Dr. Ronald C. Boutelle is an accomplished, licensed clinical psychologist with more than two decades of experience in Marina Del Rey and Playa Vista. He offers specialized support in managing anxiety, depression, relationship difficulties, and substance abuse concerns. Dr. Boutelle is passionate about helping clients realize their potential for happiness.

If your goals or dreams have drifted, seem out of reach, or you just feel stuck, I can help navigate you to a better understanding of yourself for permanent change. I learn to speak your individual language, to help and coach you to live a more manageable and meaningful life. I take a goal-oriented approach to psychotherapy. My innovative techniques help to empower patients to learn the tools and strategies they need to navigate through life challenges. I will assist you in defining achievable goals and will help you learn simple, understandable procedures that will become second nature to help you reach those goals. Individuals and couples w

Therapy aimed at stewarding people towards optimum health and well-being.

I work hard for and with my patients, to free them from whatever constricting narratives might be both soothing and imprisoning. I have done much writing on addiction, anxiety, and other human challenges, on goodtherapy.org, in various analytic journals, and elsewhere. You can check at www.therapistinlosangeles.com. I believe that underneath every potentially shameful flaw or weakness is a human experience, which has never had the chance to be heard or shared with a caring other. I do not think it false advertising to say that, after fifteen years of practicing psychotherapy, those patients who hang in there, who keep showing up to do the...

I have a international MD degree as well as Clinical Hypnotherapy certification. I heal holistically and work with issues including phobias anxiety depression, hopelessness motivation, life abundance. Seeing the change in the client when they report improvement striving to their goals, feeling better at any station of life leading to a happy meaningful life.

Established in 2006, and recently reorganized as a non-profit agency, the mission at West Valley Counseling Center in San Fernando is to provide high quality, affordable therapy and family counseling in a private practice setting. Supported by client fees, fundraising activities and direct donations, our goal is to meet the needs of those who cannot afford, or do not have access to, these services due to economic circumstances. Affordable mental healthcare contributes to a healthy society, helping us shift what radiates out. We move through our trauma and pain, ultimately finding acceptance, understanding and love....

I am a Narrative Therapist who went into this line of work to help others decrease difficulties in their lives. We all struggle, and we can all benefit from meeting with a caring person to collaborate on how to make changes to create the life we want for ourselves. Change is always possible. I have been a therapist for 20 years and I love what I do. I feel very privileged to earn your trust so you can share things with me that are often difficult to share. We will look at the problems in your life, take them apart, and construct something different that bring you more joy and fulfillment....

Clients come to me in a vulnerable state, stressed, hurting from their relationships, riddled with anxiety and uncertain about their futures. When someone begins therapy, I prioritize understanding and helping the person discover their initial need whether it be support, validation, or hope that life can get better. I meet them here. I help them make sense of their experience and draw attention to that added layer of judgment or self-doubt that increases their pain. I utilize my knowledge of neuroscience and expertise on the impact of trauma across the lifespan to create awareness of how the brain has creatively re-wired based on experiences...

One thing that sets me apart from many counselors is that my continuing education and experience, and consideration of the unique situation of each of my clients, allows me to empower and honor their own decisions and beliefs, without imposing my own on them, even for addicts and other trauma survivors. I have worked professionally as a counselor to individuals with substance use disorders since before and after completing my Addiction Treatment Specialist Certification in 2007. I have travelled the world with clients and enabled them to pursue their ambitions and responsibilities while continuing to receive consistent insight, feedback, and ...