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Individual & Couples Therapy in Los Angeles, CA
As highly trained psychotherapists and relationship counselors located in the heart of Culver City, California, Root To Rise Therapy helps you increase emotional intimacy in relationships, communicate better, and find balance in your career, relationships, and personal life.
When we are firmly rooted and grounded, we can rise to the heights we are capable of. Getting rooted helps us feel safe and stable; we experience greater freedom, creativity, flexibility, clarity, and feel more connected to others.
Relationships are our greatest teachers, and our most fundamental relationship is with ourselves. It serves as a blueprint for all other relationships and therapy helps you get connected with yourself, increase emotional intimacy in relationships, practice mindfulness, and find alignment in your life.
We’re here to help you create relationships and a life you love.
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Becky White MFT, Founder & Director
Becky is a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist (LMFT #93760), Registered Yoga Teacher, EMDR Therapist, and Certified Emotion Regulation Counselor, with extensive training in Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction. She works with couples and individuals to help them practice healthy self-care, and create satisfying, loving relationships with themselves and others. Learn more about how she can help.
Jessica Leader, Licensed Marriage & Family Therapist
Jessica Leader is a Licensed Marriage & Family Therapist (LMFT #132711) and EMDR Therapist that specializes in working with anxiety, depression, trauma, ADHD, ASD, relationship issues, transitions, familial conflicts, self-identity and exploration. Jessica integrates different modalities into her therapy sessions including EMDR, Trauma Focused Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, Mindfulness Meditation, and other evidence- based approaches, creating individualized treatment plans and goals with each client in a nurturing, non-judgmental environment, and has experience working through a multicultural lens.
Atalie Abramovici, Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist
Atalie is a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist (LMFT #144784) who specializes in working with anxiety, depression, self-esteem work, relationship struggles, separation and coparenting, trauma, grief, life transitions, ADHD, and trichotillomania. Atalie works from a Humanistic and Strengths-Based approach, emphasizing the client’s innate strengths, as well as their ability to fulfill their potential and maximize their wellbeing. Atalie also specializes in utilizing modalities such as Mindfulness-Based Cognitive Therapy, Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, Family Systems, Attachment Theory, Narrative Therapy, Existential Therapy, Emotionally Focused Couples Therapy, and Psychodynamic approaches. She strives to provide an individualized and collaborative approach to treatment planning and goal setting. Atalie embodies a stance of non-judgement, empathy, warmth, and compassion.
Sophia Rodriguez, Associate Marriage & Family Therapist
Sophia Rodriguez is an Associate Marriage and Family Therapist (AMFT #141267) specializing in anxiety, depression, grief, identity development, personality disorders, and relationship issues.
Sophia provides counseling with a psychodynamic approach for individuals, couples, families, and adolescents. In sessions with Sophia, clients can expect to feel welcome and heard. She holds an unconditional positive regard for her clients and leads with kindness, empathy, and respect. As a Cuban-American, Sophia provides services in both English and Spanish and is passionate about working with individuals across diverse backgrounds.
Kalie Pham, Associate Marriage & Family Therapist
Kalie Pham is an Associate Marriage and Family Therapist (AMFT #130514) with expertise in helping individuals and couples facing anxiety, depression, grief, life transitions, self-esteem and identity issues, and OCD.
Kalie's approach is rooted in a blend of therapeutic modalities, including Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT), narrative therapy, and mindfulness practices, through an attachment/emotionally-focused lens. She believes in the crucial connection between the mind and the body, using this insight to assist clients in identifying what's manifesting in their bodies. This approach helps clients label their experiences and develop skills for self-soothing and nervous system regulation.
Helene Bringsli is an Associate Marriage and Family Therapist (AMFT #142961) and EMDR Therapist, specializing in couples, trauma/PTSD, anxiety, depression, relationship issues, life transitions, and OCD.
Helene integrates a compassionate, yet direct approach that empowers clients to explore their emotional experiences in a safe and non-judgmental space. Her clients often describe her as kind, deeply caring, and someone who is genuinely invested in their personal growth. Helene is particularly passionate about helping clients navigate trauma and the complexity of relational dynamics, both individually and within the context of couples therapy. She works from an attachment-based and relational lens, with a focus on how early life experiences shape present-day emotional responses and relationships.
Services
Virtual Therapy in Los Angeles and California
At Root To Rise Therapy we are committed to providing access to individual counseling, couples counseling, and marriage therapy in Los Angeles. One way that we do this is by offering HIPAA-compliant Virtual Therapy services to clients located in Los Angeles and state-wide in California. We offer both phone and video sessions, giving both clients and our therapists the flexibility to make therapy work wherever and however we can. On video and phone sessions, we can do regular talk therapy, we can do breathing and relaxation exercises, and I can even lead you in guided meditations. We have had extremely powerful video and phone sessions with our clients. We’ve been really impressed with the power of both couples & individual video and phone sessions and we would encourage everyone to give it a try.
Individual Therapy in Los Angeles
Are you feeling anxious, panicky or irritable? Tired of putting everyone else’s needs before your own—and ending up burnt out and resentful? Are you hoping to get more clear-headed and decisive in relationships? Counseling is a great way to get back on track with your personal goals, and create healthy, lasting relationships. Counseling can help you sort through your reactive, habitual responses, so that you can learn to communicate in an open and loving way, not from a place of reactivity and anger. We all carry family-of-origin and relationship trauma with us, and therapy can help you leave your past behind you so that it doesn’t interfere with your present.
Relationship Counseling
Have you been been cheated on or betrayed in the past causing you to have trust issues in your current relationship? Have you had some pretty bad relationships in the past and put up with a lot from undeserving partners? Do you find yourself now in a relationship that is really really good-- and you just want to keep is that way? Or maybe you are dating and suffering from all the emotional up-and-downs, rejections, and uncertainty? Or maybe you are in a relationship but unsure about whether you want to stay it for the long haul. Relationship Ambivalence can bring up a ton of anxiety and can sometimes be based in our own low self-worth. Perhaps you are you dealing with friendships changing or family drifting apart. Therapy can provide a kind and empathic space for you to process some of your past relationship trauma so that you are not carrying it forward into your current or future relationships.
Self-Care Therapy
Do you find yourself taking responsibility for other people’s problems and being overly-accommodating, often at the expense of your own mental, emotional, and physical health. At Root To Rise Therapy, we believe that our first most important relationship is with ourselves and we are committed to providing therapy for those that might identify as Fixers, Helpers, Care-Takers, People-Pleasers, and Rescuers. We believe in providing care for the care-takers, and creating healthy boundaries is crucial for this important group. We will help you learn to tune into yourself, say “no” when you mean “no”; and express yourself kindly and clearly to your loved ones.
Couples Therapy and Marriage Counseling in Los Angeles
Are you in love with your significant other but recently fighting a lot more than usual? You probably can’t remember what started it...but it feels like a new way of communicating with each other that isn’t as smooth as you want. Maybe you and your partner are trying to resolve issues around trust and intimacy, and learn to trust again. Couples therapy can help you learn new tools for dealing with your own emotions during a fight. It offers a neutral space to help you navigate through the more difficult topics, talk about some of the trigger issues, and decide next steps as a team. In counseling you will learn new strategies for communication, and re-build intimacy. Come to couples therapy to build communication tools to help you through arguments, so they are more productive and less emotionally painful.
Pre-Marital Therapy
Pre-marital counseling can be extremely beneficial to couples in the planning stages. Do you see a bright future with the love of your life, but want to make sure you are on the same page in terms of your goals and values for your future? Get ahead of the curve to ensure the happiest and most fulfilling long-term relationship by coming to pre-marital counseling. Discuss important topics such as: communication, intimacy, finances, family, children, and clarify your values together before taking the big step of marriage.
Depression Treatment Therapy
Have you been feeling down, depressed, hopeless; like you are a failure or have let people down? Having trouble with focus and concentration; experienced a significant change in appetite; feeling lethargic and tearful? Do you find yourself ruminating over the same negative story over and over again? You might be experiencing depression. Therapy—especially Cognitive Behavioral Therapy—can be extremely effective in the treatment of depression and helping you build up the coping skills and toolbox to manage your depression with the assurance that you have everything you need to cope.
Anxiety Relief Therapy
Anxiety is one of the most common reasons our clients seek out therapy. If you notice yourself worrying about many different things; fearing that something bad will happen; being restless and fidgety; speaking very fast to the point where others notice; having racing thoughts that are difficult to interrupt; obsessing over details like getting places on time, or just generally feeling stressed out all the time? Have you noticed increased heart rate or have you recently been diagnosed with high blood pressure? These could be signs that you are experiencing Anxiety. At Root To Rise Therapy we offer treatment for anxiety to that you can quiet those racing thoughts, feel safer and less worried all the time, and develop some Mindfulness tools and skills to relax the nervous system.
Family Therapy in Los Angeles
We love our family and need them for so many things, and this is exactly why stress and tension can build up—with the people we love most. As Licensed Marriage & Family Therapists we have specific training on working with families and couples through the rich tradition of Family Systems. Common reasons to seek out family therapy include: launching a teen/young adult or difficulty launching, families with teens with behavioral issues, death or illness in the family causing increased stress on the family system, families in transition such as divorce, moving, chronic disease; blended families and the complications that arise, addiction and substance use in the family. Family therapy will help you break down the resentments that build up over time, and feel close and connected to your family.
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““Becky has been uniquely instrumental in the process of helping me upright myself. Her ability to assess her clients and knack for offering individual guidance is much appreciated. Becky, thank you.””
