Therapists

 Meredith’s approach to therapy is to be a travel companion, guiding teens, high-achieving adolescents, families, and couples uncover how they arrived at their current challenges, develop healthier coping strategies, and identify what may be standing in the way of flourishing. She incorporates a strength-based approach with attachment-informed methods that address both past and present emotional injuries, helping clients build resilience, confidence, and emotional balance.

Meredith earned her master’s degree in Marriage and Family Therapy from California State University, Long Beach, where she trained in a variety of therapy methods, including cognitive behavioral therapy, attachment-based approaches, and psychodynamic psychotherapy. She is also trained in Accelerated Resolution Therapy (ART), a bilateral eye movement therapy that emphasizes body sensations and emotions, rather than cognition, for processing stress and trauma.

She has worked in diverse counseling settings, including the community-based JFCS of Long Beach, Hebrew Academy Day School in Huntington Beach, and Alliance Psychology Group in Long Beach. Meredith specializes in helping teens, high-achieving adolescents, couples, and families manage anxiety, stress, OCD, and ADHD. She understands how worry, perfectionism, school and athletic pressures, and parent-teen conflict can impact daily life and relationships. Her expertise helps clients move from feeling stuck or overwhelmed to building skills, resilience, and confidence for lasting growth.

Meredith has been practicing since 2007 and opened her own psychotherapy practice in 2020 and has since expanded to include associates, whom she supervises. She is excited to offer sessions at her Los Alamitos location, providing a supportive space for teens, adolescents, couples, and families to grow, heal, and flourish. 

When she is not seeing clients or managing the practice, she is spending time with her own family traveling to watch their sports with a coffee in hand.

 Emily works with children and teens and their families, as well as individual adults, and couples. She specializes in trauma-informed practices and experiential modalities. Her approach to therapy is collaborative, warm, and rooted in a person-centered framework. She believes that each individual is the expert of their own life, and her role is to create a safe space where you can explore your unique experiences, thoughts, and emotions together. As someone who is passionate about supporting neurodivergent and LGBTQIA+ clients, she understands how vital it is to approach therapy with an affirming and inclusive lens. She recognizes that identity—whether related to race, gender, sexuality, neurodiversity, or family dynamics—shapes how we experience the world, and she honors that in her work.  

She offers several therapeutic tools including play therapy, sand tray therapy, and art therapy directives (adults need play, too!) These modalities allow for a creative and expressive approach to healing, providing a way to process emotions that might be difficult to articulate. Her goal is to help you develop new coping skills, uncover your inner strengths, and build resilience in the face of life’s challenges. 

When she is not in session, she enjoys spending time with her cat, reading, traveling, and rollerskating. She believes  in the healing power of creativity and exploration, and she brings these passions into her work as well.