Therapy For Men

Online Therapy in Los Angeles and Throughout California

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You can be strong and still need support. You can be successful and still feel lost.

“Men are taught to apologize for their weaknesses, but rarely encouraged to explore their pain.”

-Terry Real

What Does Strength Mean To You?

Are you showing up every day, doing what’s expected—but wondering why it still doesn’t feel enough? Are you successful on paper, but quietly dealing with anxiety, stress, or just… feeling off?

Are you struggling to connect—with your partner, your purpose, or even yourself? Do you find yourself snapping more often, zoning out, or carrying a constant low-level tension you can’t quite explain? Are you stuck between who you’ve always been and who you think you’re supposed to be?

You might not talk about it much. Maybe you’ve been taught—by family, society, or work—to keep moving, stay composed, and figure it out alone. But that version of strength—the one where you carry it all, stay silent, and never slip—is incredibly heavy. And it’s not sustainable.

You’ve been strong for everyone else; it’s okay to find support for yourself. You don’t have to carry this alone, and getting support can help you be even stronger. I will meet you with respect, practical help, and a space for you to integrate awareness and action in building a happier life.

Mental Health Impacts Everything

  • Unmanaged stress or anxiety can damage your partnerships and friendships.

  • Burnout can wreck your health or performance at work.

  • Disconnection can leave you feeling alone, even when you're surrounded by people who love you.

Support isn’t weakness—it’s strategy.
Investing in your mental health helps you be more grounded, more present, and more fulfilled in every area of your life.

Therapy Can Help You Reclaim What Matters

  • Sort through the noise of old programming and new expectations

  • Redefine strength on your own terms

  • Build emotional range without losing your edge

  • Show up more fully as a partner, father, son, or leader

  • Stop performing and start feeling more like yourself

  • You’re struggling in your relationships — whether in your romantic life, family, or friendships.

  • You wrestle with anger and irritability and find yourself easily frustrated or reactive.

  • The pressure to perform or provide is quietly eroding your sense of purpose.

  • A recent change — a new job, a breakup, fatherhood, aging — is bringing up more than you expected.

  • Being the “good son,” “provider,” or “pillar” has cost you connection to your own needs.

  • You throw yourself into work, productivity, or problem-solving — but it never really feels like enough.

Why Men Come to Therapy

What Men Are Up Against Today

  • The messages about masculinity have changed—but the pressure hasn’t.
    You grew up hearing “man up” and “don’t cry,” but now you’re told to be vulnerable and emotionally open—as long as it’s not too much. That contradiction is confusing and exhausting.

  • Social media constantly shows you what you “should” be—more fit, more successful, more in control.
    The comparison never ends, and it can quietly destroy your sense of worth.

  • Many men are suffering in silence.
    Men are less likely to seek help, more likely to self-medicate, and face higher rates of depression and suicide. Studies show that 40% of men say they’d only get help if they were suicidal. That’s how deep the stigma goes.

  • Most men weren’t taught how to talk about feelings.
    You may feel flat, angry, or disconnected—but not know why. That’s not weakness. That’s what happens when emotional awareness was never modeled.

  • You know it’s “okay to talk about it”—but it still doesn’t feel safe.
    Intellectually, you get it. But emotionally, it still feels like opening up makes you weak, needy, or “not man enough.”

  • You're caught between what strength used to mean—and what it's supposed to mean now.
    The rules changed, but no one gave you a clear manual for how to navigate them.

Masculinity Matters

Masculinity, dignity, and strength matter.

Not the kind built on rigid rules, emotional shutdown, or silent suffering. Not the version that tells you to stay tough at all costs while ignoring what’s actually going on inside.

I’m talking about a version of manhood that lets you live more fully—one that makes space for honesty, depth, and real connection—with yourself, your relationships, and the world around you.

It might feel like you're expected to keep it together no matter what—to push through, stay quiet, and never show struggle. But you don’t have to live that way.

Let’s work together to create something stronger.

“Our society has long treated men as machines, as bodies expendable in the name of progress or profit. Men have overruled their pain and soul's delight, taught to think of themselves as "mechanisms".

– James Hollis (Jungian psychoanalyst & Author)