Emotionally Focused Therapists in Silver Lake, Los Angeles, CA
Becca Waterhouse
Clinical Social Work/Therapist, LCSW
Verified Verified
1 Endorsed
Silver Lake, Los Angeles, CA 90029
I strongly believe in the healing power of a safe therapeutic space and human connection to build resilience and foster a more fulfilling life. I bring presence, compassion, humor, and a deep respect for the inner wisdom of each client. I offer a warm and insight-focused approach to support individuals and couples along the path of exploration, reflection, and healing. I work with clients who are in a moment of transition and would like to move forward authentically; individuals and couples who are navigating the perinatal or postpartum period; and individuals experiencing grief and loss.
I strongly believe in the healing power of a safe therapeutic space and human connection to build resilience and foster a more fulfilling life. I bring presence, compassion, humor, and a deep respect for the inner wisdom of each client. I offer a warm and insight-focused approach to support individuals and couples along the path of exploration, reflection, and healing. I work with clients who are in a moment of transition and would like to move forward authentically; individuals and couples who are navigating the perinatal or postpartum period; and individuals experiencing grief and loss.
Ruth Ann Alpert
Marriage & Family Therapist Associate, AMFT, APCC
Verified Verified
3 Endorsed
Silver Lake, Los Angeles, CA 90026
To help you on this path, I adopt a holistic approach that integrates evidence-based practices like eye movement desensitization and reprocessing therapy (EMDR), dialectical behavioral therapy (DBT), and emotionally focused couple therapy (EFCT).
Are you struggling with overwhelming fear, anxiety, or painful memories from past trauma? Do you feel trapped, longing for peace and normalcy? Your goal is to reclaim your life, find resilience, and build a brighter future. You want to feel secure, empowered, and free from the weight of your trauma. Recognizing the need for help is the first step toward healing, and the right support can guide you toward a life of greater fulfillment and stability.
To help you on this path, I adopt a holistic approach that integrates evidence-based practices like eye movement desensitization and reprocessing therapy (EMDR), dialectical behavioral therapy (DBT), and emotionally focused couple therapy (EFCT).
Are you struggling with overwhelming fear, anxiety, or painful memories from past trauma? Do you feel trapped, longing for peace and normalcy? Your goal is to reclaim your life, find resilience, and build a brighter future. You want to feel secure, empowered, and free from the weight of your trauma. Recognizing the need for help is the first step toward healing, and the right support can guide you toward a life of greater fulfillment and stability.
Claire Gordon
Clinical Social Work/Therapist, LCSW
Verified Verified
1 Endorsed
Silver Lake, Los Angeles, CA 90027
Some of my favorite modalities and theories include ACT (Acceptance and Commitment Therapy), EFT ( Emotionally Focused Therapy), attachment theory, and mindfulness.
Welcome, I'm glad you're here. I specialize in working with anxiety, relationship issues, and couples. If you're here because you feel anxious, I'd like to name that there's plenty to be anxious about in the modern world! I focus on helping you develop skills to regulate when anxiety feels overwhelming, and on parsing out what's in or out of our control. If you're in a relationship, maybe you're tired of getting stuck in what feels like the same fight again and again. Using EFT, I love helping couples understand each other on a deeper level, and break out of feeling stuck.
Some of my favorite modalities and theories include ACT (Acceptance and Commitment Therapy), EFT ( Emotionally Focused Therapy), attachment theory, and mindfulness.
Welcome, I'm glad you're here. I specialize in working with anxiety, relationship issues, and couples. If you're here because you feel anxious, I'd like to name that there's plenty to be anxious about in the modern world! I focus on helping you develop skills to regulate when anxiety feels overwhelming, and on parsing out what's in or out of our control. If you're in a relationship, maybe you're tired of getting stuck in what feels like the same fight again and again. Using EFT, I love helping couples understand each other on a deeper level, and break out of feeling stuck.
Zachary Metzger
Clinical Social Work/Therapist, ASW
Verified Verified
3 Endorsed
Silver Lake, Los Angeles, CA 90039 (Online Only)
I offer my clients a safe, creative space to explore the challenges they're confronting honestly and without judgement. Whether you are exhausted from constantly overthinking, feeling shutdown emotionally, struggling to change unsatisfying patterns or trying to cope with loss; we can work together to help you slow down, tune in more deeply to your inner life and heal past wounds. The stories we tell ourselves about our lives have an enormous impact on how we feel day to day. Together, we will take a look at your story to integrate thoughts, feelings and values into a cohesive whole you can use to write your next chapter.
I offer my clients a safe, creative space to explore the challenges they're confronting honestly and without judgement. Whether you are exhausted from constantly overthinking, feeling shutdown emotionally, struggling to change unsatisfying patterns or trying to cope with loss; we can work together to help you slow down, tune in more deeply to your inner life and heal past wounds. The stories we tell ourselves about our lives have an enormous impact on how we feel day to day. Together, we will take a look at your story to integrate thoughts, feelings and values into a cohesive whole you can use to write your next chapter.
Stephanie Wallace
Marriage & Family Therapist, LMFT
Verified Verified
Silver Lake, Los Angeles, CA 90026 (Online Only)
I also use EFT and Gottman Method, especially when working with couples.
I thrive working with adult survivors of childhood trauma and the following symptoms that may accompany surviving childhood trauma such as anxiety, depression, PTSD, C-PTSD, addiction, codependency, and other relationship issues. I also enjoy helping people process grief, loss, and life transitions. I work with identity issues and LGBTQIA+ community as well.
I also use EFT and Gottman Method, especially when working with couples.
I thrive working with adult survivors of childhood trauma and the following symptoms that may accompany surviving childhood trauma such as anxiety, depression, PTSD, C-PTSD, addiction, codependency, and other relationship issues. I also enjoy helping people process grief, loss, and life transitions. I work with identity issues and LGBTQIA+ community as well.
Lindsay Garvey
Marriage & Family Therapist, LMFT
Verified Verified
Silver Lake, Los Angeles, CA 90039 (Online Only)
As a therapist, I call upon a variety of practices to nurture each individual’s or couple’s personal process. With a background in movement, music, art and drama, I approach therapy as a creative pursuit rooted in clinical analysis. I have a trauma-informed approach, allowing space for the many layers of stress that our culture can bring about in an individual or within a couple. I draw on traditional psychodynamic, Gestalt, Emotionally Focused Couples therapy, and relational methodologies, while incorporating eastern philosophies, symbolism, somatics, and creative or spiritual practices.
As a therapist, I call upon a variety of practices to nurture each individual’s or couple’s personal process. With a background in movement, music, art and drama, I approach therapy as a creative pursuit rooted in clinical analysis. I have a trauma-informed approach, allowing space for the many layers of stress that our culture can bring about in an individual or within a couple. I draw on traditional psychodynamic, Gestalt, Emotionally Focused Couples therapy, and relational methodologies, while incorporating eastern philosophies, symbolism, somatics, and creative or spiritual practices.
Jennifer Lara
Associate Clinical Social Worker, ASW
Verified Verified
Silver Lake, Los Angeles, CA 90026
Childhood trauma can cripple us, it creates overpowering ‘intense’ emotions such as anxiety, depression, and anger when l eft unattended which begins to create physical symptoms to defend our bodies from the internal wounds. Has there ever been a time in your life where you have experienced this reaction? Are you experiencing these feelings based on current or past trauma from childhood, early teens, adolescence, adulthood, or as a senior? I aim to utilize a variety of actionable techniques to help reduce trauma-related symptoms and make lasting changes in life.
Childhood trauma can cripple us, it creates overpowering ‘intense’ emotions such as anxiety, depression, and anger when l eft unattended which begins to create physical symptoms to defend our bodies from the internal wounds. Has there ever been a time in your life where you have experienced this reaction? Are you experiencing these feelings based on current or past trauma from childhood, early teens, adolescence, adulthood, or as a senior? I aim to utilize a variety of actionable techniques to help reduce trauma-related symptoms and make lasting changes in life.
Solange Zelman, LMFT
Marriage & Family Therapist, LMFT
Verified Verified
Silver Lake, Los Angeles, CA 90026 (Online Only)
Therapy is about exploring, experimenting, discovering, and being vulnerable. In our therapy together you will learn to increase self-compassion and mindfulness, and your ability to sit with uncertainty and bear witness to uncomfortable feelings and body sensations. You will gain awareness of the role negative core beliefs and thoughts have upon mood and learn how to challenge those negative thought patterns. You will learn to set appropriate boundaries by asserting feelings, recognizing wants and needs, and identifying the role shame and guilt might play in causing unhealthy, harmful, stale, and inauthentic behaviors.
Therapy is about exploring, experimenting, discovering, and being vulnerable. In our therapy together you will learn to increase self-compassion and mindfulness, and your ability to sit with uncertainty and bear witness to uncomfortable feelings and body sensations. You will gain awareness of the role negative core beliefs and thoughts have upon mood and learn how to challenge those negative thought patterns. You will learn to set appropriate boundaries by asserting feelings, recognizing wants and needs, and identifying the role shame and guilt might play in causing unhealthy, harmful, stale, and inauthentic behaviors.
Matthew Spector
Marriage & Family Therapist, LMFT
Verified Verified
5 Endorsed
Silver Lake, Los Angeles, CA 90039
Welcome! My task as your therapist is to first provide a space where you’ll feel free to talk openly and be your truest self. Then, together, we will get to the bottom of whatever it is that may be contributing to the way you're feeling, and collaborate on ways you can begin to feel more at ease, empowered, and in alignment with your personal values, goals, and unique identity. I believe that we all hold the ability to manage life's challenges. To do this, we sometimes need a supportive guide. Enter therapy.
Welcome! My task as your therapist is to first provide a space where you’ll feel free to talk openly and be your truest self. Then, together, we will get to the bottom of whatever it is that may be contributing to the way you're feeling, and collaborate on ways you can begin to feel more at ease, empowered, and in alignment with your personal values, goals, and unique identity. I believe that we all hold the ability to manage life's challenges. To do this, we sometimes need a supportive guide. Enter therapy.
Harley Frank - Somatic Specialist
Marriage & Family Therapist Associate, AMFT
Verified Verified
1 Endorsed
Silver Lake, Los Angeles, CA 90039
Have you found traditional talk therapy has helped reduce your symptoms, yet you find yourself desiring a deeper, more embodied transformation? I offer trauma-informed somatic therapy, which can create deep structural change that is difficult to access through talk therapy alone. These body-based approaches allow you to reach parts of the brain that language can’t access, rewiring deeply held patterns, attachment, and emotional wounding. I specialize in working with people experiencing chronic illness & pain (autoimmune, chronic pain, gut, hormone, etc.), spiritual crisis, and relational healing.
Have you found traditional talk therapy has helped reduce your symptoms, yet you find yourself desiring a deeper, more embodied transformation? I offer trauma-informed somatic therapy, which can create deep structural change that is difficult to access through talk therapy alone. These body-based approaches allow you to reach parts of the brain that language can’t access, rewiring deeply held patterns, attachment, and emotional wounding. I specialize in working with people experiencing chronic illness & pain (autoimmune, chronic pain, gut, hormone, etc.), spiritual crisis, and relational healing.
Emily Rued
Marriage & Family Therapist, LMFT
Verified Verified
5 Endorsed
Silver Lake, Los Angeles, CA 90029
Do you love your craft but find the business side of things can be hard on your mental health? I've been there and I can help. There is so much out of your control, no wonder anxiety and depression are common experiences for creatives. Therapy will help you gain a better understanding of who you are, where you come from, and how to cope with and respond to challenges. I offer a personalized approach to therapy designed to help you discover new insights into yourself and your relationships. I work to create a space where you have the freedom to express yourself without judgment and leave having felt heard and understood.
Do you love your craft but find the business side of things can be hard on your mental health? I've been there and I can help. There is so much out of your control, no wonder anxiety and depression are common experiences for creatives. Therapy will help you gain a better understanding of who you are, where you come from, and how to cope with and respond to challenges. I offer a personalized approach to therapy designed to help you discover new insights into yourself and your relationships. I work to create a space where you have the freedom to express yourself without judgment and leave having felt heard and understood.
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Marriage & Family Therapist, LMFT
Verified Verified
Silver Lake, Los Angeles, CA 90026 (Online Only)
I support couples who need help to resolve chronic conflicts, repair after boundary crossing/infidelity, improve communication, and restore intimacy. As an individual therapist I work with folks through anxiety, grief, heartbreak, major life transitions, and issues with self trust, compassion, and forgiveness. I specialize in reproductive mental health encompassing family planning, postpartum, and pregnancy loss. I value the tears, the laughter, the silence, and the uproar in equal measure.
I support couples who need help to resolve chronic conflicts, repair after boundary crossing/infidelity, improve communication, and restore intimacy. As an individual therapist I work with folks through anxiety, grief, heartbreak, major life transitions, and issues with self trust, compassion, and forgiveness. I specialize in reproductive mental health encompassing family planning, postpartum, and pregnancy loss. I value the tears, the laughter, the silence, and the uproar in equal measure.
Corrie Blissit
Marriage & Family Therapist Associate, MA, AMFT
Verified Verified
11 Endorsed
Silver Lake, Los Angeles, CA 90026 (Online Only)
Victims of emotional abuse may feel like they have completely lost themselves. When you experience psychological abuse, there are severe ramifications that impact your ability to function holistically in your life. To make matters worse, emotional abuse is often invisible to others. Your partner may behave differently in front your friends and family, but behind closed doors they are bullies and tyrants. As the confusion and disorientation of this experience sets in, you may feel alone, hopeless, and ashamed. You may start to distrust your own healthy instincts and blame yourself for their abuse.
Victims of emotional abuse may feel like they have completely lost themselves. When you experience psychological abuse, there are severe ramifications that impact your ability to function holistically in your life. To make matters worse, emotional abuse is often invisible to others. Your partner may behave differently in front your friends and family, but behind closed doors they are bullies and tyrants. As the confusion and disorientation of this experience sets in, you may feel alone, hopeless, and ashamed. You may start to distrust your own healthy instincts and blame yourself for their abuse.
Stephen Feldman
Marriage & Family Therapist, MFT
Verified Verified
1 Endorsed
Silver Lake, Los Angeles, CA 90026
"Opportunities to find deeper power within ourselves comes when life seems most challenging". (Joseph Campbell) Our first reaction to pain is often to try to ignore or avoid it. Therapy is a place to gain understanding and undergo transformation in a safe and supportive environment.
"Opportunities to find deeper power within ourselves comes when life seems most challenging". (Joseph Campbell) Our first reaction to pain is often to try to ignore or avoid it. Therapy is a place to gain understanding and undergo transformation in a safe and supportive environment.
Nicole Woolf
Clinical Social Work/Therapist, LCSW
Verified Verified
1 Endorsed
Silver Lake, Los Angeles, CA 90026
Seeking help can be scary and exciting, and it takes a lot of bravery and courage to take the initial step. You may be feeling like you are depressed and anxious due to your trauma. I aim to meet you where you are mentally and emotionally and help you grow, learn skills, and adapt to new changes. We can work together to identify your goals and needs and address the emotional and behavioral challenges you experience.
Seeking help can be scary and exciting, and it takes a lot of bravery and courage to take the initial step. You may be feeling like you are depressed and anxious due to your trauma. I aim to meet you where you are mentally and emotionally and help you grow, learn skills, and adapt to new changes. We can work together to identify your goals and needs and address the emotional and behavioral challenges you experience.
Robin Roemer
Marriage & Family Therapist Associate, AMFT
Verified Verified
6 Endorsed
Silver Lake, Los Angeles, CA 90039
We all desire belonging and connection, but relationships can be hard! Many of us grow up without role models for the type of intimacy we desire. Whether working individually or with relationships, I hope to work as a guide and collaborator, assisting you in building stronger connections with yourself and those around you. Many of us move through life feeling stuck in roles we’ve been assigned and in stories that we’ve long outgrown. Our work in therapy is to shift your perspective, allowing for a much more nuanced, self-compassionate and true view of who you are and who you’d like to be.
We all desire belonging and connection, but relationships can be hard! Many of us grow up without role models for the type of intimacy we desire. Whether working individually or with relationships, I hope to work as a guide and collaborator, assisting you in building stronger connections with yourself and those around you. Many of us move through life feeling stuck in roles we’ve been assigned and in stories that we’ve long outgrown. Our work in therapy is to shift your perspective, allowing for a much more nuanced, self-compassionate and true view of who you are and who you’d like to be.
Sophia Boissevain
Marriage & Family Therapist, LMFT
Verified Verified
2 Endorsed
Silver Lake, Los Angeles, CA 90026 (Online Only)
You're good at masking but inside you feel alone and overwhelmed. Asking for help wasn’t a safe option in the past so now you can’t help but feel like a burden when you need support. And sometimes it feels like your relationships are surface level or one-sided. Please know that you’re not alone! People who experienced chaotic or unstable childhoods often feel this way, and it is possible to heal and live the fulfilling life that you deserve. It may feel out of reach but you can grow the ability to set and maintain healthy boundaries, identify and communicate your needs, and even find compassion and acceptance for yourself.
You're good at masking but inside you feel alone and overwhelmed. Asking for help wasn’t a safe option in the past so now you can’t help but feel like a burden when you need support. And sometimes it feels like your relationships are surface level or one-sided. Please know that you’re not alone! People who experienced chaotic or unstable childhoods often feel this way, and it is possible to heal and live the fulfilling life that you deserve. It may feel out of reach but you can grow the ability to set and maintain healthy boundaries, identify and communicate your needs, and even find compassion and acceptance for yourself.
Jessica Bianchi
Marriage & Family Therapist, EdD, LMFT, ATR-BC
Not Verified Not Verified
Silver Lake, Los Angeles, CA 90027 (Online Only)
Feeling lost, overwhelmed and stuck in repetitive patterns can happen to anyone. Sometimes just having the space to name how you feel can really start a process of change. I am compassionate, collaborative, and creative. I work with you at your pace to build insights and awareness into your experiences in order to make choices using talk therapy and art therapy.
Feeling lost, overwhelmed and stuck in repetitive patterns can happen to anyone. Sometimes just having the space to name how you feel can really start a process of change. I am compassionate, collaborative, and creative. I work with you at your pace to build insights and awareness into your experiences in order to make choices using talk therapy and art therapy.
Patrick M. McCloskey
Marriage & Family Therapist Associate, AMFT
Verified Verified
4 Endorsed
Silver Lake, Los Angeles, CA 90039
Life is a complex journey, and each of us carries a unique story filled with challenges and triumphs. My approach to therapy is rooted in the belief that we all need support and that our stories, though different, connect us.
Life is a complex journey, and each of us carries a unique story filled with challenges and triumphs. My approach to therapy is rooted in the belief that we all need support and that our stories, though different, connect us.
People come to my office with a variety of concerns related to relationships, identity, spirituality, career, self-development, or life purpose. Others may be seeking relief from trauma response patterns, anxiety or depression. In a rapidly changing and tumultuous world, people often feel comforted by the presence of a therapist who can provide a safe enough space to understand themselves, resolve conflicts, and live with more coherence and freedom from unfulfilling relational patterns. I listen with an intuitive and compassionate heart and give you tools to navigate through stressful times with greater resiliency and embodiment.
People come to my office with a variety of concerns related to relationships, identity, spirituality, career, self-development, or life purpose. Others may be seeking relief from trauma response patterns, anxiety or depression. In a rapidly changing and tumultuous world, people often feel comforted by the presence of a therapist who can provide a safe enough space to understand themselves, resolve conflicts, and live with more coherence and freedom from unfulfilling relational patterns. I listen with an intuitive and compassionate heart and give you tools to navigate through stressful times with greater resiliency and embodiment.
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Emotionally Focused Therapists
Who is emotionally focused therapy for?
Emotionally focused therapy (EFT) is for couples who are emotionally distressed, stuck in an unsatisfying relationship pattern or feeling deeply alienated. They may even believe the relationship is beyond repair. Very often, the partners display intense anger, fear, grief, loss of trust, or a sense of betrayal in the relationship. In addition, EFT is helpful to couples and individuals who have difficulty expressing emotions and those who have trouble regulating emotions.
Why do people need emotionally focused therapy?
People need emotionally focused therapy because the need for others is built into the brain, but the pressures of daily life can erode feelings of love, and couples often do not have the skills to find their way back to the comfort of each other. Instead, they may be stuck in repetitive patterns of anger, fear, grief, loss of trust, or a sense of betrayal. Emotionally focused therapy regards such strong negative feelings as expressions of protest over the loss of connection and turns them into pathways of reconnection.
What happens in emotionally focused therapy?
Over the course of eight to 20 weekly sessions, couples de-escalate their negative emotional reactivity to one another so that they can listen to each other and be responsive to each other’s needs. Then the deep emotional and physical bond is restored, giving partners a sense of comfort and security, which they can use to solve whatever problems come their way. The therapist plays an active role, helping partners understand how anger and withdrawal are actually misguided cries for connection.
What problems does emotionally focused therapy treat?
EFT is designed to help couples stuck in dysfunctional relationship patterns regain closeness and rebuild their relationship. Typically, such couples experience considerable distress, with partners feeling alienated and distrustful of one another, not certain their relationship can survive. EFT is also helpful to individuals experiencing attachment-related fears of loss; it helps them learn to use their fears as a way of eliciting the closeness they desire.