Description: Ava Louise Stanton, LCSW, is a psychotherapist in private practice in Santa Monica, CA who works with adults experiencing depression, anxiety, difficult circumstances, relationship problems and other concerns.
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My Private Practice I think therapy works with these elements: establishing emotional safety in the therapy relationship looking with gentle kindness at your pain finding emotional relief and understanding developing coping strategies and trying them out taking your insight with you. If you have a spiritual life or practice, we will incorporate that as it feels comfortable to you. As a long-time meditator in the Zen tradition, I have found that therapy has helped my meditation practice, and my meditation ha
Internal Family Systems Therapy/the Self Leadership Approach to Therapy