9 Highly Recommended Los Angeles Family Therapy Specialists
Family life can bring both beautiful moments and real challenges. Whether you’re navigating cultural differences, supporting a neurodivergent child, working through conflict, or simply wanting to strengthen your connection, you deserve support that honors your family’s unique story.
At Yellow Chair Collective, our Los Angeles family therapists create culturally responsive, trauma-informed spaces where every voice matters. Meet our team here and contact us when you’re ready to begin.
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Best for families processing grief and loss: Arnold Kim
Best for families with teens: Barbara Hong
Best for neurodivergent families: Emma Lin
Best for families navigating mixed cultural identities: Fariah Nur-Hart
Best for families healing from trauma together: Jennifer Gold
Best for LGBTQIA+ families: Khai Hoang
Best for families navigating life transitions: Kony Das
Best for families impacted by addiction: Lena Tran
Best for parents experiencing burnout: Prana Polowy
Meet our Los Angeles family therapists
Arnold Kim
Best for families processing grief and loss together
Arnold helps families navigate the heavy emotions that arise during times of loss, trauma, and major life transitions. With a warm, collaborative approach, he creates space for every family member to feel heard while building stronger communication and deeper understanding.
Credentials: Associate Marriage and Family Therapist
Location: Arcadia, California
Virtual therapy? Yes, in addition to in-person
Barbara Hong
Best for families with teens
Barbara helps parents who feel disconnected from their adolescent children restore trust and understanding. She creates a compassionate space for both parents and teens to be heard, addressing the generational gaps that often create distance in families and fostering a bridge to mutual respect.
Credentials: Associate Marriage and Family Therapist
Location: Arcadia, California
Virtual therapy? Yes, in addition to in-person
Emma Lin
Best for neurodivergent families
Emma creates affirming spaces for families navigating ADHD, autism, and other forms of neurodivergence. She helps families understand different ways of experiencing the world, reduce conflict, and build on each member’s unique strengths with compassion and practical strategies.
Credentials: Associate Marriage and Family Therapist
Location: Online in California
Virtual therapy? Yes, in CA
Fariah Nur-Hart
Best for families navigating mixed cultural identities
Fariah brings lived experience as a child of Korean and Pakistani immigrants to help families honor multiple cultural heritages. She specializes in supporting mixed Asian families, interfaith households, and children of immigrants as they navigate the unique challenges of belonging to multiple worlds simultaneously.
Credentials: Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist
Location: Arcadia, California
Virtual therapy? Yes, in CA and OR
Jennifer Gold
Best for families healing from trauma together
Jennifer brings deep expertise in helping families process trauma, anxiety, and difficult life experiences together. She creates a safe environment where families can address painful histories, rebuild trust, and develop healthier patterns that support everyone’s healing journey.
Credentials: Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist
Location: Arcadia, California
Virtual therapy? Yes, in CA and OR
Khai Hoang
Best for LGBTQIA+ families
Khai provides affirming, knowledgeable support for LGBTQIA+ families navigating identity, coming out, and relationship dynamics. By drawing on his own lived experience and his professional expertise, Khai helps families build understanding, set boundaries, and strengthen connections across differences.
Credentials: Associate Marriage and Family Therapist
Location: Online in California
Virtual therapy? Yes, in CA
Kony Das
Best for families navigating life transitions
Kony helps families move through life’s big changes—career shifts, relocations, new diagnoses, or changing family structures. With expertise in neurodivergent-affirming care, she creates collaborative spaces where families can process ambivalence, identify what matters now, and build new routines that work.
Credentials: Associate Clinical Social Worker
Location: Aradia, California
Virtual therapy? Yes, in addition to in-person
Lena Tran
Best for families impacted by addiction
Lena brings compassionate, nonjudgmental support to families navigating substance use and addiction recovery. Drawing from her experience in addiction treatment, she helps families understand patterns, rebuild trust, improve communication, and create healthier dynamics that support everyone’s well-being.
Credentials: Associate Clinical Social Worker
Location: Online in California
Virtual therapy? Yes, in CA
Prana Polowy
Best for parents experiencing burnout
Prana understands the exhaustion of juggling work, parenting, and personal well-being. She helps overwhelmed parents break free from cycles of stress, set sustainable boundaries, and find balance—all while strengthening family relationships and modeling self-care for their children.
Credentials: Associate Marriage and Family Therapist
Location: Online in California
Virtual therapy? Yes, in CA
What sets our practice apart from other Los Angeles family counseling providers
At Yellow Chair Collective, we believe family therapy should honor every person’s full identity and experience. Our approach stands out because:
Culturally responsive care: We specialize in serving Asian American, multicultural, and immigrant families navigating the unique challenges of balancing multiple cultural worlds, though our services are open to families of all ethnic and cultural backgrounds.
Diverse, multilingual team: Our therapists speak several different languages and bring lived experience with the communities we serve.
Trauma-informed approach: We understand how intergenerational trauma, discrimination, and systemic oppression impact family dynamics.
LGBTQIA+ and neurodivergent affirming: We create affirmative spaces where all family members can show up authentically.
Community-oriented values: Beyond individual sessions, we offer free community programs and workshops to support collective healing.
Our approach goes beyond focusing on problems. We take into account who you are as people first, what truly matters to your family, and how your cultural background shapes your experiences.
Areas we support families with
Navigating cultural differences, generational expectations, and immigration stress
Breaking through communication breakdowns and stuck conflict patterns
Parenting burnout, work-life balance, and overwhelm
Supporting LGBTQIA+ family members through identity exploration and coming out
Major life transitions, including blended families, divorce, and relocation
Processing grief, loss, and intergenerational trauma together
Supporting family members through addiction and recovery
Teen challenges like anxiety, depression, academic pressure, and behavioral concerns
Pregnancy, postpartum, and adjusting to new parenthood
What to expect from the therapy process
Step 1. Initial consultation and assessment
Your journey begins with a free consultation where we’ll match you with a therapist who best fits your family’s needs. In your first session, your therapist will take time to understand your family’s unique story, background, current challenges, and what you hope to gain from therapy.
Step 2. Building safety and understanding
Early sessions focus on creating a space where every family member feels heard and respected. Your therapist will help establish ground rules for respectful communication, identify strengths in your family system, and begin exploring the patterns that aren’t working.
Step 3. Developing new patterns together
As therapy progresses, you’ll learn practical tools for communicating more effectively, managing conflict, and understanding each other’s perspectives. Your therapist will guide you in practicing these skills during sessions and applying them at home between appointments.
Step 4. Growing stronger as a family
Therapy evolves as your family grows. You’ll notice shifts in how you relate to each other, increased empathy and understanding, and a stronger foundation for navigating future challenges together with resilience and connection.
FAQs about family & parenting counseling
What is the difference between family counseling and family therapy?
These terms are typically used interchangeably. Both refer to therapeutic work that involves multiple family members and focuses on improving family relationships, communication, and overall functioning. Some practitioners prefer one term over the other, but the approach remains the same.
What kind of therapy is best for family issues?
There’s not just one “best” type of therapy for family issues—the best approach depends on your family’s specific needs. Our therapists blend different approaches like IFS therapy, CBT, attachment-based approaches, and culturally responsive practices. We’ll work together to figure out the methods that are most effective for what you’re going through.
Does insurance pay for family therapy?
Insurance sometimes pays for family therapy, but it depends on your specific plan. We recommend reaching out to your insurance provider for more details on coverage. You can also get more information about how to use insurance for therapy on our FAQ page.
What is the average cost of a family therapy session?
At Yellow Chair Collective, family therapy sessions vary depending on the service and provider. Please see each therapist’s page for more information about their rates, or contact us to discuss your eligibility for sliding scale pricing.
What is the success rate of family therapy?
Research shows that family therapy is highly effective, with studies indicating that over 70% of families experience significant improvement. Results typically depend on factors like commitment from family members, consistency with attendance, and willingness to practice new skills between sessions. In our experience, we’ve seen that families who engage actively in the process typically see positive changes.
When should family therapy not be used?
Family therapy may not be appropriate when there’s active domestic violence, severe substance abuse requiring specialized treatment first, or when a family member needs individual crisis intervention. In these cases, individual therapy or specialized programs should be the initial focus before bringing the family together.
If you’re not sure whether family therapy is the right fit for you and your loved ones at this time, contact us so we can offer our professional recommendation.