Counseling in Los Angeles

For Adults and Couples Who Want to Feel Like Themselves Again

Grace Ou, Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist, MFC#107667; Practicing for over 11 years

Everything is feeling like too much.

You’ve got a lot of anxiety about how your life is going, how to it feels to be you, day in and day out. And it just keeps growing as you start to create new worries out of old ones.

Add to that the pressure you feel as you’re still shaped by your family expectations. It’s not something you talk about but it is always there hovering in the background. So you turn to work to give you purpose and something you can do well but that drains you more than it fulfills.

The stress builds and then you get home only to have the same fight with your partner. It’s a pattern you both are stuck in and can’t get out of, no matter how often you try.

You’ve been talking with friends, searching online, and reading self-help books. Nothing is changing and you still feel this unease in your body as patterns repeat at everywhere you look. You're tired of the negative loop in your thoughts and in your relationships. The pressures of work, family, and everyday life are piling up, and you need a space to finally make sense of it and change course.

Hi, I’m Grace Ou, LMFT.

Grace Ou, LMFT, a counselor in Los Angeles, sitting on a sunlit park bench with a calm and welcoming expression.

Grace Ou, LMFT | MS Marital and Family Therapy | Certified Havening Practitioner | Certified Level 2 Restoration Therapy Therapist | Certified Prepare/Enrich

I am a licensed marriage and family therapist in Los Angeles (MFC#107667). With over 11 years of experience, I help adults and couples who are triggered and overwhelmed. In individual and couples therapy I use the Restoration Therapy model. I help you identify recurring cycles you keep getting stuck in and find out what is actually driving them underneath the surface so that the triggered anxious places become a place of calm and peace.

Imagine not having to second guess and doubt yourself.  I’m here to help you feel more empowered and make choices from a place of peace and truth instead of anxiety. This can look like taking yourself less seriously, learning how to cultivate self compassion and kindness, and letting go of the anxiety that holds you back.

Clients who have worked with me say they feel more free, more open, and more engaged with themselves and those around them.  They feel refreshed and no longer tied down by the worries that have plagued their minds for so long. 

What to Expect When We Work Together

There are a handful of approaches that I like to use during our work together. As a Level 2 Restoration Therapy therapist, I help you shift your mindset and your actions that keep you living in a place of pain to a place of peace. This looks like identifying unhelpful patterns and behaviors and rediscovering truth that can serve as the anchor point for new ways of acting to occur when in relationships with others and yourself.

As a certified Havening Techniques practitioner, I help you use gentle touch on your palms, arms or face. We apply this touch as we talk together and work through therapist guided exercises. This may sound unusual, but most clients find this soothing and calming. In using these scientifically-backed techniques, I help clients decrease anxiety and trauma symptoms.

As a certified Prepare and Enrich practitioner, I help for couples seeking premarital counseling and already established couples assess and review important aspects of their relationship. This assessment addresses several areas of relationships including communication, conflict resolution, money, sex, family/friends, personality, relationship roles, faith/ spirituality, and stress. After taking the assessment, I help clients translate their results into practical, take home applications.

Contact me for a free counseling consultation

Let's talk about what's bringing you to counseling in Los Angeles and whether working together feels like a good fit. To schedule a free 15-minute phone consultation click here: Schedule a Consult.  My specialities include working with anxiety, couples, Asian Americans, and Christian counseling.  Let’s get you moving from that stuck place to living in free and new ways!

There are lots of ways I can help. Check out the counseling options below!

Anxiety

Couples

Asian American Context

Christian Counseling

Online and remote options

My office is located in the San Gabriel Valley serving the greater Los Angeles area — including Arcadia, Pasadena, Alhambra, and Monrovia — through a fully virtual practice. This means you get the same quality of care whether you're in San Marino or La Cañada.

My online services are also offered for those residing anywhere in the state of California. All sessions are held via a HIPAA-compliant video platform. Your information is never sold or shared.

Let's talk about what's bringing you to counseling in Los Angeles and whether working together feels like a good fit. To schedule a free 15-minute phone consultation click below.

 
 

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