Therapy for All
When the journey is harder than you thought. Therapy for parents, individuals, families, and couples.
Navigating the parenting journey can be overwhelming, to say the least. Whether you’ve endured trauma at any point in your perinatal period, you’re grappling with anxious or depressive symptoms (among others), or your relationship has gone through a reckoning in this new season, you deserve to have support. Heartship Psychological Services is here to sit alongside you wherever you are at in your process with therapy for moms.
Services:
- Individual Therapy
- Couples Therapy
- Teen/Parenting Therapy
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Dr. Lauren Cook
Dr. Cook is a licensed Clinical Psychologist with her doctorate in Clinical Psychology from Pepperdine University and her Master’s in Marriage and Family Therapy from the University of Southern California. She attended the University of California, Los Angeles for her undergraduate degrees in Psychology and Communication Studies. Lauren has worked extensively with individuals, particularly women, as well as couples and teens.
Lauren is also very open about her own journey towards becoming a mom, including overcoming anxiety, particularly emetophobia (a phobia of vomit) and panic attacks. As a Perinatal Mental Health Certified clinician, she loves offering therapy for moms and helping others navigate through their anxiety as well so that they can still live the meaningful lives they desire.
Dr. Lauren has a book specifically on anxiety management titled Generation Anxiety: A Millennial and Gen Z Guide to Staying Afloat in an Uncertain World.
Dr. Carissa Gustafson
Dr. Gustafson is a licensed clinical psychologist with her doctorate in Clinical Psychology from Pepperdine University and her Master’s in Clinical Psychology from Columbia University. She has advanced training in perinatal mood and anxiety disorders (PMADs) and is perinatal mental health certified (PMH-C).
As the author of Reclaim Your Life: Acceptance and Commitment Therapy in 7 Weeks, she specializes in ACT, which helps people learn skills, such as mindfulness and compassion, to handle difficult thoughts and feelings so they can find freedom from suffering and engage in their life.
Heather DePinho
Heather is a Registered Associate Marriage and Family Therapist providing virtual therapy across California, specializing in supporting adults and couples.
Drawing on deep personal experience, Heather is passionate about helping clients navigate life transitions, relational friction, and issues related to chronic self-doubt and low self-worth. Her clinical focus includes Hormonal Disorders (specifically PMDD), relationship issues, and complex life transitions, including navigating the perinatal journey. Practicing from a humanistic, person-centered, and trauma-informed approach, Heather utilizes Attachment Theory, Family Systems Theory, and Emotionally Focused Therapy (EFT) principles to help clients understand unhelpful patterns and heal core attachment wounds.
Her ultimate goal is to create genuine safety and security in clients’ relationships—both with themselves and with others.
If you’re looking for a collaborative, encouraging, and empowering therapist, let’s partner together. We truly believe that you deserve support at all times of your life, but especially through this season. Using evidence-based interventions and client-centered care, we like to help our clients feel nurtured to rest while still inviting them to grow.
Meet With Us:
www.heartshipcounseling.com
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