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 Specialties
Emotionally Immature + Narcissistic Parents
Understand the impact of early family wounds, grieve what you didn’t receive, and build boundaries that reflect who you are now.
Multicultural Identity + Belonging
Explore the complexities of culture, family, identity, and belonging without having to simplify or explain away parts of yourself.
Perimenopause + Midlife
Navigate the emotional, relational, and identity shifts of midlife while making space for what’s changing, resurfacing, and emerging.
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.
