Individual therapy in Beverly Hills
People come to therapy when something has shifted: a diagnosis, a loss, a relationship ending, or a slow sense that the way they are living is not working anymore. What that looks like changes across a life, and so does the work.
Our therapists see adults at every stage, in person in Beverly Hills and online across California. You do not need a crisis, or the right words for it, to start.
In person in Beverly Hills or online across California · In-network with Cigna and UnitedHealthcare
Therapy through the chapters of a life
What people bring to therapy shifts with the decade they are in. These are the themes we see most often, though plenty of people arrive with something that does not match their age at all.
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Your twenties
Becoming yourself
School ends and the structure goes with it. This is the decade of first jobs that do not feel like a career, friendships that thin out, relationships that teach you things about yourself, and the quiet question of whether the life you were supposed to want is actually yours. For many people it is also when family expectations, cultural expectations, or an old family pattern start pressing in a new way.
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Your thirties
Building a life with other people in it
Partnership, marriage, fertility, and early parenthood all land in a narrow window, often alongside the most demanding years of a career. Becoming a parent has a way of raising your own childhood, and a relationship that worked fine before can buckle under sleep deprivation and a renegotiated division of labor. Some people are deciding whether they want any of this at all.
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Your forties and fifties
Holding it from both sides
You may be caring for aging parents while raising teenagers, in a marriage that has gone quiet, in a body that is changing faster than anyone warned you. Perimenopause, a first health scare, a career you are reassessing, and a child who needs you differently than before often arrive together. This is the decade people most often describe as having nothing left for themselves.
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Your sixties and beyond
Meaning, loss, and what you want the rest to be
Caring for a spouse, living with your own diagnosis, or watching a partner change in ways you cannot stop. Retirement can loosen an identity built over forty years, and friends begin to die. Alongside the grief there is usually a real question underneath: what matters now, and what do you want this chapter to be about.
How individual therapy works here
We are not a practice that hands out coping skills and moves you along. Our clinicians work relationally and in depth, which means paying attention to what is actually happening between us, and to the patterns you learned long before this problem showed up.
Depending on what you need, that can include EMDR for trauma, Internal Family Systems and parts work, psychodynamic and attachment-based therapy, existential therapy, Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, and mindfulness. We match the approach to you rather than the other way round.
Most clients meet weekly at first. We check in regularly on what is helping, and we will tell you honestly if we think someone else is a better fit.
Clinicians who focus on this
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Dr. Gozde Gokozan, PsyD, LMFT, LPCC
EMDR for trauma, plus chronic illness, perimenopause, and anxiety. Sessions in English and Turkish.
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Mo Mokgobu, MA, APCC
Identity, bicultural stress, and racial and intergenerational trauma, with culturally affirming care.
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Liz Doyle, MA, AMFT
Life transitions, caregiving, and living with illness, including the bigger questions of meaning and mortality.
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Maria (Mimi) Newman, AMFT
Grief, cancer and medical trauma, and support for adults caring for someone who is ill.
Common questions
Do I need a diagnosis to start therapy?
No. Most people come because something in their life is hard, not because of a diagnosis. If a diagnosis becomes useful, for insurance or for your own understanding, we will talk about it together.
I am in my twenties and everyone says this is just what your twenties are like. Is therapy overkill?
No. “Everyone feels this way” and “this is worth working on” are both true. Patterns you sort out now tend to be easier to shift than the same patterns twenty years later.
I am caring for my parents and my kids at once. Where would I even find the time?
This is one of the most common reasons people put off therapy and one of the best reasons to start. Sessions are weekly, one hour, and available online, which for many clients is the only version that actually fits.
How do I know which therapist to see?
Start with a free 15-minute call. We ask what brings you in, what you have tried, and what you are hoping for, then suggest the clinician whose focus fits. If nobody here is right, we will say so and point you elsewhere.
How long will I be in therapy?
It depends on what you are working on. Some focused work takes a few months. Longer-standing patterns take longer. We revisit the question together rather than leaving it open indefinitely.
What does it cost?
With Cigna or UnitedHealthcare, you pay your plan’s copay or coinsurance, and your cost is the same with every clinician in our practice. For other plans we provide superbills for out-of-network reimbursement. The 15-minute consultation is free.
A free 15-minute call.
You tell us what's going on in your own words. We answer questions about how we work, insurance, and scheduling, and suggest the clinician who fits best.
What to expect
Your first session.
During the intake, get the fuller picture: what brought you here, what you've already tried, and what you want to be different.
Ongoing therapy.
Most clients meet weekly at first. We check in regularly on what's helping and adjust together.
Start where you are
A free 15-minute call is enough to figure out the next step. You do not need to explain everything, or have it organized first.
9615 Brighton Way, Suite 219, Beverly Hills, CA 90210 · Online across California