Thomas

Dr Thomas Helscher

Psychoanalyst

“Private, confidential, caring, and personal psychotherapy and psychoanalysis, designed to help break old patterns and create new beginnings.”

About Me

Here, private and confidential psychotherapy and psychoanalysis offer a truly personal space. It is for those ready to understand deep-seated issues and move past old patterns. Through caring, detailed exploration, clients gain vital insights into their experiences. This helps create genuine new beginnings. Individuals feeling stuck find a supportive environment to uncover the roots of their challenges, fostering lasting change.

Approach

Within that personal space, sessions unfold through steady, attentive listening that helps slow patterns and name recurring feelings. In Santa Monica I work in English in a calm office where sessions move at a thoughtful pace. I trace dreams, bodily signals and relationship stories to make connections between past experiences and present choices. People facing anxiety, mood shifts, relationship strain or life transitions often find this careful, reflective approach helpful.
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Basic Information

Services

Services Offered:

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    Psychoanalysis

    An in-depth therapy that explores unconscious patterns, early experiences, and inner conflicts to produce lasting psychological change, typically involving frequent sessions.

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    Psychotherapy

    In-depth therapeutic work that explores patterns in thoughts, emotions, and relationships to produce lasting psychological change.

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    Psychodynamic Therapy

    A therapy that explores how past experiences and unconscious patterns shape current feelings, relationships, and behaviour.

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Works With:

  • •Adolescents
  • •Adults

Area of Expertise

Scope of Practice:

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    Anxiety

    Persistent worry, nervousness, or fear that is disproportionate to the situation and interferes with daily functioning.

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    Mood Disorder

    A category of mental health conditions, including depression and bipolar disorder, in which a person's emotional state is significantly and persistently disrupted.

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    Dream Work

    The exploration of dream content (themes, symbols, and emotions) to gain insight into unconscious feelings, conflicts, and desires.

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    Relationship Issues

    Difficulties in romantic relationships, including communication problems, trust breakdowns, conflict patterns, or uncertainty about the relationship's future.

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    Life Transitions

    Major life changes, such as relocation, retirement, parenthood, or career shifts, that disrupt routine and require psychological adjustment.

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Professional Title:

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    Psychoanalyst

    A therapist trained in psychoanalysis, an in-depth approach that explores unconscious patterns, early experiences, and inner conflicts.

Qualifications

Los Angeles Institute and Society for Psychoanalytic Studies

Registrations

Medical Board of California

Research Psychoanalyst

Service Area

Private Practice Office

In-person

Los Angeles, California

United States