ABOUT
Spaces Therapy is a relational psychotherapy practice based in Highland Park, Los Angeles.
Our team of highly relational therapists helps individuals and couples with issues of anxiety, stress, depression, loneliness, difficulty communicating, and relational intimacy find clarity in their struggles and cultivate healthier relationships with others, and with themselves. We are committed to creating warm, comfortable environments with genuine therapists that enable each person to show-up as themselves.
Our Values
SUSTAINABILITY
We love the earth, we love our team, and we love our clients - and therefore we hold ourselves responsible for practicing in ways that contribute to the longevity of each of them. This ranges from our conscious use of renewable products in our office, to making sure that each therapist is able to find both purpose and rest in a way that leaves us feeling both challenged and sustained. For our clients, this means developing a network of resources that we can provide to assist with meeting their needs in as holistic and accessible ways as possible.
EMPOWERMENT
Our desire for empowerment hits on both micro and macro levels. Internally, we want to help each of our therapists find their own unique voice in this field. This includes developing specialities and brainstorming ways beyond face-to-face sessions that our therapists can offer their knowledge, insight, and skills to our community (i.e. workshops, groups, writing, local engagement, free and low-cost services, etc.)
And while we would love to provide as much therapy, as many resources, and safe connections as possible, we also realize that we are only one group with our own natural limitations. In response to this, we work to identify groups and people who are providing what we cannot, and sharing them with our community while also supporting some of them financially on a monthly basis.
COMMUNITY
One of the main reasons for group practice is the community. Whether you’re a therapist, a wellness practitioner looking for professional support, or a person looking to make more safe connections in the world, we try to make the space to find it. We prioritize creating resources, groups, events, and opportunities for our clients and colleagues to be connected and discover rich, intentional, and insightful community.
As a team, being in community goes beyond just having people to share office space and supplies with. We are here for the “how was your weekend” check-ins, the walks to the coffee shop, the “can I show you this cute picture of my dog?”, the case consultations, the shared meals, and the processing of collective joys and traumas. Our hope is that this sense of genuine human-to-human connection extends into everything we do.
INCLUSIVITY
While we do not assume that we will be the best-fit group practice for any therapist or best-fit therapists for any client, we do believe we have a responsibility to create an environment where all feel welcome. We recognize that much of society has been built with unjust and unreasonable limitations, standards, and obstacles for the global majority, our immigrant neighbors, our queer neighbors, and those with both visible and invisible differing abilities (amongst others). We expect that our therapists will take a constant learning posture, both to consider how to provide more inclusive treatment for the wide range of our clients, and also to examine any internalized biases that may limit their ability to provide fair and quality treatment, resources, and referrals.
Our Approaches
Psychodynamic Psychotherapy
Psychodynamic psychotherapy brings a more rational lens to psychoanalytic therapy. Here, the relationship between therapist and client is key to helping process and heal past and present relational wounds.
Brainspotting
Brainspotting is an advanced brain-body therapy based on the premise: 'where you look affects how you feel.' It finds eye positions that correlate with unconscious, emotional experiences to release residual trauma or emotional stress.
Attachment-Based Psychotherapy
We offer Attachment Assessments to help you uncover and explore your attachment style. We also utilize Attachment Theory in psychotherapy to find connections between your early life and difficult present experiences.
Depth-Oriented Psychotherapy
Depth therapy focuses on exploring aspects of your unconscious or parts of self that are difficult to access on your own. It's used to uncover unconscious thoughts or beliefs that impact your present situation.
Grief Counseling
Grief counseling is generally shorter term and aims to help you process loss. We also work to help you integrate that person into your life in ways that keep you connected to their memory.
Couples Counseling
Couples Counseling is for pairs needing to process anything from difficulty communicating to the future of their relationship. Together we'll explore each partners’ history and uncover tools tailored to your situation.
TRAUMA-FOCUSED THERAPY
Trauma-Focused therapy works to understand how past and ongoing physical and emotional traumas have impacted both your mind and body. We focus on developing skills that help to resolve the physical and emotional symptoms you may still carry with you.
EMDR
Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR) is designed to alleviate the distress associated with traumatic memories. Our targeted approach focuses on specific memories, so we may do shorter-term EMDR therapy or use it alongside talk therapy.
