Elders (65+) Therapists in Los Angeles, CA

My experience includes working with adults and seniors. I am passionate about emotional well-being.

I am a licensed clinical social worker licensed in multi-states. The majority of my clinical experience has been providing individual therapy services to adolescents and adults. I have worked with clients with a wide range of concerns, including anxiety, depression, low self-esteem, and family issues. My approach combines person-centered, cognitive-behavioral therapy, and solution focused modalities. I am also EMDR trained.

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Trauma can impact your ability to trust yourself, relationships, individuals, and your general ability to function. Whether you're having panic attacks, or struggling with trusting your intuition, we can develop resources to nourish you, identify triggers, and get you to a place of LIVING. I have experience and enjoy working with diverse cultural backgrounds, gender identities, from adolescents to seniors, whether in crisis, or looking to better self regulate on a consistent basis.

Clients who benefit from my help appreciate a therapist who is warm, nurturing and supportive in his approach and at the same time confronts the difficult issues that bring people to seek my assistance. I am an experienced clinician, and I draw upon a variety of techniques ranging from talk therapy to Dialectical Behavioral Therapy, and EMDR. My clients feel I help them with life issues including depression, anxiety, and trauma.

My ideal client would be someone who is open, willing and ready to begin work on healing and is dedicated to the process of change. This includes any individual, couple or family who has relationship, familial or faith issues. peoples of all ethnicity, cultural/sub-culture backgrounds, of diverse socioeconomic status, of any faith or agnostic/atheist, any sexual orientation or political affiliation. I work with many individuals from the music, acting, modeling and the entertainment industry as well as young professionals, people in the medical, STEM (science, technology and engineering and mathematics) and health fields.

I am an LCSW with 20 plus years' experience ranging from working in the neonatal intensive care unit to working with seniors and supporting them communicate their end of life wishes to their families. My specialty is working with women who are experiencing postpartum depression or have children with acute or chronic illnesses. I am also passionate about helping young adults navigate the adversity of the college experience or life transitions such as, relationships, marriage, divorce, parenthood and co-parenting. It has been an honor to walk alongside so many people in all stages of life, as they adjust and cope to life changes

I am a Licensed Clinical Social Worker in CA, TX, WA, CO, OR and VA. My experience includes working with adults and seniors. I am passionate about emotional well-being.

My specialty and passion is therapy for intimacy, couples, sexual dysfunctions, and relationship concerns. I work with individuals and couples who have difficulties adapting to the dynamics of an intimate relationship. This can be the result of traumatic experiences, the need for personal exploration, and/or sexual dysfunctions. The clients I typically work with are disappointed with their relationship and/or sex life, they may have experienced betrayal, they might avoid sex because it’s painful, stressful, or anxiety-producing, or want to expand their sex horizons (e.g., Kink, Vanilla, BDSM, etc.).

Hello. I'm Karen Kessler, a seasoned and compassionate Licensed Clinical Social Worker with over 30 years of comprehensive clinical experience. My background includes working in diverse inpatient and outpatient mental health settings, which has provided me with a solid foundation for addressing issues such as aging, grief and loss, anxiety and depression, life transitions, caregiver stress, work-life balance, self-esteem, stress management, and relationship challenges.

I am committed to offering opportunities for people to create a deeper connection to what is real, true and alive within themselves, to develop the capacity to be authentic, clear, and create healthy relationships with self and others. In service to creating a sense of completeness and balance I offer individual, family, and couples counseling. To truly connect, experience, discover, explore, and experiment within oneself and in the world, I will offer whatever tool or practice that might be helpful to remove the blocks that keep you from living in and through your highest self.

As a Licensed Clinical Social Worker I have over 35 years in the field of Mental Health with the Los Angeles County. I have worked in the Juvenile hall systems as a Detention Offices primarily with adolescent boys age 10 thru 18 issues of gang, drugs and foster care. Later employed with King Drew Medical Center as a Clinical Social Worker in the 80's experiences with Cancer, AIDs, and emergency medication. Also worked at Augustus Hawkins providing Mental Health services for Crisis intervention. After retiring from Los Angeles I completed my PsyD and worked in the State Prison as a Unlicensed Psychologist for 3 years.

I know from my own life and many years of helping others that putting yourself first and asking for help can bring in a large amount of fear, doubt, and shame–but I also strongly believe in the transformative power of therapy and the many positive gradual changes it provides. I offer a safe non-judgemental space where we can both explore the challenges you are facing and work through them together.

I have experience working with clients presenting with a number of issues that include depression, anxiety, substance abuse, personality disorders, trauma and severe and persistent mental illness.

It’s time to focus on you. It’s time to start taking the steps to move you through your grief, loss, parenting struggles, relationship issues and life’s adversities. I can help. Let’s take your challenges and difficulties and turn them into positives for your future.

As a certified (IAAP) Jungian analyst I have a passion to work with three specific groups: 1. Men and women, aged 35 - 65, who are experiencing a Mid - Life Crises/Transition, often accompanied by depression and anxiety, and a loss of meaning in life. 2. Young men and women, aged 19 - 34, who are experiencing a "Quarter Life Crises," searching for a more soulful life in work, relationships and beyond. 3. Therapists who want to incorporate Jungian analysis and dream work into their practices, and also those who may want to enter training to become a Jungian analyst. .

I encourage you to get help when you need it despite how difficult it feels. As an experienced, professional psychotherapist, I can work with you in an individual or group setting to help you get through your issues and make changes in your life. You may come see me in my Santa Monica, California office or in my New York City office where I see clients once a month. I can also work with you online using Skype. I have clients as far away as London and Hong Kong. Call me if you would like a consultation.

You've already tried it on your own. Maybe you've found partial solutions,but it does get discouraging finding yourself, or your relationship, repeating the same patterns over and over. Seeing a very experienced, sharp, interactive therapist means finding much quicker relief for problems related to relationships , depression, anxiety and panic, parenting, childhood, and life directions. Working with me means forming a solution-oriented partnership for real change. I have successfully done this work for many years, and help people on both long or short term issues. To meet your needs, I have evening & W/E appointments.

This practice is devoted to providing "no nonsense," brief, goal oriented psychotherapy to individuals, young adults, seniors, couples, families, adolescents and children. The focus of treatment is to assist the client in designing and attaining a realistic psychotherapeutic goal and in making meaningful long-term change. The practice includes an experienced, MFT registered intern who sees clients on a reasonable sliding scale basis. All clinical staff have special expertise in brief psychotherapy, parenting issues, behavioral problems in children and adolescents, disabilities, marriage and family issues and gay and lesbian issues.