Online Therapy · All of California
My license covers the entire state, so the only question that used to matter, how far you live from my office, has stopped being a question. Eureka, El Centro, the Sunset, Fresno, a town off the 395 with one stoplight. If you are physically in California, we can work.
What used to be a hard limit is now a scheduling detail. That is the whole change, and it is a bigger one than it sounds.
“The work was never happening in the room. It was happening between two people who were both paying attention. The room was just where we used to have to stand to do it.”
The State Is Not One Place
Geography stopped deciding whether we can work. It didn't stop mattering. California is not one culture, and the pressure people carry in one part of it is not the pressure people carry in another. Some of what I hear breaks down along these lines.
A specific kind of exhaustion: enormous competence, compensation that's supposed to settle the question, and a private suspicion that the whole thing is optimizing toward something nobody chose. Often arrives as burnout. Underneath it is usually a story about worth that got written a long time ago.
Where I am. An economy built on being looked at, which does something particular to a person's relationship with their own work. The gap between the version of you that gets presented and the one that gets up in the morning becomes the whole problem.
The real issue is often supply. Whole counties have almost no therapists, fewer who'll talk about spirituality without flinching, and everyone who does exist knows your family. Video isn't a compromise here. It's frequently the only way to see someone who isn't already in your life.
Military and veteran families, and people whose lives run across a national line that keeps changing its mind about them. A lot of holding two places at once, and a lot of being told that should be simpler than it is.
Practically
The single biggest predictor of whether video work goes well. Not a nice room, just a private one. People have done good work from parked cars, garages, and one memorable walk-in closet.
The commute disappearing is the benefit and the trap. Without a drive to mark the edges, the hour gets colonized by whatever is next. Put a wall around it.
Physically, at the time of session. That's a licensing rule, not a preference. Travelling out of state means we pause, and we plan for it rather than discover it.
If you're close by
Statewide by video is most of my practice, not all of it. If you're in Los Angeles, there's a private office in Hancock Park a few steps off Larchmont, three days a week. And from Woodland Hills through the Conejo Valley I hold walk-and-talk sessions outdoors in the Santa Monica Mountains, where moving bodies and oak shade tend to put the conversation in a different gear.
Plenty of people mix them: mostly video, in person when something warrants the trip.
See who I work withYou tell me what's going on. I'll tell you honestly whether I'm the right person for it, and if I'm not, I'll usually know who is.
No intake paperwork, no obligation. $275 a session with me, $150 with an associate. Superbills for out-of-network reimbursement, and a few sliding-scale spots each season.
Those spots open and close as people come and go, so the only way to know what's available is to ask. If the fee is what's standing between you and starting, say so on the call. Asking costs you nothing.
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Twenty minutes, free. If I'm not the right fit, I'll say so and point you somewhere better.
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