Altadena
Therapy in Altadena, CA
Fifteen unhurried minutes from the office, or no minutes at all if you would rather meet on video.
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No Altadena office. The Pasadena one is close.
My single office sits at 65 N Raymond Ave in Pasadena, and Altadena is close enough that in-person work is realistic on a weeknight. If you would rather not add a drive to a day that already has too much in it, video is available for everything I do.
What Comes Up
Grief and the long tail of a hard few years.
Much of Altadena burned in the 2025 wildfires, and people carry that differently. Some arrive naming it directly. Others arrive because sleep stopped working, or because a sound in the night now takes ninety minutes to come down from, and they would rather talk about anything else first. Both are fine. We start where you are willing to start.
Trauma is not only the event. It is what the body decided afterward about how much vigilance is required at all times. That is the part EMDR is actually good at, and we do not go near the hard material until there is enough stability underneath it to be worth doing.
There is no correct timeline for any of this, and I will not give you a number of sessions. Anyone who does is guessing at your interior on a first phone call.
The Basics
Details Without the Runaround
- In person
- 65 N Raymond Ave, Pasadena. Down Lake or Fair Oaks and you are there. No office in Altadena itself.
- By video
- Secure sessions anywhere in California, including EMDR, at the same fee.
- Who I see
- Adults and teens. LGBTQ+ affirming. No severe mental illness or psychotic disorders.
- Cost
- $225 per 50 minutes for therapy and EMDR. EMDR intensives $2,300. Superbills for out-of-network.
- First step
- A free 10-minute call, with no paperwork attached to it.
If tonight is the emergency rather than next month, call or text 988, call 911, or go to your nearest emergency room. Otherwise the contact page is the slower, saner door.
By Topic
What people in Altadena come in for.
Come as you are.
A free, confidential ten-minute call. No paperwork, no pressure, and no obligation to book anything afterwards.