Relational Therapists in Monterey Park, CA
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Lamas Counseling
Clinical Social Work/Therapist, MSW, LCSW
Verified Verified
Monterey Park, CA 91754
Se habla Español. Are you going through changes i.e. a traumatic experience or a life transition that is causing you to feel conflicted, low energy, anxious or stress? Is the lack of communication or support at home making it dificult to get through the tough time? If yes, we are here to help you. Lamas Counseling’s mission is to help individuals and families improve communication in the home, stress/ anxiety management, heal any pain from the past or present, gain insight on behavioral patterns, and work towards a healthier life and family environment.
Se habla Español. Are you going through changes i.e. a traumatic experience or a life transition that is causing you to feel conflicted, low energy, anxious or stress? Is the lack of communication or support at home making it dificult to get through the tough time? If yes, we are here to help you. Lamas Counseling’s mission is to help individuals and families improve communication in the home, stress/ anxiety management, heal any pain from the past or present, gain insight on behavioral patterns, and work towards a healthier life and family environment.
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Mina Yoon
Marriage & Family Therapist Associate, MA, AMFT
Verified Verified
4 Endorsed
Monterey Park, CA 91755
I assist teens and adults who may be battling anxiety, depression, burnout, stress, low self-esteem, or people-pleasing tendencies. My clients seek to be empowered with a sense of agency and autonomy to become the catalyst of change in their lives. I will ensure to create a safe environment that is conducive to growth and healing. Together, we can increase self-awareness and insight, explore repeating patterns, and examine the values that you determine to be important to build a fuller, more meaningful life.
I assist teens and adults who may be battling anxiety, depression, burnout, stress, low self-esteem, or people-pleasing tendencies. My clients seek to be empowered with a sense of agency and autonomy to become the catalyst of change in their lives. I will ensure to create a safe environment that is conducive to growth and healing. Together, we can increase self-awareness and insight, explore repeating patterns, and examine the values that you determine to be important to build a fuller, more meaningful life.
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Tony Xiong
Clinical Social Work/Therapist, LCSW
Verified Verified
Monterey Park, CA 91755 (Online Only)
My passion has always been to help people heal and find inner peace. For some, this might mean having to work through a difficult past so it doesn’t haunt them in their present life: for others, it’s just having someone to talk to. Whether you are struggling with depression, anxiety, grief and loss, trauma, or needing to figure out what to do with your life, I’m here and I’m ready to help you.
My passion has always been to help people heal and find inner peace. For some, this might mean having to work through a difficult past so it doesn’t haunt them in their present life: for others, it’s just having someone to talk to. Whether you are struggling with depression, anxiety, grief and loss, trauma, or needing to figure out what to do with your life, I’m here and I’m ready to help you.
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My approach to therapy is to do what works for my clients. Some people need to examine their past so that they can cope and move forward. While others just need to work on what is currently happening in their lives. I can help with both.
My approach to therapy is to do what works for my clients. Some people need to examine their past so that they can cope and move forward. While others just need to work on what is currently happening in their lives. I can help with both.
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Jed Meyers
Marriage & Family Therapist, MS, LMFT
Verified Verified
5 Endorsed
Monterey Park, CA 91756
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.
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.
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Samantha Nguyen
Marriage & Family Therapist, MS, LMFT
Verified Verified
Monterey Park, CA 91754 (Online Only)
Hey there. Are you here because life's just been really tough on you? Maybe you're feeling frustrated because you're trying so hard to keep it together and it still feels like it's falling apart. You want to make changes and make yourself feel better, but it doesn't seem to be enough and you're not sure anymore and are in vicious loop of anxiousness, sadness, self-blame, guilt, and grief.
Hey there. Are you here because life's just been really tough on you? Maybe you're feeling frustrated because you're trying so hard to keep it together and it still feels like it's falling apart. You want to make changes and make yourself feel better, but it doesn't seem to be enough and you're not sure anymore and are in vicious loop of anxiousness, sadness, self-blame, guilt, and grief.
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Jayce Matthew Geesey
Marriage & Family Therapist, LMFT
Verified Verified
6 Endorsed
Monterey Park, CA 91754
I help creative and motivated individuals who are struggling with self-esteem, depression, anxiety, trauma, and difficulty in relationships. If you're struggling to live with more authenticity, confidence and wellness, it is my mission to help you shift away from what is keeping you stuck and guide you into a lived experience of thriving and fulfillment. You won't be alone in the process as we will work collaboratively to help you discover a new path forward that leads to healing and growth.
I help creative and motivated individuals who are struggling with self-esteem, depression, anxiety, trauma, and difficulty in relationships. If you're struggling to live with more authenticity, confidence and wellness, it is my mission to help you shift away from what is keeping you stuck and guide you into a lived experience of thriving and fulfillment. You won't be alone in the process as we will work collaboratively to help you discover a new path forward that leads to healing and growth.
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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.
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.
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I use a strengths based, reality-therapy approach that includes elements of CBT, trauma-informed, relational-cultural therapy, and DBT.
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 use a strengths based, reality-therapy approach that includes elements of CBT, trauma-informed, relational-cultural therapy, and DBT.
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.
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Natasha Morisawa
Marriage & Family Therapist, MA, LMFT
Verified Verified
11 Endorsed
Alhambra, CA 91801
We'll use mindfulness, somatic, and relational practices and techniques specific to you.
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!
We'll use mindfulness, somatic, and relational practices and techniques specific to you.
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!
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I offer culturally sensitive and affirming relational psychoanalytic therapy.
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?"
I offer culturally sensitive and affirming relational psychoanalytic therapy.
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?"
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Sara Lappan
Marriage & Family Therapist, PhD, LMFT
Verified Verified
2 Endorsed
Alhambra, CA 91803 (Online Only)
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.
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.
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Maria Cruz Flores
Marriage & Family Therapist, PhD, MFT, MS, MA
Verified Verified
Montebello, CA 90640
Did you wake up this morning, feeling sad or with untold anxiety about starting your day? A day fraught with dealing with relational issues child(ren), your significant other, family members or others individuals? This be the day you pick up the phone to garner the support you deserve in making some much needed changes in your life. Help is but a phone call away.
Did you wake up this morning, feeling sad or with untold anxiety about starting your day? A day fraught with dealing with relational issues child(ren), your significant other, family members or others individuals? This be the day you pick up the phone to garner the support you deserve in making some much needed changes in your life. Help is but a phone call away.
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If you are struggling with mental health, relational issues, stress, and struggles with substance use, I may be able to help. I have over 20 years of experience. Although I have the knowledge, experience, and skills to pass along, I do not consider myself an expert but rather a sounding board, an interpreter, and support to help clients develop their own insight and trajectory forward. I use a holistic approach incorporating psychodynamic theory, cognitive-behavioral therapy, mindfulness, developmental psychology, and addiction treatment.
If you are struggling with mental health, relational issues, stress, and struggles with substance use, I may be able to help. I have over 20 years of experience. Although I have the knowledge, experience, and skills to pass along, I do not consider myself an expert but rather a sounding board, an interpreter, and support to help clients develop their own insight and trajectory forward. I use a holistic approach incorporating psychodynamic theory, cognitive-behavioral therapy, mindfulness, developmental psychology, and addiction treatment.
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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.
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.
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Vanessa Lopez
Marriage & Family Therapist Associate, AMFT
Verified Verified
2 Endorsed
East Los Angeles, CA 90022 (Online Only)
Do you struggle with managing stress, anxiety at school, work or other relationships that impacts all areas of your life? Do you feel lost, overwhelmed, frustrated by fast pace, and unrealistic expectations? Do you wonder if things will ever get better? Now more than ever we are experiencing increased stress, pressure and uncertainty in our relationships at home, work and in the community. As a therapist, I am passionate about deeply listening to my clients and helping them identify and overcome the challenges they face in their lives, including anxiety and depression.
Do you struggle with managing stress, anxiety at school, work or other relationships that impacts all areas of your life? Do you feel lost, overwhelmed, frustrated by fast pace, and unrealistic expectations? Do you wonder if things will ever get better? Now more than ever we are experiencing increased stress, pressure and uncertainty in our relationships at home, work and in the community. As a therapist, I am passionate about deeply listening to my clients and helping them identify and overcome the challenges they face in their lives, including anxiety and depression.
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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.
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.
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Dinandrea Vega
Clinical Social Work/Therapist, MSW, LCSW
Verified Verified
East Los Angeles, CA 90022 (Online Only)
I am a compassionate, collective liberationist-oriented psychotherapist and digital nomad. I believe that if you face and embrace your authentic self, you can create significant transformation in your life. Soy una psicoterapeuta. nómada digital, compasiva y orientada a la liberación colectiva. Mi creencia es que si te enfrentas y aceptas tu ser auténtica/o, puedes crear una transformación significativa en tu vida
I am a compassionate, collective liberationist-oriented psychotherapist and digital nomad. I believe that if you face and embrace your authentic self, you can create significant transformation in your life. Soy una psicoterapeuta. nómada digital, compasiva y orientada a la liberación colectiva. Mi creencia es que si te enfrentas y aceptas tu ser auténtica/o, puedes crear una transformación significativa en tu vida
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Lane Assaf
Marriage & Family Therapist Associate, MA, AMFT, CTP
Verified Verified
2 Endorsed
Alhambra, CA 91801
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!
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!
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Charles Zeng
Marriage & Family Therapist, LMFT, LPCC, CGP, MA
Verified Verified
16 Endorsed
Alhambra, CA 91801
Transitions are hard. There is often so much shame around trying to figure out who we are and asking for what we want. Am I going to burden others? Am I too much for people if I ask for something that I desire? Am I being "selfish"? Who am I to "demand" others for things I don't think I "deserve"? If these are some of the questions you have asked yourself, then I'm here to help. It's okay to feel lost, like you're wandering the woods alone. I'm here for you so we can wander these woods together.
Transitions are hard. There is often so much shame around trying to figure out who we are and asking for what we want. Am I going to burden others? Am I too much for people if I ask for something that I desire? Am I being "selfish"? Who am I to "demand" others for things I don't think I "deserve"? If these are some of the questions you have asked yourself, then I'm here to help. It's okay to feel lost, like you're wandering the woods alone. I'm here for you so we can wander these woods together.
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Relational Therapists
How does relational therapy work?
Relational therapy was developed by psychologist Jean Miller, whose ideas stressed that having strong connections with others encourages better health and well-being when compared with a lonely existence. Conversely, poor interpersonal relationships do not foster growth and learning. Relational therapy also encourages trust in others and patience with others, along with better communication and less conflict.
Is relational therapy evidence-based?
Relational therapy is not well-studied, and it may not be as effective in treating certain mental health conditions when compared with evidence-based treatments like cognitive behavioral or acceptance and commitment therapy. However, relational therapy uses techniques found in cognitive behavioral therapy as well as psychodynamic therapy, which are both well-studied with empirical research.
How long are people typically in relational therapy?
Clients may see improvement after a few weeks or months of therapy. Like cognitive behavioral therapy, relational therapy can reduce symptoms within 10 to 20 weeks, at 45 to 50 minutes once a week. But like any type of therapy, improvement depends on the person and the severity of the problem.
Does relational therapy work?
While no therapy type will work for everyone, some evidence suggests that this therapy can be effective. Relational therapy can help a person manage problematic relationships as well as the mental health conditions that accompany difficult relationships like depression or anxiety. This therapy type may offer benefits that are hard to measure but can be just as valuable—including feelings of higher self-worth or healthier connections with others.