Getting Started
If you’re considering therapy, you can reach out with questions or to schedule a consultation. We’ll talk about what brings you here and whether we’re a good fit. Finding the right therapist matters, and we’re happy to help you figure that out.
Individual Therapy
Couples Therapy
Relational Trauma
Individual Therapy
Life brings challenges that can feel overwhelming when faced alone. Whether you’re navigating anxiety, depression, life transitions, or simply seeking personal growth, individual therapy offers a dedicated space to explore your inner world with compassion and clarity.
What to Expect
In our work together, you’ll find a confidential, judgment-free environment where your experiences, thoughts, and feelings are honored. We begin where you are, moving at a pace that feels right for you. Our therapists draw from evidence-based modalities — including CBT, DBT, psychodynamic approaches, mindfulness-based techniques, and more — tailoring the approach to your unique needs and goals.
Sessions typically focus on:
- Understanding patterns in your thoughts, emotions, and behaviors
- Developing practical coping strategies and skills
- Processing difficult experiences and emotions
- Building self-awareness and self-compassion
- Creating meaningful change aligned with your values
You’re the expert on your own life. Our role is to walk alongside you, offering tools, insights, and support as you discover your own path toward healing and growth. Many clients find that therapy not only helps them navigate immediate concerns but also deepens their relationship with themselves and enhances their overall quality of life.
Couples Therapy
Every relationship encounters moments of disconnection, conflict, or uncertainty. Couples therapy provides a supportive space where both partners can be heard, understood, and work together toward a healthier, more fulfilling relationship.
What to Expect
Our approach to couples therapy is grounded in respect for your unique relationship and the belief that both partners bring valuable perspectives. We create a balanced environment where each person feels safe to express themselves while learning to truly hear one another.
Drawing from approaches like Emotionally Focused Therapy (EFT), the Gottman Method, and attachment-based frameworks, we help couples:
- Improve communication and reduce destructive conflict patterns
- Rebuild trust and emotional intimacy
- Understand underlying emotions and attachment needs
- Navigate life transitions, major decisions, or external stressors
- Heal from betrayals or ruptures in the relationship
- Rediscover connection and shared meaning
Whether you’re facing a specific crisis or seeking to strengthen an already good relationship, therapy offers tools and insights that can transform how you relate to one another. You’ll learn to move from cycles of blame and defensiveness toward genuine understanding, repair, and deeper connection.
We also welcome couples exploring relationship structures, premarital preparation, or discernment about the future of their partnership.
Relational Trauma
What to Expect
Healing from relational trauma requires a therapeutic relationship built on safety, trust, and attunement. We understand that if your pain originated in relationships, the idea of being vulnerable with another person — even a therapist — may feel frightening. We honor this and work collaboratively to establish a pace and approach that feels manageable.
Our therapists are trained in trauma-informed modalities including EMDR, Internal Family Systems (IFS), somatic approaches, attachment-based therapies, and trauma-focused CBT. We recognize that relational trauma can manifest as:
- Difficulty trusting others or forming secure attachments
- Patterns of people-pleasing, self-abandonment, or boundary challenges
- Hypervigilance, emotional numbness, or dissociation
- Internalized shame or negative self-beliefs
- Repeating relationship patterns that feel familiar but painful
In therapy, you’ll have the opportunity to:
- Process traumatic experiences at your own pace
- Understand how past experiences influence present relationships
- Develop skills for nervous system regulation and emotional safety
- Challenge internalized beliefs and reclaim your sense of self
- Practice new ways of relating within the therapeutic relationship
- Build secure attachment and learn what a healthy connection.
Healing is possible. While we cannot change what happened to you, we can work together to change its power over your present and future. Many clients discover that as they process relational trauma, they experience greater freedom, authenticity, and capacity for meaningful connection.
All of our therapists are committed to culturally responsive, affirming care that honors your full identity and lived experience. We welcome clients of all backgrounds, orientations, and walks of life.
Individual Therapy West Los Angeles and Couples Therapy West Los Angeles at Blair Bishop Therapy provide EMDR, CBT, IFS, and relational trauma counseling to help clients heal, grow, and strengthen relationships.