California Verified Therapists

Viviana uses EMDR to help clients process painful experiences and rebuild a stronger sense of self-worth, offered in both EN or ES

Viviana specializes in trauma, PTSD, EMDR therapy, anxiety, grief, and loss. With advanced training in trauma-informed care and EMDR, she uses evidence-based approaches to help you process painful experiences, rebuild self-worth, and feel more grounded and in control of your life. También ofrezco servicios de terapia en español.

In-network: Anthem Blue Cross · Blue Shield of California · ComPsych

Rachelle draws on her own life experience to create a grounded, judgment-free space tailored to the subjects you are navigating.

Rachelle has life experience that gives her a foundation for psychotherapy and coaching. She believes it is important to provide counseling with a real-life understanding, and by providing a safe environment for exploration, your time is tailored to your needs.

Private pay. Superbill may be provided.

Dr. Jacobs helps clients work through relationship and identity struggles.

With extensive training in AEDP, EFT, Gestalt, and Modern Analytic group therapy, Dr. Jacobs specializes in helping those who face relationship issues, identity struggles, anxiety, and depression. She also carries a passion for working with creatives and the unique struggles they face.

Private pay. Superbill may be provided.

Ky blends somatic techniques with spiritually-inspired practices to help clients move past trauma and cultural pressure toward a more authentic life.

Ky [pronounced "key"] brings guidance rooted in both the human experience & spiritual wisdom. Having grown up in a working class immigrant family, she has a deep understanding of how traumatic life experiences and cultural pressures can inhibit us from living an authentic and purposeful life. She has a unique style with a blend of somatic techniques and spiritually-inspired practices (guided imagery, energy work, and Buddhist teachings).

Private pay. Superbill may be provided.

Marisa brings humor and cultural sensitivity to her work helping clients build self-esteem and untangle anxiety rooted in relationships.

Trained in IFS, ACT, CBT, and DBT, Marisa specializes in those seeking help for low self-esteem, anxiety, attachment concerns, and trauma related to relationships. With nearly a decade of clinical experience, she offers a trauma-informed and culturally sensitive approach blended with humor and creativity.

Private pay. Superbill may be provided.

Dr. Forni helps individuals and couples strengthen intimacy, communication, and connection in a sex-positive, kink-friendly space.

Dr. Forni is an AASECT-certified sex therapist and licensed marriage and family therapist specializing in helping individuals and couples navigate challenges related to intimacy, sexuality, and relationships. He focuses on strengthening emotional and sexual connection, improving communication, and developing healthier relationship dynamics. His practice is sex-positive, trauma-informed, and kink-friendly.

Private pay. Superbill may be provided.

Lindsey offers a relational, humanistic approach for trauma and life transitions, with an especially warm space for fellow therapists and queer and trans clients.

Lindsey is an LMFT taking a relational and humanistic—grounded approach to work with individuals, couples, and families navigating trauma, anxiety, depression, and major life transitions. She also supports fellow therapists and healthcare professionals, and provides an affirming space for queer, gay, and trans individuals.

Private pay. Superbill may be provided. Limited sliding scale.

Elizabeth supports intersectional identities, holding space for areas such as culture, race, and gender with compassion — including support for neurodivergent needs.

Since 2002, Elizabeth has worked within the field of psychology specializing in support for Black, brown, indigenous, queer and trans people who have traditionally needed access to resources and been denied. Elizabeth is passionate about helping individuals, families/couples achieve more connection, insight and awareness with direct, compassionate feedback to help with goal achievement and/or accommodations for neurodivergent needs.

Private pay. Superbill may be provided.

Justin specializes in gifted and twice-exceptional kids, with deep expertise supporting neurodivergent Black and African-American students and families.

With over 15 years of experience supporting K–12 students and their families, Justin's practice offers comprehensive psychoeducational evaluations — including IEEs and gifted testing — plus educational advocacy, parent coaching, and counseling. He draws on CBT alongside neurodiversity-affirming, culturally responsive, and strengths-based approaches, working collaboratively with each family.

Private pay. Superbill may be provided. Sliding scale available.

Nnamdi helps clients explore the roots of their emotions and core beliefs, building self-awareness one honest layer at a time.

Nnamdi utilizes a trauma-informed, strength-based, person-centered approach to explore the depths of the mind, body and spirit. Exploring the roots of our emotions, uncovering and revealing the core beliefs, thoughts and feelings, Nnamdi will empower you through self-awareness and self-determination.

Private pay. Superbill may be provided.

Yu-Chi helps clients navigating cross-cultural stress find structure and confidence in a compassionate, culturally attuned space.

As a therapist who understands both culture and communication, Yu Chi 郁琦 specializes in helping clients who face cross-cultural stress by providing structure, compassion, and a safe space to grow. Using behavior intervention, Client-Centered Play Therapy, and unconditional positive regard, Yu Chi aims to help clients improve regulation, reduce distress, and build confidence.

Private pay. Superbill may be provided.

Collaboration is at the center of Brigitte's work, and she understands it takes a village to raise a confident, thriving child.

Parents, caregivers, teachers, and other key figures in a child’s life are active partners in the therapeutic process, and together, Brigette will help to empower your child to develop a strong sense of self and equip you with tools to nurture their unique needs.

Private pay. Superbill may be provided.

Misty's neuropsychological evaluations give neurodivergent kids and teens a clear, strengths-based picture of how they learn and think.

Misty is an educational neuropsychologist with advanced training in brain development and functioning. She specializes in working with neurodivergent children and teens — including those with Autism, ADHD, and learning disabilities — who also have complex mental health needs such as trauma, anxiety, and mood disorders. Her evaluations are always strength-based and neuro-informed, integrating both clinical and educational perspectives.

A former entertainment-industry professional himself, Samer brings bold, funny, direct coaching-meets-therapy to entrepreneurs, gay men, and creatives.

Samer is a gay Lebanese-American therapist and former entertainment industry professional who blends psychotherapy and coaching to help clients cultivate self-love, enhance relationships, and access their best selves. Described by clients as bold, direct, funny, and unconventional, he actively engages with clients to create meaningful change. His practice focuses on entrepreneurs, entertainment professionals, gay men, and couples.

Private pay. Superbill may be provided.

Jessica supports women through hormonal changes, infertility, and family planning, and helps couples rebuild trust with Gottman-informed care.

Jessica is training to specialize in perinatal mental health and works in couples therapy, addressing a range of women's health issues from managing cycle and hormonal changes, to individuals navigating infertility and family planning. For couples, she focuses on improving trust, emotional safety, and communication using Gottman-informed approaches.

Private pay. Superbill may be provided.

With 20+ years in adoption and foster care work, Jeanette helps families navigate attachment, identity, and the complex trauma that can come with early loss.

Jeanette specializes in children, adolescents, and families impacted by adoption, foster care, and early relational trauma including attachment disruptions, grief and loss, identity development, and complex trauma. She is also the founder of Celia Center, a non-profit supporting all members of the adoption constellation.

Private pay. Superbill may be provided.

Cibele helps clients reconnect body and mind, drawing on trauma release and resilience-building techniques to achieve change and personal growth.

Cibele has done work in family preservation, conflict couples, and chronic illness using various techniques such as Trauma Release Exercise NeuroAffective, SMART Recovery, Reconnect Integrative Trauma Treatment Model, and Resilience Toolkit.

Private pay. Superbill may be provided.

Kim helps anxious adults understand their attachment patterns — anxious or avoidant — so dating and relationships stop feeling like guesswork.

Kim is a licensed therapist with 10 years of experience helping anxious adults navigate dating, relationships, attachment patterns, and trauma. She works from an attachment-focused lens rooted in advanced training in Emotionally Focused Therapy (EFT) and is fully trained in EMDR. She works with individuals and couples experiencing anxious or avoidant attachment, breakups, communication struggles, and generalized anxiety.

Private pay · Credit card & HSA accepted

Samantha holds compassionate space to support adults in their 20s–40s move through grief, trauma, and chronic pain.

Samantha is a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist specializing in grief, trauma, chronic pain, and relationship issues. She holds an advanced Certified Advanced Grief Counseling Specialist (CAGCS) credential and is certified in Trauma-Focused CBT. She primarily works with adults in their 20s–40s, offering compassionate, client-centered care.

In-network: United Healthcare · Aetna (via Alma) · Modern Health EAP
Private pay available via IvyPay

Brad helps clients navigate anger, emotional dysregulation, and life transitions with a direct, results-oriented approach.

Brad specializes in anger management, emotional dysregulation, and life transitions for adolescents, adults, and families in San Francisco. His direct, results-oriented approach draws on CBT, Family Systems, and Solution-Focused Therapy to shift entrenched patterns and build practical skills. Former in-house therapist at Square/Block with experience across inpatient, juvenile justice, and college counseling settings.

Private pay. Superbill may be provided.

Jerrod coaches parents of neurodivergent kids to calm the nervous system first, breaking cycles of conflict with science-based, connection-first tools.

Jerrod is a BCBA and parent coach through his practice Parent From Love, he equips parents with science-based, connection-first tools that create lasting behavior change — available virtually throughout California.

As a first-generation Afghan-American, Tina brings personal insight to her Gottman-based work with interracial couples and blended families.

Tina is a first-generation Afghan-American woman with a passion for understanding human behavior and relationships. As an LMFT, Tina specializes in couples therapy using the Gottman Method and Attachment Theory, with particular expertise in interracial couples and blended family dynamics.

In-network: Aetna · Anthem · BCBS · Cigna · Optum · UHC

With 20+ years of experience, Theresa helps women move through every phase of life — from acute trauma to the quieter weight of accumulated stress.

Theresa is a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist and Licensed Professional Clinical Counselor with over 20 years of experience specializing in trauma and anxiety treatment. She primarily works with adult women navigating different phases of life — from acute trauma and PTSD to the quieter but no less real weight of life's transitions and accumulated stress.

In-network: Optum · Aetna · Partnership Health Plan

Dr. Bellomio treats both eating disorders and OCD, drawing on nearly 15 years of residential-level experience and the shared anxiety roots between the two.

Dr. Bellomio is a licensed psychologist with nearly 15 years specializing in eating disorders — including 10 years at a residential/PHP/IOP facility as clinician, supervisor, and assistant clinical director. She also specializes in OCD with ERP certification through IOCDF. She participates in ongoing consultation groups and trainings in this area, viewing eating disorders and OCD as meaningfully connected through their shared anxiety foundations.

In-network: Aetna · Anthem Blue Cross · Cigna

Dr. Muscat combines evidence-based therapy with psychedelic harm reduction and integration for clients undergoing ketamine treatment.

Dr. Muscat is a clinical psychologist offering evidence-based therapy in San Francisco for adults navigating anxiety, depression, and stress. She also specializes in psychedelic harm reduction and integration for clients undergoing ketamine treatment.

Private pay. Superbill may be provided.

As a single mom herself, Natalie brings lived experience to her perinatal and women's mental health work supporting motherhood and divorce.

With 12 years of experience, Natalie specializes in women's mental health and PSI-trained perinatal mental health care. She supports women navigating motherhood, divorce, and major life transitions.

Private pay. Superbill may be provided.

Kaitlin helps clients — including fellow therapists — move from overwhelmed and inauthentic states of being toward genuine connection.

As an LCSW, Kaitlin has 14 years of experience specializes in helping individuals, couples, and fellow therapists move from feeling overwhelmed or inauthentic to deeply connected and fulfilled. As a long-time disabled person with chronic illness, Kaitlin is also passionate about helping support others on their chronic illness journey and navigating medical trauma.

Private pay. Superbill may be provided.

Paul helps couples deepen intimacy across cultural differences, with particular passion for guiding men beyond restrictive ideas of masculinity.

Paul specializes in helping couples deepen intimacy and navigate multicultural dynamics. He is especially passionate about supporting men who want to move beyond restrictive masculinity narratives toward more authentic connection. His approach centers affirmation and curiosity—creating space for you to explore identity, heal from marginalization, and experience the freedom of being fully seen and accepted.

Private pay. Superbill may be provided.

A queer Latinx therapist, Dani supports LGBTQIA+ and BIPOC clients through grief, diagnosis, and reclaiming cultural identity.

Dani is a queer, Latinx therapist specializing in LGBTQIA+ & BIPOC mental health, grief, and life transitions. With a background in community mental health and cancer support settings, she supports clients through a variety of experiences such as loss, diagnosis, caregiver challenges, and the reclaiming of cultural identity.

Private pay. Superbill may be provided.

Anna works from an anti-oppressive lens to help clients through grief, loss, and life transitions with warmth and directness.

Anna is an LCSW and PACT Level 2 couples therapist with 9 years of experience. She specializes in grief, loss, and life transitions, and works with individuals and couples from an anti-oppressive, anti-racist stance. Known for warmth and directness, she creates space for clients to be fully and authentically themselves.

Private pay. Superbill may be provided.

With nearly 30 years of experience, Robyn helps individuals and couples navigate the grief and uncertainty of infertility and alternative paths to parenthood.

Robyn is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker with nearly 30 years of clinical experience, specializing in infertility and reproductive counseling. She works with individuals and couples navigating the emotional weight of infertility — the grief, the uncertainty, and the complex decisions involved in exploring alternative family building paths such as adoption, surrogacy, and assisted reproduction.

Private pay. Superbill may be provided.

With 20 years of clinical experience, Belen brings cultural sensitivity to supporting clients through trauma, displacement, and the immigration process.

Belen is a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist with 20 years of clinical experience, licensed in California since 2016. She has built a deeply specialized practice supporting individuals who are navigating the psychological toll of trauma, displacement, and the complexities of the immigration process. Her therapeutic work brings cultural sensitivity and a trauma-informed lens to every client she serves.

Private pay. Superbill may be provided.

Cristina conducts psychological evaluations for immigration cases while supporting children and adults through the mental health impact of displacement.

Cristina is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker with over 16 years of experience in community mental health. She specializes in trauma-informed care for individuals presenting with PTSD, depression, and complex psychiatric conditions, and has built extensive experience supporting both children and adults navigating the mental health impact of displacement and immigration. Her work with asylum seekers and immigrant families is particularly deep — she conducts psychological evaluations for children, adolescents, and adults involved in immigration proceedings, and understands the unique clinical and procedural demands these cases require.

Private pay. Superbill may be provided.

A trained priestess and Feminine Rites of Passage Facilitator, Camille helps clients move through life's milestones with ceremony rather than fear.

As a Filipina, queer, pansexual first-generation American, Camille brings over a decade of counseling, workshop facilitation, and mentorship experience to her practice and a deep personal understanding of navigating identity at the intersections of culture, race, and sexuality. Her clinical work is informed by the Gottman Method (Level 2 trained), Internal Family Systems (IFS), Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT), and attachment-based approaches. As a trained priestess and Certified Feminine Rites of Passage Facilitator, she also helps clients move through milestones — singlehood, engagement, childbirth, postpartum, motherhood — with intention and ceremony rather than fear or confusion.

In-network: Aetna · Anthem · BCBS · Cigna · Optum · TRICARE · UHC · Sliding scale

Will helps men embrace and express their emotions authentically, without shame or fear of judgment.

As a bisexual man with 17 years in practice, Will has a deep commitment to serving his community and specializes in helping men on their journeys of self-discovery and personal empowerment. He believes that true strength lies in the ability to embrace and express emotions authentically, without shame or fear of judgment, and provides a safe, compassionate, non-judgmental environment to feel seen, heard and supported to explore their truths.

In-network: Aetna · BCBS · Optum · UHC · Sliding scale

Drawing on her own lived experience, Beth supports the full arc of family-building — fertility stress, loss, postpartum, and parenting nobody warned you about.

Beth P. Siller is an LMFT specializing in the full arc of reproductive and family-building experiences: fertility stress, IVF, donor conception, pregnancy complications, loss at every stage, postpartum, matrescence, and the emotional weight of parenting that nobody warned you about. Beth works with individuals, couples, and parents across all family structures, including single mothers by choice, LGBTQ+ families, neurodivergent parents, and those whose paths to parenthood haven’t looked the way they expected. Her focus on perinatal mental health is rooted in lived personal experience.

Private pay. Superbill may be provided.

Maya offers a nonjudgmental space for neurodivergent relationships, ethical non-monogamy, and kink dynamics to work through conflict and build real connection.

Maya is a sex-positive, LGBTQIA+-affirming LMFT specializing in neurodivergent relationships, ethical non-monogamy, kink/BDSM, and D/S dynamics. Maya is known for helping couples navigate crises, negotiate relationship agreements, and break recurring cycles. She offers clients a genuinely nonjudgmental space to explore who they are and how they love. She understands the unique challenges that come with living outside mainstream relationship models — from negotiating agreements and managing jealousy to navigating social stigma and building authentic connection.

Private pay. Superbill may be provided.

Lauren brings mobile, wraparound therapy to individuals and families navigating substance use and high-acuity mental health challenges.

Lauren is an LCSW specializing in substance use treatment and wraparound services, with a focus on mobile therapy for individuals and families navigating behavioral and high-acuity mental health challenges. Her approach is warm, genuine, and flexible — she draws from IFS, EMDR, psychodynamic, narrative, mindfulness, and ACT to meet each client where they are.

Private pay. Superbill may be provided.

Lucy uses EMDR to help high-achieving women move past insight alone and finally shift the self-doubt and perfectionism that talk therapy hasn't touched.

Lucy Strand is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker and Master Life Coach with over 10 years of experience helping high-achieving, self-aware women shift the patterns that insight alone hasn't been able to change. She specializes in EMDR therapy for women who have already done a lot of self-reflection and may even understand why they feel or do what they do, yet still find themselves stuck in the same patterns — chronic self-doubt, imposter syndrome, people-pleasing, overthinking, perfectionism, anxiety, and never quite feeling "good enough." Her approach blends talk therapy with EMDR to go beyond insight and address the deeper beliefs, emotions, and experiences keeping these patterns in place. Lucy is warm, active, and supportive in her work — and will also gently challenge you when growth requires it. She works with women across California via telehealth, Monday through Thursday, 9 AM to 4 PM.

Private pay. Superbill may be provided.

Gabby helps long-term couples recover from infidelity and rebuild trust — with structure, depth, and humor.

As an AASECT Certified Sex Therapist and Gottman Level III trained couples therapist with 9 years of experience, Gabby specializes in infidelity recovery, sexual health, and helping long-term couples rebuild trust and reconnect — with structure, emotional depth, and humor.

Private pay. Superbill may be provided.

Vanessa specializes in pediatric eating disorders, helping adolescents and adults rebuild a healthier relationship with food and their bodies.

Vanessa is an LMFT specializing in pediatric eating disorders (ages 12+), codependency, and stress concerns. She works with adolescents and adults in person in North Scottsdale and virtually across AZ and CA utilizing structural family therapy, DBT, CBT-E, ERP, and ACT adapted to a client's needs.

Private pay. Superbill may be provided.

Inbal helps high conflict couples, survivors of narcissistic abuse, and individuals navigating emotionally unsafe relationships find their footing again.

Inbal is a LCSW specializing in trauma recovery from narcissistic abuse, childhood neglect, and emotionally unsafe relationships. Certified EMDR therapist, trained in IFS, Deep Brain Reorienting, EFT, and Gottman (Levels 1–3). Telehealth across CA, AZ, MA, and TX.

In-network: Aetna

A former artist manager herself, Christy brings industry insight to helping creatives and entrepreneurs navigate self-employment and mental health.

Christy is an LMFT specializing in helping creatives, artists, and entrepreneurs navigate several areas of concern. As a former artist and producer manager, she brings direct industry insight to clients navigating self-employment and the entertainment world. Her approach is empathic, reality-based, and solution-focused — drawing on EMDR, I-CBT, and DBT.

In-network: Aetna · Blue Shield · Cigna · United Health Care · Optum · Medicare

Dr. Becerra brings 20+ years of bilingual, multicultural experience to trauma, intimate partner violence, and family therapy.

Dr. Becerra is a Licensed Clinical Psychologist with 20+ years of experience specializing in trauma, intimate partner violence, couples, family, and teen therapy. She uses a strength-based, integrative, multicultural approach — working with individuals from all backgrounds in both English and Spanish. Sliding scale available.

Private pay · Superbills provided · Sliding scale

Maria supports clients through OCD and PTSD with structured, evidence-based care.

Maria is a dual-licensed LMFT and LPCC, EMDRIA Certified EMDR Therapist, and IOCDF member specializing in OCD and PTSD. She draws on ERP, I-CBT, EMDR, Brainspotting, CPT, and the Flash Technique — bringing 10+ years of community mental health and crisis experience to evidence-based, structured care. All telehealth.

In-network: Lyra · Cigna · Kaiser · UBH · HMSA

Ryan helps clients move past insight alone into real, lasting change from complex PTSD.

Ryan is a dual-licensed LMFT and LPCC with 10+ years of experience specializing in trauma, complex PTSD, and somatic healing. Drawing on EMDR, Somatic Experiencing, IFS, and experiential approaches, he helps individuals, couples, teens, and families move beyond insight to create meaningful, lasting change. Intensive and extended sessions available.

Private pay · Superbills provided

Meghan helps clients recover from narcissistic abuse and complex trauma through direct, real engagement.

Meghan specializes in complex trauma, PTSD, dissociation, narcissistic abuse recovery, and couples therapy. She practices with "radical genuineness" — showing up as her authentic self, using humor, direct feedback, and real engagement. Her toolkit includes EMDR, IFS (Level 2), Gottman Method (Level 2), and EFT. Private pay; sliding scale available.

Private pay · Superbills provided · Sliding scale

Shery pairs careful medication management with lifestyle and sleep optimization to help women feel truly understood, not just treated.

Shahrzad "Shery" Shadmani is a dual board-certified Psychiatric Mental Health Nurse Practitioner (PMHNP-BC) and Family Nurse Practitioner (FNP-C) who has worked in healthcare since 2007. Specializing in women's mental health and integrative psychiatry, she combines evidence-based medication management with lifestyle, sleep, and stress optimization to help clients with anxiety, depression, ADHD, and postpartum concerns feel truly understood — not just treated.

In-network: Aetna · Blue Shield · Anthem · UnitedHealthcare

Bilingual in English and Romanian, Dr. Manu's psychoeducational evaluations help families understand and access support for learning and developmental needs.

Dr. Manu is a Licensed Educational Psychologist (LEP) and ABSNP board-certified school neuropsychologist specializing in psychoeducational and neuropsychological evaluations for children, teens, and adults. She assesses learning disabilities, ADHD, autism, and emotional concerns — helping families access the support and services they need. Bilingual in English and Romanian. Private pay; limited evaluation slots.

Private pay · Evaluations birth–18 & adults

A queer therapist herself, Sydney helps teens and adults build self-compassion and resilience through eating disorder and complex trauma recovery.

Sydney Hafer is an Associate Marriage and Family Therapist (AMFT) at NDH Therapy, working from a relational, trauma-informed, whole-person perspective. She specializes in eating disorders, complex trauma and C-PTSD, and identity exploration, with a particular passion for supporting the LGBTQIA+ community. Integrating DBT, ACT, EFT, CPT, and parts work — and certified in Ketamine-Assisted Psychotherapy — she helps teens and adults build self-compassion, strengthen resilience, and create lasting change. As a queer therapist, she offers affirming, celebratory care, and her experience across outpatient, PHP, IOP, and residential levels of care equips her to support complex presentations in close collaboration with treatment teams.

Private pay. Superbill may be provided.

With 15+ years in healthcare, Almaz helps adults navigate burnout, caregiving stress, and the sleep challenges that come with it.

Almaz Nigusse-Bland is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker with more than 15 years in healthcare and outpatient mental health, supporting adults through burnout, caregiving stress, life transitions, and sleep challenges. Her care is trauma-informed and culturally responsive, grounded in honesty, support, and community.

Candice's somatic, neurodivergent-friendly approach helps clients process the physical imprints of chronic illness and medical trauma.

Candice Craft is a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist and the therapist behind Soul Craft Counseling, offering integrative, somatically oriented care for adults navigating complex chronic illness, medical trauma, complex trauma, and reproductive stress or grief. Drawing on Brainspotting, EMDR, IFS, and mindfulness, she helps clients process the imprints the body has been holding. Her space is medical-trauma sensitive, neurodivergent-friendly, and LGBTQIA+ affirming.

Private pay. Superbill may be provided. Limited sliding scale.

Sandi pairs trauma-informed psychiatric care with cultural grounding to help high-achieving adults move beyond burnout and survival mode.

Sandi Webb is a board-certified psychiatric mental health nurse practitioner (PMHNP-BC) and the founder of Strengthen Yourself Psychiatry, offering trauma-informed psychiatric evaluation and medication management to high-achieving California adults via telehealth. Sandi supports clients navigating burnout, anxiety, chronic stress, and mental health leave — pairing careful psychiatric care with an understanding of developmental, relational, and racial trauma. Their approach is integrative and culturally grounded, helping clients move beyond survival mode toward lasting emotional regulation and resilience.

A Certified Gottman Therapist, Grayson helps couples move from conflict and disconnection back toward friendship and trust.

Grayson Wallen is a Certified Gottman Therapist and Licensed Professional Clinical Counselor who helps couples move from conflict and disconnection toward friendship, trust, and lasting repair. Working from Encinitas and by telehealth across California and Arizona, he blends the research-based Gottman Method with intensive short-term dynamic psychotherapy (IS-TDP) to support couples and individuals through affair recovery, perinatal and infertility stress, and grief and loss.

Private pay. Superbill may be provided. Limited sliding scale.

Carrie helps perfectionists and clients navigating body image and disordered eating figure out what actually matters to them.

Carrie Smolen is a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist who works with perfectionists and with people navigating anxiety, body image, and disordered eating. From a relational Gestalt, holistic lens, she views clients within their full context and helps them figure out what actually matters to them. She sees clients in person in Echo Park and Pasadena and by telehealth across California.

Private pay. Superbill may be provided. Limited sliding scale.

Bilingual in English and Spanish, Mayra helps clients who feel stuck or overwhelmed find their way through anxiety, grief, and life transitions.

Mayra Penaloza is a bilingual (English/Spanish) Licensed Clinical Social Worker who helps teens, adults, and older adults move through anxiety, grief and loss, and major life transitions. Warm and supportive, she draws on Brainspotting, CBT, and solution-focused, insight-oriented, and strength-based approaches to help clients who feel stuck or overwhelmed find a way forward. She sees clients throughout California via telehealth.

In-network: Aetna, Anthem, Cigna, Optum & more · Sliding scale & EAP

Drawing on 15 years in childcare and postpartum work, Morgan offers calm, non-pathologizing care for neurodivergent and LGBTQ+ clients.

Morgan Siggard is an Associate Marriage and Family Therapist offering trauma-informed, relational care to neurodivergent clients, LGBTQ+ individuals, people in non-traditional relationships, and those navigating complex identity. Deeply attachment-focused — grounded in fifteen years of prior childcare and postpartum work — she brings a calm, strengths-based, non-pathologizing approach, weaving CBT, DBT, somatic, narrative, and parts work. She sees clients across California via telehealth.

A first-generation queer Latina, Cynthia supports neurodivergent teens and young adults navigating identity and intergenerational family patterns.

Cynthia Aguilar is a bilingual (English/Spanish) Associate Marriage and Family Therapist who works with teens, young adults, and neurodivergent adults navigating anxiety, depression, grief, identity, and intergenerational wounds. A first-generation queer Latina, she offers relational, mindfulness-based care — drawing on DBT, TF-CBT, and play therapy — via telehealth across California.

Lauren helps clients with ADHD build the everyday systems that make life feel manageable, and challenges high achievers to move past burnout.

Lauren is a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist specializing in ADHD and executive functioning — the planning, follow-through, and everyday systems that decide whether life feels manageable. She also works with high achievers carrying anxiety, pressure, and burnout beneath the surface, drawing on CBT, solution-focused, and strengths-based approaches. Warm but direct, she works best with clients who are solution-oriented and open to being challenged.

In-network: Aetna · Cigna · Optum · UnitedHealthcare · Sliding scale

A queer, neurodivergent Latina and SWANA therapist herself, Dina helps teens and young adults work through identity, trauma, and body image.

Dina Bdaiwi is a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist and the owner of Help Send Therapy, working with teens and young adults on identity formation, trauma processing, and body image. A queer Latina and SWANA therapist who is also neurodivergent, she brings an exploratory, reflective approach — drawing on EMDR, Brainspotting, narrative, and feminist therapy — to QT+BIPOC clients in Irvine and across California.

Private pay. Superbill may be provided.

Jada uses play and art to help families of young children process trauma and navigate major life transitions together.

Jada Thompson is a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist specializing in child and family therapy, with particular depth supporting families of children ages 0–5 and beyond. Trained in Child-Parent Psychotherapy, she practices from psychodynamic and attachment-based frameworks — using play and art as modes of nonverbal expression — with families processing trauma, major life transitions, and relational challenges.

Private pay. Superbill may be provided.

Amber helps LGBTQIA+ teens and young adults explore gender and identity, meeting clients through their own interests like gaming and pop culture.

Amber Legault is a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist with about 13 years in practice, working by telehealth across California with teens, young adults, and adults navigating anxiety, trauma, and identity. Her work centers LGBTQIA+ clients exploring gender and sexual identity, blending affirming, trauma-informed care with clients' own interests — including video games and pop culture.

Chelsea uses ERP with warmth and humor to help young adults and adults get real traction against anxiety and OCD.

Chelsea Wise-Diangson is a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist with more than ten years of experience treating anxiety and OCD, working by telehealth across California with young adults and adults. She specializes in Exposure and Response Prevention (ERP), blended with ACT, CBT, and mindfulness tools — structured, directive work she delivers with warmth and a deliberate dose of humor.

With 20+ years of experience, Patrick helps college students and professionals trace present-day burnout back to earlier life patterns.

Patrick Cleveland is a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist with more than 20 years in the mental health field, working primarily with college students and working professionals navigating anxiety, stress, burnout, depression, and relationship concerns. His approach is exploratory and reflective, drawing on psychodynamic, humanistic, and Internal Family Systems work to trace how earlier experiences — including childhood trauma and emotional neglect — shape present-day patterns. He is the Founder and Director of Claremont Psychotherapy, where he sees clients in person.

Private pay. Superbill may be provided. Limited sliding scale.

Certified in Ketamine-Assisted Psychotherapy, Elizabeth helps clients reprocess trauma and rebuild healthier relationships and beliefs.

Elizabeth Knutsen is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker who specializes in trauma, PTSD, and attachment, working with individuals and groups in both weekly and intensive formats. She is trained in Brainspotting (Level 2) and certified in Ketamine-Assisted Psychotherapy, and draws on somatic, trauma-informed work to help clients reprocess trauma and build lasting, healthy habits, relationships, and beliefs. She sees clients in person in San Diego County and by telehealth across California and Oregon.

Accepts insurance. Private pay and superbills also available. Limited sliding scale.

Megan's approach to ADHD and autism is affirming rather than corrective, building practical strategies around each client's own goals.

Megan Hernandez is a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist working with teens and adults in her Santa Cruz office and by telehealth across California. Her work with clients on the ADHD and Autism spectrums is affirming rather than corrective, providing practical strategies built around their own goals. In addition to her work with neurodivergence, Megan specializes in supporting clients through trauma, anxiety, depression, and life transitions. Trained in EMDR and Brainspotting, she also draws on modalities such as DBT, CBT, and IFS, and brings curiosity, transparency, and humor to the room.

Private pay. Superbill may be provided.

Emily helps exvangelicals and clients in faith deconstruction work through the shame and trauma that can outlast the beliefs themselves.

Emily Maynard is a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist and an EMDRIA-certified EMDR therapist working with adults by telehealth across California. She specializes in religious trauma, working with exvangelicals, purity culture survivors, and people in faith deconstruction or transition on the shame, anxiety, and complex trauma responses that can outlast the beliefs themselves. Emily draws on EMDR alongside narrative, feminist, somatic, and attachment-based approaches to help clients rewrite harmful stories from the past, reduce triggers, and live from their own values rather than their history. Her style is direct and challenging.

Private pay. Superbill may be provided.

April helps clients rebuild trust and communication after substance use has strained relationships, alongside anxiety and major life transitions.

April Madden is a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist and Certified Substance Use Disorder Counselor IV with more than a decade of clinical experience, seeing teens and adults in Paso Robles and by telehealth across California. She specializes in substance use and recovery alongside the relational challenges that so often travel with them — strained communication, broken trust, and the work of rebuilding connection. April also supports clients through anxiety, stress, trauma, and major life transitions, drawing on CBT, narrative therapy, and solution-focused interventions to build resilience and healthier coping strategies. Her style is direct and challenging.

In-network: CenCal Health / Medi-Cal · Anthem Blue Cross · Blue Shield of California · Aetna · Cigna / Evernorth · UnitedHealthcare / Optum · Medicare · Carelon · CuraLinc · CalVCB
Private pay. Superbill may be provided.

Alyssa helps individuals and couples break old patterns and rebuild connection after conflict, including premarital work for engaged couples.

Alyssa Horman is a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist in San Diego, working with young adults and adults by telehealth across California. She specializes in life transitions and couples work — helping individuals and partners break old patterns, navigate big changes, and rebuild connection after conflict or distance — and she offers premarital therapy for engaged couples. Alyssa also supports clients through anxiety, depression, and relational challenges, drawing on narrative therapy and EFT and integrating the Gottman Method, ACT, and attachment-based work to fit each client. Her style is warm and supportive, relational and down-to-earth.

In-network: Aetna · Blue Shield of California · Anthem Blue Cross · Cigna · Carelon
Private pay. Superbill may be provided.

Kelli's somatic EMDR helps clients who can already explain their patterns finally feel different, not just understand themselves better.

Kelli Redfield is a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist in North County San Diego, seeing adults in person in Escondido and Del Mar. She specializes in somatic EMDR and sensation-focused trauma work for people who can explain their patterns clearly and still feel the old alarm firing. Somatic EMDR helps you work with what's happening beneath the surface—so you can finally begin to feel different, not just understand yourself better. She offers extended EMDR intensives of two to four hours alongside standard weekly sessions, and also works with OCD and phobias, bringing ERP into EMDR work for compulsive and avoidance patterns. Her style is exploratory and reflective — warm, curious, and grounded.

Private pay. Superbill may be provided. Limited sliding scale.

A board-certified psychiatrist with an OCD and tics fellowship, Dr. Rapps offers conservative, carefully explained medication management for all ages.

Dr. Jonathan Rapps is a board-certified psychiatrist offering psychiatric evaluation and medication management to children, adolescents, and adults across California via telehealth. He completed a Child & Adolescent Psychiatry fellowship at Northwell/Zucker Hillside Hospital with an elective in tics and OCD, and takes an ERP-informed approach to OCD care. He prescribes conservatively, recommending medication only when clinically indicated, with the risks and alternatives explained in full, and coordinates with a client's therapist.

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