Online Forgiveness therapists in Irvine, California CA
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Shadi Souferian
Psychologist, Psy.D
We work with clients to move through and experience forgiveness for themselves and others.
26 Years Experience
Online in Irvine, CA
Abigail (Abi) Zarate Ramsay
Pre-Licensed Professional, Marriage and Family Therapist Trainee, Professional Clinical Counselor Trainee
I offer space to explore forgiveness on your terms, whether that means repairing relationships, letting go, or simply making peace with your own choices and boundaries.
0 Years Experience
Online in Irvine, CA (Online Only)
Phillip McCulley
Marriage and Family Therapist, MA, LMFT, CSAT
I work with individuals and couples who are exploring forgiveness after experiences of betrayal, rejection, or harm. This includes people healing from infidelity as well as LGBTQ individuals who have experienced judgment, abandonment, or hurt within families, relationships, or communities. Forgiveness can be a complex and deeply personal process, and it does not mean excusing behavior, forgetting what happened, or rushing toward reconciliation.
In therapy, we focus on helping you clarify what forgiveness means to you and whether it is part of your healing process. This may include working through anger, grief, shame, or resentment, while also strengthening boundaries and self respect. For some people, forgiveness involves repairing a relationship. For others, it is about releasing the emotional hold of past harm so they can move forward with greater freedom.
My role is to support you in making thoughtful and self honoring choices that align with your values. Whether forgiveness becomes part of your path or not, therapy can help you regain a sense of agency, clarity, and emotional balance after painful experiences.
22 Years Experience
Online in Irvine, CA
Iva Taylor Hypnosisbloom Hypnotherapy
Hypnotherapist, CHt. Certified Hypnotherapist, Life Coach
"Forgiveness is not about excusing harmful actions; it is a profound act of **Heart-Mind Coherence**. When unforgiveness (resentment, guilt, shame) is stored, it creates emotional stagnation that fuels anxiety and prevents focused action. As a specialist in subconscious alignment, I guide you to reclaim your power by releasing the energetic debt of the past. Through compassionate inquiry and guided techniques, we clear the heart's pathways, ensuring you create a future free from the constant burden of old wounds. True forgiveness is the path to achieving **Effortless Clarity** in the present.
Forgiveness is often misunderstood as condoning harmful actions. True forgiveness is an act of profound self-compassion, a way to reclaim your power and heal the wounds of the past. I offer a safe and supportive space to explore the process of forgiveness, both of yourself and others. Through guided techniques and compassionate inquiry, we'll work to release resentment, cultivate self-acceptance, and create a future free from the weight of unforgiveness."
2 Years Experience
Online in Irvine, CA (Online Only)
New Beginnings Christian Counseling
Marriage and Family Therapist, MA, LMFT
Forgiveness can be one of the most freeing—but also most challenging—steps in emotional and spiritual healing. Whether you are struggling to forgive yourself or someone else, unresolved hurt can keep you trapped in anger, resentment, or shame. In therapy, we help clients gently explore the pain, understand the impact of holding onto it, and work toward releasing it in a way that honors both their feelings and God’s truth. Through faith-informed guidance and practical therapeutic tools, forgiveness counseling supports healing, emotional freedom, and restoration—helping you experience peace, wholeness, and healthier relationships.
15 Years Experience
Online in Irvine, CA
Stuart Kaplowitz / Serene Pathways Counseling
Counselor/Therapist, MFT
I think forgiveness is much harder than people believe. It may take time to process and be ok with hurt or anger that you may have felt.
33 Years Experience
Online in Irvine, CA
Russell Wilkie
Marriage and Family Therapist, MFT
A friend of mine once said that not forgiving is like holding hot coals in your hands, threatening to throw them at someone, when all you get is burned hands -- better to drop the coals, through forgiveness, than keep getting burned. Forgiveness is for you, not the other person. It relieves you of the burden of carrying anger and resentment toward another, or even yourself. Forgiving yourself or another person can be very healing. Their response to you forgiving them can be a bonus, but it isn't necessary, as proven by the fact that we can forgive people who are no longer alive.
34 Years Experience
Online in Irvine, CA (Online Only)
Karen Rippy - Relationship Expert - office and online: Family, couple/marriage, extended family, students).
Marriage and Family Therapist, Ph.D., LMFT
Forgiveness is a process and it is a good idea for you and your partner to find full closure with a professional therapist rather than "sweep things under the rug" . Let me help you understand and more deeply understand "the elephant in the room."
Work individually and with your loved one to understand and heal relationship wounds.
41 Years Experience
Online in Irvine, CA
Lisa Abrams-Misbeek
Marriage and Family Therapist, LMFT
Therapy can help you acknowledge mistakes, accept responsibility by taking ownership of your actions, treat yourself with kindness and understanding, is key to letting go of guilt and shame. You'll learn to see past mistakes as opportunities for personal growth and development. We'll focus on steps that you can take to heal and progress.
15 Years Experience
Online in Irvine, CA (Online Only)
Frankie Santiago
Life Coach, Professional Life Coach
I help men and women work through forgiveness in a healthy, realistic way through practical life coaching. Whether forgiving yourself, a partner, family member, or past situation, we focus on releasing resentment, gaining perspective, and creating emotional freedom so you can move forward lighter and stronger. Sessions emphasize actionable steps for processing pain, building self-compassion, and turning difficult experiences into growth. My supportive, no-judgment approach helps you find peace on your timeline without pressure. Ready to let go and create space for better things? I offer a free 15 minute initial consultation to explore how we can move forward together.
15 Years Experience
Online in Irvine, CA (Online Only)
Castle Rock Family Services
Licensed Clinical Social Worker, LMFT, LCSW, AMFT, ACSW
We help clients explore and process forgiveness, whether of themselves or others, as part of emotional healing and personal growth.
12 Years Experience
Online in Irvine, CA
Sloane Fabricius
Marriage and Family Therapist, LMFT, LPCC, Clinical Supervisor
My hope and intent is for you to feel heard, seen, supported and hopeful about you and your circumstances. Van Gogh said it best, "I feel there is nothing more truly artistic than loving people." Our creative collaboration will equip you in getting your needs met in healthy ways.
29 Years Experience
Online in Irvine, CA
Marcelle Little
Marriage and Family Therapist, MPH, MA
Though forgiveness is a broad term, I focus more on the restoration of love, in which attention is drawn toward acceptance. When we are able to accept everything "as it is" ranging from dysfunctional family systems to toxic intimate relationships this quality restores love for our life's path. From the state of acceptance we are empowered to take action and release ourselves from the entanglement with perpetrator and allow for the responsibility to rest on them.
9 Years Experience
Online in Irvine, CA
Shannon Gorres
Life Coach, MDiv, MA
Whether you got betrayed or did something to hurt someone else, approaching forgiveness is not easy. There are complex factors involved, including our personal histories and the current context of the situation. Sometimes taking responsibility looks differently than we first thought, and that too can be hard to accept. When we approach forgiveness with respect for ourselves and the other person, we can approach it with dignity. Humans mess up, and humans can make amends or repair what's possible to repair. We can forgive without returning to the same situation. We can forgive and need to address the issue again later, from another layer or standpoint. Forgiveness is a process, that hopefully results- after addressing harm or hurt thoroughly- in feeling lighter, freer, and happier.
11 Years Experience
Online in Irvine, CA
Morgan Pemberton
Marriage and Family Therapist, LMFT, EMDR certified
Letting go of past hurts can feel impossible, especially when trauma is involved. Holding onto anger or resentment can weigh heavily on your heart and mind. At Full Brain Family Therapy, we help you navigate the complex journey of forgiveness by addressing the trauma that may be keeping you stuck. Through compassionate therapy, we provide coping strategies to heal emotional wounds, reclaim peace, and move forward with a sense of freedom and clarity.
11 Years Experience
Online in Irvine, CA (Online Only)
Dr Pamela Helen Polcyn
Marriage and Family Therapist, Phd, MFT
Forgiveness is an essential part of regaining wholeness and purpose in your life. Blame can keep you stuck and feeling disempowered. This process does not mean condoning inappropriate behavior. It is meant to facilitate growth and freedom in your life.
35 Years Experience
Online in Irvine, CA (Online Only)
Ben Leddick
Marriage and Family Therapist, LMFT
There has been a great deal written on forgiveness and your desire to move towards that process shows a willingness to understand what injustice you have suffered and how that pain is still being held. This work takes time to recognize the violation, the power dynamics that were and are at play, and to move towards a sense of compassion and empathy.
3 Years Experience
Online in Irvine, CA
Daniela Bumann
Life Coach, Trauma-Informed Life & Career Coach | Mindfulness-Based Coaching
Are you tired of destructive habits or need to forgive yourself or another? Recognize and get past limiting beliefs to live the life you WANT & deserve! In a positive and judgement free zone, learn NEW skills and strategies to achieve your goals and maximize your life - living it on your terms!
32 Years Experience
Online in Irvine, CA
Wildflower Therapy Group
Licensed Clinical Social Worker, LCSW, C-IAYT
At Wildflower Therapy Group, we support clients in exploring forgiveness in a way that feels safe, honest, and self-honoring. Therapy is not about forcing forgiveness or minimizing pain, but about helping clients process what they have been carrying, release what feels heavy, and move toward greater peace on their own terms.
6 Years Experience
Online in Irvine, CA
RelaxingOne.com Ned David Bratspis, PC
Marriage and Family Therapist, MA, LMFT
Forgiveness means giving up all hope of a better past.
35 Years Experience
Online in Irvine, CA (Online Only)
Irvine is one of the wealthiest and most planned cities in the United States — anchored by UC Irvine and home to the regional headquarters of dozens of major corporations — with a therapy community shaped by the intersection of high-achievement academic culture, tech and finance sector burnout, and a large East Asian population that brings distinct cultural dimensions to help-seeking and mental health. The city's majority-minority population — with Chinese, Korean, Indian, and Iranian communities among the most prominent — drives strong demand for multilingual therapists who can work across multiple cultural frameworks. Hoag Hospital and the UCI Health system provide institutional mental health resources, with a well-established private practice community serving Irvine's planned residential villages. UCI's clinical psychology training program supplies a significant number of therapists to the broader Orange County ecosystem.
Forgiveness therapists in Irvine, California Statistics
Forgiveness therapists in Irvine, California average 15 years of experience and charge around $205 per session. 100% offer online sessions. The most commonly treated issues are Forgiveness (100%), Anxiety or Fears (91%), and Stress (83%).
Average years in practice
15 Years Experience
Average cost per session
$205
Gender ID
| 59% |
Female |
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| 32% |
Male |
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| 5% |
Non-Binary |
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| 4% |
Gender Fluid |
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Session Type
| 60% |
In Person and Online |
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| 40% |
Online Only |
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Top Specialties
| 100% | Forgiveness |
| 91% | Anxiety or Fears |
| 83% | Stress |
| 80% | Self Esteem |
| 79% | Loss or Grief |
| 79% | Depression |
| 74% | Trauma and PTSD |