I help clients reconnect with their authentic selves. Together, we will identify and explore what is blocking you from living fully as the creative person you are. Past trauma, societal expectations, family dysfunction, and other harmful systems and “norms” may have caused you shame and disconnection from your true self and values, resulting in people-pleasing, perfectionism, anxiety, and other painful patterns that are no longer serving you. As a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist (LMFT), I’m very interested in who you are outside of these patterns, and I want to create space and possibility for who you are becoming.

Are you feeling depressed, overwhelmed, or unsatisfied with your life or relationships? Do you need someone to listen and understand you? I have a passion for helping others achieve more fulfillment and balance in their lives. I primarily work with adults, couples, and adolescents, and use warmth and empathy to help address each unique individual's needs. My approach is integrative and holistic, combining traditional psychotherapy with mind-body techniques. This blended perspective helps people discover and unlock negative thoughts and patterns of the past, allowing them to focus on the present, feel more fulfilled, and achieve their goals for the future. I use mindfulness techniques to help individuals make more intuitive and authentic choices in their lives.

Finding a therapist can feel overwhelming. Not only are there many different types of psychotherapy based on different theories, but often therapists aren’t great at explaining what it is they do or how talk therapy works. I see individuals as unique and complex. My focus is on creating a strong, supportive relationship where the deeply personal, unsayable things can be spoken, heard, and accepted without judgment. Together, we will explore how daily external pressures and feelings of self-blame, self-criticism, fear, or sadness, as well as loss and past trauma, may be affecting your ability to move forward. Psychiatrist, therapist, and writer Irvin Yalom has spoken of “creating a new therapy for each patient,” meaning that it’s important not to have preconceived notions or make assumptions about what each person needs. Another way of saying this is that rather than fitting the patient to the therapy, the therapist needs to understand and adapt to the patient. We live in a time of information overload, with very little real attention devoted to our inner lives. Despite the ubiquity of the “wellness” industry, it seems that many of us are more stressed than ever. I use a psychodynamic, existential approach that is creative and flexible, and goes beyond jargon. I aim to help guide my clients away from looping thoughts, internal conflicts, negative self-talk, and tangled emotions, and toward greater self-compassion and clarity so they can move forward and express themselves authentically. I also enjoy helping clients work through creative blocks. Previously, I worked on numerous feature film and television productions, and I can offer a unique perspective on navigating the difficult terrain of the entertainment industry. I also work with many couples who are struggling to connect. I look forward to hearing from you!

We’re here with same-day appointments, with in-office and online options in California. Our Licensed Marriage and Family Therapists (LMFTs) support people of all ages, with a wide range of concerns, and from all backgrounds. We offer compassionate, ethical care for individual adults, teens, and children, as well as couples and families. We can support you on your healing journey today. Some of the areas we help with include anxiety, depression, grief and loss, parenting, behavior changes, past or current trauma, relationship issues, and more.

With life comes pain and frustration, but learning how to cope is what aides in long-term happiness. I am here to help you achieve your short and long-term goals with your career, relationshipsfamily, and personal growth. Additionally, in over close to a decade of working in the field, I have found that addictions of all kind are prevalent no matter who you are or where you come from. Often overlooked is that depression andor anxiety are the source of addiction. Understanding ourselves and working on what parts of ourselves hinder our progress in life is essential in creating and maintaining change. Helping individuals and building meaningful relationships is my ultimate passion in life.

I believe that every individual possesses immense potential for growth, healing, and self-discovery. I am committed to providing a safe and compassionate space where you can explore your thoughts, emotions, and experiences without judgment. I am passionate about helping individuals harness their inner strength, overcome obstacles, and achieve peak performance in their chosen fields. Whether you're an athlete, artist, musician, or professional striving for excellence, I am here to support you on your path to success. Together, we can unlock your full potential and help you reach new heights of mental strength and satisfaction.

Working with people is a huge passion of my counseling agency, and we are excited to work with you. Life can be very stressful, sad, and hard at times, and together we can try and figure out what you as an individual, couple, or family are going through and begin the healing process. A healthy, fulfilled, and enjoyable life is probably a goal for most of us, and I would like to work with you to strive towards this goal and others you may have. The desire of Waves of Peace is to provide a comfortable, non-judgmental, and friendly environment where you feel comfortable to open up about your needs. The personalized therapists here will work together with you to help you in a practical empathetic fashion. So, let's begin this journey together!

I'm Dr. Antoinette Ibrahimi, a Licensed Clinical Psychologist practicing in Claremont & Arcadia & Telehealth CA. Each person and relationship has their own unique struggles that they walk with through life. My goal is to support each person on their journey toward creating a solid sense of self and emotional connection. I believe that getting to know yourself on a deeper level helps you choose the life you wish to live. Asking for help is a courageous act. My role as a psychologist is to create a genuine, safe, supportive, compassionate space where you can build lasting change within yourself and your relationships. It is my privilege to witness individual and family journeys toward growth and healing. I have experience and training working with families, individual adults, and couples to manage anxiety, grief and loss, life transitions, depression, marriage difficulties, trauma, chronic illness, and behavioral issues. Our collaborative relationship allows me to get to know you and your relationships, so I can help you build lasting and meaningful life changes. I help my clients through their journeys using a differentiation family systems perspective. Together we will help you achieve and maintain balance so you can live the life you want.

You didn’t choose the life events that shape you today but you can choose to evolve or adapt in a way that better aligns with your values, ethics, and how you wish to live in this world. Healing is integral in order to move with intention in midst of a polycrisis. While we can’t control many world or life events on the individual level, we can show up grounded and embodied to help build a society in reflection of compassion. Your body and heart carry your history, trauma, and internalized conditioning from society, family, and more, creating adaptations that unintentionally influence your thoughts, beliefs, and actions. Some of your protective adaptions may no longer be serving you today. I believe not only does our hardship shape us, but also safe, genuine, and connected relationships. Which is why we can choose to reshape or grow in alignment with ourselves through fostering connection. Healing moves through the authentic relationship created by therapist and client. I’m not here to fix you, but to provide a space of guidance, support, care, and refuge. You become an important part of my community. My care is deep and my investment in your healing is reflected through my active engagement to walk alongside your path. I use an integrative approach, weaving aspects of the mind, body, and spirit through decolonial, liberation, and somatic-based practices. My background in cognitive psychology, social work, nutrition, mindfulness, and somatics supports creating a space that is holistic and responsive to each client's needs for deep healing. My range of specialties includes navigating trauma, oppression, chronic pain or illness, eating challenges, anxiety, obsessive-compulsive (OCD), and more. I also provide niche services for clinicians, couples, or individuals embodying decolonial practices, COVID-cautious affirming care, and relationship therapy for queer, Black, Indigenous, and people of color (BIPOC), folks in interracial relationships, and or Covid Cautious couples. If you feel curious or ready for deep and holistic care, reach out for a free 15 minute consultation. More information about me and my services can be found on my website: https:www.kantimentalhealth.com.

My approach begins with a real conversation that builds on itself to create rapport and trust with the individual or couple so that we can feel comfortable while talking about difficult and challenging personal matters. I am curious to find out what specifically the person or couple came to therapy for? What are they curious about, wanting to explore or change or confront in themselves or their relationship? We then flesh this out, to get a fuller and more detailed picture of their issues. We formulate 1, 2 or 3 priorities to focus. My therapeutic approach involves a psycho-dynamic and emotion focused approach, that sets out to understand the source of the problem, how it developed and how it's being habitually maintained? From here we begin to develop creative strategies on how to address and interrupt these patterns and replace them with healthier ways of being? I am particularly interested in accessing the individual'scouple's habitual ways of thinking, feeling and behaving that reinforces the very problems and patterns that they want to change. This provides us with an experiential understanding and knowing of how they have come to be where they are. We are then much better equipped to address their emotional triggers and negative feedback loops (blaming communication-patterns). We work together to develop a deeper more vulnerable way for the individualcouple to talk and listen to one another, a more reliable and skillful means of relating from themselves to their loved ones. As the therapy progresses the individual or members of a couple learn to find their courage and trust in the process to confront 'old deep hurts and angers,' within themselves or their relationship, and learn how to more constructively navigate these troubled areas.

I believe that we all have wounded places in our hearts that can benefit from counseling. Most people reach a point where life feels unmanageable, driving them to seek professional assistance. My work will help you to find healing from past wounds and manage present stressors in a safe and accepting environment. I will provide you with support as you work toward fulfillment in your life. I offer a compassionate, intuitive, humorous approach. I believe in the power of therapy to help you in all of your relationships whether it be couples, family, or your work enviorment. I want to help you overcome and manage obstacles that interfere with healthy living and relationships. I have various ares of specialty including trauma, depression, relationship challenges, anxiety, loss, grief, end of life challenges, and other mental health concerns.

Ultimately, I’m passionate about supporting you. You choose what intrinsic and extrinsic life experiences you'd prefer to have. Tell me what's not working in your life, what emotions you wish to no longer feel, and what behaviors you'd like to no longer repeat. We'll target, identify & dismantle the cycles that create and maintain those unwanted patterns. We'll create the direction, motivation and progress that allows you to build the external outcomes you'd like to reach, as well as the emotions you want to consistently feel. I'm very assertive in my therapeutic process. I hold my clients accountable and point out patterns that create and maintain unwanted habits, thoughts, emotions, behaviors or outcomes. I have a very goal oriented approach to therapy, I place a higher value on creating measurable progress as opposed to spending extended time deeply developing insight around the past.