Vesna Lubina Westbrook,MA, LMFT

Vesna Lubina Westbrook,MA, LMFT

Telehealth Available
Professions: Marriage & Family Therapist, Mental Health Counselor, Psychotherapist
License Status: I'm a licensed professional.
Primary Credential: Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist (LMFT)

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San Francisco, California 94114
Encino, California 91436

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My Approach to Helping

Many of my clients are highly sensitive, empathic, or intuitive. They experience life deeply and don't always feel easily understood by others. Sensitives are often highly intelligent and observant, they are creative spirits but they may feel they lack the "tough skin" it seems to take to survive in our world. Despite their deep care for others, they themselves may feel invisible and sometimes accept relationships or friendships they think they should want. In their work life, they may shy away from competition and accept positions at a lower rank than what they are capable of or qualified for. Sensitives may spend much of their lifetime trying to figure out where they belong, so they can show up to their own life fully and genuinely.

The trauma of sensitive people takes on complex shapes, and often can be traced back through their lineage. Yet they want to speak to the different parts of their experience, and find a way to live that honors all of it. That's the work that I offer.

I am a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist and a Certified Philosophical Counselor, and I work at the intersection of sensitivity and trauma. I am licensed to provide psychotherapy to clients from California, and offer integrative inner work to clients worldwide. My own international background enables me to understand and work within different cultural contexts. I offer sessions in English and in German. Please contact me to schedule a complimentary 15-minute phone call. I look forward to hearing from you!

More Info About My Practice

I work with adults and couple, in an individual and also in a group setting. I currently offer exclusively teletherapy, via secure video platform or phone call.

Specific Issue(s) I'm Skilled at Helping With

Complex Trauma (C-PTSD), Transgenerational trauma, collective trauma, highly sensitive personality (HSP), empaths, intuitives, reluctant leadership, sensitives in public roles, ancestral work, depth work, spiritual integration.

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Ages I Work With

  • Adults

Languages

  • English
  • Bosnian
  • Croatian
  • French
  • German
  • Icelandic
  • Italian
  • Serbian

Groups I Work With

    Highly sensitive personality (HSP), empaths, intuitive, sensitive personality in leadership and public roles, neurodiversity, gifted adults, autism spectrum, asperger, artists, creative people, immigrants, diaspora, minorities, BIPOC, multicultural backgrounds, internationals, expats, therapists, healers, doctors, health professional, complex trauma survivors, CPTSD.

Industries & Communities Served

  • BIPOC
  • Education
  • Entertainment Industry
  • First Responder/Medical Professionals
  • LGBTQ+
  • Self-Employed and Freelance Professionals

Client Concerns I Treat

  • Adjusting to Change / Life Transitions
  • Anxiety
  • Dissociation
  • Emotional Intelligence
  • Family of Origin Issues
  • Identity Issues
  • Immigration issues
  • Individuation
  • Life Purpose / Meaning / Inner-Guidance
  • Multicultural Concerns
  • Posttraumatic Stress / Trauma
  • Psychedelic and Altered State Integration Therapy
  • Self-Love
  • Spirituality
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Types of Therapy

  • Emotionally Focused Couples Therapy
  • Emotionally Focused Therapy
  • Energy Psychology
  • Existential Psychotherapy
  • Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing Therapy (EMDR)
  • Family Systems Therapy
  • Gestalt Therapy
  • Gottman Method
  • Holistic Psychotherapy
  • Humanistic Psychology (humanism)
  • Integral Psychotherapy (IP)
  • Integration of different therapy models
  • Jungian Psychotherapy
  • Narrative Therapy
  • Nonviolent Communication (NVC)
  • Other - Not Listed Here
  • Psychodynamic
  • Rational Emotive Behavioral Therapy (REBT)
  • Relational Psychotherapy
  • Somatic Experiencing (SE)
  • Spiritual Counselling
  • Strength-Based Therapy
  • Systems Theory /Therapy
  • Transpersonal Psychotherapy
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