Group Therapy
Weekly, small, and confidential. The same eight or so people, the same room, every week — long enough that something starts to settle.
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Group therapy · Los Angeles
Some weeks,
Some weeks,
even rest
takes effort.
You don't need a diagnosis. You don't need a crisis. You just need a Tuesday night where you don't have to perform being fine. That's the room we run.
Routine adult group therapy for stress and burnout, based in Pasadena and held in eight languages — for the people who've been quietly running on empty long enough to know it isn't a phase.
Now welcoming new groups
Stress & burnout cohorts forming weekly
Same-week openings
Most new clients are seen within the same week, often the same day.
Most insurance accepted
All major Southern California carriers, plus a sliding scale, case by case.
LGBTQ+ affirmative
For everyone, in every group, on every day. No carve-outs.
Evening & weekend hours
Life doesn't pause at 5 p.m. Neither do we.
Your first three steps
Starting is the hardest part. We try to make it the easiest.
If you've been on the fence for months — or years — that's not unusual. Most people who walk in have been thinking about it for a long time.
01
Reach out
Call, text, or send a short message. We don't need your whole story yet — just a few details so we can match you to the right clinician and the right group.
02
Your first session
Sixty minutes, in person or by video. There's no pressure to share everything — this is a conversation about fit. You can decide afterward.
03
Ongoing care
Weekly group, weekly individual, or both. We adjust as you go — most people stay six to twelve months and ease into a quieter cadence after that.
A reflection, not a checklist
Do I really need therapy, or am I just having a hard time?
It's the question almost everyone asks at the door. The honest answer is that you don't have to be in crisis to deserve help.
Most of the people in our groups are not having a breakdown. They're functioning — going to work, taking care of people, paying the bills — and quietly, privately, running on empty. Sleep has been off for months. Patience has narrowed. The thing that used to bring them back doesn't bring them back any more.
If that sounds familiar, you don't need to wait for it to get worse before you do something about it. Earlier is almost always cheaper, in every sense, than later.
Read more on burnout →You don't have to outrun this. You have to put it down. From a recent client letter
What we sit with
The shapes stress and burnout actually take.
Burnout rarely arrives wearing a name tag. It usually shows up as something else — short fuse, bad sleep, an ordinary task that suddenly feels impossible.
Workplace burnout
Cynicism, exhaustion, and the feeling that nothing you do is enough.
Chronic stress
The kind that stops being a phase and becomes the way you live.
Anxiety & overwhelm
A mind that won't quiet down, even when nothing is technically wrong.
Depression linked to burnout
The flat, gray version of yourself that keeps showing up to everything.
Sleep & insomnia
3 a.m., the same loop, and the morning that's already lost.
Compassion fatigue
The depletion that visits caregivers, helpers, and high-empathy people.
Perfectionism
The standard that always rises just out of reach, no matter what you do.
Emotional exhaustion
When the feelings stop coming through cleanly. Just static and tiredness.
How we work
Five ways into the same kind of help.
Group therapy is our specialty — a small, consistent membership that meets weekly with a trained clinician. We also offer individual, couples, family, and a structured outpatient program.
Individual Therapy
The work people often do alongside group — your own hour, your own pace, with the same clinician each week.
Individual therapy
Couples Counseling
Burnout puts pressure on the people closest to it. Couples work makes room for both of you in the recovery.
Couples counseling
Family Therapy
When stress in one part of the system is rippling out to the rest. We work with the people who live and decide together.
Family therapy
Intensive Outpatient (IOP)
Three sessions a week, for people in deeper distress who want help that's serious without inpatient care.
IOP details
Care in eight languages
You shouldn't have to translate yourself to get help.
Pasadena and the broader Los Angeles area are genuinely multilingual. Our practice reflects that. If English isn't where your inner life lives, we likely have someone who speaks the language it does.
- English
- Español
- 中文
- Tiếng Việt
- हिन्दी
- Italiano
- العربية
- Հայերեն
Tell us your preferred language when you reach out, and we'll match you to a clinician who speaks it.
In their words
What people say after a few months in.
"I'd been telling myself for two years that I was just tired. The first night after group I slept seven straight hours. I almost cried. It wasn't the magic — it was finally putting some of it down."
— Maria L., 38, hospital nurse"I had this idea that therapy was for people in real trouble. I'm fine, mostly. The group taught me 'fine' and 'okay' aren't the same thing. I didn't know how much I'd been gritting my teeth."
— Anjali P., 31, product manager"My wife was the one who finally said, you cannot keep doing this. The first session I just listened. By the third I was talking. By the third month, I could actually take a Sunday off without feeling guilty."
— David W., 45, founder
When you're ready
It can be a small thing — a phone call, a short message — that quietly changes the year.
We answer the phone, we read every message, and most new clients hear back within the same business day.