Nick Holt, LCSW

I became a therapist because I believe that the right relationship, at the right time, can change the trajectory of a person's life.

​That belief didn't come from a textbook.

Before entering the field, I spent a decade in entertainment marketing. It was a good career. It wasn't enough. I wanted work that meant something — work that put me in contact with people at the real edges of human experience. So I started volunteering at a suicide prevention hotline. Then with veterans at the West Los Angeles VA. Then I went back to school, got my MSW, and never looked back.

For over a decade I've worked in some of the most demanding clinical environments in Los Angeles — with veterans, formerly incarcerated women, and people experiencing homelessness in acute psychiatric crisis. I've worked with individuals that voluntary healthcare could not reach. People that the system had failed repeatedly. People who had stopped believing anyone would show up for them.

That work taught me things about human resilience, attachment, and survival that I couldn't have learned anywhere else.

It also taught me something about the people who do the caring. The ones who hold everything together for everyone else. The ones who are exceptional at reading others and invisible to themselves. The ones who perform strength so consistently they've forgotten it was ever a performance.

I know that person well.

In my private practice I work with men, caregivers, and high functioning individuals who are tired of managing alone. My approach is direct, warm, and grounded in Cognitive Behavioral Therapy. I'm a Diplomate of the Academy of Cognitive and Behavioral Therapies and a Board Certified Diplomat in Clinical Social Work.

I'm not interested in making you a lifelong client. I'm interested in helping you become your own therapist — someone who understands themselves well enough to navigate whatever comes next.

If something on this website made you feel seen, trust that instinct.

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That's usually how this starts.