Divorce Therapists in Monrovia, CA

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Relationships For Better: Individuals + Couples
Marriage & Family Therapist, MS, LMFT
Verified Verified
6 Endorsed
Monrovia, CA 91016
You want to thrive in your closest relationship: we're here for you. My name is Megan Lundgren, and I am the Director of Relationships For Better, a relationship counseling private practice based in Monrovia, in the San Gabriel Valley. My team of experienced and skilled therapists specializes in helping people navigate relationship hurdles with compassion and care. Relationships are the most important part of life: let's make them better, together.
You want to thrive in your closest relationship: we're here for you. My name is Megan Lundgren, and I am the Director of Relationships For Better, a relationship counseling private practice based in Monrovia, in the San Gabriel Valley. My team of experienced and skilled therapists specializes in helping people navigate relationship hurdles with compassion and care. Relationships are the most important part of life: let's make them better, together.
(626) 587-2299 View (626) 587-2299
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Daniele Iturbide
Marriage & Family Therapist, MA, LMFT
Verified Verified
Monrovia, CA 91017  (Online Only)
*LGBTQ+ affirmative* Are you afraid to speak up or be your true self for fear of what others will say or do? Do you wish your family communicated more effectively, your kids would respect you and your rules, or you could get your teen to open up to you? Do you constantly give to others to the point of exhaustion or until you snap and wonder when it’s your turn to receive? If any of these scenarios fit your current struggles, I can help. When you reclaim your true voice and begin to use it thoughtfully and purposefully, you can lead a more authentic, balanced, and fulfilling life.
*LGBTQ+ affirmative* Are you afraid to speak up or be your true self for fear of what others will say or do? Do you wish your family communicated more effectively, your kids would respect you and your rules, or you could get your teen to open up to you? Do you constantly give to others to the point of exhaustion or until you snap and wonder when it’s your turn to receive? If any of these scenarios fit your current struggles, I can help. When you reclaim your true voice and begin to use it thoughtfully and purposefully, you can lead a more authentic, balanced, and fulfilling life.
(424) 281-6919 View (424) 281-6919
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Dr. Bonnie Saland
Marriage & Family Therapist, PhD
Verified Verified
Monrovia, CA 91016
My ideal client is a person who has a certain level of dissatisfaction in their life and wants to explore alternatives for increased capacity for satisfaction and joy with a skilled and attentive professional.
My ideal client is a person who has a certain level of dissatisfaction in their life and wants to explore alternatives for increased capacity for satisfaction and joy with a skilled and attentive professional.
(323) 417-8060 View (323) 417-8060
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Allen Holmquist
Marriage & Family Therapist, PhD, LMFT
Verified Verified
Monrovia, CA 91016
OUT BEYOND THE IDEA OF WRONG DOING AND RIGHT DOING IS A FIELD; I'LL MEET YOU THERE." -RUMI- A fulfilling journey in the counseling and psychotherapy process begins with a safe, caring relationship between my client and myself. So my first task is creating a secure environment that encourages and develops hope, respect, introspection, honesty, and self-responsibility in the therapy room.
OUT BEYOND THE IDEA OF WRONG DOING AND RIGHT DOING IS A FIELD; I'LL MEET YOU THERE." -RUMI- A fulfilling journey in the counseling and psychotherapy process begins with a safe, caring relationship between my client and myself. So my first task is creating a secure environment that encourages and develops hope, respect, introspection, honesty, and self-responsibility in the therapy room.
(626) 385-7956 View (626) 385-7956
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Jill Alonzo, LMFT
Marriage & Family Therapist, MS, MFT, MA
Verified Verified
1 Endorsed
Monrovia, CA 91016
Perhaps you have reached a point in your life in which something has to change; the sadness, anger, confusion or depression have become too great a burden to carry. Perhaps you have been a victim of profound brokenness and long for healing and a brighter future. Or perhaps you desperately want to be a good parent, but it seems like everything you have tried hasn't worked. If this is you, I would be honored to come alongside you and offer my assistance. It takes wisdom to recognize when a problem exists and courage to do something about it.
Perhaps you have reached a point in your life in which something has to change; the sadness, anger, confusion or depression have become too great a burden to carry. Perhaps you have been a victim of profound brokenness and long for healing and a brighter future. Or perhaps you desperately want to be a good parent, but it seems like everything you have tried hasn't worked. If this is you, I would be honored to come alongside you and offer my assistance. It takes wisdom to recognize when a problem exists and courage to do something about it.
(626) 275-8745 View (626) 275-8745
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Sharon Romero
Drug & Alcohol Counselor, MS, CATC
Not Verified Not Verified
Monrovia, CA 91016
Because I have had the opportunity to work in many venues,I have had vast experience working with families, couples and children/adolescence. Addiction is a family issue & not only affects the person using but the whole family unit. I work with the entire family whether the goal for them is to stay together or not...I guide them in the adjustment in whatever decisions they make.FEE DETERMINED ON SLIDING SCALE My motto is: IF YOU HAVE HOPE, YOU HAVE EVERYTHING!
Because I have had the opportunity to work in many venues,I have had vast experience working with families, couples and children/adolescence. Addiction is a family issue & not only affects the person using but the whole family unit. I work with the entire family whether the goal for them is to stay together or not...I guide them in the adjustment in whatever decisions they make.FEE DETERMINED ON SLIDING SCALE My motto is: IF YOU HAVE HOPE, YOU HAVE EVERYTHING!
(626) 869-7925 View (626) 869-7925
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Larry A Remlinger
Marriage & Family Therapist, MS, MFT
Verified Verified
Monrovia, CA 91017
I am most helpful to mid-life women (and their partners when that's appropriate). I help them pick a good partner, create sound relationships, take good care of themselves and ultimately get more of what feeds their soul. I believe it begins with a solid understanding of oneself, how you experience your life, and then re-forming your relationships to be more satisfying.
I am most helpful to mid-life women (and their partners when that's appropriate). I help them pick a good partner, create sound relationships, take good care of themselves and ultimately get more of what feeds their soul. I believe it begins with a solid understanding of oneself, how you experience your life, and then re-forming your relationships to be more satisfying.
(626) 400-5406 View (626) 400-5406
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Katie (Caitlin) Staveley
Marriage & Family Therapist, MS, LMFT
Verified Verified
3 Endorsed
Monrovia, CA 91016
Waitlist for new clients
Finding a therapist can be an overwhelming process, but reaching out for help is a courageous first step. I'm so glad you're here. With over 10 years of experience as a therapist, I am deeply committed to guiding individuals on their path towards emotional well-being and personal growth. My hope for you is to live each day with a sense of peace, despite the hardships life has thrown your way.
Finding a therapist can be an overwhelming process, but reaching out for help is a courageous first step. I'm so glad you're here. With over 10 years of experience as a therapist, I am deeply committed to guiding individuals on their path towards emotional well-being and personal growth. My hope for you is to live each day with a sense of peace, despite the hardships life has thrown your way.
(626) 415-0387 View (626) 415-0387
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Sameh Abdelmalak
Marriage & Family Therapist, MA, LMFT
Verified Verified
Monrovia, CA 91016  (Online Only)
As a Marriage and Family Therapist, I work with a diverse population, offering services to adults, children, couples, and families of different ethnic backgrounds, religions, spiritual beliefs, and sexual orientations. The anxiety, depression, substance abuse, trauma, and relational distress can be very impending to the quality of one's life. Though I am trained in Trauma Focus CBT, Gottman method for couples, DBT, Attachment therapy, and motivational interviewing, if you have a hard time remembering when you felt good or feel like you are alone in your struggle, I would be glad to come alongside you and offer my counseling service.
As a Marriage and Family Therapist, I work with a diverse population, offering services to adults, children, couples, and families of different ethnic backgrounds, religions, spiritual beliefs, and sexual orientations. The anxiety, depression, substance abuse, trauma, and relational distress can be very impending to the quality of one's life. Though I am trained in Trauma Focus CBT, Gottman method for couples, DBT, Attachment therapy, and motivational interviewing, if you have a hard time remembering when you felt good or feel like you are alone in your struggle, I would be glad to come alongside you and offer my counseling service.
(626) 610-4542 View (626) 610-4542
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Relationships For Better
Marriage & Family Therapist, MSMFT, LMFT
Verified Verified
Monrovia, CA 91016
Isn't it true that our relationships are what life is all about? When we feel isolated from ourselves and loved ones, distance and pain can follow. Growth often comes through pain, but feeling stuck can seem hopeless. My goal is to support you through healing, restoring life in your relationship with yourself and others. Using a holistic approach to therapy, we’ll address underlying emotions and needs, helping you reconnect with yourself and others as we journey together toward healing.
Isn't it true that our relationships are what life is all about? When we feel isolated from ourselves and loved ones, distance and pain can follow. Growth often comes through pain, but feeling stuck can seem hopeless. My goal is to support you through healing, restoring life in your relationship with yourself and others. Using a holistic approach to therapy, we’ll address underlying emotions and needs, helping you reconnect with yourself and others as we journey together toward healing.
(626) 869-2713 View (626) 869-2713
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Wayne Wen Yu Kao
Psychologist, PsyD
Verified Verified
Monrovia, CA 91016
When life hasn't turned out the way you hoped, it's difficult to know where to go or how to make change. The decision to seek help can be a difficult process. Many times, it's much easier to sweep your struggles under the rug and put your personal happiness on the backburner. It will be my privilege and joy to work with you in developing a life path that will bring you happiness and joy. It will be my focus to help you identify the specific issues that you're struggling with, where they come from, and how to best change unhealthy patterns of living to improve your quality of life.
When life hasn't turned out the way you hoped, it's difficult to know where to go or how to make change. The decision to seek help can be a difficult process. Many times, it's much easier to sweep your struggles under the rug and put your personal happiness on the backburner. It will be my privilege and joy to work with you in developing a life path that will bring you happiness and joy. It will be my focus to help you identify the specific issues that you're struggling with, where they come from, and how to best change unhealthy patterns of living to improve your quality of life.
(626) 722-5665 View (626) 722-5665
Photo of Courtni Hawkins, MA, LMFT, Marriage & Family Therapist
Courtni Hawkins
Marriage & Family Therapist, MA, LMFT
Verified Verified
2 Endorsed
Monrovia, CA 91016  (Online Only)
Sometimes we experience things that get in the way of living our best life, and sometimes our choices, behaviors, and ideas are the things holding us back. Whether you're experiencing a life-changing event, struggling to set boundaries, or working to break those toxic generational patterns that you've been taught, therapy can be the tool that facilitates growth, self-reflection, and real self-awareness.
Sometimes we experience things that get in the way of living our best life, and sometimes our choices, behaviors, and ideas are the things holding us back. Whether you're experiencing a life-changing event, struggling to set boundaries, or working to break those toxic generational patterns that you've been taught, therapy can be the tool that facilitates growth, self-reflection, and real self-awareness.
(626) 602-1256 View (626) 602-1256
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Karen G. Amirkhanyan
Marriage & Family Therapist, LMFT
Verified Verified
Monrovia, CA 91016
I believe self-awareness contributes to change and improvement; therefore, my therapeutic approach focuses on developing deeper understanding of the inner self. I help my clients build bridges to their inner child in order to work through and remove internalized barriers. Healthy and meaningful interpersonal relationships determine the quality of one’s life which is why in my practice I assist clients identify toxic interactions and implement firm boundaries.
I believe self-awareness contributes to change and improvement; therefore, my therapeutic approach focuses on developing deeper understanding of the inner self. I help my clients build bridges to their inner child in order to work through and remove internalized barriers. Healthy and meaningful interpersonal relationships determine the quality of one’s life which is why in my practice I assist clients identify toxic interactions and implement firm boundaries.
(626) 714-6321 View (626) 714-6321
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Megan Lundgren
Marriage & Family Therapist, MSMFT, LMFT
Verified Verified
Monrovia, CA 91016
If you're looking for ways to improve your closest relationships or cope with stress, let's connect. I have a deep commitment to healing and strengthening the bonds within peoples’ most significant relationships. Adults, couples, teens and families are all welcome.
If you're looking for ways to improve your closest relationships or cope with stress, let's connect. I have a deep commitment to healing and strengthening the bonds within peoples’ most significant relationships. Adults, couples, teens and families are all welcome.
(626) 873-7471 View (626) 873-7471
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Edward M. Rivera
Clinical Social Work/Therapist, LCSW, MSW
Verified Verified
1 Endorsed
Monrovia, CA 91016  (Online Only)
You can expect to walk away with new tools and strategies to cope with difficulties and obstacles, and a greater sense of self-awareness and confidence. My approach to therapy focuses on identifying strengths, reducing unhelpful thoughts and behaviors, and getting people unstuck from their current situations. We will work at your pace to reduce emotional suffering. I have extensive experience working in various clinical settings, including community mental health centers, clinics, hospitals, recovery programs & acute psychiatric facilities.
You can expect to walk away with new tools and strategies to cope with difficulties and obstacles, and a greater sense of self-awareness and confidence. My approach to therapy focuses on identifying strengths, reducing unhelpful thoughts and behaviors, and getting people unstuck from their current situations. We will work at your pace to reduce emotional suffering. I have extensive experience working in various clinical settings, including community mental health centers, clinics, hospitals, recovery programs & acute psychiatric facilities.
(626) 746-4898 View (626) 746-4898
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Celia Orozco
Marriage & Family Therapist, MS, LMFT
Verified Verified
2 Endorsed
Monrovia, CA 91016  (Online Only)
Each of us has had an experience that leads us to question ourselves: Who we are? What we are doing? What are our life goals? In therapy, we can explore certain challenges of life that may cause anxiety, depression, stress, or any other difficult feeling. "Like the lotus flower that is born out of mud, we must honor the darkest parts of ourselves and the most painful of our life's experiences, because they are what allow us to birth our most beautiful self" -Debbie Ford
Each of us has had an experience that leads us to question ourselves: Who we are? What we are doing? What are our life goals? In therapy, we can explore certain challenges of life that may cause anxiety, depression, stress, or any other difficult feeling. "Like the lotus flower that is born out of mud, we must honor the darkest parts of ourselves and the most painful of our life's experiences, because they are what allow us to birth our most beautiful self" -Debbie Ford
(626) 587-3210 View (626) 587-3210
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Almog Shanun
Marriage & Family Therapist, MA, LMFT
Verified Verified
4 Endorsed
Monrovia, CA 91016
I work with the human psyche! WHETHER LIFE IS ON FIRE OR WHEN PAIN IS TOO STRONG TO BEAR OR IF YOU LOOK FOR PERSONAL DISCOVERY. My ideal client comes in in order to learn about how to tune with his or her psyche. Clients, in depth work, learn about the inner and outer relationships and how to connect with the things that lies underneath. I see clients who are looking for discovery of what exists beyond the behavior and their actions and who are willing to dive into learning about the forces that drive them.
I work with the human psyche! WHETHER LIFE IS ON FIRE OR WHEN PAIN IS TOO STRONG TO BEAR OR IF YOU LOOK FOR PERSONAL DISCOVERY. My ideal client comes in in order to learn about how to tune with his or her psyche. Clients, in depth work, learn about the inner and outer relationships and how to connect with the things that lies underneath. I see clients who are looking for discovery of what exists beyond the behavior and their actions and who are willing to dive into learning about the forces that drive them.
(626) 239-1959 View (626) 239-1959
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Samantha Cote
Marriage & Family Therapist, LMFT
Verified Verified
Monrovia, CA 91016
My name is Samantha Cote and I'm a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist. I focus on a client-centered, trauma-informed, and integrative approach to therapy to help make progress toward feeling better. The foundation of my approach to therapy involves client-centered, solution-focused, trauma-informed, and strength-based. I used an integrated perspective of therapy that includes different tools from a variety of different therapeutic approaches because it's important to recognize that we are all unique. Everyone has different goals, life experiences, situations, relationships, cultural backgrounds, communication styles, etc.
My name is Samantha Cote and I'm a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist. I focus on a client-centered, trauma-informed, and integrative approach to therapy to help make progress toward feeling better. The foundation of my approach to therapy involves client-centered, solution-focused, trauma-informed, and strength-based. I used an integrated perspective of therapy that includes different tools from a variety of different therapeutic approaches because it's important to recognize that we are all unique. Everyone has different goals, life experiences, situations, relationships, cultural backgrounds, communication styles, etc.
(626) 788-8716 View (626) 788-8716
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Patrick Reeves
Marriage & Family Therapist, MA, LMFT
Verified Verified
1 Endorsed
Monrovia, CA 91016  (Online Only)
Frustrating and painful experiences in life often stem from unexpressed parts of us that remain largely unconscious. You may feel stuck in patterns of bad relationships, unfulfilling careers, loss of identity or meaning in life, even when you know you want to break free. Challenges or life transitions may disrupt your life, awakening awareness of problematic patterns and pain from the past. Perhaps you question your purpose or feel defined by your roles, longing to rediscover your hidden potential. What are you missing out on in your life from not knowing all that you really are?
Frustrating and painful experiences in life often stem from unexpressed parts of us that remain largely unconscious. You may feel stuck in patterns of bad relationships, unfulfilling careers, loss of identity or meaning in life, even when you know you want to break free. Challenges or life transitions may disrupt your life, awakening awareness of problematic patterns and pain from the past. Perhaps you question your purpose or feel defined by your roles, longing to rediscover your hidden potential. What are you missing out on in your life from not knowing all that you really are?
(626) 415-0964 View (626) 415-0964
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Amanda Min
Marriage & Family Therapist, MSMFT, LMFT
Verified Verified
Monrovia, CA 91016
A warm hello to you! I’m glad you’re exploring the possibility of engaging in therapy. It is remarkable what can come from intentionally, regularly setting aside time to invest in healing and growth. Perhaps a transition has come upon you and you are looking to find your new equilibrium. Or perhaps you have been feeling somewhat stuck and desire to initiate a transition. Together, we can create changes towards greater peace and thriving in your life and relationships.
A warm hello to you! I’m glad you’re exploring the possibility of engaging in therapy. It is remarkable what can come from intentionally, regularly setting aside time to invest in healing and growth. Perhaps a transition has come upon you and you are looking to find your new equilibrium. Or perhaps you have been feeling somewhat stuck and desire to initiate a transition. Together, we can create changes towards greater peace and thriving in your life and relationships.
(626) 361-4253 View (626) 361-4253
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Divorce Therapists

How does therapy for people affected by a divorce work?

Individuals may feel a number of emotions following a divorce, such as shock, guilt, grief, anger, and fear. Therapists offer a non-judgmental space for individuals to talk about what they’ve experienced and process their emotions. Therapists will help clients develop coping strategies. They can also help a client rebuild their sense of self and self-worth and talk about what a happier future might look like.

What’s the most common type of therapy following a divorce?

There are several types of therapy that may be useful for divorce, including cognitive behavioral, acceptance and commitment, solution-focused brief, and mindfulness-based therapies. Many therapy types are talk-therapy based, which is typically the most popular option for individuals dealing with divorce. Cognitive behavioral therapy is a widely-used talk therapy, however, there’s no specific therapy type that’s designed to help people with divorce, and different types will work depending on the person.

When should an individual seek help due to a divorce?

When the feelings of a divorced individual, or an individual going through the process of divorce, begin to disrupt healthy daily functioning, it may be a good time to look into therapy. If a person finds that they are not performing at work due to problems with anxiety or motivation, if they’re no longer seeing friends due to feelings of shame, or if they’re not properly taking care of themselves as a result of depression, speaking to a professional could help.

How do you encourage someone to go to therapy due to a divorce?

It’s helpful to express concern and love for the individual while framing therapy as a tool for improving their life. Sharing how the individual appears to be suffering, and what effects it has on them or on their children, should be done with compassion and empathy. It may be useful to devise a game plan—breaking the process down into parts, such as finding a therapist, making appointments, and looking into insurance coverage.