Cardiologist providers include doctors, nurses, nurse practitioners, and physician assistants. They often maintain long-term relationships with you and advise and treat you on a range of health related issues.
Chiropractor providers include doctors, nurses, nurse practitioners, and physician assistants. They often maintain long-term relationships with you and advise and treat you on a range of health related issues.
Dentist providers include doctors, nurses, nurse practitioners, and physician assistants. They often maintain long-term relationships with you and advise and treat you on a range of health related issues.
Dermatologist providers include doctors, nurses, nurse practitioners, and physician assistants. They often maintain long-term relationships with you and advise and treat you on a range of health related issues.
Family Physician providers include doctors, nurses, nurse practitioners, and physician assistants. They often maintain long-term relationships with you and advise and treat you on a range of health related issues.
OB-GYN providers include doctors, nurses, nurse practitioners, and physician assistants. They often maintain long-term relationships with you and advise and treat you on a range of health related issues.
Ophthalmologist providers include doctors, nurses, nurse practitioners, and physician assistants. They often maintain long-term relationships with you and advise and treat you on a range of health related issues.
Orthopedic Surgeon providers include doctors, nurses, nurse practitioners, and physician assistants. They often maintain long-term relationships with you and advise and treat you on a range of health related issues.
Pediatrician providers include doctors, nurses, nurse practitioners, and physician assistants. They often maintain long-term relationships with you and advise and treat you on a range of health related issues.
Physical Therapist providers include doctors, nurses, nurse practitioners, and physician assistants. They often maintain long-term relationships with you and advise and treat you on a range of health related issues.
Podiatrist providers include doctors, nurses, nurse practitioners, and physician assistants. They often maintain long-term relationships with you and advise and treat you on a range of health related issues.
Psychiatrist providers include doctors, nurses, nurse practitioners, and physician assistants. They often maintain long-term relationships with you and advise and treat you on a range of health related issues.
Dr. Emily Hernandez brings more than 20 years of experience in public education and mental health. Her professional background includes working directly with schools, families and communities in a variety of settings including child welfare and attendance, counseling, K-12, administration, clinical mental health, employee assistance services, and counselor preparation/education. She is a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist whose areas of expertise include dropout prevention and intervention, student engagement, bullying, trauma, working with victims of violence, crisis counseling, employee assistance, and school-based family counseling. A leader in the field, Dr. Hernandez brings a unique perspective to working with educators and school systems to enhance access to mental health services.
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LACOE EASE- Employee Assistance Services for Education
Natasha Thomas is a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist with over 10 years of experience working in a clinical setting. Natasha’s approach is direct, non-judgmental and compassionate. Natasha is trained and certified in Dialectical Behavioral Therapy, Cognitive Behavioral Therapy for Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder, Seeking Safety, Motivational Interviewing, Trauma-Informed Care, Grief & Loss for Children, Adolescents and Adults. She believes the journey of therapy is not individual, but one where you and your therapist travel together.
Clients are the experts in their lives, and while in therapy, the change they desire is within arm’s reach. In 2020, Natasha co-founded her private practice; Change Therapeutic Services, Inc., where she considers the importance of the surrounding systems, adversity, destructive patterns, reducing stigmas and how these areas affect those seeking therapy. She is passionate about providing effective therapy. With support, change is possible.
Stephanie is a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist and Experienced Registered Yoga Teacher who has been in the behavioral and mental health field since 2013. She proudly serves her alma mater as an Adjunct Psychology Professor and is trained in Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR). She specialized in behavior analysis before pursuing her life’s work in complex trauma, with a vision to serve and be a guiding light for her clients.
Stephanie embodies an integrative approach to therapy, and understands her client’s unique set of skills and gifts through a trauma-informed and inclusive lens. She embraces the importance of cultural sensitivity and humility within the therapeutic relationship, and incorporates experiential and somatic practices throughout her work with clients to promote mind-body healing and connection. Stephanie is passionate about co-creating a therapeutic space that honors curiosity and collaboration and hopes to walk alongside her clients.
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Empowered Mind-Body Therapy for Individuals and Fa
“Always a great session with Stephanie! Our weekly meets help me process and organize my personal thoughts and experiences for the previous week. This then helps me become more self aware of my own needs for that given situation and helps me come up with actionable steps moving forward. I look forward to every session together- I really need it and greatly benefit from it.”
Stephanie Sarmiento, LMFT
Marriage & Family Therapist
3711 Long Beach Blvd Suite 601
#6041
Long Beach, CA 90807
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Zahra Hayderzadeh
Marriage & Family Therapist 36.6 mi
5.0(44)
3711 Long Beach Blvd Suite 601
#6041
Long Beach, CA 90807
Zahra is a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist with over 9 years of experience in the mental health field. Zahra has provided therapeutic services for adults, children, and families in various capacities including outpatient, in home and treatment settings. Zahra’s approach to therapy is shaped by evidence-based practices including Cognitive Behavioral Therapy. She views therapy as a collaborative space where she and her clients gather data on what does not work and try out new behaviors that may bring them closer to their values. Zahra believes in the individual uniqueness of each person and in fostering a safe space where clients can be authentically themselves. She is committed to meeting clients with unconditional positive regard and quality care. Zahra feels profoundly grateful that she is a witness and support to her client’s struggles, their successes, confidence, and healing.
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Empowered Mind-Body Therapy for Individuals and Fa
Kristine is a licensed Marriage and Family therapist specializing in working with adults. Kristine spent the first 8 years of her career working in a community mental health agency with the severely mentally ill who were at risk of homelessness, incarceration, and psychiatric hospitalization. The second half of her career has been helping individuals with depression and anxiety understand the root causes of their symptoms and heal from them. Kristine has been using Internal Family Systems informed techniques to help clients understand themselves, and their needs, and to heal the developmental gap that has prevented them from nurturing themselves. She is more like a coach who coaches the clients how to love and nurture themselves. She also offers Christian-based counseling to bring in prayer and spirituality for clients if that is their preference.
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Empowered Mind-Body Therapy for Individuals and Fa
Brooke Balliett, LMFT, is a licensed marriage and family therapist (52456) at the California Center for Psychedelic Therapy located in Hollywood, California. Her life's work is dedicated to stewarding psychological, spiritual & relationship health through self-awareness, emotional intelligence & recognition of the unique drive towards authenticity held within each of us.
From a framework integrating trauma, developmental & transpersonal psychology, Brooke provides, trains, and mentors multiple psychedelic-assisted psychotherapies, including MDMA-assisted therapy, psilocybin therapy, and ketamine-assisted psychotherapy. Additionally, she was a leader in psychedelic risk reduction services with the Zendo Project & Kosmicare as they pioneered psychedelic emergency care, drug education and peer support worldwide. She is a student of the world and honored to say she has worked in service of psychedelic wellness on 4 continents and counting.
After over a decade of clinical service provision and program development in publicly funded community mental health centers across central Los Angeles, she co-founded the California Center for Psychedelic Therapy as her offering to those seeking mental health within a limited system of accessible, effective care & as a commitment to furthering access to cutting-edge psychedelic treatments to heal individuals and the communities surrounding them.
Vitoria Cottiss, AMFT (146982), is a bilingual Associate Marriage and Family Therapist completing her post-graduate clinical fellowship in psychedelic psychotherapies at the center. Vitoria nurtures deep self-awareness and focuses on uncovering and understanding the hidden layers of experiences and behaviors. Her holistic, trauma-informed, and inclusive approach carefully integrates the unique occupational, social, sexual, cultural and spiritual identities of her clients as essential aspects of the therapeutic journey.
Clinically trained in psychodynamic, emotionally-focused, and mindfulness-based cognitive therapies, her diverse experience includes working in grief camps, educational settings and substance abuse treatment centers, where she has honed her skills in providing compassionate care. Vitoria also holds certifications in breathwork and meditation, often integrating these supportive mindfulness tools into her therapeutic practice.
Vitoria is committed to making mental health care accessible and inclusive and provides therapy in both English and Portuguese. When she's not in session, you can find her exploring nature or enjoying a refreshing matcha.
