Bonnie Rae
Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist #91089
Along with seeing clients in my private practice, I have served as a supervisor for associate therapists for the past 8 years. Previously, I was an adjunct instructor in the Masters of Clinical Psychology program at Antioch University, teaching workshops devoted to helping budding therapists work with queer and lesbian identified women through an LGBTQ affirmative lens.
I received a Masters in Clinical Psychology degree from Antioch University with a specialization in LGBT psychology (the only LGBT specialization program in the world at the time). During my studies, I began my training at the Los Angeles Gay & Lesbian Center where I worked with a diverse population as an individual therapist and group therapy co-facilitator of the Transgender Men Empowerment group. I then worked for over a year at Village Counseling and Wellness, co-facilitating Dialectical Behavior Therapy skills groups for adults, adolescents and parents, and seeing individual clients in two private practice settings. I also worked on the planning committee of SAGA (Sexuality and Gender Awareness), a small group of mental health practitioners dedicated to providing education on how to be LGBTQ affirmative.
I received a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree from Emerson College, and through my work within the entertainment industry, I realized that my true passion lived within the minds and emotions of human beings. The practice of psychology and therapy gives me the space to work creatively and intellectually while experiencing the humbling feeling of watching people change their lives.
I have a wide range of experience in working with people of various backgrounds, ethnicities, sexual orientations and gender identities. Although my special interests include working with the LGBTQ community and people in the entertainment industry, my expertise is not limited to these populations. I enjoy assisting clients in managing and/or overcoming anxiety, depression, trauma, stress, painful relationship patterns, creative blocks, co-dependency, love and sex addiction, chronic pain/autoimmune conditions, issues with intimacy and low self-esteem. I believe that our emotional world reflects our physical bodies/health, and I am passionate about mind, body & soul integration. I offer Emotionally Focused Therapy for couples/partners/relationships, and attachment-based EMDR as a tool to process trauma.
John Goodhue
Associate Marriage and Family Therapist
John brings a nuanced balance of compassion and challenge to his work, foregrounding warmth, humor, authentic curiosity, and sensitive but constructive engagement with difficult material. John's approach is largely informed by psychodynamic, existential, somatic, gestalt, and mindfulness principles. However, he believes that, more than any theory, it is the singular connection he builds with each client—and, in particular, the chance to explore and refine present and possibly unconscious interpersonal patterns occurring presently—that serves as the spark for lasting transformation.
John finds it an absolute honor to help clients gain greater awareness of how they may be reacting to echos from the past, unmoor from old and worn experiential regimes, access newer and truer selves in surprising ways, and find fresh and unfamiliar pockets of meaning and vivacity within familiar life.
John obtained his MA in Clinical Psychology at Antioch University and received initial training at San Fernando Valley Counseling Center where he worked with a variety of clients challenged by anxiety, depression, self-esteem issues, identity stress, familial and relational discord, creative and vocational blockages, trauma, grief/loss, life transitions, and existential/spiritual dilemmas. John also holds an MFA in Poetry from The University of Massachusetts Amherst.
John is a Registered Associate Marriage and Family Therapist (#152397) working under the clinical supervision of Bonnie Rae, Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist (#91089). If you’d like to learn more about working with John, please feel free to reach out for a free phone consultation.
Abbie KwoK
Associate Marriage and Family Therapist
Abbie is a psychodynamic therapist who draws from relational, intersubjective, and attachment-based orientations. Centering social justice in both her life and clinical work, she offer trauma-informed care that is attentive to identity, power, and oppression, and informed by intersectional queer liberation, anti-racism, and sex positivity.
Abbie believes that being witnessed, feeling seen, and emotionally attuned to within a consistent therapeutic relationship can be deeply healing. Her approach is warm, compassionate, collaborative, and direct; she aims to create a safe space free of judgment where all parts of you can feel held as you cultivate curiosity about your inner world. She finds that meaningful change occurs through both insight and lived emotional experience. In your work together, you may bring awareness to past experiences and unconscious patterns that shape how you relate to yourself and others, including what emerges between the two of you in the therapeutic relationship.
So often, our vision narrows, and we lose sight of the expansiveness of our true selves. Abbie views mental health as a lifelong process of increasing capacity to hold tensions and contradictions, and to navigate uncertainty, liminality, and complexity so we can experience our lives more fully. Together, you can honor the ways your patterns have served you while creating new ways of being, relating, and moving through the world.
Abbie has experience working with adolescents and adults navigating life transitions, sexual and gender diversity and LGBTQIP2SA+ identities, relationship challenges, anxiety, depression, racial and cultural issues, creative blocks, and existential stress.
I have a deep respect for the courage it takes to trust another. It would be an honor to walk alongside you on your journey. - Abbie
Abbie (Abigail) Kwok is a registered Associate Marriage and Family Therapist (#161634) working under the clinical supervision of Bonnie Rae, Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist (#91089). If you would like to learn more about working with Abbie, please feel free to reach out for a free phone consultation.