, and balance to their lives. I take a collaborative, practical, and compassionate approach and empower you to recognize and utilize your strengths as a means of moving through fear, sadness, and insecurities. My aim is to support you as you move toward increased healing and wholeness in your life. While I focus primarily on Highly Sensitive Gen Zers and Millennials, my practice is open to all ages, genders, cultures, and sexualities.
I also offer an online HSP group for women as well as trainings for therapists working with HSPs.
The heart of my work is helping women in their 20s and 30s who want to restore healing, peace, and balance to their lives. I take a collaborative, practical, and compassionate approach and empower you to recognize and utilize your strengths as a means of moving through fear, sadness, and insecurities. My aim is to support you as you move toward increased healing and wholeness in your life. While I focus primarily on Highly Sensitive Gen Zers and Millennials, my practice is open to all ages, genders, cultures, and sexualities.
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Sierra Rose Smargon
Marriage & Family Therapist, LMFT, MA
Verified Verified
3 Endorsed
Goleta, CA 93117
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If you’re reading this, that probably means that you are in a place where you have tried a lot of things to feel better, or help your loved one feel better and just don’t know what else to do. I would love to help support you on this journey. Therapy is a collaboration between two individuals (therapist and client) and when successful, truly amazing things can occur within this space. I use the relationship between my clients and I to help them build insight and awareness into the way they show up in the world.
If you’re reading this, that probably means that you are in a place where you have tried a lot of things to feel better, or help your loved one feel better and just don’t know what else to do. I would love to help support you on this journey. Therapy is a collaboration between two individuals (therapist and client) and when successful, truly amazing things can occur within this space. I use the relationship between my clients and I to help them build insight and awareness into the way they show up in the world.
Natalie Glassburg
Marriage & Family Therapist, LMFT
Verified Verified
2 Endorsed
Santa Barbara, CA 93107 (Online Only)
Life has taken you through many difficult paths, and you may be feeling discouraged and overwhelmed, uncertain of where to turn. I help people who are struggling with with life, experiencing difficulties with work or school, recently have gone through a relationship break, moved to a new city, among other life transitions. Sometimes when life gets more difficult we turn to alcohol, substances or other unhealthy ways to “escape”. I work with adults who are struggling with anxiety, depression, addiction issues, relationship issues and life transitions.
Life has taken you through many difficult paths, and you may be feeling discouraged and overwhelmed, uncertain of where to turn. I help people who are struggling with with life, experiencing difficulties with work or school, recently have gone through a relationship break, moved to a new city, among other life transitions. Sometimes when life gets more difficult we turn to alcohol, substances or other unhealthy ways to “escape”. I work with adults who are struggling with anxiety, depression, addiction issues, relationship issues and life transitions.
I've been an educator for over 20 years, at Dartmouth College and UC Santa Barbara, where I met many young adults facing stress, anxiety, and depression. Their experience inspired me to start clinical training in 2005 at the New Center for Psychoanalysis in LA, where I have also been a faculty member. My approach to psychoanalysis is interdisciplinary; I'm affiliated with the Neuroscience Institute at UCSB and was a clinical member of THRIVE Infant-Family Program in LA. My current research focuses on the links between biology, sociality, psychology and the environment. I specialize in infant-family therapy, adults, and seniors.
I've been an educator for over 20 years, at Dartmouth College and UC Santa Barbara, where I met many young adults facing stress, anxiety, and depression. Their experience inspired me to start clinical training in 2005 at the New Center for Psychoanalysis in LA, where I have also been a faculty member. My approach to psychoanalysis is interdisciplinary; I'm affiliated with the Neuroscience Institute at UCSB and was a clinical member of THRIVE Infant-Family Program in LA. My current research focuses on the links between biology, sociality, psychology and the environment. I specialize in infant-family therapy, adults, and seniors.
Karen Cowdrey is a licensed clinical social worker specializing in psychotherapy with individuals, couples and families. She has over 30 years of experience in many individual, family and group psychotherapeutic approaches including Internal Family Systems Therapy, Assertiveness Training, and other Cognitive and Behavioral methods. Karen has extensive inpatient and partial hospitalization experience. She has worked with clients whose problems have spanned from very seriously impaired individuals to very highly functioning persons.
Karen Cowdrey is a licensed clinical social worker specializing in psychotherapy with individuals, couples and families. She has over 30 years of experience in many individual, family and group psychotherapeutic approaches including Internal Family Systems Therapy, Assertiveness Training, and other Cognitive and Behavioral methods. Karen has extensive inpatient and partial hospitalization experience. She has worked with clients whose problems have spanned from very seriously impaired individuals to very highly functioning persons.
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Female Therapists
Does it matter what gender my therapist is?
In general, this is not an important factor, as there is no relationship between a therapist’s gender and their efficacy. Some clients, however, prefer to see therapists of a particular gender, whether due to their own past experiences with men and women, or ingrained beliefs about how people of different genders think and behave. Exploring the roots of such preferences and considering what one wants to address in therapy can help someone determine whether their therapist’s gender truly matters to them.
Should I see a female therapist?
Many people—not just women—prefer to see a female therapist, either because they believe that a woman will be able to relate to their specific challenges (for example, sexism in the workplace) or because they imagine feeling more comfortable disclosing sensitive information to a woman. Such beliefs may not turn out to be accurate, however, and adhering too rigidly to a gender preference can at times hinder a client from finding the best therapeutic match.
Do therapists get specific training to help with women’s concerns?
Therapists are trained to provide care to clients of any gender. However, some therapists—both men and women—may pursue additional training in feminist therapy, gender-specific issues, or women’s mental health. Female clients may wish to ask prospective therapists whether they have received specific training in the client’s primary area(s) of concern, or whether they have worked extensively with women on issues similar to their own.
How can I inquire about a therapist’s experience in treating women?
It’s OK—even encouraged!—to ask a therapist directly whether and how often they have treated women in the past, or whether they have treated women dealing with the client’s most prominent concern(s). Competent therapists will be happy to share their educational background, preferred treatment modalities, and prior client experience to help an individual find the therapist best suited to their needs.