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Anna’s door is open to clients of all sexual orientations, gender identities, and relationship-expansive communities. Anna’s passion is to help others during their healing and growing journey. Anna understands therapy as a collaborative process that allows trust and authenticity to foster insight and growth, exploring how the past impacts the present. She believes that each person is unique and thus requires individualized care to support them. Anna aims to remind clients of their own resourcefulness as they work to create and enhance a life worth living.
My approach
Anna provides a safe and non-judgmental space where clients can feel comfortable to open up, explore and process everything that stops them from living the life they want. Anna most often uses the following theoretical orientation: Integrative (CBT/DBT/ACT, Psychodynamic, Attachment, Humanistic, Mindfulness, and Gestalt)
My focus
Anna has experience working with issues related to anxiety, mood disorders, addictions, thought disorders, divorce and infidelity, infertility, parenting, relationship distress, family conflict, life transitions, emotional dysregulation, obsessive-compulsive behaviors, addiction, self-harm, PTSD, trauma, and personality disorders. Anna uses a psychodynamic approach, attachment, humanistic orientations, mindfulness, Gestalt, as well as DBT, CBT, and ACT interventions aimed at enhancing self-efficacy. Anna specializes in working with individual adults and couples.
My communication style
Anna provides safe and non-judgemental space where clients can feel comfortable to open up, explore and process everything that stops them from living the life they want. My clients and friends would say that I am positive, warm, supportive and empathetic person.
My journey to mental healthcare
Anna has previously worked in the past as a Primary Therapist in Intensive Outpatient and Outpatient settings in West Los Angeles and as a Counselor at Clearview Treatment Programs in a Residential facility for women. She completed her graduate training at Southern California Counseling Center, providing therapy to adult individuals. Anna coordinated the care and treatment of acute cases of mental health disorders. She has not only provided individual, couples, and family therapy, but she has also facilitated Process, Anger Management, Managing Depression, Managing Anxiety, Family Systems, Mindfulness, Behavioral Activation, CBT, DBT, and ACT groups. Moreover, Anna originally comes from Poland and can provide therapy in her native language. In the last 17 years, Anna traveled extensively and lived in five different countries. Anna was fortunate to work with people from all over the world. This experience has helped her realize the importance of understanding other cultures, belief systems, and approaches to psychological issues.
My first session with you
I ask a lot of questions in my first session so I can learn a lot about my potential client and understand their goals and needs. I also welcome any questions that the client might have for me.
