Narrative Therapy in Los Angeles
A collaborative place to get curious about the stories you have inherited, the pressures you are carrying, and the life you want to move toward.
In person in Mid-City Los Angeles. Online across California and Connecticut.
When a story feels too small
Sometimes a familiar story about yourself starts to feel like the only available one. Maybe it sounds like: I am too much. I always get this wrong. I should be able to handle this. Maybe a relationship, a family expectation, a creative block, grief, or a major transition has made that story louder. Even when you can see that it is painful, it can be hard to imagine another way of understanding your life.
Narrative Therapy begins from a different premise: you are not the problem. Problems have effects. They can shape your confidence, choices, relationships, sleep, work, and sense of possibility. But they are not your whole identity. Together, we can slow down enough to understand what has been influencing the story, what it has asked of you, and what parts of your experience have been left out.
I work with adults who want therapy to feel thoughtful, collaborative, and human. You do not have to arrive with a neat explanation or a finished goal. We can begin with the questions that are already present and make room for the language, memories, and values that help you recognize yourself more fully.
Making room for complexity
Many people arrive in therapy carrying a private sense that they are failing at something everyone else seems to manage. You may be the reliable one at work or in your family, while feeling anxious, lonely, angry, or far from yourself. You may be trying to make a decision that feels impossible, noticing a relationship is changing, or grieving a version of life you expected to have.
Narrative Therapy does not offer a formula for becoming a better or more acceptable version of yourself. It offers a way to look carefully at the meanings you have made, the messages that have become loud, and the commitments you want to protect. We can ask what a problem has pulled you away from, and what you would rather have more room for.
That might include closeness, rest, creative work, honesty, pleasure, belonging, privacy, ambition, or something that does not yet have a name. The point is not to force a happy ending. It is to develop a richer account of your life, one that can hold difficulty without erasing your knowledge of what matters.
Who this may be for
I often work with people in creative or caretaking fields, people who feel like outsiders, queer and trans clients, and people who have spent a long time adapting to other people’s needs. You do not need to fit any particular description to be welcome here.
What sessions can hold
Our conversations will be shaped around your particular life, rather than a predetermined script. There may be room for the questions you have never been able to say out loud, the stories you tell yourself when you are alone, the relationships that have made you feel known, and the values that have helped you get through hard things.
We may return to moments that seem small at first: a time you spoke up, an exception to a familiar pattern, a person who saw something in you that you have lost sight of, or an image for the future that feels quietly compelling. These moments are not proof that you should simply think more positively. They can be a way of noticing the skills, hopes, and commitments that a problem has obscured.
I will bring questions, attention, and a willingness to stay with complexity. You bring your lived knowledge, your language, and your sense of what feels important. We can use that conversation to make choices that are more connected to the life you want to be living.
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In person or online
I offer Narrative Therapy in person in Mid-City Los Angeles and online for clients throughout California and Connecticut. For some people, coming into a room creates a welcome pause from the pace of the day. For others, online therapy is the clearest way to make a regular conversation possible. Both can offer a grounded, private place to think.
A free 15-minute consultation is a simple place to start. You can share a little about what is bringing you in, ask practical questions, and get a sense of whether working together feels like a fit. You do not need to prepare a perfect account of your life before you reach out.
I am an out-of-network provider and can provide superbills for clients whose plans offer reimbursement. Sessions are offered in 50- and 80-minute formats. View current fees and practical details.
Questions, answered
Narrative Therapy is a collaborative approach that takes your experience seriously without treating you as the problem. It makes room to look at the stories, relationships, expectations, and histories that have shaped your life, alongside the values and knowledge you want to carry forward.
No. You can begin with a feeling, a recurring question, a difficult transition, or simply the sense that something has become harder to live with. We can take time to find language for what is happening together.
It can be. Rather than asking what is wrong with you, Narrative Therapy can help you notice how anxiety, self-criticism, perfectionism, or people-pleasing have affected your life, and what they may be trying to protect. From there, we can explore responses that are more aligned with what matters to you.
Yes. I offer in-person sessions in Mid-City Los Angeles and online therapy for clients throughout California and Connecticut. A free 15-minute consultation gives us a chance to talk through what you are looking for and whether working together feels like a fit.
A place to start
Request a free 15-minute consultation with me. We can talk through what is bringing you in and decide on a next step together.
Request a free consultationYou can also call (323) 944-2024.