Therapists in California

Find the best therapist in California for your needs on Grow Therapy. With 33 verified therapists in California, you can connect with licensed professionals who are currently accepting new patients. Grow Therapy verifies and credentials each California therapist to ensure they are active, available, and aligned with your needs. Whether you’re seeking support for family conflicts, grief, life transitions, California’s therapists offer compassionate, personalized care tailored to your unique circumstances.

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Empowering
Open-minded

Specialties

Anxiety
Life Transitions
Trauma and PTSD
I am a therapist who believes healing happens through awareness, connection, and feeling truly understood. I work from a trauma-informed, strengths-based perspective and incorporate present-moment exploration, psychoeducation, and attachment awareness. I strive to create a space that is culturally sensitive, collaborative, and grounded in respect for each client’s lived experience. I view therapy as a partnership, where my role is to offer reflection, curiosity, and guidance while honoring each client’s innate capacity for insight, growth, and change.
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Anxiety
Depression
Life Transitions
+10
I believe that even in the midst of a crisis, there is a strategic opportunity for growth. My path to becoming a Psychologist began in an unconventional place: the theater. As an actor and director, I spent years studying the intricacies of human motivation and the hidden 'scripts' we all follow. Today, I use that unique lens to help you understand your own inner motivations and rewrite the narratives that are no longer serving you. Whether you are navigating a major life transition, managing a career crisis, or seeking to master complex personal relationships, I don't just act as a listener—I act as your strategic partner. My goal is to turn overwhelming challenges into a clear, actionable 'success plan.' My work is grounded in a commitment to service, ensuring you feel empowered, respected, and equipped with the tools needed for long-term mastery. I don’t believe in 'cookie-cutter' therapy. Instead, I utilize a multi-disciplinary toolkit tailored to your specific barriers. My background as a Child Custody Evaluator, combined with advanced training in Clinical Hypnosis, CBT, and Imago Relationship Therapy, allows me to help you navigate and transform your role within complex family and social systems. Together, we will bridge the gap between where you are and where you want to be.
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Warm
Humorous

Specialties

Anxiety
Depression
Family Conflict
+10
As a psychologist in California, I support adults and older adults through anxiety, depression, life transitions, and family concerns, using an integrative approach. I’m fluent in Vietnamese and am here to help you connect your self-awareness to positive action.
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Warm
Intelligent

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ADHD
Health/Medical Issues
Life Transitions
+10
You may be on the right path, but stumbled, fell, or got lost along the way. Or you may be struggling to find the path. I want to help. In therapy, I aim to create a calm, sturdy, emotionally open, and radically nonjudgmental space where you can be deeply curious about your own experience. A patient, open-ended space where you can take your time. A space where you can slow down, breathe, reflect, be quiet or silent. A space where you can be loud, angry, triggered, upset. A space where you don't have to make sense, but we can try to make sense of things together. A space where we both can be genuinely curious about who you are.
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Open-minded
Authentic
Direct

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Life Transitions
Spirituality
Women's Issues
+4
As a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist in California, I offer holistic support for adults navigating anxiety, life transitions, career concerns, and grief by drawing on somatic, compassion-focused, and transpersonal approaches. I welcome clients interested in exploring mind-body-spirit connections and integrating their personal and spiritual journeys.
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Authentic
Solution oriented

Specialties

Anxiety
Coping Skills
Family Conflict
+3
As a Licensed Clinical Social Worker in California, I help adults navigate challenges like anxiety, family conflict, and life transitions so they can feel more at peace and build fulfilling relationships. Using approaches like CBT and mindfulness, I strive to help you recognize and use your strengths in everyday life.
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Warm

Specialties

Anxiety
Couples Counseling
Depression
+3
I feel my primary responsibility as a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist is to foster a calm, safe and trusting environment with all clients through a warm and non-judgmental relationship. Therapy is a “we” program. My former career tracks in communication and education gives me the ability to connect with clients from various backgrounds and cultures with empathy and support to help you meet your goals. As a private practice and community mental health therapist, I was able to experience working clinically with children, youth, adults and couples. I use an individually tailored approach to therapy matching the needs of each client in the present moment.
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Open-minded
Warm
Direct

Specialties

Child or Adolescent
Grief
Trauma and PTSD
As a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist in California, I use a client-centered approach to help children, teens, and adults navigate trauma, grief, and life transitions. I draw on EMDR and my experience with stress, anxiety, and body image to support your unique journey toward healing.
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Authentic
Warm

Specialties

Anxiety
Life Transitions
Trauma and PTSD
+9
I’m a licensed psychologist who believes therapy works best when it feels real, hopeful, and sometimes even a little fun. For more than six years, I’ve helped teens, adults, and families heal from trauma, strengthen relationships, and reconnect with what matters most. I support meaningful change in a safe, compassionate space. I bring warmth, humor, and compassion to the process, helping you build insight, confidence, and a renewed sense of possibility.
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Warm
Solution oriented

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Life Transitions
Spirituality
Trauma and PTSD
+5
What I’m most passionate about is helping people become free—free from old trauma, unhealthy conditioning, and patterns that no longer serve them. My work is about guiding you back to a clear, whole sense of self where you feel alive, engaged, and able to face life’s challenges with humor, spirit, and trust in yourself and your path. My therapy style is warm, grounded, and deeply exploratory. I help clients look beneath the surface of their struggles to uncover the root causes, bringing a holistic perspective and a practical toolbox to open new pathways toward clarity, understanding, and real change.
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Empowering
Holistic

Specialties

Anxiety
Life Transitions
Self Esteem
+6
I'm passionate about uplifting clients in California and helping you build confidence, navigate life's changes, and find inner peace. Together, we can explore your feelings in a supportive space and create a path toward personal growth and well-being.
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Solution oriented
Open-minded
Empowering

Specialties

Anxiety
Men's Issues
Older Adults
+1
As a Marriage and Family Therapist in California, I help adults and seniors work through anxiety, men's issues, and life transitions using practical strategies like CBT and strength-based approaches. My focus is on offering hope and tools for personal growth, always in a supportive and nonjudgmental space.
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Open-minded
Warm

Specialties

Fertility & Reproduction Issues
Post Partum
Women's Issues
+10
Hello! I'm Jennifer. I've been a therapist for over 15 years, working with clients with everything from depression to anxiety to transitional issues. My specializations include women's issues including infertility, postpartum, parenting to menopause. As a mixed Asian provider, I am acutely attuned to issues of culture and intergenerational expectations. I also often see people who are in high stress, high achievement jobs that are on the verge of burnout.
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Warm
Solution oriented

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Family Conflict
Older Adults
Women's Issues
+10
Welcome. In our sessions, I listen closely and support you as you work through challenges. I help you gain insight into yourself and develop practical psychological skills, so you feel better, have more satisfying family relationships, thrive at work or enjoy retirement, and live in alignment with your values. I enjoy helping people feel less overwhelmed and more empowered so they can find greater meaning in life. I support people struggling with depression, anxiety, relationship distress, adult caretaking, and mid- and later-life transitions. I also work with hoarding, major health conditions, insomnia, and women's and men's issues. My experience includes directing the career counseling program at Stanford School of Medicine for 10 years.
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Humorous
Intelligent
Empowering

Specialties

Anxiety
Depression
LGBTQ
+17
As a Licensed Clinical Social Worker in California, I help adults and teens strengthen their well-being and build coping skills for challenges like anxiety, depression, and life transitions. I'm here to support you in finding your strengths and navigating whatever life brings your way.
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Open-minded
Solution oriented
Authentic

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Depression
Post Partum
Self Esteem
+10
As a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist in California, I support adults and teens facing challenges like depression, postpartum concerns, and life transitions. I use a whole-person approach and CBT to help you find balance and feel better in your daily life.
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Holistic
Warm
Authentic

Specialties

Self Esteem
Spirituality
Trauma and PTSD
Compassionate, Intuitive, Holistic Psychotherapist who has created and led therapeutic programs for emotional and mental well-being in addiction treatment centers utilizing Indigenous Ways and Wisdom, Psychodynamic therapy, DBT, CBT, Healing Arts Therapy, and Equine Facilitated Psychotherapy for Veterans, First Responders, Adult Children, those who've endured Complex PTS, and anyone with underlying, unresolved emotional pain that needs to be grieved, honored, healed, and released, through various therapeutic modalities which allow for Spiritual (Energy) Healing; Somatic and Polyvagal activation and calming, regulating one's nervous system, Meditation, Breathwork, Regression therapy, Nature based therapy, Creative Arts Healing, Psychodrama, Inner Child Healing, empowerment, and Past Life Regression Therapy (trained by Dr Brian Weiss).
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Anxiety
Health/Medical Issues
Trauma and PTSD
+10
I am a holistic counselor living in both CA and TX. I love supporting those coping with feelings of low self worth, depression, anxiety, panic, trauma, and grief. An experienced medical social worker, my niche is helping those recovering from chronic physical and emotional pain, illness and disease processes, infertility, maternal loss, peri/menopause, terminal illness, limb loss, and caregiver role stress.  I am trained in EMDR, CBT, Mindfulness, and energy psychologies like EFT (aka “tapping”). I study Internal Family Systems Therapy, psychedelic-assisted psychotherapy, and dream tending.  I am also certified in Pain Reprocessing Therapy and EAET -- the most current research backed methods for recovering from chronic pain that I especially love to share. Because they work! My authentic approach is also intimately informed by the wisdom traditions that have healed my own life. The mother of a child with a life threatening seizure disorder, I am not unfamiliar with suffering. I often turn to Jungian Psychology, Dream Tending, and the Wise Woman Herbalism Tradition. I am a life-long meditation, yoga, and reiki practitioner, and always a student of Buddhist Psychology. I find healing in stillness, nature, humor, art, poetry, and the sacred. I love stories.
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Direct
Humorous
Authentic

Specialties

LGBTQ
Peer Relationships
Trauma and PTSD
+10
As a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist in California, I help teens and adults navigate loss, life transitions, career challenges, and relationship stress using a holistic and straightforward approach. I'm here to support you as you work toward your goals and embrace positive change.
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Warm
Authentic
Direct

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Couples Counseling
Men's Issues
Women's Issues
+10
I'm a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist in California, and I enjoy helping adults and teens work through relationship challenges, grief, trauma, and life transitions. My approach is grounded in understanding your unique experiences, and together we can build a strong foundation for positive change.
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Authentic
Solution oriented
Empowering

Specialties

Anxiety
Coping Skills
Depression
+3
Hi! I'm Cristina Marra, LMFT. I have 15+ years of experience. I like to help adults and adolescents deal with life's challenges. I help mostly with depression and/or anxiety. My therapeutic approach depends upon the presenting problem and client. The approaches I rely on the most are client-centered, cognitive behavioral therapy, mindfulness, and EMDR, as needed. I enjoy helping people by listening in a way that the client feels heard and understood. This then allows for better work to happen as strategies and coping tools are developed. I enjoy working with many different types of issues as we are all complex. My communication style I believe in, an open, caring, honest, and direct style of communication. I don't believe any subject is off the table.
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Empowering
Authentic
Holistic

Specialties

Grief
Life Transitions
As a Licensed Clinical Social Worker in California, I help adults navigate grief and life transitions, especially in times when the world feels overwhelming and disconnected. I'm dedicated to creating a space where you can feel truly seen and validated as you work through the pressures of daily life.
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Solution oriented
Authentic
Warm

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Self Esteem
Spirituality
Trauma and PTSD
+10
Everyone needs support;have you been dealing with life with no support from friends or family? Are you dealing with childhood trauma,estrangement and or abandonment from your family of origin?Are you having difficulty attracting and keeping a healthy intimate relationship?Do you feel you are repeating generational patterns? Maybe you have been coping all these years without really exploring and understanding your pain.We help clients understand themselves with compassion rather than shame and self judgment.I help you to change generational patterns that are not serving you .We are sensitive to your values ,needs and are culturally sensitive. My work mainly consists in solution focus with collaborative efforts from the client in order to attain goals . Todo el mundo necesito ayuda,aqui le ofreceremos la terapia totalmente en espanol para que pueda entender.
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Open-minded
Authentic

Specialties

Anxiety
Grief
Life Transitions
+4
Hello and welcome! As a licensed clinical social worker in California, I offer a safe and supportive space to help you navigate anxiety, grief, and life transitions using CBT, mindfulness, and narrative therapy. I'm here to help you feel understood and empowered as you work toward the life and relationships you deserve.
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Authentic
Open-minded
Warm

Specialties

Couples Counseling
Crisis Intervention
Suicidal Ideation
+2
As a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist in California, I offer a supportive space to explore your struggles and aspirations, helping you manage life's stress and work toward balance. Together, we'll integrate mind, body, and spirit so you can achieve greater harmony and personal growth.
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Couples Counseling
Spirituality
Trauma and PTSD
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I’m Raphael, a dedicated therapist specializing in transformative self-discovery and emotional resilience. Drawing on Somatics, Buddhist and Western psychological, mythological and philosophical traditions, IFS- inspired parts work and attachment theory, I guide individuals who feel stuck, overly dependent, or uncertain about their path to uncover their strengths, overcome trauma and chart a meaningful future. My clients range from those navigating personal transitions to professionals aiming to overcome self-doubt. Through structured, empathetic sessions, I help you process your past, align your present actions with your values, and build confidence to pursue purposeful goals. My approach fosters sovereignty, challenges doubt, and empowers you to face life’s challenges with courage and clarity. Whether you’re seeking to break free from limiting patterns or define a vision that inspires, I’m here to help you create lasting, authentic change in a safe, reflective space.
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Authentic
Solution oriented
Empowering

Specialties

Anxiety
Child or Adolescent
Depression
+19
As a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist in California, I’m passionate about supporting children, teens, adults, and families as they navigate challenges like anxiety, coping skills, school issues, and more. With nearly 25 years of experience—especially working with students and families in Sonoma County—I use approaches like CBT to help clients grow and thrive together.
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Direct
Warm

Specialties

Anxiety
LGBTQ
Trauma and PTSD
+3
As a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist in California, I help adults and older adults overcome anxiety, trauma, and chronic health challenges by creating a safe and supportive space for healing and growth. I use an interactive approach, including CBT, to help you build resilience and make meaningful changes in your life.
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Couples Counseling
Eating Disorders
Health/Medical Issues
+8
I have over 15 years experience providing therapy and case management including in the areas of: Anxiety issues; Medical and chronic pain issues; sexual relationship struggles and relationship/couples challenges; phobias; eating disorders and body image challenges; Post residential and outpatient maintenance therapy for continued abstinence and sobriety from substance use and eating disorders; fertility and conception issues; LGBTQ and gender concerns; and couples counseling (without legal involvement). I am distinguished by my training in Strengths Based Therapy, Cognitive Behavioral, Pain Reprocessing Therapy, Emotional Freedom "Tapping" technique, Acceptance and Commitment, Mindfulness, and Contemplative Care. I am licensed in CA, ID, VA, FL, TX, NJ, and WA. ** I do not provide services for individuals/couples involved in active litigation, divorce proceedings, or child custody disputes, nor do I provide court-ordered evaluations or expert testimony** There is a way out. Those who come to see me are often at a crossroads, frustrated at how they are trying to deal with problems and seeking workable strategies and solutions to cope. Therapy is meant to be a space to feel welcome to talk about thoughts, feelings, and behaviors that are problematic. Understanding unhealthy behaviors, frustrations with life, and/or unsuccessful efforts to cope can help reveal the obstacles that may block your path to growth and desired outcomes. Why do we explore? So you can live a life YOU want to live!
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Self Esteem
Depression
I have a lot of lived experience, I will be able to support you deeply and fully as your guide/healer/therapist/sister/........You matter. I got you! I am passionate about my work and I acknowledge the tremendous courage it takes to talk with a mental health provider about your life. I see myself as a wounded healer but constantly transforming into a better me. I have been humbled my by own life struggles and my hope is YOU never feel judged or unsupported by me. I'd like to offer you genuine care, warmth, and to empower you. Our work together can serve as powerful tool for you to attain more fulfillment and peace of mind. We could all use more support with navigating through this challenging & complicated life!
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Open-minded
Authentic
Holistic

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Trauma and PTSD
Anxiety
Chronic Illness
+8
I'm a Licensed Professional Clinical Counselor supporting adults and elders across California as they navigate trauma, anxiety, depression, and family challenges. My approach is holistic and trauma-informed, helping you find deeper connection, meaning, and safety in your life and relationships.
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Empowering
Warm
Authentic

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Coping Skills
Life Transitions
Spirituality
+10
I’m a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist supporting adults and older adults across California as they navigate life transitions, relationships, and challenges like depression and trauma. Using Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) and mindfulness-based approaches, I help clients find meaning and create positive change while staying connected to what truly matters to them.
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Authentic
Open-minded

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Anger Management
Depression
Trauma and PTSD
As a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist in California, I help adults and teens work through depression, trauma, and anger by fostering self-understanding and self-compassion. Using approaches like CBT, DBT, and compassion-focused therapy, I provide a supportive space for you to overcome challenges and build a healthier relationship with yourself.
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What happens during the first therapy session?

Your first therapy session is for you and your therapist to meet each other and to ask any questions that you have about the counseling process. This is where you can expect your therapist to do the same as they will ask questions to gain insight into your specific situation. In this first session the therapist is doing their part to gather as much information so they can better assess if they are able to meet your therapeutic needs. Depending upon your provider's specialty, you may also discuss the methods the therapist will use. For additional information on therapy methods, please visit the Grow Therapy Help Center.Some people feel nervous before their first appointment, and that is totally normal! Coming prepared with a list of questions for your therapist may help. Remember, you're taking a brave step by seeking therapy, and it is okay to be nervous as you try something new.