Do I Have Anxiety or Am I Just Stressed? Signs, Symptoms & What to Do

Life is full of challenges, responsibilities, and unexpected twists—and it's completely normal to feel overwhelmed from time to time. But how do you know if what you're experiencing is everyday stress… or something more like anxiety?

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Online Therapy in Los Angeles: Does It Really Work?

In recent years—especially since the pandemic—one of the most common questions I hear from new clients is: “Does online therapy really work?” As a therapist practicing in the heart of Los Angeles, where schedules are packed and traffic is relentless, any skepticism is completely understandable. So let’s unpack this.

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Is ADHD Impacting Your Relationship? Key Signs and How to Cope

ADHD, or Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder, doesn't just affect focus and organization—it can also have a deep and lasting impact on romantic relationships. If you or your partner has ADHD, you may have noticed patterns of miscommunication, emotional disconnect, or recurring conflict that seem hard to break.

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What Is Toxic Masculinity? Signs, Myths, and Its Effect on Mental Health

Toxic masculinity refers to cultural norms and expectations that define "real" manhood in narrow, harmful ways. These norms often discourage emotional expression, promote dominance over others, and equate vulnerability with weakness.

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The Importance of Community: Creating Connections That Matter

As a practice, we place a high value on meaningful and authentic relationships. Over the years, this effort has naturally evolved into finding and creating spaces for genuine community. These efforts extend into all kinds of relationships, including inter-professional networks, local neighborhood collaborations, training and workshop offerings, low-fee/easy-entry therapeutic offerings…

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Healing from Religious Trauma: A Therapist’s Guide to Recovery

Recognizing that you have experienced trauma is the first step toward healing. Many individuals struggle with invalidating their experiences, thinking they are overreacting. Seeking support from a therapist who understands religious trauma can be instrumental in validating your emotions.

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Signs, Symptoms, and Management of High-Functioning Anxiety

While it might not be a clinically recognized diagnosis, high-functioning anxiety is a term that resonates deeply with those who feel its unique challenges. Understanding what it means and how it differs from more typical experiences of anxiety can provide valuable insights for those navigating it and those seeking to support loved ones.

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Understanding Grief: How Therapy Can Help You Navigate Loss

Our culture tends to compartmentalize grief, to privatize and pathologize it, to render it something to be overcome or dismissed. In the West, we regard grief as something to “get over” as though it’s a temporary malady we should quickly recover from. Yet grief is not a single event but an abiding relationship.

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How do you know you and your therapist are a good fit?

Choosing a therapist is a deeply personal journey, and finding the right match can be crucial to the success of your therapy experience. A good therapeutic relationship isn’t just scheduling sessions—it’s about building a trusting, comfortable, and productive partnership.

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How to reduce panic and anxiety - Try Vergence to self soothe

Vergence is a technique that was developed out of a type of therapy called brainspotting. It uses your changing eye movements to help reduce anxiety and panic symptoms.

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What is grounding in therapy? 3 techniques to reduce anxiety and distress

Grounding is a part of mindfulness in which you are directing your thoughts away from distressing thoughts/experiences and guiding it toward the present. This can be particularly helpful when feeling overwhelmed by certain thoughts or emotions. Grounding techniques are designed to help individuals dealing with trauma, panic attacks, or other intense emotional experiences.

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What is brainspotting and how to know if it's the right fit for you

Brainspotting therapy makes use of this natural phenomenon through its use of relevant eye positions. This helps the brainspotting therapist locate, focus, process and release a wide range of emotionally and bodily-based conditions including trauma, dissociation, and a variety of other challenging symptoms.

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What to Expect from Couples Therapy

Relationships require work. They ebb and flow depending on life transitions, (ie. changes in work, additions to the family, grief, relocating to a new place etc.) and it can impact the relationship or surface previous issues that may not have caused conflict/distress in the past. Each couple has their own timeline for how and when they might find themselves seeking out couples therapy, but it can be helpful to know what to expect.

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The Invisible Mental Load: The Unseen Weight Held By Women

Have you heard of the invisible mental load? Also called the hidden load, in hetero cis relationships, the invisible mental load is a term for the unseen but heavily felt labor involved in managing a household and family, which typically falls on women's shoulders. Here are a few examples of ways that women are impacted by this family dynamic…

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How to Deal with Grief

Grief is defined as “deep sorrow, especially that caused by someone's death.” This definition, although technically true, doesn’t quite reflect the magnitude of grief. It fails to capture the completely overwhelming feelings of loss, emptiness, and despair that accompany grief. We all go through grief at one stage of life or another, and it's a universal experience that we can find connection in.

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