Therapy in Atwater Village · Online Across California
Therapy in Los Angeles that makes room for your whole self
You may know something needs to change without knowing exactly what kind of support you need.
Grayslate Therapy offers thoughtful, affirming therapy for individuals, couples, and families navigating trauma, neurodivergence, relationship challenges, identity, and change. Our therapists work with the whole of who you are, not just the problem that brought you here.
Meet with us in Atwater Village or online across California.
Our Approach to Therapy
You can start with what feels difficult right now
Sometimes the reason for seeking therapy is clear. Other times, it’s harder to name.
You might feel disconnected from yourself or someone you love. You may keep finding yourself in the same emotional or relationship patterns, even when you understand where they come from. Maybe you’re overwhelmed, burned out, carrying experiences that still affect you, or going through a change that has made familiar ways of coping feel less effective.
You don’t need a diagnosis, a perfectly defined goal, or an understanding of different therapy approaches before reaching out.
You can begin with what you’re experiencing. We can help you figure out what kind of support and which therapist may be the right fit.
LGBTQ+ Affirming Therapy
Neurodiversity Affirming
Trans Affirming
Trauma-Informed Care
Therapy Services in Los Angeles & Online Across California
Find therapeutic support that fits what you’re navigating
Therapy isn’t one-size-fits-all. Our therapists bring different areas of expertise while sharing a commitment to relational, affirming, and culturally responsive care.
For individuals
Individual Therapy
A space to better understand yourself, work through emotional patterns, and find new ways of responding to what life asks of you.
Individual therapy can support concerns including anxiety, depression, reproductive care therapy, ADHD masking and burn out, ADHD skill building, ADHD executive function management, Autistic burnout, grief and loss, AuDHD burnout, sexual orientation exploration, gender identity, relationships, boundaries, occupational burnout, self-esteem, career and major life transitions.
For couples
Couples Therapy
Relationships can get caught in patterns that leave both people feeling unheard, alone, defensive, or unsure how to reconnect. Couples therapy can help partners understand what happens between them and build greater emotional safety.
We welcome couples across relationship stages, identities, and structures.
For trauma
Trauma Therapy
Trauma can shape more than memories of what happened. It can affect how safe you feel, how your nervous system responds to stress, how you relate to other people, and how you experience yourself.
At Grayslate we use EMDR and Brainspotting therapy for trauma and offer a safe and compassionate space to work with the effects of trauma without reducing you to what you’ve lived through.
For the neurodiverse
Neurodivergent Therapy
Neurodivergent people are often asked to adapt to environments that were not designed with their needs in mind. Our neurodiversity-affirming therapy supports ADHD, autism, AuDHD, burnout, masking, sensory needs, executive-function challenges, emotional regulation, relationships, and late identification.
The goal isn’t to make you appear more neurotypical. It’s to understand how your brain works and help you build a life that works with it.
More ways we can support you
Grayslate also offers Group Therapy, Neuropsychological Testing, and Sports & Performance Psychology.
You are unique
Therapy should understand the context you live in
No one enters therapy without a history.
The way you experience yourself and your relationships can be shaped by attachment, family, culture, race, gender, sexuality, neurotype, disability, community, trauma, and the systems you have had to navigate.
Good therapy makes room for that complexity.
At Grayslate, our approach is neurodiverse-affirming, LGBTQIA+ affirming, culturally responsive, and trauma-informed. Rather than assuming there is one correct way to communicate, relate, regulate emotion, or move through the world, therapy can help make sense of what your particular experiences mean for you.
That also means staying curious about strengths alongside struggles. Behaviors that look confusing from the outside often make more sense when we understand what they have protected, communicated, or helped someone survive.
You shouldn’t have to leave important parts of yourself outside the therapy room in order to receive support.
What’s really going on
Understanding the pattern beneath the problem
Grayslate’s team of therapists are relational and work from psychodynamic and an attachment-based perspective, including Emotionally Focused Therapy for individuals (EFIT), Emotionally Focused Couples Therapy (EFCT) and Emotionally Focused Family Therapy (EFFT).
Rather than focusing only on stopping a behavior or resolving the argument happening today, this work looks beneath recurring patterns: What happens when you feel hurt, threatened, unseen, or disconnected? What do you do to protect yourself? And how might those protective responses unintentionally make it harder to get what you need? Our therapists also help deepen your insight into how you view yourself and others and the impact of these views on your self-identity and the way you relate to others. Understanding these patterns can create room for different emotional experiences and different ways of relating to yourself and to other people.
Our therapists may also integrate other evidence-informed approaches according to each client’s needs, history, and goals.
Relationships don’t exist in a vacuum
Every relationship is shaped by the people in it and by the worlds those people have lived in. Alongside general couples therapy, Grayslate offers specialized relationship support that gives important differences and identities space in the work.
Neurodiverse Couples Therapy
For couples navigating ADHD, autism, different processing styles, sensory needs, executive-function differences, or mixed-neurotype dynamics.
LGBTQIA+ Couples Therapy
Affirming relationship therapy that doesn’t assume heterosexuality, cisgender identity, monogamy, or conventional gender roles as the default.
Interracial & Intercultural Couples Therapy
Space to explore how race, culture, family, identity, power, and different lived experiences can enter a relationship.
Marriage Counseling
Support for married partners navigating established patterns, resentment, emotional distance, trust, intimacy, or questions about their shared future.
Premarital Counseling
A place to talk intentionally about expectations, communication, conflict, family, finances, intimacy, culture, and the life you’re preparing to build together.
Affair Recovery
Support for couples working through the impact of an affair, making sense of what happened, rebuilding emotional safety, and deciding what comes next.
Betrayal Recovery
Support for couples navigating breaches of trust and the emotional aftermath of betrayal, with space for both healing and honest conversations about the relationship’s future.
Finding the right therapist shouldn’t be another thing you have to figure out alone
Finding a therapist can involve a surprising number of decisions. You may be wondering which kind of therapy you need, whose experience fits your concerns, or simply who you might feel comfortable talking to.
That’s what our consultation process is designed to help with.
Tell us a little about what you’re looking for
Start by submitting an inquiry to request a free 20-minute consultation. You don’t need to know exactly what kind of therapy or therapist you need, we can work that out together.
Talk with Jenna
You’ll speak with Jenna, our intake coordinator, about what is bringing you to therapy, what you’re hoping for, and any preferences or practical needs that may matter when choosing a therapist. Jenna is great at finding a perfect match!
Find your fit
We’ll help match you with a Grayslate therapist whose experience, approach, and availability align with what you’re looking for. We have therapists that specialize in trauma, relationships, neurodivergence, LGBTQIA+ experiences, and culturally responsive care
Sliding Scale Therapy Available
Open 7 Days a Week
Anti-Oppressive Practice
Bilingual & Multilingual Therapists
Our incredible team
Therapists who bring expertise and curiosity to the room
The relationship you have with your therapist matters.
Grayslate is a team of therapists with different identities, backgrounds, areas of specialization, and clinical perspectives. What connects our work is a commitment to approaching people with curiosity rather than assumptions and to creating therapy that is collaborative, emotionally attuned, and responsive to the person or relationship in front of us.
Our team includes clinicians with experience across individual and relationship therapy, trauma, neurodivergence, identity, attachment, and other areas of emotional and psychological wellbeing.
You can explore our therapist profiles yourself, or let our intake process help narrow down the options.
Grazel Garcia, LMFT
Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist, 15+ years. Certified EFT supervisor candidate. Specializes in interracial couples, LGBTQ+, trauma, grief, Brainspotting.
Sarah Liang, AMFT, APCC
Neurodiverse and queer-affirming therapist specializing in Emotionally-Focused Couples Therapy (EFCT). Relational, systems-informed approach.
Arami James, AMFT
Culturally responsive therapist working with individuals and couples on interracial and intercultural relationship dynamics — fostering understanding and connection.
Tiffany Cuevas, AMFT
LGBTQIA+ affirming therapist specializing in identity, relationships, and personal growth. Compassionate, non-judgmental space for couples exploring relationship dynamics.
Meet the Grayslate team
Click below to see all our current therapists along with their full profiles and specialties.
Proud Members Of
ICEEFT
EFT Centre of Los Angeles
LA-CAMFT
Association for Applied Sport Psychology (AASP)
American Professional Society of ADHD & Related Disorders (APSARD)
New Center for Psychoanalysis
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Therapy in Los Angeles and online across California
Grayslate offers in-person therapy from our office in Atwater Village in Northeast Los Angeles, as well as secure online therapy for clients across California.
Some people value sharing a physical space with their therapist. Others find that meeting online works better with their schedule, accessibility needs, location, or daily life. Depending on therapist availability and the type of support you’re seeking, we’ll help you explore the options that make sense for you.
Trusted by Fellow Clinicians
A comprehensive practice specializing in LGBTQIA, BIPOC, and neurodiverse communities. These skilled clinicians offer attuned, caring, emotionally focused therapy. Highly recommended for couples and individual work.
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An excellent therapist with deep empathy and incredible intellect. My go-to referral for LGBTQ+ couples therapy and interracial relationship counseling in Los Angeles.
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Advanced training in EFT, racial trauma, and multicultural relationships. Clinicians are extremely well supervised — any client will receive capable, safe, and affirming counseling care.
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A place to understand what’s happening
Sometimes understanding an experience is an important first step toward changing how you respond to it.
Our resources explore the emotional and relationship patterns therapists often see in the room, from emotional safety and availability to recurring conflict, attachment, trust, and recovery after relational hurt.
What Actually Happens in Therapy Sessions
Healthy Relationship Characteristics
Emotionally available
What Is Neuropsychological Testing?
Power Imbalances, Trust Erosion, & Relational Instability
Healthy Relationships Explained: Emotional Safety, Conflict, and Trust
Why Couples Repeat the Same Fight (And What’s Really Going On)
How individual therapy actually works
Betrayal Trauma: What It Is, Why It Hurts, and How Healing Begins
Questions?
Therapy FAQs
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You don’t have to have everything figured out before you reach out
You can come to therapy with a clear goal, a complicated story, a relationship that feels stuck, or simply the sense that something needs to be different.
The first step is a conversation. Tell us a little about what you’re looking for, and we’ll help you find a therapist who may be a good fit.