Humanistic Therapists in Tarzana, CA
Lluvia Mayorquin Autism And Disability Specialist
Pre-Licensed Professional, MA
Verified Verified
2 Endorsed
Tarzana, CA 91356
I am a neurodivergent Mexican- American Bilingual therapist. I strive to make therapy a judgement free place for honest self- exploration and growth. My specialties include working with Spanish Speaking Families, Autistic individuals, individuals living with chronic illness, OCD, and grief. I use a person-centered humanistic and trauma informed approach when helping clients process presenting issues. Currently I am seeing clients remotely.
I am a neurodivergent Mexican- American Bilingual therapist. I strive to make therapy a judgement free place for honest self- exploration and growth. My specialties include working with Spanish Speaking Families, Autistic individuals, individuals living with chronic illness, OCD, and grief. I use a person-centered humanistic and trauma informed approach when helping clients process presenting issues. Currently I am seeing clients remotely.
Nicole Rabiezadeh
Marriage & Family Therapist, MA, LMFT
Verified Verified
Tarzana, CA 91356 (Online Only)
I have always had a curiosity for human development and how our experiences shape us into who we are today. My empathetic drive to understand and help people brought me to psychotherapy at a young age. I received my Master's in Clinical Psychology with an Emphasis in Marriage and Family Therapy From Pepperdine Graduate School of Education and Psychology. I currently work predominantly with young adults, families, teens and children wanting to figure out why they feel "stuck” or how to help themselves overcome anxiety, depression, grief, familial issues, and other interpersonal challenges. I offer CBT with a solution-oriented push.
I have always had a curiosity for human development and how our experiences shape us into who we are today. My empathetic drive to understand and help people brought me to psychotherapy at a young age. I received my Master's in Clinical Psychology with an Emphasis in Marriage and Family Therapy From Pepperdine Graduate School of Education and Psychology. I currently work predominantly with young adults, families, teens and children wanting to figure out why they feel "stuck” or how to help themselves overcome anxiety, depression, grief, familial issues, and other interpersonal challenges. I offer CBT with a solution-oriented push.
Margaret Wallace
Marriage & Family Therapist, LMFT
Verified Verified
Tarzana, CA 91356 (Online Only)
I specialize in treating individuals who suffer from chronic, persistent depression or difficulty regulating emotions, and find themselves using substance abuse or other unhealthy behaviors to manage their symptoms. I join with my clients to uncover what is maintaining those unhealthy patterns and learn new skills to cope. I also work with clients to identify how developmental trauma from childhood influences their coping style, and help them develop self-compassion and acceptance as a part of healing.
I specialize in treating individuals who suffer from chronic, persistent depression or difficulty regulating emotions, and find themselves using substance abuse or other unhealthy behaviors to manage their symptoms. I join with my clients to uncover what is maintaining those unhealthy patterns and learn new skills to cope. I also work with clients to identify how developmental trauma from childhood influences their coping style, and help them develop self-compassion and acceptance as a part of healing.
Cathia N. Chalvardjian, MA, LMFT
Marriage & Family Therapist, MA, LMFT
Verified Verified
Tarzana, CA 91356
As a practical, interactive, therapist, my treatment approach is to provide support and practical feedback to help clients resolve current problems and long-standing patterns. With sensitivity and compassion, I help clients find solutions to a wide range of life challenges and psychological issues. Blending conventional and alternative approaches, I draw on a variety of styles and techniques to incorporate what will be most helpful for each client. I work with each client individually or as a family to help them build on their strengths in order to identify and achieve their life goals.
As a practical, interactive, therapist, my treatment approach is to provide support and practical feedback to help clients resolve current problems and long-standing patterns. With sensitivity and compassion, I help clients find solutions to a wide range of life challenges and psychological issues. Blending conventional and alternative approaches, I draw on a variety of styles and techniques to incorporate what will be most helpful for each client. I work with each client individually or as a family to help them build on their strengths in order to identify and achieve their life goals.
I am a Mexican-American, Spanish-speaking therapist. I specialize in working with teens and adults who are experiencing symptoms of anxiety and depression. I consider culture as an integral part of who we are and take pride in being mindful, compassionate, and respectful in considering one’s cultural background. Knowing how difficult it is to ask for help when struggling with life’s issues, I strive to provide a safe, non-judgmental environment where I can work alongside my clients, helping to minimize feelings of guilt, shame, and hopelessness so that individuals can process their stories and past trauma.
I am a Mexican-American, Spanish-speaking therapist. I specialize in working with teens and adults who are experiencing symptoms of anxiety and depression. I consider culture as an integral part of who we are and take pride in being mindful, compassionate, and respectful in considering one’s cultural background. Knowing how difficult it is to ask for help when struggling with life’s issues, I strive to provide a safe, non-judgmental environment where I can work alongside my clients, helping to minimize feelings of guilt, shame, and hopelessness so that individuals can process their stories and past trauma.
I received B.A in Psychology from the University of Judaism and earned my M.A. in Clinical Psychology with an emphasis in Marriage and Family Therapy from Pepperdine University. I also have an associate degree in early childhood education and I am a certified professional life coach. My experience in education includes being a preschool teacher as well as preschool director at Page Private School and director of middle school admissions at Milken Community High School. Currently I have a life coaching practice where I work with parents, teens and young adults guiding and providing them with real life tools to find balance.
I received B.A in Psychology from the University of Judaism and earned my M.A. in Clinical Psychology with an emphasis in Marriage and Family Therapy from Pepperdine University. I also have an associate degree in early childhood education and I am a certified professional life coach. My experience in education includes being a preschool teacher as well as preschool director at Page Private School and director of middle school admissions at Milken Community High School. Currently I have a life coaching practice where I work with parents, teens and young adults guiding and providing them with real life tools to find balance.
Nikki Rosenson
Marriage & Family Therapist Associate, MA, AMFT
Verified Verified
1 Endorsed
Tarzana, CA 91356
My approach values each person’s lived experience, the messiness of life, and the deep well of strength that resides within each of us. I meet clients where they are and tailor sessions, using an integrative approach.
My approach values each person’s lived experience, the messiness of life, and the deep well of strength that resides within each of us. I meet clients where they are and tailor sessions, using an integrative approach.
I provide a safe and comfortable place for you to share your concerns, fears, and goals. I work with individuals, groups, and families on a wide range of issues ranging from relationship conflicts to anxiety, depression, and major life changes. I do a lot of work with people dealing with chronic illnesses, particularly Type I diabetes. I have a diverse background working in a hospital setting, school, and with domestic violence, gang intervention, high-risk children, and individuals with disabilities.
I provide a safe and comfortable place for you to share your concerns, fears, and goals. I work with individuals, groups, and families on a wide range of issues ranging from relationship conflicts to anxiety, depression, and major life changes. I do a lot of work with people dealing with chronic illnesses, particularly Type I diabetes. I have a diverse background working in a hospital setting, school, and with domestic violence, gang intervention, high-risk children, and individuals with disabilities.
West Valley Counseling Center
Marriage & Family Therapist, PhD, MFT
Verified Verified
Tarzana, CA 91356
West Valley Counseling Center (WVCC) offers a wide range of therapeutic interventions and services to bring affordable mental health services to the San Fernando Valley. WVCC is a non-profit community mental health center that has been serving the Greater Los Angeles region for well over a decade. Our qualified therapists work with individuals, relationships, traditional families, and non-traditional families to help ease life's burdens and to provide specialty services.
West Valley Counseling Center (WVCC) offers a wide range of therapeutic interventions and services to bring affordable mental health services to the San Fernando Valley. WVCC is a non-profit community mental health center that has been serving the Greater Los Angeles region for well over a decade. Our qualified therapists work with individuals, relationships, traditional families, and non-traditional families to help ease life's burdens and to provide specialty services.
Vicki Botnick
Marriage & Family Therapist, MA, MS, LMFT
Verified Verified
3 Endorsed
Tarzana, CA 91356
The most direct route to feeling better (higher self-esteem, less sadness and worry, compassion for yourself and those around you, and freedom from shame) is through knowing yourself in a deeper, more profound way. If you're looking for relief from depression and anxiety, or hoping to build more loving relationships, we can find that in an atmosphere that's sometimes warm, sometimes intense, and sometimes lighthearted. We'll look at both your past, to see the forces that have shaped who you are, and at your present to see which choices are working and which are getting in your way.
The most direct route to feeling better (higher self-esteem, less sadness and worry, compassion for yourself and those around you, and freedom from shame) is through knowing yourself in a deeper, more profound way. If you're looking for relief from depression and anxiety, or hoping to build more loving relationships, we can find that in an atmosphere that's sometimes warm, sometimes intense, and sometimes lighthearted. We'll look at both your past, to see the forces that have shaped who you are, and at your present to see which choices are working and which are getting in your way.
Daria Zielinska
Marriage & Family Therapist, MA, MFT
Verified Verified
Tarzana, CA 91356 (Online Only)
Once Self-Discovery has taken place, through a process of inner work, the goal is to become an authentic, conscientious, and self-aware individual which leads to more positive behavior and breaking the cycle of habitually negative results. You'll be able to address issues involving communication with others, personality disorders, intimacy issues, parenting challenges, and spiritual experiences.
Once Self-Discovery has taken place, through a process of inner work, the goal is to become an authentic, conscientious, and self-aware individual which leads to more positive behavior and breaking the cycle of habitually negative results. You'll be able to address issues involving communication with others, personality disorders, intimacy issues, parenting challenges, and spiritual experiences.
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Marriage & Family Therapist, LMFT, ATR
Verified Verified
1 Endorsed
Tarzana, CA 91356
Would you like to deal with life's stresses effectively? Are you struggling with uncomfortable feelings such as sadness, anger, fear, worry, anxiety, jealousy, guilt? Would you like to improve family relationships, raise healthy, happy and confident children even in challenging situations? Do you need marital/ premarital counseling? Do you want to improve self-esteem & achieve personal growth? With my deep understanding of emotions and compassionate approach, I will create a safe place to explore your emotions and identify which ones you can rely on as a guide to your needs and which ones are no longer helpful & need to be changed.
Would you like to deal with life's stresses effectively? Are you struggling with uncomfortable feelings such as sadness, anger, fear, worry, anxiety, jealousy, guilt? Would you like to improve family relationships, raise healthy, happy and confident children even in challenging situations? Do you need marital/ premarital counseling? Do you want to improve self-esteem & achieve personal growth? With my deep understanding of emotions and compassionate approach, I will create a safe place to explore your emotions and identify which ones you can rely on as a guide to your needs and which ones are no longer helpful & need to be changed.
The clients which I feel very adept at working with effectively could be presenting any number of issues that haunt couples, children, adolescents, and individuals. These concern developmental, emotional, relational, and social topics.
The clients which I feel very adept at working with effectively could be presenting any number of issues that haunt couples, children, adolescents, and individuals. These concern developmental, emotional, relational, and social topics.
Angelina Aliav
Marriage & Family Therapist, MA, LMFT
Verified Verified
3 Endorsed
Tarzana, CA 91356 (Online Only)
Are you yearning to propel forward in life, but feel stuck and can't seem to get unstuck? Maybe your marriage is unfulfilling, or you're feeling like an outsider among peers; perhaps your career is taking more from you than it's giving back, or you're not excited about life like you once were. Maybe you're asking yourself: how did I get here? Feeling unfulfilled in our lives can lead to unhealthy habits, and overtime, result in depression, anxiety, and interpersonal conflict. The worst part about feeling unfulfilled and stuck is that it causes us to feel more stuck, creating a downward spiral.
Are you yearning to propel forward in life, but feel stuck and can't seem to get unstuck? Maybe your marriage is unfulfilling, or you're feeling like an outsider among peers; perhaps your career is taking more from you than it's giving back, or you're not excited about life like you once were. Maybe you're asking yourself: how did I get here? Feeling unfulfilled in our lives can lead to unhealthy habits, and overtime, result in depression, anxiety, and interpersonal conflict. The worst part about feeling unfulfilled and stuck is that it causes us to feel more stuck, creating a downward spiral.
Claudia Eskenazi, PhD, LMFT, ATR-BC
Marriage & Family Therapist, PhD, PsyD, LMFT, ATR-BC
Verified Verified
Tarzana, CA 91356
Perhaps you or somebody you love is feeling overwhelmed - struggling with a relationship, job, school, or with a child that is in pain. Such problems can repeat themselves indefinitely until they are addressed with meaningful treatment. I have decades of experience helping people in need throughout the Los Angeles area. I can help you understand and change patterns of behavior that have caused you, your family or your child disruption and pain.
Perhaps you or somebody you love is feeling overwhelmed - struggling with a relationship, job, school, or with a child that is in pain. Such problems can repeat themselves indefinitely until they are addressed with meaningful treatment. I have decades of experience helping people in need throughout the Los Angeles area. I can help you understand and change patterns of behavior that have caused you, your family or your child disruption and pain.
Gina Louhisdon Guerrero
Marriage & Family Therapist, MA, LMFT
Verified Verified
1 Endorsed
Tarzana, CA 91335 (Online Only)
Everybody has problems, right? Why go to a therapist? Well, you probably don't realize that unsolved problems in life affect your earnings, personal relationships, and even your health. In fact, the smallest stressors in life tend to have the biggest impact. I will address your issues in a thoughtful and empathic manner.I am a Licensed Marriage & Family Therapist who has extensive experience providing individual and couples psychotherapy. I specialize in working with adults and interracial, interfaith and LGBT couples.
Everybody has problems, right? Why go to a therapist? Well, you probably don't realize that unsolved problems in life affect your earnings, personal relationships, and even your health. In fact, the smallest stressors in life tend to have the biggest impact. I will address your issues in a thoughtful and empathic manner.I am a Licensed Marriage & Family Therapist who has extensive experience providing individual and couples psychotherapy. I specialize in working with adults and interracial, interfaith and LGBT couples.
I believe we all have the capacity to change. My relationships with each of my clients are special and we work together to discover what they want and how to go about achieving that goal.
I believe we all have the capacity to change. My relationships with each of my clients are special and we work together to discover what they want and how to go about achieving that goal.
Liz Nordenholt
Marriage & Family Therapist Associate, MA
Verified Verified
4 Endorsed
Tarzana, CA 91356 (Online Only)
I am a trauma informed therapist who works from an intersectional lens to support my clients, especially those who have traditionally been misunderstood by the mental healthcare system. I work with clients who have experienced trauma, are undergoing major life changes, and who are exploring their identity and goals. I specialize in working with queer and non-monogamous clients and am affirming of kink and sex work. I also have unique experience working with religious and spiritual abuse, asexuality, those questioning their religious beliefs, neurodiversity, burnout, and self identified "former gifted kids."
I am a trauma informed therapist who works from an intersectional lens to support my clients, especially those who have traditionally been misunderstood by the mental healthcare system. I work with clients who have experienced trauma, are undergoing major life changes, and who are exploring their identity and goals. I specialize in working with queer and non-monogamous clients and am affirming of kink and sex work. I also have unique experience working with religious and spiritual abuse, asexuality, those questioning their religious beliefs, neurodiversity, burnout, and self identified "former gifted kids."
We are each born with the capacity to live a full, joyous and productive life. Through the natural events of our less than perfect world, this capacity is diminished. In some way we know that this is possible and at the same time realize that we are limited. The area of limitation may be in our relationship to ourselves - somehow being unable to experience compassion or appreciation for our own beings. These limitations create pain and unnecessary suffering. Just as we have the capacity for living full and productive lives, I believe that we all have the capacity for healing.
We are each born with the capacity to live a full, joyous and productive life. Through the natural events of our less than perfect world, this capacity is diminished. In some way we know that this is possible and at the same time realize that we are limited. The area of limitation may be in our relationship to ourselves - somehow being unable to experience compassion or appreciation for our own beings. These limitations create pain and unnecessary suffering. Just as we have the capacity for living full and productive lives, I believe that we all have the capacity for healing.
I'm a holistic psychotherapist , with training in mind body modalities. I practice a unique blend of psychodynamic therapy combined with somatic modalities such as sensorymotor psychotherapy Sessions are individually crafted to fit each individual's needs at the moment of seeking help while relaying not only on cognitive restructuring and and uncovering unconscious emotions but also draws from the natural intelligence of the body and the most recent neuroscience, in order to heal past traumas , undo maladaptive patterns and create an empowered and fulfilling life. I am engaged and active during sessions and a partner on your road towards health and vitality.
I'm a holistic psychotherapist , with training in mind body modalities. I practice a unique blend of psychodynamic therapy combined with somatic modalities such as sensorymotor psychotherapy Sessions are individually crafted to fit each individual's needs at the moment of seeking help while relaying not only on cognitive restructuring and and uncovering unconscious emotions but also draws from the natural intelligence of the body and the most recent neuroscience, in order to heal past traumas , undo maladaptive patterns and create an empowered and fulfilling life. I am engaged and active during sessions and a partner on your road towards health and vitality.
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Humanistic Therapists
How does humanistic therapy work?
One tenet of humanistic therapy is that people are good. The humanistic approach is concerned with a person’s ability to accept oneself. It likewise encourages a person to overcome self-criticism and self-defeating tendencies, as well as disapproval from others. This approach also emphasizes self-actualization and treating an individual as a whole person. A foundation of this therapy type: The patient is the expert in their life, and treatment often takes the individual’s lead.
Is humanistic therapy evidence-based?
Humanistic therapy is an evidence-based practice. Research has found that humanistic therapy can lead to significant improvement, and for some people it can be just as effective as other therapies, such as Cognitive behavioral therapy. The benefits of humanistic therapy are enduring.
How long does humanistic therapy last?
The goal of humanistic therapy is to understand a person’s day-to-day experiences. While sessions can be short-term and last over a few months, therapy can sometimes continue beyond that and last up to a year or more. And because patients learn the theory behind humanistic therapy during treatment, they can also practice its tenets throughout life after therapy sessions have been completed.
Is humanistic therapy effective?
According to research, many patients find success with humanistic therapy. Researchers note that the therapy is particularly useful in addressing poor self-esteem and self-sabotage, as well as improving conditions including anxiety and depression. Improvements in problem areas can be long standing, as individuals can continue working on themselves by using the tools they’ve learned during treatment.