Aurisha Smolarski, MA, Marriage and Family Therapist
Psychotherapy in the Silver Lake Community, Los Angeles, CA
Sliding Scale Therapy
Are you feeling stuck and don't know why or how to get out of it? Looking for lasting intimate relationships? Grieving a recent break-up? Feeling overwhelmed or stressed at work and/or in life? Past traumas keeping you from reaching your full potential? I offer sliding-scale psychotherapy to individuals, couples, and families in a safe and compassionate setting. Together we work towards creating greater awareness and understanding of who you are and how circumstances in your life have affected your story. I believe in looking at the whole person - body and mind, to help guide us on this empowering journey to find more balance, happiness and hope. From here you can create the changes you envision for yourself.
Choosing a therapist is not an easy task. I welcome you to call me for an initial consultation, and to meet me to decide if we're a good match. I look forward to meeting you and to helping you begin your journey.
Therapy is the first step on your empowering journey to find greater balance, happiness, and hope! I’m committed to providing a safe and compassionate place for you to grow and heal. I bring curiosity and warmth to my work with individuals, couples, and co-parents to help you navigate life’s challenges and create healthier, more fulfilling relationships. Whatever your unique needs may be, I am here to support you as you move toward greater well-being and relationship harmony.
You Deserve The Life You Want.
Are you feeling stuck in a fear cycle and don’t know why or how to get out of it?
Looking for lasting intimate relationships?
Feeling anxious or stressed at work and/or in life?
Past traumas keeping you from reaching your full potential?
Do you suffer from low self-esteem or depression?
Are you going through a rough transition, a birth of a new child, divorce or separation, or struggling in career?
Marriage and Family Therapist Registered Intern #68603 in private practice under the supervision of Rachel L. Barr Lic, # MFC 46985
Education/Training
I’m a licensed marriage and family therapist, an author, and a mom. I live and work in Los Angeles, CA, and have over 15 years of experience working with couples and individuals from diverse backgrounds.
My background in music informs the way I work. Performing music involves verbal and nonverbal, literal and nonliteral, communication to create connection. This is also how I approach therapy. Bringing creativity, curiosity, and empathy to seek answers beyond what may meet the eye allows me to deepen our work together. I believe that once awareness occurs, change can begin. I work in a collaborative, active, and transparent way, and together we walk the path of discovery.
I believe healing occurs within relationships—in the therapeutic setting and in our own personal relationships. I am passionate about helping individuals, couples, and co-parents navigate the complex terrain of their relationships with themselves, each other, and their children.
Being a co-parenting coach, a mediator, and a co-parent myself led me to write Cooperative Co-Parenting for Secure Kids: The Attachment Theory Guide to Raising Kids in Two Homes. Having watched co-parents go from confusion to clarity, conflict to cooperation, and loneliness to belonging, I’m honored to provide guidance to co-parents so they can do what they most want: make sure their kids thrive and are not traumatized by separation or divorce.
Bio
I integrate Insight, Attachment Theory, IFS (Internal Family Systems) with Mindfulness, Somatic Experiencing, and Affect Regulation to build tools to support individuals in gaining relief from anxiety and panic, stress, depression, loss, relationship issues, betrayals, trauma (sexual, emotional, injuries, incidental) among other challenges.
I use EMDR as a powerful tool to help you heal and change the way your trauma experiences have impacted you and your beliefs about yourself, so you can get out of the clutches of fear and into a more productive and empowered life.
Curiosity and compassion guide our work. Expect innovative and creative; dynamic and healing to meet your goals and dreams.
Memberships
LACAMFT
GPALA
Payments Accepted
Check, cash
License:MFTI #68603
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Practice Areas/Issues Treated
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Group Therapy
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Adolescents
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Life and Wellness Coaching
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Anger Management
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Life Transitions
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Anxiety and Panic
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Loneliness
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Bicultural Difficulties
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Marriage & Family Therapy
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Body Image Issues
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Marriage Counseling
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Caregiver Issues
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Premarital Counseling
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Couples
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Relationship Issues
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Depression
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Self-Esteem Issues
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Divorce
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Stress Management
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Eating Disorders
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Trauma and PTSD
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Gay or Lesbian Issues
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Women's Issues
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Grief and Loss
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Work and Career Issues
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