Therapist in Echo Park, Los Angeles + Online throughout California
Therapy for Family Wounds, Cultural Identity + Midlife Change
I help adults who are still carrying a parent's emotional immaturity, the pressure of living between cultures, or a midlife shift they didn't see coming, trust themselves again and decide what they want next.
You Already Know Something Isn't Working
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."
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.
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. Therapy gives you room to make sense of what's changing and choose what comes next.
[Perimenopause + Midlife]
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.
