California › Los Angeles
Tandem Alliance lists 14 verified specialty therapists practicing in the Los Angeles area — the largest city roster in our California directory. Every one has passed three-step vetting: active California licensure (LMFT, LCSW, LPCC, PsyD, or PhD), verified training in their stated specialty, and a clean disciplinary record with the California Board of Behavioral Sciences or Board of Psychology.
The LA roster covers a wide clinical range: EMDR and trauma treatment, anxiety and OCD care, relationship and couples work, and a strong bench of LGBTQIA+-affirming and culturally responsive clinicians, including Spanish-speaking therapists. Offices span the metro, and every therapist also offers telehealth to clients anywhere in California.
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With training in AEDP, EFT, and Gestalt, Dr. Jacobs helps clients — especially creatives — 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.
An AASECT-certified sex therapist, 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.
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 specializes in gifted and twice-exceptional children, with a particular focus on neurodivergent and Black/African-American families. His 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.
Brigitte believes it takes a village, so she brings parents, caregivers, and teachers into the process of helping a child build a strong sense of self.
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.
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 has been an adoption and foster care therapist in Los Angeles for over 20 years. She 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 for chronic illness and family conflict.
Cibele helps clients connect their body and inner strengths with their mind and rational strengths to achieve change and personal growth. She 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.
Living with chronic illness herself, Kaitlin helps clients — including fellow therapists — move from overwhelmed and inauthentic toward genuinely connected.
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.
A PACT Level 2 couples therapist, 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.
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
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.
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.
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All of them offer secure video sessions to clients anywhere in California, and many also hold in-person hours at offices around the metro.
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