The Therapia Blog
Ideas and commentary on healing and emotional growth around trauma, illness, grief, relationships, neurodivergence, and more.
How to Talk to Your Child About Death
Children often carry questions about death silently. A child and grief therapist explains what kids understand at each age, what to say, and when to get help.
Why Do I Feel More Alone After Talking to Them? The Four Types of Listeners
The story stealer, the fixer, the minimizer. A therapist explains why some conversations leave you lonelier, and how couples and families can listen better.
Fearful-Avoidant Attachment: When You Crave Closeness and Panic When It Arrives
Hot and cold, deeply loving, then suddenly distant. A therapist explains fearful-avoidant (disorganized) attachment, where it comes from, and how it heals.
Why Ghosting Hurts So Much (Especially With Anxious Attachment)
Ghosting leaves you without an ending. A therapist explains why silence hits anxious attachment so hard, plus breadcrumbing, love bombing, and how to heal.
Does Grief Ever Go Away? Learning to Grow Around Loss
Grief doesn’t shrink on a schedule. A grief therapist explains growing around grief, the dual process model, and when grief needs more support.
Why You Avoid the Things You Want Most
Avoiding the opportunities you want isn’t laziness. A Beverly Hills psychotherapist explains how the nervous system learns avoidance, and how therapy helps.
Coping With a Colorectal Cancer Diagnosis: A Mental Health Guide
Colorectal cancer carries emotional layers that are specific and often unspoken. The stigma attached to a cancer involving the bowel and digestive system, the fear about surgical changes to the body, and the anxiety about treatment outcomes create a psychological burden that general therapy isn't always equipped to address. Specialized mental health support, including the kind offered through practices focused on medical trauma, can make a concrete difference in how patients move through treatment and survivorship. This article walks through who helps, what therapeutic approaches work, how to find oncology-informed clinicians, and what to ask before committing to a therapist.
Living With Chronic Illness: How Therapy Helps, and How to Find the Right Therapist in Los Angeles
What therapy for chronic illness actually helps with, and how to find a chronic illness therapist in Los Angeles.
Medical Trauma: Why a Hospital Stay Can Stay With You, and How Therapy Helps
A frightening diagnosis, ICU stay, or emergency surgery can leave lasting trauma. Signs of medical trauma and how to find a medical trauma therapist in Los Angeles.
Caregiver Burnout: Signs You’re Running on Empty, and Where to Find Support in Los Angeles
Caring for a parent, partner, or child with a serious illness is exhausting. Signs of caregiver burnout and how to find a caregiver therapist in Los Angeles.
Grief Therapy in Los Angeles: When Grief Needs More Than Time
How to know when grief support could help, the kinds of loss that often go unrecognized, and how to find a grief therapist in Los Angeles.
Complex Trauma and C-PTSD: What It Is, and What Healing Can Look Like
Complex trauma comes from ongoing harm, often in childhood or close relationships. What C-PTSD looks like and how to find a complex trauma therapist in Los Angeles.
After a Traumatic Event: What’s Normal, When to Get Help, and Finding a PTSD Therapist in Los Angeles
A car accident, assault, fire, or sudden loss can shake your sense of safety. What's normal in the weeks afterward, when to seek help, and how to find a trauma therapist in Los Angeles.
Perimenopause, Midlife, and Mental Health: Finding a Menopause-Informed Therapist in Los Angeles
Anxiety, rage, low mood, and brain fog can all be part of perimenopause. How therapy helps during the menopause transition, and how to find a menopause-informed therapist in LA.
The Emotional Side of Fertility Treatment: Finding a Fertility Therapist in Los Angeles
Infertility and IVF can be one of the hardest things a person goes through. How a fertility therapist helps at each stage, and how to find one in Los Angeles.
Deciding Whether to Have Kids: How Therapy Can Help With One of Life’s Biggest Decisions
If you're unsure whether you want children, or when, a therapist can help you sort through the parenthood decision, alone or with a partner, in Los Angeles.
Beyond the Baby Blues: Perinatal and Postpartum Mental Health Support in Los Angeles
Postpartum depression and anxiety are common and treatable. Signs to watch for during pregnancy and after birth, and how to find a perinatal therapist in Los Angeles.
Getting Through a Divorce: How a Therapist Can Help Before, During, and After
Divorce and separation affect every part of life. How therapy helps whether you're deciding, in the middle of it, or rebuilding afterward, and how to find a divorce therapist in LA.
Why Heartbreak Hurts So Much, and When to Talk to a Therapist About It
Why heartbreak can hurt as much as grief, when it's worth getting support, and how to find a breakup therapist in Los Angeles.
Couples Therapy in Los Angeles: Your Questions, Answered
When to start couples therapy, what happens in sessions, what if your partner won't come, and how to find a couples therapist in Beverly Hills or Los Angeles.