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.
People who actually want to change, not just understand why they haven't.
You already know your patterns. That was never the hard part. The hard part is the gap between knowing and actually changing, and that gap is exactly where I work.
I work with artists, founders, and culture-shapers in Los Angeles, people of high visibility who need real discretion, and business owners still building toward it. If that's you, here's how the work actually goes.
A free 20-minute conversation, and a straight answer about whether we're a fit.
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.”
What I actually do.
Philosophical Taoism
Less forcing, more flowing. Wu wei, actionless action, isn't passivity. It's the recognition that your nature isn't the problem, and forcing it never was the answer. The most durable change doesn't come from pushing harder; it comes from finding what's already trying to move and getting out of its way.
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
Somatic, Intellectual, Emotional, and Spiritual. We pay attention to all four, because a life doesn't change in just one of them.
All energy needs to find its correct course.
Taoist wisdom doesn't ask you to eliminate what's troubling you. We work out what the pattern is trying to tell you instead. Worry, grief, anger, shame are not disorders to be removed. They're innocent energies waiting to find their correct course. The work is recognition, then transmutation. Never suppression.
Worry → Competency
Worry is attention that hasn't been handed its work. Give it a direction and it becomes competence.
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.
Six of these, worked all the way through, live on the approach page. Addiction, anger, and fear are the other three.
See all six transmutationsThe Journal
Essays worth returning to.
Scribbling at the intersection of Poetics, Postmodern Psychology, EcoEcstacy, and Taoism. In your inbox.
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Adults
Accomplished people carrying anxiety, addiction, a creative block, a transition that won't resolve, or the quieter weight of having built a good life and wondering what it's for. We work where it actually lives.
Artists & Makers
Writers, musicians, designers, founders, anyone whose work draws on the same inner well that gets blocked, flooded, or burned out. I come from this world. I know its particular weather.
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.
Three ways to do the work.
Most of it happens online, a private virtual office open to anyone living in California. When we meet in person, it's somewhere worth being.
The Virtual Office
Where most of my clients work with me. The same depth, minus the commute and the parking, from your study, your hotel room, wherever your life actually happens. Available to anyone in California, and easy to keep consistent around a full schedule.
Walk & Talk Therapy
For clients from Woodland Hills through the Conejo Valley. I hold sessions outdoors at a quiet park in the Santa Monica Mountains. Moving bodies, open air, oak shade, the conversation tends to find a different gear out among the hills.
The Hancock Park Office
A private room a few steps off Larchmont, centrally located near Hollywood, three days a week. For when you want the steadiness of a dedicated space to return to, the same chair, the same hour, the same room holding the work.
What it costs, plainly.
I charge $400 a session. That fee supports a small caseload, which is how everyone I work with gets my full attention. I work with business owners, artists, and founders who expect real depth over symptom management.
If that's you, see the full rate structure, which includes options with associate therapists at a more accessible rate.
Gabriel Garcia, LMFT
Adults, artists, couples, and teens. Online across California, walk-and-talk in the Santa Monica Mountains, or in the Hancock Park office.
- Free 20-minute consultation
- Online sessions anywhere in California
- Private out-of-network practice · superbills provided
Associate Therapists
Registered Associate Marriage & Family Therapists working under Gabriel's clinical supervision, excellent care at a more accessible rate.
MLMimi Le, Registered Associate MFT #146222
Couples, teens and individual · anxiety, identity, and cultural belonging.
Employed by Anarchotaoist Family Therapy · Supervised by Gabriel Garcia, LMFT #99274
ARAnalia Rey, Registered Associate MFT #133492
Couples, teens and individual · heartbreak and relationships.
Employed by Anarchotaoist Family Therapy · Supervised by Gabriel Garcia, LMFT #99274
Let's talk. I'm serious about your change.
Twenty minutes, free. We find out if it's a fit.
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323.334.0464
Online
Anywhere in California
In nature
Woodland Hills - Conejo Valley
Office
Hancock Park · 3 days a week