Stress therapists in Los Angeles, California CA
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Julie Levin
Marriage and Family Therapist, MFT
Having a difficult family member is sooooo stressful - especially if you live with them. Even the sound of their voice may set your teeth on edge. You may try really hard to maintain your composure, to be kind, understanding that they are not well. But the constant strain takes a toll. And, if you are responsible for the care of someone who is uncooperative or defiant, then you may be at your wits end. Together we can explore strategies of calming your nervous system. More than that, we can listen to the messages that stress is trying to send you and see if there are realistic ways to prioritize your own needs for peace, rest, calm, and joy.
27 Years Experience
Online in Los Angeles, CA California (Online Only)
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Danielle Walker
Marriage and Family Therapist, LMFT
I help clients identify the sources of stress and develop practical, personalized ways to manage it—creating space for both relief and resilience.
7 Years Experience
Online in Los Angeles, CA California (Online Only)
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Stephanie Brumfield
Therapist, LCSW
In navigating the complex terrain of stress, my practice takes a holistic and in-depth approach, recognizing that stress is often a surface symptom of deeper emotional, spiritual, and psychological currents. For empathetic, highly sensitive, and autistic individuals, stress doesn't merely stem from external pressures but is intricately linked to the profound experiences of self-criticism, anxiety, shame, and the overwhelming sense of responsibility for others' emotions. These experiences are compounded by challenges in setting boundaries, tendencies towards people-pleasing, perfectionism, and a deep-seated fear of disconnection, all of which can lead to a state of burnout and a feeling of being adrift from one's authentic self.
Understanding that stress can signal the soul's cry for healing, change, and a return to authenticity, my therapeutic process focuses on uncovering the root causes of stress. This involves exploring the impact of childhood trauma, the weight of ancestral grief, the struggle with navigating personal and collective awakenings, and the journey towards embracing one's true identity beyond societal and familial expectations. By addressing these foundational aspects, we engage in a transformative process aimed at reducing the immediate symptoms of stress while fostering a profound healing journey towards self-discovery, self-compassion, and empowerment.
The goal of our work together is to empower individuals to not only manage stress but to understand it as a meaningful part of their journey towards wholeness. Through developing healthier boundaries, embracing one's intrinsic worth independent of external validation, and cultivating a life in alignment with one's deepest truths, individuals can find peace, clarity, and a renewed sense of purpose. This comprehensive approach to stress transcends traditional coping mechanisms, inviting a deeper engagement with life's challenges as opportunities for growth and transformation.
8 Years Experience
Online in Los Angeles, CA California (Online Only)
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David Gumpert
Psychologist, PsyD
Stress in small amounts is helpful in giving us motivation to pursue our interests and follow through with commitments. At the same time, if unchecked, it can lead to anxiety and mental health disorders. Together we can learn how to manage stress better in your life so it is not negatively impacting both you mental and physical health, especially since we know now through decades of research that high levels of chronic stress can be a significant health risk (up there with smoking, poor diet, or lack of exercise).
5 Years Experience
Online in Los Angeles, CA California (Online Only)
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Heidi Hartston
Psychologist, PhD
Stress can have you feeling burned out, on edge, anxious, irritable or highly reactive. Whatever the cause, especially when there are multiple sources of stress, your nervous system can chronically burn on overdrive, disrupting your sleep and interfering in relationships, job performance and life satisfaction. Even with multiple sources of pressure on you, therapy can help you learn to create external boundaries by limiting what you take on, and internal boundaries by holding all that pressure at arms length, and managing stress in ways that allow you to access a sense of calm in the storm. I combine insightful, caring depth work with evidence based techniques that effectively free you from self-sabotaging patterns, and help you manage stress and build the balanced, happy life you deserve.
35 Years Experience
Online in Los Angeles, CA California (Online Only)
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Elaine Barrington
Licensed Clinical Social Worker, LCSW
Stress is managed by knowing our own capacity and limitations. As a mindfulness facilitator I often bring these techniques into my work with clients and focus on the 3 As - Acknowledgement, Allowance, and Acceptance. My favorite Zen proverb is "If you understand, things are just as they are. If you don't understand, things are just as they are." You may not be able to change your circumstances, but you can change how you relate to them and that usually changes everything. With clients I explore where change is possible and where acceptance is the change that is needed for equanimity.
32 Years Experience
In-Person in Los Angeles, CA 90293
Online in Los Angeles, CA California
Stress
Empowered Wellbeing, Decolonizing Intersectional and Integrative Complex Trauma & Dissociation Recovery Support
Life Coach, view my credentials online at: www.recoveringfromwithin.com/credentialslongform
Please see any of the other entries. Stress is such a word that sometimes does a lot of heavy lifting in our world. Stress can mean brief experiences of sensory or cognitive overload, or could be an expression of anxiety, other health challenge impacting mental health. It could result from just not having language or a sense of space where one is accepted and can belong available to talk about one's challenge. Generally, if it's not CPTSD related there are lots of great ways to sort through overload and growth with working with inner feelings. If it's CPTSD and DID or other CPTSD based, parts work or other neurodevelopmentally supportive care might help. If it's oppression based or chronic health based, then it may help to share about the situation and find ways that are less taxing, require less masking, etc. to move through a situation or be at peace in it. Stress can sometimes mask grief. Our hegemonic culture has not developed or has even discarded tools for working with grief. So sometimes stress can be indicator that grief work is helpful. Also, a very real factor is disaster capitalism -- giving people a place to be real about that and its multiple devastating impacts is often very helpful. Sometimes it can open up new creative ways of addressing the challenge and finding agency that might have been inaccessible before. Sometimes there is just a need to mourn the challenges with other compassionate folks to feel less alone. Sometimes its about family or cultural conditioning to prove and succeed in an automated way, that discards the realm of emotions that unfortunately can't be stuffed or wedged out forever, as they are a useful gauge for inner and broader conditions when worked with constructively. Stress could be resultant from conditions not listed here, like being an overextended caregiver, etc. or stepping into one's first big art/creative event... If you're feeling stress, please feel free to reach out and ask for help!
15 Years Experience
Online in Los Angeles, CA California (Online Only)
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Dr. Megie Shean
Psychologist, PsyD
I work with individuals experiencing chronic stress - to understand the impact it has on their physical and emotional health and to learn adaptive skills to use to reduce stress and better manage when it comes.
7 Years Experience
Online in Los Angeles, CA California (Online Only)
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The Connection Clinic
Marriage and Family Therapist
At The Connection Clinic, we understand that stress can impact every aspect of your life. Our therapies focus on developing coping strategies that help you manage stress effectively and find balance.
9 Years Experience
Online in Los Angeles, CA California (Online Only)
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Viktoria Walda Byczkiewicz, Ph.D.
Pre-Licensed Professional, PhD
Life is stressful. Sometimes everything comes tumbling down at once. Problems at work, in relationships with friends, family, or neighbors, or in encountering illness. Major source of difficulty especially these days is how financial setbacks can make living life freely and joyfully seem impossible. Prolonged stress can lead to or worsen physical illness and cause psychological imbalance. Among the possibilities, a solutions-focused approach can be helpful in slowly tackling the unwelcome practical burdens that life presents.
10 Years Experience
Online in Los Angeles, CA California (Online Only)
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Stephanie Morfitt, LCSW More Fit Mental Health
Licensed Clinical Social Worker, LCSW
When Stress Becomes Your Normal
You may be holding everything together — work, relationships, family — but inside, you feel stretched thin. Your mind is racing, your sleep is off, and no matter how much you get done, it never feels like enough. Maybe your body has started to show the strain too — headaches, fatigue, tension, or constant restlessness.
Stress is your body’s way of saying something needs care. When it becomes chronic, it can leave you feeling anxious, irritable, or disconnected from what once brought joy.
In therapy, we’ll use a structured, evidence-based approach called TEAM-CBT to help you calm your nervous system and regain a sense of balance. Together, we’ll:
Identify the thoughts and habits that keep your stress cycle running
Build emotional tools to manage pressure without burning out
Learn how to pause and reset your body’s “threat mode” using neuroscience-based skills
Strengthen your boundaries and reconnect with what truly matters to you
Replace overthinking and self-criticism with clarity and confidence
Our work combines practical tools, humor, and self-compassion — because healing from stress isn’t about doing more, it’s about learning how to do less with more presence and peace.
I BELIEVE:
Your stress is not a personal failure — it’s a signal asking for understanding, not judgment.
Balance isn’t something you find; it’s something you build, moment by moment.
You can be both ambitious and grounded, productive and peaceful.
Boundaries are acts of self-respect, not selfishness.
You deserve a life that feels manageable, meaningful, and your own.
Also Integrated In Our Work:
• Interpersonal Work – to strengthen connection and empower you to be yourself using The 5 Secrets of Effective Communication
• Mindful Self-Compassion – to cultivate a gentler, kinder inner voice through the work of Dr. Kristin Neff
• Trauma Resiliency Model (TRM) – to regulate the nervous system and support trauma recovery alongside cognitive tools for a well-rounded approach
10 Years Experience
In-Person in Los Angeles, CA 90066
Online in Los Angeles, CA California
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Emily St. Amant
Licensed Professional Counselor, MA, LPC-MHSP-S (TN), LPCC (CA)
We live in an increasingly stressful world, and most of my clients are managing some form of stress, be it personal, professional, relational, career-related, or vicarious trauma.
18 Years Experience
Online in Los Angeles, CA California (Online Only)
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Dr. Jen Bachtold
Psychologist, Ph.D., Certified Alcohol & Drug Counselor-II (CADC-II), Certified Clinical Trauma Professional, Specialist in Anger Management
Providing stress management, I am dedicated to helping individuals cope with and reduce stress by mindfulness-based techniques, time management, assertiveness and boundary setting, problem-solving skills, relaxation, and promotion of a healthy lifestyle. My approach is to assist with managing stress by encouraging resilience and overall well-being.
11 Years Experience
Online in Los Angeles, CA California (Online Only)
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Eric Olsen
Life Coach, PTSD, Trauma Triage, BSc Social Sciences, DoD Career Councilor, SARC, DAPA, Pre Licensed Human Intelligence / Psychology, Life Coach. | Professional Support: LSSBB, PgM, Bluestone PMP,
We work together to help you work through stress and build good habits so you are centered in your life and can deal with any type of stress that arises.
17 Years Experience
Online in Los Angeles, CA California (Online Only)
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Michael Myette Therapy
Licensed Clinical Social Worker, LCSW
I specialize in treatment for stress
19 Years Experience
Online in Los Angeles, CA California (Online Only)
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Marcelle Little
Marriage and Family Therapist, MPH, MA
Research indicates that improvement in the quality of emotions reduces stress. I guide you through a process to develop emotional regulation strategies to cope with stress and alter your experience with and perception of stressors.
9 Years Experience
In-Person in Los Angeles, CA
Online in Los Angeles, CA California
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David Strah
Marriage and Family Therapist, MA, LMFT
I have helped all my clients at one time or another with stress using several different therapeutic modalities
In-Person in Los Angeles, CA 90004
Online in Los Angeles, CA California
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Mia Turner
Therapist, MA, RYT, ASDCS, LMFT, NPT-C, CMNCS, CMIP
Stress is not simply an individual experience. It is often shaped by the cumulative demands of work, caregiving, relationships, marginalization, systemic pressures, trauma, chronic illness, and the pace of modern life.
My approach focuses on understanding stress through a nervous-system-centered lens. Together, we explore the patterns, expectations, environments, and survival strategies contributing to overwhelm while developing practical and sustainable ways to support regulation, resilience, rest, and wellbeing. Therapy creates space not only for coping, but also for examining whether the demands being placed upon you are truly sustainable.
10 Years Experience
Online in Los Angeles, CA California (Online Only)
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Amber McKinney-Morgan
Licensed Clinical Social Worker, LCSW, LICSW
Chronic stress can impact your body, mind, and overall quality of life. I work with clients to identify stressors, build effective coping strategies, and regulate the nervous system. Together, we create sustainable ways to manage stress so you can feel more balanced and in control.
8 Years Experience
Online in Los Angeles, CA California (Online Only)
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Daniel Slavin
Marriage and Family Therapist
I help clients understand how stress affects their body, emotions, and relationships. Therapy focuses on developing healthier coping strategies, improving boundaries, and creating more balance, resilience, and calm in daily life.
41 Years Experience
In-Person in Los Angeles, CA 90291
Online in Los Angeles, CA California
Los Angeles has one of the highest concentrations of therapists in the United States, with a culture that broadly embraces personal growth, self-development, and long-term therapeutic work. The entertainment industry generates distinct demand for therapists who understand performance anxiety, identity, the psychological pressures of creative careers, and the particular challenges of fame and public scrutiny. LA's extraordinary diversity means therapists fluent in Spanish, Korean, Mandarin, Farsi, Armenian, and Tagalog are all abundant, making culturally matched care particularly accessible. Cedars-Sinai Medical Center and the UCLA Health system anchor institutional mental health services across the Los Angeles basin.
Stress therapists in Los Angeles, California Statistics
Stress therapists in Los Angeles, California average 15 years of experience and charge around $205 per session. 99% offer online sessions. The top treatment approaches are Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) (61%), Psychodynamic Therapy (42%), and Person-Centered Therapy (Rogerian) (39%).
Average years in practice
15 Years Experience
Average cost per session
$205
Accept insurance
34%
Offer sliding scale
51%
Gender ID
| 70% |
Female |
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| 25% |
Male |
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| 3% |
Non-Binary |
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| 2% |
Gender Fluid |
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Session Type
| 61% |
In Person and Online |
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| 38% |
Online Only |
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| 1% |
In Person Only |
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Top Treatment Approaches
| 61% | Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) |
| 42% | Psychodynamic Therapy |
| 39% | Person-Centered Therapy (Rogerian) |
| 36% | Existential / Humanistic Therapy |
| 34% | Emotionally Focused Therapy (EFT) |
| 34% | Somatic Therapy |
| 32% | Solution-Focused Brief Therapy (SFBT) |
Ages Served
| 100% | Adult |
| 64% | Young Adult |
| 52% | Senior |
| 47% | Teen |
| 21% | Children |
Client Focus
| 61% | Women |
| 40% | LGBTQ+ |
| 39% | Men |
| 27% | Christian |
| 25% | Black / African American |