Welcome to the Blog
Therapy in the Fourth Trimester: How Postpartum Counseling Helps You Transition into Parenthood
Postpartum therapy offers practical tools and emotionally attuned support for new parents. Learn how individual and couples counseling reduce anxiety, clarify roles, ease conflict, and strengthen bonding/attachment.
Before “I Do”: What Premarital Counseling Is—and How It Can Help
Warm, practical guide to premarital counseling: what it is, how it works, common topics, and the skills you’ll build.
When Infertility Changes Your Relationship: What Shifts, Why It’s So Hard, and How Therapy Can Help
Infertility can strain even strong relationships, impacting communication, sex, roles, and grief. Learn what to expect, how to stay connected, and how therapy (EFT, Gottman, EMDR) can help.
The Preferred Parent Phase: Why It Feels So Hard—and How to Navigate It
Is your child clinging to one parent and rejecting the other? Learn why “preferred parent” phases happen and get scripts, step-by-step routines, and therapy-informed strategies.
From Bump to Becoming: How Therapy During Pregnancy Helps You Prepare for Motherhood
Wondering how therapy can help you prepare for motherhood? Learn how pregnancy therapy supports mental health, relationships, birth prep, identity shifts, and postpartum planning.
What Are Love Languages—and How Can They Help My Relationship?
Learn what love languages are—and how to use them with Gottman and EFT tools to build steady connection. Warm, practical tips for real couples.
How to Manage Toddler Tantrums Without Losing Your Cool
Learn practical, compassionate strategies to handle toddler tantrums—without yelling. Scripts, step-by-step plan, co-regulation tools, and repair tips.
Mom Guilt: What It Is—And Why So Many Moms Feel It Today
What is “mom guilt” and why is it everywhere? Learn the psychology behind it, what fuels it today, and practical ways to heal.
11 Tips to Help You Stop Yelling at Your Kid (or Partner)
Ready to stop yelling and reconnect? Learn 11 therapist-backed tips—gentle startups, adult tap-outs, co-regulation, and repair—to reduce blowups with your child or partner. In-person in Hermosa Beach & Beverly Hills; online across California.

