Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
When the work is identifying and changing the patterns of thought driving a behavior. Strong evidence base. Good for anger, anxiety, and stress.
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Our approachIndividual Therapy in Los Angeles
Weekly fifty-minute sessions. The same clinician each week. The work is yours; the room is yours. We bring the methods, you bring the actual life.
Weekly 50-min sessions
CBT · ACT · IFS · EMDR
In-person or telehealth
Weekly fifty-minute sessions
Same clinician each week.
Continuity is the point. The conversation builds on itself instead of starting fresh every visit.
We don’t pick one modality
The right approach depends on the work.
CBT for thought patterns. ACT when shame is in the picture. IFS for parts work. EMDR for trauma-driven anger.
Often paired with group
They serve different purposes.
Individual is private and personal. Group is rehearsal and witness. Together they add up to something neither does alone.
By session four or five
We have a working frame.
It can change as we go. You’ll know by week six whether this is working.
Some of our adult clients come into individual therapy with a clear goal — anger that's costing them a relationship, stress that's eating their sleep, a court order that has to be addressed. Others come in less sure. They know something isn't working but couldn't name it on a form.
Both work. Therapy doesn't require you to know what's wrong. It requires you to be willing to find out.
What a session looks like
Fifty minutes, weekly to start. We'll talk about what's been going on since last week, identify the moments that mattered, and look at them together — what the body did, what the thought was, what other choices were available. Sometimes we work on a specific skill (interrupting an escalation, holding a hard conversation, sitting with a feeling that wants to be acted on). Sometimes we work on the longer pattern that's been making the moments harder.
The first three or four sessions are partly diagnostic — not in the clipboard sense, in the "let's understand what's actually happening" sense. By session four or five we usually have a working frame for what the work is about. That frame can change as we go.
Therapy doesn’t require you to know what’s wrong. It requires you to be willing to find out. Our take
How we choose the method
Four modalities. Picked for fit, not fashion.
We don’t apply a single method to everyone. The right approach depends on what you’re actually working on.
Acceptance & Commitment Therapy (ACT)
When the work is less about changing the thought and more about changing your relationship to it. Useful when shame or perfectionism is in the picture.
Internal Family Systems (IFS)
When the work involves multiple competing parts of you — the part that gets angry, the part that gets ashamed of being angry, the part that wants to disappear. IFS treats those as worth knowing rather than as a problem to fix.
EMDR
For trauma-driven anger, when something old is being re-triggered in the present. We refer in or co-treat with an EMDR-trained colleague when this looks like the right path.
Often paired
Individual + group, together.
Many clients pair individual therapy with our anger management group. They serve different purposes — individual is private and personal, group is rehearsal and witness. Together they add up to something neither does alone.
By session four or five
You’ll have a working frame.
The first three or four sessions are partly diagnostic — not in the clipboard sense, in the “let’s understand what’s actually happening” sense. By session four or five we usually have a working frame for what the work is about. That frame can change as we go.
What you can expect
The shape of the work, week to week.
One clinician, week after week. Continuity matters.
50-minute sessions; weekly to start, biweekly later if it makes sense.
Telehealth or in-person — your choice, switchable session-to-session.
No homework requirements, but a few specific suggestions per week.
A clear sense, by week six, of whether this is working.
Coordinated with any psychiatrist, primary-care, or couples clinician you’re seeing — with your written consent.
50 minPer session
WeeklyTo start
4 modalitiesCBT, ACT, IFS, EMDR
Most insuranceAccepted
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