Career Counseling Therapists in Santa Monica, CA
Lianne Zackler
Marriage & Family Therapist, LMFT
Verified Verified
5 Endorsed
Santa Monica, CA 90402
I believe that the relationship that you have with your therapist is essential for change. Finding a good fit can be hard, but I'm here to help you through that process. We will work together to help you better understand yourself so you can see things more clearly and uncover opportunities to move through challenges, conflicts, trauma, and anxiety. Gaining insight into how the patterns from your past impact your daily experience is an important tool for meaningful change. Together, we will collaborate to identify and resolve challenges, and deepen awareness so you can move forward towards your best self.
I believe that the relationship that you have with your therapist is essential for change. Finding a good fit can be hard, but I'm here to help you through that process. We will work together to help you better understand yourself so you can see things more clearly and uncover opportunities to move through challenges, conflicts, trauma, and anxiety. Gaining insight into how the patterns from your past impact your daily experience is an important tool for meaningful change. Together, we will collaborate to identify and resolve challenges, and deepen awareness so you can move forward towards your best self.
Gabriel Cooper
Marriage & Family Therapist, MPhil, MS, LMFT
Verified Verified
10 Endorsed
Santa Monica, CA 90403
I provide depth therapy for men and LGBTQ folks navigating complex issues and relationships. I hold graduate degrees from Cambridge University and Northwestern with clinical expertise in: ADHD, addiction, anxiety, chronic illness, depression, grief, marriage/dating, men's issues, self-esteem, and trauma. I have a special passion for working with creative and gifted individuals. In our therapy, I stand right beside you as we take on life challenges and bring clarity to your universe.
I provide depth therapy for men and LGBTQ folks navigating complex issues and relationships. I hold graduate degrees from Cambridge University and Northwestern with clinical expertise in: ADHD, addiction, anxiety, chronic illness, depression, grief, marriage/dating, men's issues, self-esteem, and trauma. I have a special passion for working with creative and gifted individuals. In our therapy, I stand right beside you as we take on life challenges and bring clarity to your universe.
Tiffani Bresnick
Clinical Social Work/Therapist, LCSW, PMH-C
Verified Verified
Santa Monica, CA 90405 (Online Only)
Do you want to find true happiness and have healthy relationships? I can help you get there. Together, in a safe, non-judgmental space, we can explore emotions, behaviors and ideas which are keeping you from your most fulfilling life. You will become more understanding and self-aware to end negative patterns which stand in your way. Guidance, feedback, and psycho-education, will empower you to face personal difficulties, and incorporate healthy coping and problem solving skills into your daily living. I treat individuals and couples, using an integrative psychotherapy approach to meet each client’s unique needs.
Do you want to find true happiness and have healthy relationships? I can help you get there. Together, in a safe, non-judgmental space, we can explore emotions, behaviors and ideas which are keeping you from your most fulfilling life. You will become more understanding and self-aware to end negative patterns which stand in your way. Guidance, feedback, and psycho-education, will empower you to face personal difficulties, and incorporate healthy coping and problem solving skills into your daily living. I treat individuals and couples, using an integrative psychotherapy approach to meet each client’s unique needs.
Isabel Rothschild Bartel
Marriage & Family Therapist, LMFT
Verified Verified
Santa Monica, CA 90401 (Online Only)
I provide a safe therapeutic environment with a focus on developing life long skills. I view therapy as a collaborative process. Together, we will formulate your goals and strive towards greater self-acceptance. We will identify strengths and resiliency to support growth. Let's work in collaboration with a kind curiosity on this journey of self-discovery. I work with couples to rediscover closeness and reduce conflict in the relationship through Imago Relationship Therapy. I also offer Discernment Counseling for couples needing support in deciding whether or not to stay together.
I provide a safe therapeutic environment with a focus on developing life long skills. I view therapy as a collaborative process. Together, we will formulate your goals and strive towards greater self-acceptance. We will identify strengths and resiliency to support growth. Let's work in collaboration with a kind curiosity on this journey of self-discovery. I work with couples to rediscover closeness and reduce conflict in the relationship through Imago Relationship Therapy. I also offer Discernment Counseling for couples needing support in deciding whether or not to stay together.
"Do you feel stuck, disconnected, or unable to maintain fulfilling relationships? Are you exhausted from trying to make things better on your own? When life feels overwhelming, it’s hard to believe things can improve—but they can. You have the power to change and move toward the life you want. In therapy, we’ll confront the challenges holding you back and equip you with practical skills and coping strategies to enhance your everyday life. My therapeutic approach is tailored to your needs.
"Do you feel stuck, disconnected, or unable to maintain fulfilling relationships? Are you exhausted from trying to make things better on your own? When life feels overwhelming, it’s hard to believe things can improve—but they can. You have the power to change and move toward the life you want. In therapy, we’ll confront the challenges holding you back and equip you with practical skills and coping strategies to enhance your everyday life. My therapeutic approach is tailored to your needs.
Dr. Courtnay Meletta Holistic + Somatic Therapy
Licensed Professional Clinical Counselor, PhD, LPCC, LMHC
Verified Verified
Santa Monica, CA 90402
Are you seeking a profound shift in your life? My practice is centered around guiding individuals who crave alignment, joy, and a deeper sense of purpose. Through a humanistic and spiritual lens, I help you navigate life’s challenges, healing past traumas, and rediscovering your authentic self.
Are you seeking a profound shift in your life? My practice is centered around guiding individuals who crave alignment, joy, and a deeper sense of purpose. Through a humanistic and spiritual lens, I help you navigate life’s challenges, healing past traumas, and rediscovering your authentic self.
Bernadet Yaghobian
Marriage & Family Therapist, MA, LMFT
Verified Verified
Santa Monica, CA 90401 (Online Only)
As an individual, you have a great capacity for creativity, decision-making, and imagination. However, past experiences may have caused emotional pain and hindered your ability to connect with others, find peace in everyday life, and move forward. These experiences still affect your present challenges, but you are motivated to address and heal your wounds. By changing the way you view your life's story, you hope to feel safe, heard, and increase your self-esteem and confidence.
As an individual, you have a great capacity for creativity, decision-making, and imagination. However, past experiences may have caused emotional pain and hindered your ability to connect with others, find peace in everyday life, and move forward. These experiences still affect your present challenges, but you are motivated to address and heal your wounds. By changing the way you view your life's story, you hope to feel safe, heard, and increase your self-esteem and confidence.
The Mindful Lemon
Marriage & Family Therapist, MA, LMFT
Verified Verified
Santa Monica, CA 90401 (Online Only)
Our mission is to provide quality online mental health and substance abuse services while breaking down the barriers of traditional, office based therapy. Traditional mental health and substance abuse treatment tends to focus on what makes you sick, what you are lacking but at The Mindful Lemon, our clinicians let you sit in the driver’s seat, focusing on your strengths and assets to help you become the best version of you! This can be via traditional talk therapy, medication management, mindfulness techniques, an emphasis on health, wellness and fitness or any combination of the above.
Our mission is to provide quality online mental health and substance abuse services while breaking down the barriers of traditional, office based therapy. Traditional mental health and substance abuse treatment tends to focus on what makes you sick, what you are lacking but at The Mindful Lemon, our clinicians let you sit in the driver’s seat, focusing on your strengths and assets to help you become the best version of you! This can be via traditional talk therapy, medication management, mindfulness techniques, an emphasis on health, wellness and fitness or any combination of the above.
Ryan Beatty
Marriage & Family Therapist, MS, LMFT
Verified Verified
3 Endorsed
Santa Monica, CA 90403
This is about you, your life, your relationships, and what is important to you. We can enhance your life, and I am honored to partake in that process. We all are bound by certain factors out of our control, our genes, our parents, upbringing etc. However, amid that construct, we can choose to be who we want to, and I can help with that endeavor. I love therapy, and I love being a therapist. I'm inspired by anyone who wants to change some aspect of themselves or their life.
This is about you, your life, your relationships, and what is important to you. We can enhance your life, and I am honored to partake in that process. We all are bound by certain factors out of our control, our genes, our parents, upbringing etc. However, amid that construct, we can choose to be who we want to, and I can help with that endeavor. I love therapy, and I love being a therapist. I'm inspired by anyone who wants to change some aspect of themselves or their life.
Anastasia Ford
Clinical Social Work/Therapist, LCSW
Verified Verified
4 Endorsed
Santa Monica, CA 90401 (Online Only)
I’m so happy you’re here. Over the last eight years, I’ve had the privilege of working with many teens and young adults as they navigate stressors, life transitions and establish a greater sense of self and identity. We'll work together to explore and identify the tools for reframing unhelpful thought patterns and behaviors negatively impacting your life as well as realign with your sense of self and purpose.
I’m so happy you’re here. Over the last eight years, I’ve had the privilege of working with many teens and young adults as they navigate stressors, life transitions and establish a greater sense of self and identity. We'll work together to explore and identify the tools for reframing unhelpful thought patterns and behaviors negatively impacting your life as well as realign with your sense of self and purpose.
Ceci Frost
Marriage & Family Therapist Associate, AMFT
Verified Verified
2 Endorsed
Santa Monica, CA 90401
I concentrate on three main areas: grief, pre-marital/couples, and life transitions. Are you finding it hard to cope with your grief, trying to navigate through this new chapter of your life? The ache for your loved one is profound, leaving you uncertain about how to move forward. In your quest for comfort and understanding, you might be turning to the internet for guidance. Instead of endlessly scrolling, let’s take a moment to process these feelings together, step by step, as we seek healing, hope, and wholeness. I lost my mom as a teenager and my dad in adulthood—two distinct experiences, each with its own unique relationship.
I concentrate on three main areas: grief, pre-marital/couples, and life transitions. Are you finding it hard to cope with your grief, trying to navigate through this new chapter of your life? The ache for your loved one is profound, leaving you uncertain about how to move forward. In your quest for comfort and understanding, you might be turning to the internet for guidance. Instead of endlessly scrolling, let’s take a moment to process these feelings together, step by step, as we seek healing, hope, and wholeness. I lost my mom as a teenager and my dad in adulthood—two distinct experiences, each with its own unique relationship.
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Kelsi Elizabeth Dahn
Marriage & Family Therapist Associate, MA, AMFT, APCC
Verified Verified
Santa Monica, CA 90401 (Online Only)
Tired of waking up staring out into the abyss staring back at you? Being a human is hard, no matter how you go about it, and trying to make meaning out of the chaos can be overwhelming. I support my clients to align their lives with their most Authentic Self, while collaboratively honoring and transforming anxiety, depression, trauma, addiction, and other feelings or behaviors that seem out of balance with everyday life. I believe that coming from a place of authenticity opens the door to a wider range of possibilities for your life's path, and makes interpersonal relationships along the journey better and more fulfilling.
Tired of waking up staring out into the abyss staring back at you? Being a human is hard, no matter how you go about it, and trying to make meaning out of the chaos can be overwhelming. I support my clients to align their lives with their most Authentic Self, while collaboratively honoring and transforming anxiety, depression, trauma, addiction, and other feelings or behaviors that seem out of balance with everyday life. I believe that coming from a place of authenticity opens the door to a wider range of possibilities for your life's path, and makes interpersonal relationships along the journey better and more fulfilling.
Salonia Singh and Associates: Relational Therapy
Marriage & Family Therapist, MA, LMFT
Verified Verified
3 Endorsed
Santa Monica, CA 90401
Relationships are at the center of all our lives, whether this is the relationship you have with yourself or others. If you are experiencing self-esteem issues, going through a difficult break up, having difficulty in dating, making friends, or experiencing issues in your intimate relationships, therapy can help. We believe therapy can be a great place to both unlearn unhealthy patterns of relating with your world as well as develop new insights and foster positive relational change. The approach to our work will be relational, holistic, and culturally sensitive.
Relationships are at the center of all our lives, whether this is the relationship you have with yourself or others. If you are experiencing self-esteem issues, going through a difficult break up, having difficulty in dating, making friends, or experiencing issues in your intimate relationships, therapy can help. We believe therapy can be a great place to both unlearn unhealthy patterns of relating with your world as well as develop new insights and foster positive relational change. The approach to our work will be relational, holistic, and culturally sensitive.
My passion is helping you make choices: the choice of how you want to view yourself and the type of life you want to lead. Working together as hardy co-explorers, we will probe where you are in life, where you want to go and how best to get you there. You are the captain of your fate and the master of your soul; my goal is to provide you with a space in which you are free to understand and embrace yourself as captain and master, empowering you to make healthier life choices.
My passion is helping you make choices: the choice of how you want to view yourself and the type of life you want to lead. Working together as hardy co-explorers, we will probe where you are in life, where you want to go and how best to get you there. You are the captain of your fate and the master of your soul; my goal is to provide you with a space in which you are free to understand and embrace yourself as captain and master, empowering you to make healthier life choices.
Lily Robertson
Marriage & Family Therapist, MA, LMFT
Verified Verified
2 Endorsed
Santa Monica, CA 90404 (Online Only)
Trauma leaves us feeling broken and disconnected from who we truly are. You may be fed up with feeling lonely, worthless, or even unlovable. You may not even remember a time things didn’t feel this way. But one thing is for certain: you’re ready for some relief. You’re ready to begin understanding the root of these feelings. You’re ready to cultivate deeper self-trust and authenticity. Most of all, you’re ready to return home to yourself.
Trauma leaves us feeling broken and disconnected from who we truly are. You may be fed up with feeling lonely, worthless, or even unlovable. You may not even remember a time things didn’t feel this way. But one thing is for certain: you’re ready for some relief. You’re ready to begin understanding the root of these feelings. You’re ready to cultivate deeper self-trust and authenticity. Most of all, you’re ready to return home to yourself.
Jessica Hinojosa
Marriage & Family Therapist, LMFT
Verified Verified
1 Endorsed
Santa Monica, CA 90401 (Online Only)
I help women overcome negative thought patterns to regain control of their lives. I help empower women to feel confident and healed. I provide a safe, calm, and positive environment.
I help women overcome negative thought patterns to regain control of their lives. I help empower women to feel confident and healed. I provide a safe, calm, and positive environment.
David Andreone
Marriage & Family Therapist Associate, MA, AMFT
Verified Verified
3 Endorsed
Santa Monica, CA 90404
Here’s the bottomline: every day is a gift. Your days shouldn't be defined by anxiety and depression, but by energy, passion and joy. I help you get there. I'll help you change unproductive, self-limiting habits by focusing on "whole person care”, focusing on ALL the spokes of your proverbial wheel (Emotional, Mental, Spiritual, Exercise, Nutrition, Sleep). When psychotherapy is approached with these elements in mind, you can reduce anxiety and depression, and reach your fullest mental & emotional fitness. Yes, it takes work, but the return-on-investment can be quick, profound & life-changing. Let's start the process together.
Here’s the bottomline: every day is a gift. Your days shouldn't be defined by anxiety and depression, but by energy, passion and joy. I help you get there. I'll help you change unproductive, self-limiting habits by focusing on "whole person care”, focusing on ALL the spokes of your proverbial wheel (Emotional, Mental, Spiritual, Exercise, Nutrition, Sleep). When psychotherapy is approached with these elements in mind, you can reduce anxiety and depression, and reach your fullest mental & emotional fitness. Yes, it takes work, but the return-on-investment can be quick, profound & life-changing. Let's start the process together.
Margy McCallum
Marriage & Family Therapist Associate, MA, AMFT
Verified Verified
6 Endorsed
Santa Monica, CA 90405 (Online Only)
I see each client as a whole person, not just a diagnosis. Whether you're a teen navigating the complexities of relationships, body image, or anxiety, a couple seeking deeper connection and understanding, or a person wanting to improve self-compassion and overcome perfectionism, I tailor therapy to your unique experiences and goals. My approach is neurodivergent-affirming, client-centered, and rooted in mindfulness and self-compassion, always with an awareness of the mind-body connection. Together, we’ll break through old patterns, nurture your most authentic self, and create a life that feels balanced, connected, and meaningful.
I see each client as a whole person, not just a diagnosis. Whether you're a teen navigating the complexities of relationships, body image, or anxiety, a couple seeking deeper connection and understanding, or a person wanting to improve self-compassion and overcome perfectionism, I tailor therapy to your unique experiences and goals. My approach is neurodivergent-affirming, client-centered, and rooted in mindfulness and self-compassion, always with an awareness of the mind-body connection. Together, we’ll break through old patterns, nurture your most authentic self, and create a life that feels balanced, connected, and meaningful.
Philip William David
Marriage & Family Therapist, LMFT
Verified Verified
1 Endorsed
Santa Monica, CA 90401 (Online Only)
Born with an artistic temperament, I spent several decades toiling in the entertainment industry before shifting into the practice of therapy. Life experience has given me a deep understanding of what it takes to be an artist, how hard it is to survive in a creative field, and has given me a unique ability to delve into a client’s creative process. Artists tend to posses unique personal qualities, share similar struggles, and I specialize in both. This niche has also given me insight into highly sensitive people of all kinds.
Born with an artistic temperament, I spent several decades toiling in the entertainment industry before shifting into the practice of therapy. Life experience has given me a deep understanding of what it takes to be an artist, how hard it is to survive in a creative field, and has given me a unique ability to delve into a client’s creative process. Artists tend to posses unique personal qualities, share similar struggles, and I specialize in both. This niche has also given me insight into highly sensitive people of all kinds.
Life gets hard at times with increasing demands and a finite amount of resources. As creatures of habit, we tend to get stuck in what seems like a never-ending cycle. My clients come to me with a desire for REAL change. They may be managing long-standing mental health problems and/or new and chronic medical conditions. They also seek to improve their relationships and find out what makes their life worth living. In the end, my clients appreciate introspection and understanding the past, but believe that actual concrete change is needed.
Life gets hard at times with increasing demands and a finite amount of resources. As creatures of habit, we tend to get stuck in what seems like a never-ending cycle. My clients come to me with a desire for REAL change. They may be managing long-standing mental health problems and/or new and chronic medical conditions. They also seek to improve their relationships and find out what makes their life worth living. In the end, my clients appreciate introspection and understanding the past, but believe that actual concrete change is needed.
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