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This page lists Male Couples Family Therapists in Los Angeles. 6 in all.
That is 6 of the 27 family therapists listed in Los Angeles.
These are practitioners who identify as male on their profile 1. We ask every therapist that question, and they may decline to answer. We do not check the answer, and nothing here is ranked.
This list answers an explicit request for a man. While many people prefer this, we found no research on whether it changes how the therapy goes.
Identifying as a man is a different thing from working with men's concerns. A client and a practitioner always differ, whatever they share 2.
What couples counselling works on, and what it does not decide
Couples counselling works with two people, and with what happens between them. It does not treat one of them.
Both partners usually attend 3. Couples counselling works on repeated arguments, an affair, sex, money, parenting, or a decision about separating.
It does not rule on who is right. It is not for married couples alone.
What a family therapist does, and who comes to the sessions
Everyone on this page describes their work as family or systemic therapy. Family therapy helps people in close relationships understand and support each other 4.
Family here means whoever those involved count as family. Sessions usually have more than one person in the room.
A therapist may also meet members on their own 5. Ask a practitioner who they would want in the room.
What this page filters on
These are the only filters: the practitioner's stated Male identity, the specialism recorded as Couples and the professional title family therapist.
What therapy costs here
Do affordable options exist in Los Angeles?
St. John's Community Health. Phone +1 323 541 1411. Anyone is eligible, whatever they can afford to pay. Uninsured patients can use the published sliding fee scale. Children, teenagers and adults can request a mental health appointment through the public appointment line.
Frequently Asked Questions
Do both of us have to come?
Is this for married couples only?
No. Couples counselling is for people in a relationship, married or not, of any gender, living together or not. The same practitioners work with couples deciding whether to separate, and with couples who have already separated and are parenting together. Say which of those describes you at first contact.
Will the therapist say who is right?
No. The work is with what happens between two people rather than with a verdict on either of them. Effective work with couples needs its own theories and methods, drawn from research on relationships. Ask a practitioner how they handle it when you disagree in the room.
Can couples counselling be done online?
Yes, and many practitioners offer it. Couples therapy by video shows few significant differences from face-to-face sessions7. Symptom reduction, engagement and the therapeutic alliance are comparable.
Sitting in the same room at home suits some couples and not others. Ask what a practitioner offers.
What does couples therapy cost in the United States?
Each practitioner sets their own fee; no published tariff applies. Our guide to what therapy costs in the United States sets out the usual ranges; ask each practitioner what a couples session costs.
Four things move a fee. The practitioner's licence, their experience, the session length, and whether you meet in a room or online.
The licence is not one national thing. Each state licenses practitioners and sets what they may do8. So the titles whose fees you are comparing change at a state line.
TherapyRoute holds no verified lower-fee couples service for the United States. We name none here until we verify one at its own source.
Where a practitioner states a fee on their listing, that figure is their own. Ask before the first session. Ask too whether the fee runs per session or per person in the room.
Does couples therapy work?
Couple therapy is an effective treatment for relationship distress, and the main models reach broadly similar results9.
Behavioural, cognitive-behavioural, emotionally focused and integrative behavioural couple therapy meet the criteria researchers use for a well-established treatment10.
Those findings describe groups of couples in studies. They are not a forecast about any one relationship, and nobody listed here can promise you an outcome.
A state board licenses marriage and family therapy and the titles that go with it11. No register records the approach a practitioner works in1. The approach is a question for the practitioner. Ask a practitioner how they work with two people, and what they do when the two of you want different things.
What happens in a couples therapy session?
Both partners usually attend together.
Practice differs on what comes first. Some approaches open with a formal assessment that combines joint and individual meetings. Others use no set assessment stage3.
Most practitioners seeing couples here cannot prescribe medication. Prescribing sits with psychiatrists and psychiatric nurses, and each state sets what a licence allows8.
Ask before you start whether the practitioner sees each partner alone. Ask what they do with what one partner tells them in private. Ask how you will know the work is done.
When should we go for couples therapy?
There is no threshold you have to cross first. Relationship distress is one of the commonest reasons adults seek psychotherapy at all9.
Distress between partners travels. It is associated with mood, anxiety and substance-use difficulties in the partners themselves, and with difficulties for children in the household3.
Couples come with a repeating argument, with an affair, with a decision about whether to stay together, and with none of those. You do not have to agree on the problem before you make contact.
If safety is the problem at home, the routes are your state, territory or tribal coalition12, and the courts13.
What these practitioners record
4 of the 6 have included their registration on their profile.
Who registers therapists in the United States?
The title you will see is Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist.
A practitioner must hold a current licence from the state board where they practise. See the United States page.
Nearby places and related listings
- Couples Family Therapists in Los Angeles
- Female Couples Family Therapists in Los Angeles
- Male Couples Psychologists in Los Angeles
- Male Anxiety Family Therapists in Los Angeles
- Male Depression Family Therapists in Los Angeles
- Male Trauma Family Therapists in Los Angeles
- Female Psychologists in Los Angeles, one filter on the full Los Angeles psychologists list
- Male Psychologists in Los Angeles, one filter on the full Los Angeles psychologists list
- Los Angeles: all therapists listed (92)
- Couples therapy, Los Angeles
References
[1] TherapyRoute's own records.
[2] Integrative Systemic Therapy in Practice, p. 120. Client-therapist similarities.
[5] Centre for Addiction and Mental Health (Canada). Family therapy.
[12] Office on Violence Against Women, Resources for Victims and Survivors, US Department of Justice.
[13] 18 U.S.C. § 2265, full faith and credit given to protection orders. US Government Publishing Office.
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Vincenzo (Enzo) Sinisi, Clinical Psychologist (HPCSA), Psychoanalyst (IPA/SAPA), Group Analyst (IGA)
