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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The Power of Group Therapy: How It Can Help You Heal and Grow

In a city like Los Angeles that can feel fast paced and isolating, finding a safe space to express emotions and share struggles can be challenging. Group therapy offers a powerful avenue for healing, growth, and support.

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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 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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