Psychotherapy Services in the Los Angeles Area
Encino Psychotherapy offers compassionate, outcomes-focused care for individuals, older adults, men, and couples. We provide psychotherapy services in the Los Angeles Area designed to promote emotional well-being, build adaptive coping skills, and restore healthier relationships in a confidential, supportive setting.
Individual Psychotherapy
Individual psychotherapy is one of the hallmarks of dedicated self-improvement and emotional wellness. Therapeutic goals are generated and serve as benchmarks for a weekly journey toward self-realization. Personal obstacles and challenges are identified as the patient acquires an invaluable arsenal of adaptive coping strategies.
Emotional and often unconscious roadblocks are identified and challenged in a safe, empathic, supportive, and confidential environment. Effective new behavioral strategies replace old, ineffective, and often unconscious habits. Often, the personal status quo ends where individual psychotherapy begins.
Who Benefits
Adults seeking sustained change, clearer self-understanding, and practical tools to manage life’s emotional challenges.
Geropsychotherapy (Age 55 years and above)
Aging in a culture that glorifies eternal youth can present emotional challenges. Stereotypes and myths abound, depicting aging as a period to be endured. But the second half can be more rewarding than the first. Geropsychotherapy offers an older adult emotional and physical fortification to meet the personal challenges brought by aging. Older adults are living longer than ever and entering a landscape that presents unforeseen challenges.
The geropsychotherapist is a necessary partner, along with a geriatrician, for an aging adult to adapt to challenging and evolving physical and emotional needs successfully. Geropsychotherapy can equip the older adult with new skills and attitudes to meet the demands of a changing and aging world.
Transformational, Personalized Care
Support for Aging Well
Who Benefits
Adults 55+ navigating life transitions, health changes, loss, or the emotional impact of aging.
Men
Why would men have their own therapeutic approach (aren’t they included in “Individual Psychotherapy”)? Because men and women are different in myriad ways, women, in general, are more comfortable expressing their emotions. One of the most common findings in psychiatric research is that depression is a “woman’s illness”. That may be because women are more apt to venture into psychotherapy than men.
Left to their own devices, many men are reticent to try psychotherapy. Some who have approached it in the past were scared away by the traditional pathological approach; this is the philosophy by which many therapists were trained: focus on the negative. Gender Aware Therapy emphasizes a man’s strengths and takes a positive approach. For psychotherapy to be effective, men must be comfortable in the journey.
Who Benefits
Men seeking a strengths-based, respectful therapeutic approach that honors how they express emotions and engage in change.
Couples Therapy
Relationships can be challenging. Couples therapy helps a couple move past fairy tales and myths. Couples learn how to communicate their needs and desires effectively to each other, rather than relying on ineffective mind-reading and assumptions. In a fast-paced, demanding culture, relationships are often taken for granted, leaving the door open for resentment and decay to take root.
Couples therapy allows the airing of grievances and emotional pain in a safe and supportive environment. Dedicated couples experience emotional healing and learn new ways of strengthening their bond to stand the test of time.
Gender Aware Therapy That Respects Strengths
Rebuild Connection and Communication
Who Benefits
Couples looking to improve communication, resolve recurring conflicts, rebuild trust, or strengthen emotional intimacy.