Start Healing with a Therapist Near You

HERE COUNSELING IN PASADENA AND LOS ANGELES

H.M.

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Gives insightful feedback and genuinely cares about people. If you are looking for a therapist, I would highly recommend Here's team

J.M.

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I never felt like "a number". Two thumbs up

J.B.

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They see their clients face-to-face, which was a major plus for me

M.S.

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Provided empathetic, attuned, and deeply compassionate presence that allowed for growth

R.V.

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I was able to come back with clarity and restored passion

J. L.

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Connor and his team are excellent!

A.J.

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He was a great listener, moderator, and advisor to us

Overcome the obstacle you face with an experienced therapist near you

Get the help you need from our experienced private practice therapists in Pasadena and Los Angeles. At Here Counseling, you can address depression, anxiety, panic attacks, trauma, and life transitions. We provide couples therapy, somatic therapy, trauma therapy and more. Don’t end up on a wait list that will keep you frustrated for months. Once you reach out, you’ll:

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Match with the right therapist near you

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See your therapist within a week

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Transform emotional pain into relief

Transform emotional pain into relief

It’s hard to push forward when you’re already exhausted. Maybe for you it’s anxiety, depression, relationship issues, or a traumatic experience. Regardless, we can get stuck in the same place because the change feels impossible.

However sometimes we get a glimpse of what we wish life could be like: that we could feel confident, strong, share life vulnerably with those closest to us, make clear decisions, and manage difficult feelings well.

You can find relief from emotional pain with our therapists in Pasadena and LA.

Our therapists practice therapy near you in Los Angeles and Pasadena, but can also be seen virtually throughout California.

Above all, we know that a good match between therapist and client is the leading indicator for therapy’s success. That’s why we have a care coordinator who can match you with a therapist that works for you. We’ve even developed an AI tool to match you with a therapist.

Each of our therapists are quality, caring practitioners who invest deeply in the help they provide you. Each of our therapists is unique, yet share a core belief that lasting change happens best through a trusting, safe relationship with the right therapist. We can help you find your therapist today.

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DR. CONNOR MCCLENAHAN

Licensed Clinical Psychologist
DIRECTOR, HERE COUNSELING

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Don't know where to start? Our Care Coordinator will connect you with a therapist near you in Los Angeles or Pasadena that's available to work with you in-person or online. In fact, this first step may be one of the most important steps you take for your mental health. Find therapy near you today.

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FAQs

Therapy harnesses the mind's natural ability to heal

Your mind has a natural ability to heal and grow by processing emotional information. This ‘mode’ is accessed when a person is in a safe and understanding environment with another person. Our job as therapists is to be carefully tuned in to your experience to foster your ability to express and heal. The result isn’t just the alleviation of symptoms, it’s a much bigger outcome: you’ll experience a growth in self-awareness, compassion, courage, and confidence.

Think of your mind like a seed: everything you need to grow is already within you, waiting for the right conditions. A skilled therapist doesn’t “fix” you; they help you tap into your natural capacity for strength, vulnerability, and wisdom. Here’s how therapy nurtures that growth:

  • Mending Emotional Scars. Whether you’re an individual, couple, or family, therapy offers a secure space to unpack past traumas or present struggles and start healing.
  • Building Resilience. Discover practical tools to tackle life’s ups and downs with confidence and calm.
  • Unlocking Self-Knowledge. Get a clearer view of your thoughts, feelings, and habits—insights that sharpen your decisions and fuel personal growth.
  • Strengthening Bonds. By better understanding yourself, you’ll deepen connections with others, creating healthier relationships as a couple or family.

Many of our therapists approach treatment from a psychoanalytic approach. We understand how the mind is formed by past experiences, which color the ways we think, feel, and act in our daily lives. Much of the pain we experience today has roots in the ways we first learned to experience ourselves and our world. Illuminating and changing these templates can be an incredibly rewarding and strengthening process. You have the potential within you to grow into the person you want to be —let’s help you bring it to life.

Benefits of In-Person Therapy in Pasadena and LA

If you’ve been typing “in-person therapy near me” into your search bar, we have LA and Pasadena therapists, as well as welcoming office spaces for face-to-face sessions. Making the trip to see your therapist in person can be beneficial to your growth—here’s why it matters:
  • A Safe Space to Open Up. Therapy thrives when you feel secure enough to share freely. At home, you might worry about being overheard, but our private, consistent in-person setting lets you express yourself with confidence.
  • Real Human Connection. Nothing beats the energy of being in the same room. Like catching up with a friend, face-to-face interaction flows naturally, with no lag to throw off the vibe. Research backs this up—even a tiny 0.2-second delay on video can make reactions feel off to your brain. In person, you get your therapist’s authentic, real-time presence.
  • No Tech Glitches. The last thing you need is a frozen screen or choppy audio derailing a breakthrough moment. In-person therapy keeps the focus on you, not the Wi-Fi.
  • A Mental Reset. Our clients say stepping into the office helps them leave work and distractions behind, making it easier to dive deep and get the most out of every session.
Prefer flexibility? We also offer virtual therapy through a secure, user-friendly video platform, perfect for connecting with your therapist from wherever you are. Whether in-person or online, we’re here to meet you where you need us.

Talk with a Therapist Within a Week

No wait lists. We won't leave you hanging

When you’re looking for an LA or Pasadena therapist, the last thing you want is to wait days or weeks, only to hear the therapist isn’t available to see you. Many people give up and miss out on the help they need.

We know what that feels like, and have made it our goal to connect you with a therapist that can see you within a week of reaching out. That means we’ll get back to your request within a day. Additionally, if you need help choosing a therapist, we’ll pair you with a therapist you feel good about and that’s available to see you. Our counselors in Pasadena and Los Angeles can see you for in-person or online therapy.

So click below and schedule a call with us. Were here to help you make a lasting change in your mental health and relationships.

The Cost of Therapy in Pasadena

Our therapist’s rates are around market rate for a private practice therapist in the Los Angeles or Pasadena area. Pricing information is listed on each therapist’s profile page.

For information about fees, click here.

Therapy is an expensive investment of money, time, and emotional courage. It can feel daunting to take the first step. On the other side of this first step, when you’re with the right therapist who does great work with you, the payoff for your relationships, emotions, and aspirations is life changing.

Our Approach to Therapy

Couples Therapy in Pasadena: EFT and Restoration Therapy

When looking for couples therapy, often partners are overwhelmed by the emotional tension or icy coldness in the relationship. The first step is to broaden the couple’s understanding of the core issue they’re facing. The next is more difficult: it involves coming closer to the emotions and learning to express them in a way that fosters greater trust and intimacy. This can be a difficult process, and requires a therapist who can guide a couple through vulnerable experiences with safety.

EFT

Emotionally Focused Couples Therapy is a process that helps couples move from “secondary” to “primary” expressions of attachment emotions. When scared of rejection, partners will hide their vulnerable needs from each other in the form of criticism, anger, or distance. EFT therapists help couples practice openly expressing their emotion. Just like starting a warm fire, there’s a cascading effect when each partner expresses clearly and directly, promoting trust and secure attachment.

Restoration Therapy

Restoration therapy is a more structured process of couples therapy, or marriage counseling, that moves couples from their “pain cycle” to a “peace cycle”. The therapy starts with building a shared understanding of the couple’s pain cycle to broaden awareness. No problem can be solved before it is first understood. Next, the couple learns to differentiate – meaning they learn to self-reflect and express their emotional state – before they get into a heated argument.
This process helps a couple build shared meaning, and deepens their understanding of each other, their pain, and how to connect meaningfully for the betterment of their relationship.

Trauma Therapy in Pasadena

Psychoanalytic Therapy

Many of our therapists are highly trained in a psychoanalytic approach to therapy. Many people, when they think of psychoanalysis, think of a cigar-smoking, cold Freudian character. This isn’t us.
A contemporary approach to psychoanalytic work understands that the mind is fundamentally formed by our earliest experiences. The mind is “plastic” early in life, meaning it’s like a soft ball of clay that forms itself around its experience. Much of how you experience your emotions, how you get angry, how you withdraw, what friendships you like, what romantic relationships you form, how capable you feel, and how hopeful you experience the world are formed early on.
Your earliest experiences taught you who you are and how the world works.
So why do we need to talk about it? Because your mind still has a “plastic” (moldable) mode. It enters into that mode when you sense, with safety, that another person is sharing (understanding and feeling) your experience from your perspective. In this mode, your mind is able to process, regulate, and understand the emotional experience that’s taking up space in your mind.
So what does this have to do with trauma?
When we have trauma early on, the brain creates a template of the experience, as if it’s saying “This will happen again, so always watch out for this!” This fear response is protective, but has an unwelcome side effect: our mind uses this template to color all our future interactions and relationships. As a result, trauma that happened years – decades – ago will still inform our feelings, our sleep, our panic, and our difficulty maintaining close relationships.
Psychoanalytic therapy helps you explore and resolve this trauma response so you can live in the present. It’s deeply empowering to emerge from the process of therapy with self-awareness, hope, clarity, and empowerment.

Somatic Therapy in Pasadena

Somatic therapy is a process that treats trauma through the focus on our bodies. We do this because all of our emotional experience is expressed and understood through our bodies. Much like an ice burg, if we just talk *about* our problems (the tip of the ice burg), we miss the body’s salient signals that will point the patient toward the needed change.
Emotions are always bodily expressed. When you get anxious you might feel your gut tightening, or your heart beating fast. When you feel sad you’ll feel your energy lower and your posture will change. Our emotions are not simply “feelings” we experience “internally” – they are the body’s readiness for action, stored and experienced through our entire physiology.
When we pay attention to these signals, opportunities emerge to create healing and change. This looks different for every client. Often somatic therapy is a combination of growing in understanding of the signals the patient’s body is presenting, and using somatic exercises with the therapist to teach the body to expand, to understand, and to soothe the client’s emotional state. Learn more here