The complexities of life open us to the unknown, to events that can leave us unsettled, out of sorts, uprooted. These complexities also hold potential for new insights, new possibilities of understanding, experiencing, and being.
My hope in our psychotherapy / analysis process is to help with making room for accessing new ways of reconnecting and partnering with yourself, your feelings, and capacities, and to feel more at home in your unique skin. With intentional commitment to the process, one begins to experience a broadening of one's response repertoire to events and feelings, and develop a symbolic sensitivity that fosters a meaningful, purposeful relationship to challenges.
My orientation is deeply rooted in Jungian / Analytical psychology, art therapy, creative expressive arts, and body-oriented modalities. In general terms, in our work, it means that we will talk about your challenges and symptoms, explore the conscious and unconscious motivations, and their relationship with deeper dimensions of life. We will create and draw on your inner images, engage with your night dreams as resources, and pay attention to your body’s intelligence and wisdom as a place of resourcing.
I work with adults, couples, and children, on challenges with emotional disturbances, loss and grieving, relationship issues, life changes, immigration, and adjustment to a new culture.
My lived experiences in the Middle-East, Europe, and the United States inform a deepened and widened multi-cultural, multi-perspective sensibility.
As an out-of-network provider, I can give monthly psychotherapy statements / super-bills for you to submit to your insurance for possible reimbursement. I offer a sliding scale fee. I have opted out and do not accept Medicare.
Sessions are held in person at my office in Santa Monica, CA, and when appropriate, online/telehealth is available.
I am glad you are here. I welcome you to reach out to me at 323 377 6033 or email me at leyla@leylasalmassian.com
