In-person therapy in Echo Park, Los Angeles + online throughout California.
Therapy for Adults Navigating Family Wounds, Identity & Major Life Changes
Therapy for adults working through the impact of emotionally immature or narcissistic parents, multicultural identity and belonging, perimenopause, and the patterns that can make it difficult to trust yourself and your own experience.
Maybe You Know What the Problem Is. You Just Don’t Know What to Do With It.
You may already know your childhood affected you.
You may have finally found words like emotionally immature, narcissistic, or mother wound that explain a relationship you’ve struggled to understand for years.
Maybe you’re caught between cultures, family expectations, and different parts of your identity and you're tired of feeling like you have to explain or edit yourself depending on who you're with.
Or maybe you're going through a major transition and realizing that some of the ways you've learned to cope, connect, and keep everything together aren't working anymore.
Understanding where a pattern came from can be incredibly validating.
But eventually, another question comes up:
What do I do with what I know now?
That’s where therapy can help.
Therapy That Gets Specific
I work with adults who want to understand themselves more deeply without reducing everything they’re experiencing to a diagnosis or list of symptoms.
Emotionally Immature + Narcissistic Parents
You can love your family and still acknowledge that they hurt you.
Maybe your parent is critical, controlling, emotionally unavailable, unpredictable, or somehow always manages to make the conversation about them.
You may understand exactly why they are the way they are and still feel guilty, angry, confused, or small every time you’re around them.
Therapy can help you understand what you’ve carried from these relationships, grieve what you didn’t receive, build boundaries, and decide how you want to relate to your family now.
[Explore Family Wounds]
Multicultural Identity + Belonging
Sometimes being part of more than one culture means feeling like you should belong everywhere while somehow feeling completely at home nowhere.
Maybe you’ve spent years translating yourself depending on the room you’re in. Maybe parts of your family, culture, sexuality, spirituality, or identity don’t fit neatly together.
You shouldn’t have to explain every part of your life before you can start talking about how it has affected you.
[Explore Identity + Belonging]
Perimenopause + Midlife
Perimenopause and midlife can bring changes that reach far beyond your body.
You may feel more anxious, emotional, angry, uncertain, or simply unlike yourself. Relationships can change. Old family wounds can resurface. Questions about identity, aging, sexuality, purpose, and what you want from the next part of your life can suddenly feel much louder.
Therapy gives you somewhere to talk honestly about what’s changing and what this stage of life is bringing up for you.
[Explore Perimenopause + Midlife]
Therapy Specialties
Narcissistic / Emotionally Immature Caregivers
Heal early relational wounds and rebuild a stronger, more stable sense of self.
Multicultural Identity & Belonging
Explore cultural identity and create a sense of belonging that honors your full story.
Somatic Therapy, Brainspotting, and Intuitive Support
Work beyond talk therapy by engaging the body, nervous system, and deeper processing to support lasting change
There’s Room for All of You Here
Not everything meaningful fits neatly into traditional therapy language.
For some clients, spirituality, intuition, astrology, tarot, symbolism, creativity, or other ways of making meaning are important parts of how they understand themselves.
You don't have to leave those parts of yourself outside the therapy room.
If they're meaningful to you, they're welcome in our conversations. If they're not, they don't need to be part of the work at all.
The goal isn't to tell you what to believe.
It's to understand you more fully.
Hi, I’m Elena.
I’m Elena White, LMFT, a depth-oriented and relational therapist offering in-person therapy in Los Angeles and online throughout California.
I’m interested in what’s underneath the pattern, not just how to make the symptom disappear.
That means we may look at your early relationships, family dynamics, cultural identity, current relationships, the ways you've learned to protect yourself, and the parts of yourself you've learned to question or ignore.
Therapy with me is thoughtful, curious, direct, and human.
You don't need to arrive with the perfect clinical language for what you're experiencing.
You can just tell me what's actually going on.
In-Person Therapy in Echo Park + Online Throughout California
I offer in-person therapy near Echo Park Lake in Los Angeles, convenient to Echo Park, Silver Lake, Los Feliz, Highland Park, and Downtown LA.
Online therapy is also available for adults throughout California.
Whether we meet in person or virtually, we can start with what’s happening now and explore what has been shaping it.
Ready to Start?
You don’t have to have everything figured out before reaching out.
Bring the complicated family relationship, the identity questions, the transition you weren’t prepared for, or simply the feeling that something isn’t working anymore.
We’ll start there.
