LMFT, 3 years of experience
Hi! I'm a Marriage and Family Therapist (LMFT) and Registered Art Therapist (AT-R) based in California. I received my Masters from Loyola Marymount University, and have been working with clients for 3 years. I have extensive background in visual art, performance, and music. I help my clients deepen their sense of identity and release stored trauma through creative practice, narrative development, and radical acceptance.
In our first session, I will ask you to begin telling the story of your journey to this moment, with emphasis on moments in which you found clarity and strength. I will encourage you to begin identifying moments in your past where you are still "tangled up" - storing energy and holding pain that keeps you from moving freely in the present.
I am an artist at heart, and I see each human life as a book! You are a good story, even if to you the journey so far seems only dull and painful, or heavy with loss. I have a unique skill in identifying held pain, and creating a sanctuary for clients to unwind deeply held tension and move forward with lighter steps.
I love working with people who are on spiritual journeys, awareness journeys or creative journeys through life. I enjoy working with clients on deeply claiming their life stories, and developing agency to move forward with renewed purpose, curiosity, and joy.
6 ratings with written reviews
May 19, 2025
Essy is helping me to look at long term trauma and issues I haven’t wanted to look at out of fear. I am feeling more confident about myself and I’m grateful to have found her.
April 25, 2025
Essy's warmth makes it easy to share even the most difficult things. She does a fantastic job of helping me put complex emotions into sensible words and concepts, which makes progress feel actionable and attainable. Essy has keen sense of feelings (even those unexpressed), creates a safe space and makes me feel seen. I end our sessions feeling lighter and more confident about achieving my therapy goals.
March 6, 2025
Essy is awesome. Essy really makes me feel seen and understood. They are really good at providing insightful takes on what I’m dealing with. I’m so impressed and grateful to be working with them.
Essy Hart offers therapy covered by CalViva Health (Medi-Cal), Community Health Plan of Imperial Valley (Medi-Cal), Health Net (Medi-Cal), Health Plan of San Joaquin - Medi-Cal and Santa Clara Family Health Plan - Medi-Cal in California.
Cultural humility is woven throughout my educational background and experience. I have spent 3 years serving in community mental health with a richly diverse client base. I hold a Master's Degree in Leadership for Social Change, and carry a deep commitment to community, spiritual and religious diversity, and intersectional identity formation.
I offer existentially informed, mindfullness based interventions with the aim of deepening a clients acceptance of their unique reality and experiences. I adhere to constructivist and existential theories that encourage our willingness to witness and acknowledge how we construct a "self", and I believe that awareness allows us the freedom to change.
As a non-binary clincian with a lifetime of lived experience in LGBTQII+ community, I offer affirmation, exploration, flexibility and acceptance to clients on their gender journey.
Narratives inform how we are oriented to our lives, and I have rooted my therapy practice in exploring the stories my clients tell about themselves. I typically begin treatment with storytelling, and we will revisit and re-tell your personal stories many times throughout our work together.
My baseline approach to therapy is humanistic, in that I operate on the belief that a client is the authority on themselves, and I serve as a space to reveal a clients self-knowledge.