Narrative Therapy
You are not your problem. We separate you from it, examine the stories you live inside, and rewrite the ones that no longer fit.
Transformative Psychotherapy · Los Angeles
Your preferred identity is already functioning.
You just need to access it. You exist in the stories you tell about yourself, and the ones that got told to you — most of which you never agreed to. My job is getting you under all that noise to the version that already works. I'm dead serious about your change.
Limited caseload
Free 20-minute consultation
Strictly confidential
Gabriel Garcia
LMFT #99274
“The problem is not with you. It's with your conditioning, your training — the lessons you were handed and never chose. Change begins the moment you decide to learn how to learn, to feel your own lessons, and to finally do something about them.”— Gabriel
My Approach
What I actually do.
My fluency is in two disciplines: Narrative Therapy and Philosophical Taoism. Plus honesty — therapy as performance is a waste of the one life you've got.
Philosophical Taoism
Less forcing, more flowing. We work with your nature instead of against it — finding the path of least resistance toward real change.
Honest Conversation
Being a therapist isn't a call-in job where you ramble for years and nothing moves. I'll tell you the truth and actually stay in it with you — no performance, no pretending. You'll always know where you stand.
Four Domains
Body, mind, relationships, and meaning. We pay attention to all four, because a life doesn't change in just one of them.
Taoist Elements
All energy needs to find its correct course.
Nothing in you is wrong. The energy is just running the wrong direction. We point it back where it's supposed to go.
Worry → Competency
Worry is attention that hasn't been handed its work. Give it a direction and it becomes competence.
Addiction → Connection
Underneath the craving is a need for connection that got rerouted. We follow it back to people.
Anger → Boundaries
Anger is information. It marks the line that matters — we learn to read it early and say it plainly.
Grief → Devotion
Grief is the receipt for having loved. Its course was never getting over it; it's devotion.
Shame → Belonging
Shame insists you're too much, or not enough, to be loved. Being truly known is how you call its bluff.
Fear → Aliveness
Fear tends to show up exactly where the aliveness is. We move toward it — your pace, your terms.
Who I Work With
People who actually want to change.
Individuals
Adults carrying anxiety, addiction, a creative block, a transition that won't resolve — or the quieter weight of wondering what any of it is for. We work where it actually lives.
Couples
Partners tired of the same fight who want to understand it instead. We get honest about what's underneath and rebuild connection without pretending the hard parts away.
Teens
Young people in the middle of becoming someone. I meet them as whole people with real interior lives, not problems for the adults to manage.
Everyone is welcome here. I work with people of all races, faiths, body sizes, abilities, gender identities, and sexual orientations. LGBTQ+, kink, poly, and non-traditional relationships are affirmed here, not merely tolerated. If you've felt out of place in other therapy rooms, this one may fit differently.
Rates
What it costs, plainly.
A free 20-minute call comes first. No pitch — we just find out if this is a fit before anything else.
Gabriel Garcia, LMFT
$275 / 50-min session
Individuals, couples, and teens. In-person in Los Angeles or virtual across California. Sliding scale available.
- Free 20-minute consultation
- Sliding scale offered based on need
- Superbills provided for out-of-network insurance
- In-person on Larchmont & telehealth across CA
Associate Therapists
$150 / 50-min session
Associate Marriage & Family Therapists working under Gabriel's supervision — excellent care at a more accessible rate.
MLMimi Le, AMFT
Individuals & couples · anxiety, identity, and cultural belonging.
ARAnalia Rey, AMFT
Teens & adults · life transitions, grief, and relationships.
Let's begin
Let's talk. I'm serious about your change.
I keep a limited caseload so the work stays real. Twenty minutes, free, no pitch — we find out if this is a fit.
Book your free consultation
Call or text
323.334.0464
Office
321 N. Larchmont Blvd, Los Angeles, CA 90004
Sessions
In-person & telehealth (CA)