Steve Kandell, AMFT

I am a Los Angeles-based therapist specializing in using narrative techniques to help individuals, couples, and families navigate difficult changes and obstacles.

If you are reading this, you are very likely feeling anxiety about any number of things in your life and looking for a therapist who can help change that. So here’s something to keep in mind: The therapists whose profile pages you are scrolling through also feel anxiety. No one is immune, it’s part of being human. My own anxiety is what led me, eventually, to channel my 25+ years of experience as a writer, editor and journalist into a therapy practice. I built a new understanding of the role this discomfort has played in my life, for better and for worse, and how it’s shaped my own story.

Being able to look at your past and your present as parts of a story to be assembled as you please can liberate you from the idea that you are destined to follow a familiar or undesired path. Finding a therapist who fits what you need, even if you don’t know what that is exactly, can be—and should be—complicated. Our first meeting will be free of charge and if we choose to move forward together, we’ll take it from there.