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.
Gabriel Garcia, LMFT · Los Angeles
Dive underneath
what keeps repeating
You can know the pattern by heart and still find yourself inside it. We look at the stories you were handed and the habits keeping them alive. Then we work on what you want to do differently.
Twelve years in private practice · LMFT #99274
Twenty minutes to talk about what brings you here and whether we want to work together. The consultation is free.
Gabriel Garcia
LMFT #99274
In this room, we puzzle through your life.
There is room here for the messy and the wild. We can look at the stories you have lived inside without asking you to make everything tidy first. I'll ask questions that may take us somewhere you weren't expecting.
You can disagree with me. We keep coming back to what you want to change.
“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
I listen closely, ask questions that matter, and tell you what I see. We keep returning to what you want from the work and what is changing in your life.
Four Domains
Somatic, Intellectual, Emotional, and Spiritual. We pay attention to all four, because a life doesn't change in just one of them.
The people doing the work
Find the person you want to sit with.
Work with me, or with an associate I supervise. You can talk with me about the right fit, or reach out to Mimi or Analia directly.
Gabriel Garcia
LMFT #99274
$375 / 50 minutes
Adults, artists, couples, and teens. Narrative therapy and philosophical Taoism, grounded in twelve years of private practice.
Mimi Le
Registered Associate MFT #146222
$150 / 50 minutes
Couples, teens, and individual therapy. Anxiety, identity, and cultural belonging.
Employed by Anarchotaoist Family Therapy. Supervised by Gabriel Garcia, LMFT #99274.
Analia Rey
Registered Associate MFT #133492
$150 / 50 minutes
Individuals, couples, teens, and creatives. Heartbreak, dating patterns, and creative comparison and burnout.
Employed by Anarchotaoist Family Therapy. Supervised by Gabriel Garcia, LMFT #99274.
Not sure where to begin? Book a free twenty-minute conversation with Gabriel. Tell me what's going on. We'll talk through the options together.
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 transmutationsAdults, artists, couples, teens - nobody arrives here by accident.
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.
The practical details
Gabriel Garcia is a licensed marriage and family therapist (LMFT #99274) in Los Angeles, practicing narrative therapy and philosophical Taoism with men, artists, founders, couples, and teens. Sessions are $375 for 50 minutes, or $150 with a supervised associate therapist, online anywhere in California or in person in Hancock Park. Private pay, with superbills for out-of-network reimbursement. The first 20-minute consultation is free.
The first conversation
You don't have to have the right words yet.
Bring what's going on, even if it's hard to explain. The consultation is a chance to ask questions, hear how I think about the work, and see whether we connect.
We'll talk about working with me or an associate, the fee, and what beginning could look like. You decide whether to take the next step.
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323.334.0464
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Anywhere in California
In nature
Woodland Hills - Conejo Valley
Office
Hancock Park · 3 days a week