Associate Therapists

Liliana Frandsen

Liliana’s therapeutic style is warm and genuine. She uses humor, storytelling, and creativity to support her clients. Her approach is unique to each individual and pulls from multiple modalities to serve the whole person. She uses psychodynamic and attachment theories to look at how early childhood experience inform current challenges in relationship with self and others. Somatic interventions incorporate the body and help deepen emotional experience while supporting safety and repair. Her training has been steeped in Jungian/depth psychology, which uses archetypes, myth, and artistic expression to understand challenging experiences in the context of universal human patterns. She also uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) to offer practical mindfulness tools to change distressing thought patterns. All of her work is affirmative and social justice oriented.  

Liliana earned her Master’s Degree in Counseling Psychology from Pacifica Graduate Institute in Santa Barbara. She completed her clinical training at the Women’s Clinic Counseling Center in Los Angeles before transitioning into work with high schools in the LA Unified School District. There, she worked one on one with adolescents and led teen LGBTQIA+ groups. She is also an artist and researcher. Her current published research explores creativity as a tool to foster post-traumatic growth.

Liliana is passionate about helping her clients navigate difficult emotions and find a deeper sense of self. In her current practice, she specializes in supporting the LGBTQIA+ community and creatives in the entertainment industry. She works with queer, lesbian, bi, and trans identifying adults and adolescents in individual, couples, and group settings. They focus on issues ranging from identity, gender exploration, sexuality, relationship issues, to resilience. With her background in the arts, she is also well attuned to the unique challenges creatives face. Liliana supports her clients in working through creative blocks, navigating industry challenges, financial insecurity, substance use, and refining their creative voice. 

Liliana is a Registered Associate Family and Marriage Therapist (#133039) and Registered Associate Professional Clinical Counselor (#11662) working under the clinical supervision of Bonnie Rae, Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist (#91089). When looking for a therapist, it’s important to find the right fit. If you’d like to learn more about working with Liliana, please feel free to reach out for a free phone consultation.

Joelle Molloy

Joelle offers a safe, non-judgmental, and culturally-sensitive space for your free expression and exploration. Together you come to find that anything can be thought about, talked about, and felt. In your relationship, free from ordinary demands and expectations, you can enjoy the feeling of occupying space, and feeling deeply seen and heard. From here, you can begin to grasp the shape of who you are at your core and carefully breathe life into the softest pockets of your inner world that have been formerly unreachable.

Joelle believes that with a greater understanding of the self comes a greater ability to manage and make meaning of the challenges we face in life, many of which show up in mood and relationship difficulties. While she has experience with a broad range of challenges, her special interests include anxiety, depression, self-esteem, identity, intimacy, trauma, grief/loss, existential issues, and working with creatively-oriented and LGBTQIA+ individuals and couples/partners.

Joelle holds a Master’s degree in Clinical Psychology from Pepperdine University, and she received clinical training in psychoanalytic psychotherapy at the esteemed Valley Community Counseling Clinic. Her prior career path involved law, human rights, and the creative arts, each of which served to broaden her understanding of systems, culture, and the power of expression.

Joelle is a Registered Associate Marriage and Family Therapist (#139541) working under the clinical supervision of Bonnie Rae, Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist (#91089). If you’d like to learn more about working with Joelle, please feel free to reach out for a free phone consultation.