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Los Angeles County · Telehealth across California

Anxiety therapist for creative and gig-economy Angelenos

You built a career in a city where rejection is a daily job requirement, and somewhere along the way your nervous system stopped being able to tell the difference between 'no' on a project and 'no' on you as a person. You still show up for the room. It's just that the room now lives inside your chest.

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The specifics

The specific weather of an LA career

Creative and gig work in Los Angeles is a study in outsourcing your sense of worth. Auditions, pitches, callbacks, notes, ghosted decks, seven maybes that never become a yes — each one is small on its own and enormous in aggregate. Most people I see from LA have quietly organized their entire self-image around a verdict that has not arrived yet.

Underneath that is a very LA kind of loneliness. Your peers are also chasing. Your family thinks you're 'in the industry' and doesn't ask again. Your income arrives in unpredictable lumps that don't line up with rent, and the anxiety of the flush month is often worse than the anxiety of the empty one.

The work here is not about learning to hustle harder. It's about untangling your sense of who you are from the last piece of news you got, so that the news — good, bad, or radio silence — stops being able to rearrange your inner life.

Sound familiar?

You might recognize —

Your mood is on a leash tied to your inbox, your agent, or the last audition
Weeks of feast-or-famine income and a body that no longer knows what safe feels like
You've been 'on the verge' for years and don't know who you are without the wanting
The industries you're in reward the exact traits that are eating you
You've quietly stopped enjoying the thing you moved here to do

How telehealth actually works

No commute. No waiting room. No one sees you walk in.

No parking in Mid-City. No driving up Cahuenga at 6pm just to be told you need to breathe more. You take the session from your apartment, your trailer between setups, or a friend's guest house up the coast. Anywhere in California with a door and Wi-Fi.

I am a Licensed Clinical Social Worker in California (LCSW #121584). I do not have a physical office. Sessions run by secure video and are confidential under California law and HIPAA. You can be anywhere in the state.

Where Los Angeles clients usually start

Services that fit this work.

Flagship focus

Anxiety & chronic stress

The one where you look fine and feel wrecked.

Depth work

Depression

For the flat, grey version of yourself that won't lift.

Depth work

Life transitions

For the seasons that rearrange who you thought you were.

FAQ

Questions people in Los Angeles actually ask.

I have an unpredictable schedule. Can we make this work?

Yes. Weekly is the default because consistency is where the change lives, but we can build in flexibility for production weeks. What we don't do is disappear for two months and pretend that was still therapy.

Do you work with actors, writers, and creative-industry people specifically?

Yes. The specifics of audition rooms, staffing cycles, agents, and the culture of chronic 'almost' aren't something I have to be walked through.

Do you have an office in Los Angeles?

No. Telehealth-only, statewide California. You meet me from wherever you are.

What if I need help in a crisis outside session?

Call or text 988, or reach the LA County Department of Mental Health ACCESS line at 800-854-7771. Didi Hirsch's 24-hour Suicide Prevention line is 877-727-4747.

If it's an emergency