In-person in Echo Park, Los Angeles + Online throughout California
Therapy for Family Wounds, Cultural Identity + Midlife Change
Licensed therapist with over a decade of experience supporting people through life’s challenges. In-person in Echo Park, Los Angeles + Online throughout California
You Already Know Something Isn't Working
Insight is a real step. It's also not the same as feeling different. Therapy is where what you understand starts to change how you live.
Maybe you've said some version of this:
"I know my mom can't change. So why does it still hurt this much?"
"I'm a completely different person depending on which side of my family I'm with."
"I don't recognize myself lately, and I can't blame it all on hormones."
"I've read every book. I understand it. I just don't know what to do now."
What I Help With
Narcissistic + Emotionally Immature Parents
"I'm an adult with a whole life, and one phone call still makes me feel twelve."
If your parent is critical, controlling, unpredictable, or always makes it about them, you may leave every visit doubting yourself. Therapy helps you grieve what you didn't get, set boundaries without drowning in guilt, and decide what relationship, if any, you want now.
[Narcissistic Abuse Recovery]
Multicultural Identity + Belonging
"Too much of one thing for one side of my family. Not enough for the other."
You may have spent years editing yourself for every room. This is a place to stop translating, bring every part of your story, and figure out what belonging means on your terms.
[Identity + Belonging]
Perimenopause + Midlife
"I'm angrier than I've ever been, and I don't know what I want anymore."
Midlife can shake loose old family wounds, relationship questions, and a quiet sense that the rules you've lived by don't fit. You might realize you want something completely different from what you have now. Therapy gives you room to make sense of what's changing and choose what comes next.
[Perimenopause + Midlife]
Hi, I’m Elena.
Hi, I'm Elena
I'm a relational, depth focused therapist (LMFT) in Echo Park. I have over a decade of experience helping people understand whats underneath their behaviors and patterns not only how to quiet the symptom.
That might mean looking at your family, your culture, your relationships, and the ways you learned to protect yourself. It always means talking like real people. You don't need clinical language. Just tell me what's going on.
In Person in Echo Park and Online Across California
In person sessions on Mondays at my Echo Park office, 1453 Bellevue Ave, Los Angeles, CA 90026. Online sessions for adults anywhere in California throughout the week.
Serving Echo Park, Silver Lake, Los Feliz, Angeleno Heights, Historic Filipinotown, and Downtown Los Angeles.
All parts of you are welcome here
For some clients, spirituality, intuition, astrology, tarot, or creative practice is part of how they make sense of their lives. If those tools matter to you, they can be part of therapy. If they don't, they never need to come up.
I’m skilled in tarot and astrology and can make room for these tools when they are meaningful to you.
Ready to Start?
You don't need to have it figured out. Bring the complicated parent, the identity questions, the change you didn't plan for, or just the feeling that something has to shift. That's where you and I begin.
Schedule a Free 15-20 Minute Consultation
