Therapists in California
Silviana Capra
(she/her)
Silviana is a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist in Los Angeles with extensive knowledge and trauma informed training in supporting her patients to uncover the healer within themselves. She is eager to help clients look inward to understand themselves through the lens of their experiences and align with their gifts to open up new possibilities. She guides her clients in the exploration of their life history to better understand how that has shaped their current reality, and from there, support them in following their intuition and stepping into their limitless potential. In her free time, Silvia enjoys the creative arts, spending time in nature, trying new restaurants during her travels and cuddling with her Maltipoo, Jaxon.
Cherilyn Haworth
(she/her)
Cherilyn is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker from Bakersfield, California. She has a doctorate in Clinical Psychology and is pursuing licensure as a Clinical Psychologist. Cherilyn has worked in the field of trauma and abuse for over 15 years. During this time, she worked with individuals, couples, families, and groups experiencing a variety of issues in many different settings. Cherilyn approaches therapy using a humanistic perspective and she enjoys working with clients to find their own internal strengths and tools to help them reach their goals or address their challenges. Cherilyn enjoys traveling, cooking, and learning new things.
Johnny Kaihan Zhong
Johnny Zhong is a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist specializing in couple therapy and a Licensed Professional Clinical Counselor, as well as an EMDR therapist focused on trauma. Their approach is client-centered, emphasizing collaboration and empathy. Johnny works with a range of issues, including social anxiety, general anxiety, body image concerns, life transitions, and stress, providing care to both children and adults. Currently, they are training in music therapy to enhance the therapeutic experience. Johnny’s background includes extensive experience with severe populations in diverse settings, such as inpatient hospitals, outpatient hospitals (including Kaiser Permanente), emergency rooms, and forensic environments like Napa State Hospital, where they provided acute psychiatric care.
Tyler Willis
(he/him)
Tyler is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker with over a decade of experience in mental health, ranging from working at a fire department as a crisis intervention specialist to coaching healthy individuals seeking to improve their lives, to caring for severely depressed and psychotic patients on a psychiatric intensive care unit. With an approach that is compassionate, solution-focused, and grounded in the latest research, he uses a variety of tools based on mindfulness and neuroscience. He excels in using psychedelic medicine to help clients be present, reconnect with themselves, and appreciate the fullness of each moment of life.
Veronica Newsom
(they/them)
Veronica Newsom, LMFT holds a B.A. Anthropology from UCLA (Jun 2004) and a M.A. Clinical Psychology from Antioch University Los Angeles (Sep 2008). Veronica’s integrative and trauma-informed approach to therapy considers how patterns created in the past are influencing what is happening now, seeking to deepen inner wisdom and facilitate change.
Lance Johns
(he/him)
As a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist, Lance uses Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, which suggests that suffering is partially caused by sailing away from pain. The result is that you never quite make it ashore and you feel lost in the sea of life. Thus, he works to increase your repertoire of behaviors by expanding awareness, openness and movement towards values. He believes in fostering a welcoming environment in which awe and wonder is experienced. He is an avid reader, MMA fan and drummer.
Lacie Hamilton
(she/her)
Lacie is a multi-state licensed psychotherapist who specializes in Ketamine Assisted Psychotherapy (KAP). She is currently in a year-long post-graduate fellowship with Integrative Psychiatry Institute, focusing on psychedelic-assisted psychotherapy, and has trained with the Multidisciplinary Association for Psychedelic Studies (MAPS) PBC for MDMA-assisted therapy. She uses a highly integrative approach, often weaving in modalities such as EMDR, ART, somatic parts work, and polyvagal theory, as well as yoga and mindfulness meditation. She teaches, trains and consults for other practitioners engaging in KAP, and has been featured twice on one of Wired Magazine's 'Best Podcasts of 2023'.
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87%
of patients report improvements in depression and anxiety within 4 weeks.
