therapy for coming back to yourself

individual therapy in santa monica, ca

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gently, honestly, and without leaving your body behind

a kinder way to do the work

For a long time, you may have been doing everything "right." Showing up for everyone else. Pushing through stress. Meeting expectations. Staying productive. From the outside, it might look like you're handling it all… but something feels off. Maybe you're exhausted in a way that rest doesn't seem to fix, navigating anxiety, burnout, chronic stress, or persistent symptoms. Or maybe you've simply lost touch with yourself beneath all the responsibilities and expectations.

When life asks us to keep going, it's easy to start continually overriding what we're feeling and needing. Eventually, our minds and bodies start asking for our attention. Therapy can be a place to slow down enough to listen.

Together, we'll explore the patterns that once helped you survive but may now be keeping you from thriving. We'll work to gently update those patterns, and build greater flexibility and self-trust. You’ll reconnect with what matters most so that you can create room for a life that feels more aligned with your values. Even when the world asks you to rush, fix, produce, and please, life can be be lived from a place of more joy and ease.

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Sometimes the people who seem the most capable are carrying the most

You don't have to keep pushing through

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My path to this work was shaped by both professional training and personal experience

I know what can happen when the nervous system has been carrying too much for too long, and I also know the gentle approach needed to heal.  

Today, I help adolescents and adults navigate burnout, anxiety, grief, perfectionism, chronic symptoms, and life transitions. Through a blend of evidence-based cognitive and somatic approaches, I show them how to work with their minds and bodies to show up for themselves, build capacity, and enjoy a deeper sense of ease.  

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I'm Emily Frumkin, LCSW

"Emily was an invaluable support to me after my parents passed away; her compassionate and empathetic presence gave me space to process and talk through the enormity of what had happened. I immediately felt at ease with Emily and cannot recommend her enough. She truly was a light during one of the darkest times of my life."
 
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“We worked with Emily for a little over a year, and her support has been invaluable. As a mother who navigated postpartum depression and later major depressive disorder, I’ve felt her real expertise in supporting mothers and partners through it. She never offers generic advice... [READ MORE]
 
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“We worked with Emily for a little over a year, and her support has been invaluable. As a mother who navigated postpartum depression and later major depressive disorder, I’ve felt her real expertise in supporting mothers and partners through it. She never offers generic advice — she takes the time to understand our family and the specifics of what we’re navigating, and her insights are consistently thoughtful and introspective, helping us see our own patterns more clearly. She’s attentive to the smallest details, remembering things we mentioned weeks ago and weaving them back in, in ways that show how present she truly is. Working with Emily has given us more confidence and self-trust as parents, during a time when that felt hard to hold onto. We can’t recommend her highly enough!“ [READ LESS] 


“Emily understood my son and how to approach him from the moment they met. She talked to us as parents before meeting him and figured out exactly how to meet him at his level and understand what he needed… [READ MORE]
 
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Emily understood my son and how to approach him from the moment they met. She talked to us as parents before meeting him, and figured out exactly how to meet him at his level and what he needed. She worked with him every week with complete respect and honesty, which also gave me the same confidence to be honest and forthright with him because I knew he was in good hands. I trusted her for an hour every week more than any other adult to guide him, and keep him grounded and confident throughout his time seeing her. [READ LESS] 


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