Welcome! As a licensed Marriage and Family Therapist with specialized training in Clinical Art Therapy, I am dedicated to assisting individuals on their journey toward healing and personal growth. My expertise encompasses a diverse range of topics, including trauma, anxiety, behavioral and emotional difficulties, as well as relationship and family
CLIENT REVIEWS AND TESTIMONIALS FOR COUPLES THERAPIST Laressa Desmond PhD, LMFT
Welcome! 30 years experience helping Couples in the LA area. My goal is to help you enhance & improve your relationship so that you can leave therapy & live your life. I provide Couples Therapy and Marriage Counseling as well as PreMarital Counseling. As a Relationsh
I am a licensed therapist based in Southern California, who works with clients online throughout California. Many of my clients are looking to manage anxiety and worry, explore changes and transitions in their lives, improve and strengthen the relationships most important to them, and explore issues around identity.
My approach is rooted in psyc
I love working with people who have complex, complicated pasts. We are indeed shaped by all that has happened to us. However, when we assess what happened and truly understand it (with a new, more informed perspective), we can choose how we want to move forward.
I love supporting people with a big vision for the future. So often, life changing e
Therapy is an investment of time and energy towards self-awareness and transformation, creating balance and harmony, while instilling hope, and self-acceptance. In my work with individuals, the most common areas of focus involve relationship or self-esteem issues, depression, anxiety, abuse, or those with self-defeating behavioral patterns. Separat
"IS THIS YOU"?
All we do is fight! It seems like we never hear each other and neither of us listens anymore! It is so frustrating I do not want to come home and try. Physical intimacy seems undesirable, unrealistic, or just unobtainable?
I have been successfully helping couples to develop the tools necessary to communicate effectively for mo
As a contemporary psychoanalyst, my treatment approach is to encourage a free flow of thoughts and feelings which we will listen to and come to understand. I offer practical evocative feedback to help clients address current life challenges and long-standing issues. The results are transformational. With compassion and understanding, individuals ar
If you find yourself at a crossroads and are finally ready to address some issues that have been on your mind, therapy can be a powerful tool to help you. Clients come to me with their most personal thoughts and feelings, which they sometimes find confusing or even scary. It is my job to help make sense of these feelings, in order to relieve suffer
You’re proud to be queer, poly, kinky - or all three! But sometimes life can be difficult, relationships can bring new challenges, and it’s isolating trying to work through it all on your own. Maybe you’re questioning your sexual orientation or gender, and not sure what that means for your longterm relationship. Maybe you asked yo
No matter what you’re seeking, whether it’s overcoming worries, desiring more out of life, reducing stress in relationships, or becoming a more refined version of yourself, it’s helpful to have an ally throughout the journey. I believe that people have within them the creativity, strengths, and solutions to become who and what the
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