Women's Issues therapists in Los Angeles, CA
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Women's Issues
Amber McKinney-Morgan
Licensed Clinical Social Worker, LCSW, LICSW
Women often navigate unique pressures related to identity, relationships, career, and societal expectations. I provide a supportive space to explore these experiences, including boundaries, self-worth, life transitions, and reproductive or relational concerns. Our work focuses on helping you feel more empowered, connected, and aligned with your values.
8 Years Experience
Online in Los Angeles, CA (Online Only)
Women's Issues
Sara Fraser
Psychologist, PhD
There are many systems in place that negatively impact women in the world, especially women of color. As I have navigated the world as a cisgender woman and have myself come into contact to the ways that systemic oppression impact me, it has informed my work with women to better understand these often invisible systems, how they coerce and pressure us for compliance and how women can push back against these patterns both individually and in community.
26 Years Experience
Online in Los Angeles, CA (Online Only)
Women's Issues
Dr. Megie Shean
Psychologist, PsyD
I love working with women - navigating assertiveness, boundary setting, and learning to take up space. In addition, I love perinatal work - working with women who are pregnant, want to be pregnant, experiencing perinatal or postpartum depression, anxiety, OCD, or psychosis. You are not alone and do not have to do it without support.
7 Years Experience
Online in Los Angeles, CA (Online Only)
Women's Issues
Mary Mallinson Therapy
Licensed Clinical Social Worker, LCSW
I work with women navigating life transitions, identity, relationships, and cultural or family expectations. Therapy offers space to explore your voice, process your experiences, and reconnect with your needs in a supportive and empowering way.
5 Years Experience
Online in Los Angeles, CA (Online Only)
Women's Issues
Growth and Change Counseling
Marriage and Family Therapist, LMFT
We understand the complexities of the issues that women deal with navigating the world today, the expectations for work and career achievement, the desire at times for a romantic partner or children, the conflicts that arise between the limits of time and the seeming insurmountable expectations on your life. Its not for us to tell you how it is, its for you to tell us how it is and we will support you in your journey in whatever way is needed.
8 Years Experience
Online in Los Angeles, CA (Online Only)
Women's Issues
Erin Powers
Counselor/Therapist, APCC 9590
As a woman, I am aware of the unique issues women face in the world. I am here for support and guidance.
6 Years Experience
Online in Los Angeles, CA (Online Only)
Women's Issues
Stephanie Brumfield
Therapist, LCSW
In the intimate journey of healing and self-discovery, my practice stands as a sanctuary for women confronting the multifaceted dimensions of the mother wound and its profound impact on their sense of self and relational dynamics. This nuanced approach extends beyond the immediate challenges of motherhood, delving deep into the legacy of maternal relationships that shape our experiences as women—from feelings of inadequacy and unresolved anger to the profound yearning for a nurturing connection that was absent.
Acknowledging the intricate ways in which the mother wound intertwines with the stages of womanhood, I provide a compassionate, supportive space for women at all points of their life journey. Whether grappling with the emotional aftermath of reproductive choices, such as abortions or pregnancy terminations, navigating the complexities of becoming a mother, or seeking to heal from painful childhoods and ancestral traumas, my practice is dedicated to fostering healing, empowerment, and self-reclamation.
Central to this work is the exploration of the mother wound, aiming to break the cycles of pain and misunderstanding that bind us. Through this lens, we address not just the personal narratives of hurt and longing but also the broader societal expectations and stigmas that influence our self-perception and relationships. My goal is to guide women through this deeply transformative process, offering insights and therapeutic interventions that illuminate the path to healing, self-acceptance, and the ability to form healthier, more fulfilling relationships.
This holistic, empathetic approach is designed to support women in reclaiming their power, voice, and worth, enabling them to move forward with a renewed sense of wholeness and authenticity. Here, in a space where the unspoken and unseen are brought to light, the journey toward healing the mother wound becomes a pivotal step in embracing a liberated, empowered sense of self.
8 Years Experience
Online in Los Angeles, CA (Online Only)
Women's Issues
Laura Anderson LPCC, Eff Shame Therapy
Licensed Professional Counselor, LPCC
Being a woman carries its own particular weight. The ways you've been diminished, dismissed, sexualized, expected to shrink or perform or endure. The harm that comes not just from individual people but from systems, cultures, and messages absorbed so early they feel like your own thoughts.
I work with women from a trauma-informed, feminist, shame-free perspective — addressing the ways gender-based harm, systemic oppression, and the relentless pressure to be everything for everyone shows up in your nervous system, your relationships, and your sense of self. I use EMDR, Flash Technique, and approaches that treat the root rather than just the symptoms.
You are not too much. You have just been carrying too much.
12 Years Experience
Online in Los Angeles, CA (Online Only)
Women's Issues
Heidi Hartston
Psychologist, PhD
I work with high functioning professional women who perform in multiple roles at work and at home, face corporate misogyny or age bias towards women, shoulder a large part of the parenting, relationship, household, social and financial responsibilities and feel pressure to hold everything together. Women are often pushed to meet impossible expectations, and are looked down upon for showing signs of strain. Therapy can support you in establishing boundaries, taking criticism less personally, and maintaining your own calmness, self-care and sense of self-worth, regardless of the pressure you're under. I combine insightful, caring depth work with effective evidence based techniques that build resilience under pressure, free you from self-sabotaging reactivity, and help you to keep access to your calm, best-self.
35 Years Experience
Online in Los Angeles, CA (Online Only)
Women's Issues
Eve Angela Fritsch
Marriage and Family Therapist, M.A.
Being a woman comes with unique challenges that can change throughout different stages of life. From navigating relationships, motherhood, career changes, menopause, infertility, or questions about your identity, therapy can help you better understand yourself and move through these changes.
9 Years Experience
Online in Los Angeles, CA (Online Only)
Women's Issues
Melissa Klass M.A., LMFT
Marriage and Family Therapist, M.A., LMFT #119163
Being a woman in America in 2024 is not easy. A mentor of mine once said that she did not envy my experience as a woman today. She grew up in a different time, a time when she was expected to be a good mother for her children and a responsible homemaker for her husband. Today, beyond these roles, there is a subtle, quiet undercurrent of expectations including, but by no means limited to, being a “good” wife, sister, friend, and neighbor (what does “good” mean anyway?), a career woman, an impromptu party host with a meticulous home (cook, housekeeper, etc.), and a selfless volunteer in the community, all while maintaining a size 2 figure. How can we possibly manage all this and more? Together we can explore the expectations you have of yourself as well as your place in today's world.
10 Years Experience
Online in Los Angeles, CA (Online Only)
Women's Issues
Mia Turner
Therapist, MA, RYT, ASDCS, LMFT, NPT-C, CMNCS, CMIP
Support for women navigating identity, burnout, caregiving, relationships, life transitions, body changes, reproductive experiences, chronic illness, disability, leadership, self-worth, and the visible and invisible expectations placed upon women across personal, professional, societal, vocational, educational, relational, cultural, and family systems.
This work recognizes that women's experiences do not occur in isolation. They are shaped by the intersections of gender, race, culture, neurodivergence, disability, sexuality, spirituality, socioeconomic realities, family roles, community, and lived experience. Particular attention is given to the ways societal expectations, caregiving demands, perfectionism, people-pleasing, masking, emotional labor, and internalized messages about worth, productivity, appearance, sacrifice, and success can influence wellbeing, identity, relationships, and connection with self.
Exploration may include the impact of hormones and hormonal transitions across the lifespan, including menstruation, PMDD, pregnancy, postpartum experiences, perimenopause, menopause, fertility challenges, reproductive decision-making, and the often-overlooked ways hormones can interact with neurodivergence, sensory experiences, executive functioning, emotional regulation, energy capacity, and nervous system functioning.
My approach integrates EMDR, somatic therapy, mindfulness, polyvagal-informed practices, parts work, neuropsychotherapy, expressive arts, attachment-focused approaches, and liberation-oriented healing. Rather than focusing on helping you adapt to unrealistic expectations, this work invites curiosity about which expectations genuinely align with your values and which may no longer serve you. Attention is given to both the external systems and internalized narratives that shape how you relate to yourself, your body, your needs, your ambitions, and your place in the world.
Therapy offers space to reconnect with your voice, honor your needs, deepen self-trust, and cultivate a more compassionate relationship with yourself. The goal is not simply to function better within systems that may contribute to exhaustion or disconnection, but to create a life that feels more sustainable, authentic, embodied, and aligned with your values, capacity, relationships, and wellbeing.
10 Years Experience
Online in Los Angeles, CA (Online Only)
Women's Issues
PBA Psychology Group, Inc.
Psychologist, Clinical and Forensic Psychology
We have several women clinicians, skilled at working with women in addressing concerns unique to the experience of womanhood.
30 Years Experience
In-Person in Los Angeles, CA 90015
Online in Los Angeles, CA
Women's Issues
Dr. Lynn E. O'Connor
Therapist, PhD
There is no way to ignore and live untouched by the system of male supremacy, despite the progress we've made over the past decades. I help women begin to understand how the many problems and challenges they've faced, believing them to be personal and psychological, have been fundamentally political ramifications of the male supremacist system we all endure. As a feminist prosocial psychologist, I support women raise their consciousness of the effects of the broader system and help them develop the strength and confidence they need to pursue the life they've wanted.
34 Years Experience
Online in Los Angeles, CA (Online Only)
Women's Issues
Dr. M at Insight Thoughts Psychotherapy Services (ITPS) Inc
Licensed Professional Counselor, EdD, LPCC
Women often face layered pressures tied to roles, relationships, and life stages. I provide a space to explore these experiences with care and help you make sense of how they affect your emotional health and sense of self.
7 Years Experience
Online in Los Angeles, CA (Online Only)
Women's Issues
Empowered Wellbeing, Decolonizing Intersectional and Integrative Complex Trauma & Dissociation Recovery Support
Life Coach, view my credentials online at: www.recoveringfromwithin.com/credentialslongform
This topic can be addressed on many layers e.g. psychological, physiologial, emotional, mental, sexual, existential, racial, economic, social-culturally, familial... With an intersectional lens clients can look at the co-existence of more than one factor and impact. Our care model brings context back, affirms cycles and changes, and looks at issues of health from a multi-layered lens. Please also check some of the specific sections listed on this page for intersectional care.
15 Years Experience
Online in Los Angeles, CA (Online Only)
Women's Issues
Forest Williams
Life Coach, ICF
I've lived as a woman for 25 years and deeply understand the impacts of female social conditioning (over-giving, minimizing feelings/needs, self abandonment, etc.)
7 Years Experience
Online in Los Angeles, CA (Online Only)
Women's Issues
Stephanie Morfitt, LCSW More Fit Mental Health
Licensed Clinical Social Worker, LCSW
When You’re Carrying Too Much
As women, we often move through life balancing everything — work, relationships, caregiving, identity, and the invisible pressure to handle it all with grace. You may be outwardly capable and composed while inside you feel depleted, resentful, or unsure who you are beneath all the roles you play. Maybe you’re constantly taking care of everyone else, striving to meet impossible standards, or feeling guilt no matter what you do. Perhaps you’ve lost touch with your sense of joy, rest, or voice — the parts of you that feel most alive.
In therapy, we’ll use a structured, evidence-based approach called TEAM-CBT to help you reconnect with yourself and create a life that feels grounded, balanced, and authentic. You’ll learn how to:
Identify and challenge beliefs that keep you stuck in guilt or perfectionism
Strengthen your boundaries and rediscover your own needs and values
Reduce anxiety and overwhelm through neuroscience-based tools
Rebuild confidence and self-trust in relationships and decision-making
Experience calm, freedom, and clarity in place of pressure and self-doubt
This work is not about “fixing” you — it’s about helping you feel at home in your own life, with space for both ambition and rest, care and boundaries, strength and softness.
I BELIEVE:
You can be nurturing without losing yourself.
You don’t have to earn rest or worthiness — they’re already yours.
Setting boundaries is an act of love, not rejection.
Growth doesn’t mean becoming someone else; it means coming home to yourself.
Women heal best in spaces that honor their complexity, courage, and truth.
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
Women's Issues
Nekea Strong (Abundant Life Therapy)
Pre-Licensed Professional, AMFT, APCC
In providing support for womens issues, my focus is on addressing the emotional and psychological challenges that can arise across different life stages. This work may include navigating identity, relationships, boundaries, career stress, motherhood, or societal expectations. Therapy provides a space for reflection, skill building, and empowerment, with an emphasis on strengthening confidence, self trust, and overall emotional well being.
3 Years Experience
Online in Los Angeles, CA (Online Only)
Women's Issues
Tracy Sachs (Singh)
Therapist, MA, AMFT
I work with women navigating identity, relationships, motherhood, divorce, life transitions, boundaries, and the tension between caring for others and remaining connected to themselves. Drawing from depth psychology and a relational perspective, therapy can become a place to understand inherited patterns and expectations while developing a more authentic relationship with your own needs, desires, and inner life.
7 Years Experience
Online in Los Angeles, CA (Online Only)
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.
Women's Issues therapists in Los Angeles, CA Statistics
Women's Issues therapists in Los Angeles, CA average 14 years of experience and charge around $207 per session. 100% offer online sessions. The top treatment approaches are Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) (57%), Somatic Therapy (40%), and Emotionally Focused Therapy (EFT) (39%).
Average years in practice
14 Years Experience
Average cost per session
$207
Accept insurance
38%
Offer sliding scale
55%
Gender ID
| 84% |
Female |
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| 11% |
Male |
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| 3% |
Non-Binary |
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| 2% |
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 Treatment Approaches
| 57% | Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) |
| 40% | Somatic Therapy |
| 39% | Emotionally Focused Therapy (EFT) |
| 39% | Person-Centered Therapy (Rogerian) |
| 38% | Psychodynamic Therapy |
| 33% | Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR) |
| 33% | Family Systems Therapy |
Ages Served
| 98% | Adult |
| 67% | Young Adult |
| 52% | Senior |
| 48% | Teen |
| 28% | Children |
Client Focus
| 79% | Women |
| 50% | LGBTQ+ |
| 34% | Men |
| 31% | Hispanic / Latino |
| 28% | Black / African American |