Elena White Psychotherapy for Healing in Los Angeles, California

Feelings of distress, anxiety, sadness, and grief can pose a difficult challenge: the way you have been navigating life no longer works, but you’re not sure how to go about making a change on your own. You may feel like these emotions are getting too big to move around. They may be starting to get in the way of important relationships, work, school, or other areas of your life.

You may be experiencing anxiety, panic attacks, despair, and sadness. If that’s true for you, you’re not alone. I’m here to help.

I have experience treating:

• Anxiety

• Panic disorders

• Having an emotionally immature, emotionally abusive, or narcissistic parent or caregiver

• Issues around mixed-race, ethnic identity, and non-belonging

• Intergenerational trauma and family judgment

• Difficulty having success with meaningful or healthy relationships

• General unease, a strange sadness, or isolation from others

• Age and transition difficulty

• Women’s health issues (PMDD and menopause)

As we work together to identify past parts of yourself, you’ll uncover ways to grow happily or healthily into your future.

What Does Therapy Look Like?

When we begin working together, I will first gather information from you about what you are feeling and experiencing, your background and history, and what your goals are for treatment. (And if you’re not sure about those just yet, we can collaborate on them together, over time.)

I utilize a supportive, psychodynamic approach, which primarily means that I am interested in both your past and your present, in order to help you work toward a more content future. I believe that our earliest relationships have the most significant influence on how we view our world and our places in it. Once we identify these influences and patterns, we are able to adjust, reframe, and heal from them. You may think, “I’ve already discussed this with my old therapist,” or “I’m not interested in looking to the past, I need to focus on the future.” 

But uncovering old relationships, experiences, patterns, or habits will help expose the more difficult parts of your life experience that are demanding to be heard. 

I will be here with you as we start to uncover and listen to the hidden parts of yourself. I offer a safe space to start letting go, in order to make room for happiness, fulfillment, and freedom. We will work at a pace that feels comfortable and useful for you. Together, we will work on identifying and meeting your unique short- and long-term goals.

We can also work on helping you find relief from burnout, exhaustion, insecurity, and lack of boundaries. Therapy is a relationship like no other, and my own experiences have helped prepare me to help others gain confidence, hope, and finding their most authentic and comfortable selves.

For those who are interested, I also draw from the metaphysical, utilizing astrology and tarot as tools for investigation and inquiry. These can be powerful mechanisms to explore both individual medicine and challenges in a nonpathologizing way.

I’m here to help you enjoy, embrace, and celebrate parts of yourself that you may have been told don’t belong. I will support you on a journey to identify these aspects of yourself and to help you understand where they come from.