Find a Therapist in Oceanside, CA

In a safe, confidential environment I help you examine those aspects of life that are not working for you and assists you in developing your own solutions to those problems. I have listened to clients over 45.000 hour since I started my private practice and I am known for my ability to uncover core issues rapidly and help you generate breakthroughs with sustainable results. My direct approach allows you to make the necessary changes in your life within a short period of time. I am very interactive and I share my thoughts with you as we work together. I will point to books, podcasts and videos that may speed up your self discovery process.

My goal is to help you resolve pain, repair relationships, lessen negative thoughts, heal trauma, and feel better overall. I am down-to-earth and am comfortable talking with many different types of people. I am great at assessing the problem and helping you figure out what you want or need to get your life on track. I work with individuals, couples, teens, and families dealing with a wide array of issues such as depression, anxiety, relationship troubles, and trauma. Additionally, I have a special interest in helping Veterans and First Responders.

Life can feel overwhelming when unresolved trauma, persistent anxiety, grief, or creative stagnation begin to shape the way you experience yourself and the world. You may find yourself caught in cycles of overthinking, self-doubt, or emotional patterns that leave you feeling stuck. Whether you're a high achiever striving for more or a young adult navigating the transition into independence. Relationship struggles, painful breakups, chronic people-pleasing, or deep-rooted insecurities can make it difficult to move forward with confidence. Transform trauma, anxiety, grief, and self-defeating patterns into clarity, resilience, and growth. Together, we'll uncover the underlying causes of your struggles, foster meaningful healing, and help you build a life defined by greater authenticity, purpose, and emotional freedom.

Hello, my name is Dr. Arthur Chou. I am a board-certified child and adolescent psychiatrist who specializes in supporting teens who are struggling with attention-deficit hyperactivity (ADHD), anxiety, depression, substance use, trauma, or other mental health concerns. They may feel overwhelmed, misunderstood, or unsure how to handle big emotions or life changes. Their goals are finding balance, building healthy coping skills, and improving connections with family and friends. Most of all, they want to be able to go back to just focusing on being a teen. My philosophy is to take a holistic approach that goes beyond symptoms to understand the whole teenager. I consider psychological, environmental, and biological factors, using the least medication necessary while supporting therapy and other tools. My goal is to deliver compassionate, evidence-based care that promotes growth. I understand how challenging it can be for teens and their families to navigate mental health or substance use issues, but there is a lot of reason to have hope. As part of the Evolve Adolescent Behavioral Health network, I am continually inspired by the resilience and potential of teenagers to grow and heal. Together, we can forge a path toward lasting change.

Is your life on a satisfying path? Are your relationships working the way you want them to? Do you take good care of yourself? Through compassionate listening, searching questions and practical ideas, together we can get you heading in the right direction. We can reduce pain and anxiety, clarify your choices, examine the forces that drive you, and help make your relationships more fulfilling. I use Emotionally-Focused Therapy in my couples work, which is a profoundly powerful approach to helping gain or regain a secure loving bond.

I am a clinical psychologist located in Manhattan Beach, where I have practiced for several years.  My work with people is based on a core belief that new relationships have the ability to profoundly change and improve peoples? lives.  I view my role as an active participant and strive to create a safe and supportive place in which together we can explore and try to understand whatever is making life difficult. This insight and clarity often leads people to experience an expansion of choices and more satisfying ways of being and relating.  Please feel free to explore my Web site and don?t hesitate to call with any questions.

If you have difficulties in your relationship, now is the time to restore and to heal it. Whether it is your spouse, your partner, your friend, your adult child or your parent - make the first step toward closeness, understanding, and connection. Join me as we will journey together from frustration, isolation, and despair to love, care and safety utilizing the evidence-based Emotionally Focused Therapy process for relationship distress recovery. Don't spend another day wondering if your relationship can be better. Yes, it can! You can be happier, you can feel safe and you can be closely connected to the person you love. If you are looking for a warm, caring and engaged therapist, you came to the right place. Be heard, be understood and be safe as I help you to navigate through a difficult world of relationships, love, support, and care. Your wellbeing is of outermost importance to me.

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 have spent a long time holding it together, but underneath, there is a quiet, persistent feeling that something about you is off or just not quite enough. It shows up in how hard you are on yourself, in a nagging worry that your relationship is in danger or that the people you love might leave. In the exhaustion of managing how you come across. You have tried to understand it. Maybe you have been in therapy before. But insight alone has not moved it. I work with people ready to go somewhere real, willing to slow down, go inward, and do work that actually reaches what is driving the pattern. My approach is relational and experiential. We pay attention to what is happening between us as much as what happened before. People often come asking for a specific technique and stay because of what unfolds in the relationship.

In therapy, we develop the capacity to pause, step out of the stress and burnout of living on autopilot, and explore the particular ways you struggle: self-defeating patterns, cyclical fights, limiting beliefs, self-protective behaviors that cause disconnection in your relationships, stress, anxiety, and depression. Therapy is a safe place that allows you to dive in, to approach old wounds and fresh hurts with a trusted human companion and the tools for healing. The success of therapy begins with the relationship between therapist and client. Book a free consultation with me so you can get a better sense of me and how we connect. Looking forward to it!

I am a trauma-informed Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist who believes in the power of transformation through increased awareness, understanding, expression, and connection. I choose to walk alongside those who may be struggling or wanting to embrace their authentic self. I often work with individuals who are working through trauma, anxiety and depression, low self-esteem, grief, anger, and identity development. Talk therapy allows for the exploration and processing of your experiences and interpretations of these experiences. Supplements of talk therapy may include dream work, the use of art, eye movement desensitization and reprocessing therapy (EMDR), active imagination, and internal family systems (parts work) to aid in the process of going deeper and building a foundation of coping tools sometimes needed. I offer a free 15-minute consultation before booking. This offers a chance to ask questions before scheduling a session and helps me get an idea of what you are looking for.

I am a human first and a therapist second. I help clients grow confidence and problem-solve by unpacking their resilience, leaning into curiosity and creativity to explore untapped potential. Using a strengths-based perspective, I approach each client as an individual and a partner in the therapeutic process, and I deeply believe in the capacity for growth and positive change. Using cognitive-behavioral techniques, psychodynamic principles, EMDR, and somatic interventions like polyvagal theory, and your lived experiences, I enjoy helping clients build healthier relationships with their personal and professional lives. Many of us have trauma or family situations that feel too overwhelming to address, wounds bandaged but unhealed. Perhaps you feel deluged by your parental, familial, or professional responsibilities. You may be a busy mother, an exhausted partner, or employed but unfulfilled. Through empathy, authenticity, and humor, I collaborate with clients to navigate difficult circumstances by exploring their past experiences and current motivations. SPECIALTIES Having worked in the entertainment industry for over 10 years, I understand the unique pressures and hierarchies shaping your world, and the costs to your personal life. As a woman in the entertainment industry, I became painfully aware of the toxicity and time constraints people in the business face. For this reason, I work Saturdays because I believe an unpredictable work schedule shouldn't be a barrier to accessing support. To better understand the nuances of attention-deficit hyperactivity (ADHD), I've completed additional training specifically in adult ADHD to help clients learn how their brains function, and how to work with their brain instead of against it. Unmanaged ADHD can lead to depression, burnout, and exhaustion, but there are evidence-based treatments that can greatly reduce or eliminate these risks. As a working mother, I specialize in women's issues because I care deeply about the nuances of the female experience. Navigating the intersecting paths of career, motherhood, gender norms, and societal expectations can be tough. I specialize in managing the stress and anxiety that often come with trying to "do it all."