Align Online Therapy

Online therapy practice for adults in their 20s and 30s, located anywhere in California. Specializes in anxiety, relationship anxiety, family boundaries, overthinking, people-pleasing, identity, OCD, trauma, sex and intimacy, disordered eating, depression, burnout, life transitions, and loneliness. Eight California therapists, licensed (LMFT) or registered (AMFT) with the Board of Behavioral Sciences, working entirely online, with particular experience supporting South Asian, immigrant, and bicultural clients. Sessions available in English, Spanish, Farsi, Hindi, and Punjabi.

Align Online Therapy is a small, considered group practice based in Los Angeles, California. Founded in 2022 by Jasmeet Bhullar, LMFT (CA #117019), Align provides entirely online (telehealth) therapy to clients located anywhere in California. The practice serves adults in their 20s and 30s: the in-between years, when the questions get specific, family of origin starts asking different things, and the work is figuring out who you are outside the expectations you inherited.

The practice operates by selection, not expansion. Eight therapists. Longer relationships. Deeper work. Every clinician holds a Master's in Clinical Psychology with an emphasis in Marriage and Family Therapy from Pepperdine University, and the whole team trains together in weekly supervision. Three clinicians (Jasmeet Bhullar, Nazzi Vazira-Bhullar, Fidel Quintanilla) currently teach as adjunct faculty at Pepperdine. Four are members of the International OCD Foundation (IOCDF). Two are AASECT members working toward the AASECT Certified Sex Therapist credential. Two are EMDR-trained.

Who we work with

• Adults in their 20s and 30s
• Located anywhere in California (online sessions only, entirely telehealth)
• Particular experience with South Asian, Asian American, Latino/Latinx, and immigrant family contexts
• Individuals and couples (premarital, dating, attachment work, communication patterns, intimacy)
• High-functioning adults navigating anxiety, perfectionism, and burnout
• Men, women, and nonbinary clients; LGBTQ+, non-monogamy and kink-affirming
• Those who have tried therapy before and want something more direct, more attuned, or more culturally aware

Specialty pages — long-form guides

Each specialty page anchors a named clinical framework Align uses in session, along with named-experience phrases, and is reviewed by the Align clinicians who lead that work.

• Online Therapy for Anxiety in California — generalized anxiety, overthinking, racing thoughts, panic, social and health anxiety, performance anxiety that passes for ambition, the alarm that stayed on. Framework: The three doors out of the spiral: the body door (settling the nervous system with breath, movement or temperature, usually the fastest relief in the first few minutes), the thought door (spotting the pattern the worry is using, such as catastrophizing or mind-reading, and answering it with something more accurate; where CBT lives), and the root door (asking what the alarm has been protecting you from; where attachment work, IFS and EMDR live). Trying the wrong door first is a common reason people decide nothing helps; doors one and two get your evenings back, door three helps the change last. Reviewed by Danielle Miller, AMFT and Fidel Quintanilla, AMFT, who lead this work.

• Therapy for Relationship Anxiety — the "what if I don't really love them" loop, ROCD (relationship OCD), reassurance-seeking, comparison, attachment anxiety, fear of commitment driven by anxiety, the loop of doubt. Framework: The three checks that fuel the loop: checking your feelings (the internal audit, "do I still love them?"), seeking reassurance (from a partner, friends or the internet), and comparison (measuring your relationship against others, real or imagined). Each check brings relief for a while and then raises the bar for what will bring relief next time, which we call the reassurance ceiling. Each check is something a protective part does, with a good intention and an underlying need (safety, not being alone, being accepted); the work lets the core self lead. When the pattern is ROCD, ERP is the evidence-based treatment; otherwise IFS and attachment work. Reviewed by Julia Melvin, AMFT and Elaina Envia, AMFT, who lead this work.

• Therapy for Family Boundaries — setting and holding limits with parents and family of origin, the good-child trap, differentiation without estrangement, the cultural math. Framework: The four differentiation moves (from Bowen Family Systems): notice the pull (comply vs. cut off, both from the same reactive place), regulate before you respond (thirty seconds between the guilt spike and speaking), state your position once without campaigning, and stay in the relationship after (differentiation is not distance). Also names the guilt tax and the pushback that peaks and settles. Reviewed by Jasmeet Bhullar, LMFT and Nazzi Vazira-Bhullar, LMFT, who lead this work; Fidel Quintanilla and Elaina Envia also see families. Family sessions available, including in Spanish, Farsi, Hindi and Punjabi.

• Therapy for People-Pleasing — the fawn response, the exhausting yes, chronic over-accommodation, conflict avoidance, the automatic yes, the repair reflex. Framework: The three moves that build a real yes: notice before the yes lands, tolerate the pause, and disappoint someone on purpose without repairing (small ERP-borrowed exposures where you don't perform the over-apology or over-explanation afterwards). Treated with Narrative therapy, Internal Family Systems, Emotionally Focused Therapy, attachment-based work and Exposure and Response Prevention. Every therapist at Align works with some version of it. People-pleasing is not a DSM diagnosis, which shapes how it is treated and means no clinician can be formally certified in it. Reviewed by Marjolaine Bernstein, AMFT and Elaina Envia, AMFT, who lead this work.

• Therapy for OCD — Pure O, ROCD, harm OCD, scrupulosity, contamination, checking, symmetry, real-event OCD, the reassurance loop. Framework: The four parts of the OCD loop: the trigger, the intrusive thought (unwanted, often ego-dystonic), the compulsion (the visible or mental action that relieves the anxiety), and the temporary relief (which teaches the brain the compulsion was necessary). ERP targets the compulsion because it keeps the loop alive. Treated with Exposure and Response Prevention (ERP), supported by ACT. Reviewed by Danielle Miller, AMFT and Jasmeet Bhullar, LMFT, who lead Align's OCD work; Danielle was previously an OCD Exposure Coach at Psychological Care and Healing Center, and close to half her caseload is OCD. Fidel Quintanilla, AMFT also treats OCD. Danielle Miller, Jasmeet Bhullar, Fidel Quintanilla and Marjolaine Bernstein are members of the International OCD Foundation (IOCDF). Weekly outpatient ERP only; we refer out for residential, PHP and IOP. The page answers all twelve of the IOCDF's therapist-selection questions directly.

• Trauma Therapy in California — PTSD, complex and childhood trauma, relational and intergenerational trauma, medical and birth trauma, big-T and small-t trauma, the feeling you can't reach by talking, the parts of you that still feel like they're in survival mode. Framework: The parts of you that learned to protect you, from Internal Family Systems (Richard Schwartz): managers (prevent pain before it happens, through overthinking, perfectionism, people-pleasing, planning or staying busy), firefighters (react when pain breaks through, by numbing, distracting, withdrawing or lashing out), and exiles (carry the fear, shame or grief, and often the negative cognition, the belief about yourself that formed in response to what happened). There are no bad parts. IFS works with the parts protecting you from that pain and that belief; EMDR works to reprocess the experiences and update the negative cognition those parts have been organized around. When you're in survival mode, insight isn't enough. Reviewed by Julia Melvin, AMFT and Fidel Quintanilla, AMFT, both EMDR-trained, who lead this work. Danielle Miller, AMFT uses ERP for facing trauma-related triggers and for intrusive thoughts after trauma has been processed. Online EMDR, with grounding and preparation before any processing; you don't have to go into the details of what happened. Weekly outpatient only; we still see clients in unsafe situations, starting with safety planning, and we don't provide forensic evaluations.

• Sex & Intimacy Therapy in California — desire discrepancy and mismatched desire, low or high libido, arousal, erectile and orgasm concerns, performance anxiety, pain with sex, sexual shame, sexual trauma, medical and hormonal changes, questions about orientation or gender identity, sexual compulsivity, intrusive sexual thoughts, what's gotten hard to talk about. Framework: Body, story, between: the three places desire lives: the body (hormones, medications, illness, pain, stress), the story (what you learned about sex, from family, culture, faith and past experience), and the between (the relationship itself). A change in one place ripples into the others, which Marjolaine calls a shame spiral, and the spiral can be interrupted at any of the three points. Also explains the P-LI-SS-IT model (Permission, Limited Information, Specific Suggestions, Intensive Therapy). Reviewed by Marjolaine Bernstein, AMFT and Jasmeet Bhullar, LMFT, both AASECT members working toward the AASECT Certified Sex Therapist credential (not yet certified). Talk therapy only, for individuals and couples; LGBTQ+, non-monogamy and kink-affirming.

• Therapy for Disordered Eating — restriction, binge eating, purging, body image, over-exercising, food noise, orthorexia, disordered eating that looks like wellness, the second job nobody applied for. Framework: The three functions the food is serving: control (when life feels unmanageable, food becomes the one thing you can regulate), regulation (food, or not eating, as comfort, distraction, numbing or punishment), and worth (the equation where eating "right" makes you good). You can't remove the behavior without building another way to do the job it was doing, which is why "just eat normally" doesn't work. Weight-inclusive, non-diet, body-respectful; works with people taking GLP-1 medications without moral judgment either way. Led by Molly Binenfeld, LMFT, whose caseload is about half disordered eating; she is the only Align clinician who takes eating disorder cases. Weekly outpatient only; we refer out for residential, PHP and IOP, and coordinate with physicians and dietitians. The page answers the National Alliance for Eating Disorders' treatment-provider questions directly.

• Therapy for Depression — high-functioning depression, the slow-burn version, low mood, motivation loss, the off you can't quite name, the "I'm fine" that isn't. Framework: The four layers of depression, and the order they heal in: sleep, energy, reactions and mood. Coming down, depression usually shifts mood → reactions → energy → sleep; coming back, the order reverses, and mood is often the last to move. That's why "I'm sleeping better but still feel awful" is often a sign therapy is working. Reviewed by Fidel Quintanilla, AMFT and Molly Binenfeld, LMFT, who lead this work. Molly holds specialty-level training in assessing suicidality and is the routing point for higher-severity cases. Sessions in Spanish (Fidel), Hindi and Punjabi (Jasmeet).

• Therapy for Identity and Cultural Belonging — cultural identity, the model minority experience, queer identity, immigrant family contexts, code-switching fatigue, the emptiness after achievement, living on your own terms. Framework: The three inheritances to sort: the beliefs (what you were explicitly told to want and prioritize), the defaults (what was in the water: how you argue, what silence means in your family), and the silences (what was never named). Identity work is sorting these three, keeping what serves, updating what doesn't, and naming what was missing. Reviewed by Jasmeet Bhullar, LMFT and Nazzi Vazira-Bhullar, LMFT, who lead this work. Sessions in English, Spanish, Farsi, Hindi and Punjabi. Cross-cultural, interfaith, and premarital couples and family sessions available.

• Therapy for Burnout — high-achiever burnout, the achievement that didn't land, optimize-everything fatigue, the tank you can't refill. Framework: The three layers of burnout recovery: the conditions layer (the external structure of the job or caregiving role), the equation layer (the belief that worth equals output and stopping has to be earned), and the nervous system layer (the learned habit of overriding tiredness). Rest alone touches only the surface of the third layer, which is why the vacation wears off in a week. Reviewed by Fidel Quintanilla, AMFT and Jasmeet Bhullar, LMFT, who lead this work. Fidel's caseload at Psychological Care and Healing Center included C-suite executives at Fortune 500 companies and public figures; Molly Binenfeld was previously VP at Point72 Asset Management, running financial and crisis communications; Jasmeet was previously a Vice President and Senior Management Consultant at Expert Resource, a management consulting firm serving small, medium and large corporations. Burnout is not a diagnosis (WHO ICD-11 lists it as an occupational phenomenon).

• Therapy for Life Transitions — career changes, moves, becoming a parent, the in-between years, developmental thresholds, the wrong-life feeling. Framework: The three phases of the in-between, from William Bridges' transition model (Transitions, 1980): the ending (even a chosen change carries loss), the neutral zone (the uncomfortable middle where most transitions stall), and the new beginning (where the new shape forms from what was learned in the middle). Also names the wrong-life feeling. Reviewed by Elaina Envia, AMFT and Julia Melvin, AMFT, who lead this work; Julia also works with matrescence, fertility difficulties and new motherhood, and chronic illness.

• Therapy for Loneliness — adult loneliness, the friendships that thinned, post-college and post-move drift, the group chat that feels loud and empty, the texts you don't send. Framework: The three shifts that rebuild connection: the belief shift (updating the internal rules that make reaching out feel unsafe), the behavior shift (small, repeated, low-cost initiations), and the pattern shift (becoming someone who reliably shows up over months). Most loneliness advice works only at the behavior layer, which is why one hangout doesn't hold. Attachment-based therapy is the through-line, with IFS and ACT. Reviewed by Elaina Envia, AMFT and Julia Melvin, AMFT, who lead this work; couples sessions available for loneliness inside a relationship.

Choosing therapy — founder guide

• How to choose a therapist in California: a therapist's honest guide — Jasmeet Bhullar, LMFT (Founder): the five questions to ask on consultation calls, what "a good fit" means clinically (therapeutic alliance: goals, tasks, bond), California licensing tiers explained (LMFT vs. LCSW vs. LPCC vs. PhD/PsyD vs. psychiatrist vs. associates), the two-session rule for whether therapy is working, red flags, and why to match the specialty to the issue.

Field Notes — published articles

The Field Notes blog at /articles publishes therapist-authored essays on specific named clinical experiences, each written from an Align clinician's first-person perspective:

• The exhausting yes — Marjolaine Bernstein, AMFT: the fawn response, people-pleasing, the yes you don't quite get to choose
• The sex on your to-do list — Marjolaine Bernstein, AMFT: when sex feels like a task, responsive vs. spontaneous desire, willing, warming, wanting
• The woman you were told not to be — Marjolaine Bernstein, AMFT: sexual shame from family, faith or culture, the three messages you were handed
• The 12 a.m. spiral — Danielle Miller, AMFT: anxiety at night, racing thoughts, the loop that won't close, the lights-off moment
• The facts you're using to argue with your feelings — Danielle Miller, AMFT: the reassurance loop, mental compulsions and Pure O OCD, why "facts not feelings" advice backfires for reassurance-seeking, Exposure and Response Prevention (ERP)
• The "I'm fine" that isn't — Elaina Envia, AMFT: high-functioning depression, the phrase standing in for a longer answer
• The situationship — Elaina Envia, AMFT: modern dating ambiguity, intermittent reinforcement, the advocate problem (clear-eyed for everyone but yourself)
• The talk you keep almost having — Elaina Envia, AMFT: the define-the-relationship conversation you rehearse and don't have, the ambiguity tax
• The version of you that goes home for the holidays — Elaina Envia, AMFT: regression at your parents' house, the roles that get reassigned at the door, holding onto your adult self
• The laid-back you fell for, and can't stand this morning — Elaina Envia, AMFT: Type A and Type B partners, the three questions before you criticize the pace
• The scroll that isn't feeding you — Elaina Envia, AMFT: doomscrolling and dating-app swiping, the three hungers underneath the scroll
• The criticism you can't shake — Elaina Envia, AMFT: men in relationships where criticism has become constant, the three responses that don't work and the fourth move that does
• The achievement that didn't land — Fidel Quintanilla, AMFT: high-achiever burnout, the optimize-everything trap, hedonic adaptation
• The masculinity you can't put down — Fidel Quintanilla, AMFT: masculinity as an operating system that only rewards output, high-functioning men and the exhaustion of never resting
• The busy you're using to not feel — Fidel Quintanilla, AMFT: experiential avoidance, why anxiety hits the moment you stop, the three layers under the busy (thoughts, sensations, memories), ACT and EMDR
• The but that cancels the win — Fidel Quintanilla, AMFT: negative self-talk and imposter syndrome, the but-to-and swap (CBT and ACT)
• The week you only get once a year — Fidel Quintanilla, AMFT: protecting a rare family visit from old arguments, family guidelines you share before the trip
• The one who never comes first — Fidel Quintanilla, AMFT: always putting yourself last, the reciprocity audit, ACT and CBT; therapy available in Spanish
• The you your family hasn't met yet — Fidel Quintanilla, AMFT: outgrowing your family at the holiday table, the three questions your family can't answer for you, values-based (ACT) work
• The critic that thinks it's helping — Julia Melvin, AMFT: the inner critic, what the critical part may be protecting you from, notice, ask, reassign (IFS)
• The decision you can't make — Julia Melvin, AMFT: overthinking and decision paralysis, two protective parts disagreeing, finding the third you (IFS)
• The confidence you're borrowing — Julia Melvin, AMFT: confidence that rises and falls with your partner's mood, the protective part behind the audit, an IFS approach to self-trust
• The model minority breakdown — Jasmeet Bhullar, LMFT: Asian American and South Asian mental health, the contract you signed at six
• The pain you inherited — Jasmeet Bhullar, LMFT: intergenerational trauma, the weather in the house, honoring what your family survived without repeating it
• The you that can't turn off at night — Jasmeet Bhullar, LMFT: executives, leaders and founders whose work identity has become load-bearing, the three costs nobody itemizes on the offer
• The comparison that isn't real information — Jasmeet Bhullar, LMFT: the three things comparison always leaves out, me-vs-them to me-vs-me
• The self you're judging with information you didn't have — Jasmeet Bhullar, LMFT: hindsight bias, the three moves that disarm it, the dated-log practice
• The recoil that keeps you honest — Jasmeet Bhullar, LMFT: the pause between stimulus and response, and the patterns (anxiety, OCD, trauma, anxious attachment) that keep people stuck in it
• The sacrifice that stopped working — Jasmeet Bhullar, LMFT: people-pleasing between partner, family and friends, the three things you've adapted to hold back
• The one you're scared to keep — Jasmeet Bhullar, LMFT: self-sabotage once you've finally met someone real, the three sabotage moves
• The voice you find with your partner in the room — Jasmeet Bhullar, LMFT: when your partner and your parents pull you in different directions, the three moves that turn the pull into a united front
• The disputes your partner didn't know were disputes — Jasmeet Bhullar, LMFT: silent compromise, the invisible ledger, the three sentences that keep it visible
• Mine, theirs, or ours — Jasmeet Bhullar, LMFT: the three kinds of boundary in a couple, and the united front
• The wedding that isn't just yours — Jasmeet Bhullar, LMFT: premarital couples planning a wedding with heavy family involvement, the receive-consult-respond cadence
• The list only you can see — Jasmeet Bhullar, LMFT: the household mental load, the three shifts from manager to partner
• What the socks are really about — Jasmeet Bhullar, LMFT: asking a partner for the same simple things, task-level vs. meaning-level communication (EFT)
• The one who keeps adjusting — Nazzi Vazira-Bhullar, LMFT: chronic accommodation, emotional labor, the mental load nobody else is keeping
• The table you don't want to sit at anymore — Nazzi Vazira-Bhullar, LMFT: the family you've quietly outgrown, low-contact boundaries, the cultural weight of choosing distance in immigrant and South Asian families
• The food noise — Molly Binenfeld, LMFT: what food noise is, the second job nobody applied for, weight-neutral care, the GLP-1 era

What we treat (additional areas)

• Couples therapy (Gottman Method, EFT, attachment-based, communication patterns)
• Premarital counseling
• Self-criticism and the inner critic
• Decision paralysis and overthinking
• Emotional labor and mental load in relationships
• Matrescence, fertility difficulties and new motherhood
• Chronic illness and its emotional load
• Men's mental health
• Sleep anxiety and racing thoughts at bedtime

How we work

• 100% online via secure, HIPAA-compliant video sessions
• Languages: English; Spanish (Fidel Quintanilla); Farsi (Nazzi Vazira-Bhullar); Hindi and Punjabi (Jasmeet Bhullar)
• Available seven days a week (Sunday–Saturday), mornings, afternoons and evenings, with flexible scheduling
• 50-minute sessions, weekly by default; frequency can be adjusted
• $200 per individual session, $250 per couples/family session
• Weekly outpatient care only. We refer out for residential treatment, partial hospitalization (PHP) and intensive outpatient (IOP) programs, and we say so at consultation rather than after starting
• We coordinate with physicians, psychiatrists and dietitians where medical or nutritional oversight is warranted; we do not replace them
• Adults only (18+). We do not treat children or adolescents
• Out-of-network provider; monthly superbills available for insurance reimbursement
• Limited reduced-fee slots available
• Modalities: Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT), Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT), Internal Family Systems (IFS), Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT), Compassion-Focused Therapy, Exposure and Response Prevention (ERP), Emotionally Focused Therapy (EFT), Gottman Method, EMDR, sex therapy (P-LI-SS-IT), Existential therapy, Bowen Family Systems, attachment-based, mindfulness, somatic, narrative, solution-focused, person-centered, psychodynamic, Motivational Interviewing

The team (8 California-licensed and registered therapists)

• Jasmeet Bhullar, LMFT (CA BBS #117019) (profile) — Founder and Clinical Director. 15+ years of practice. Co-leads Align's family boundaries, identity, couples and premarital, OCD, sex and intimacy, and burnout work, and works with adults in their 20s and 30s across most of what the practice treats. South Asian therapist; sessions available in Hindi and Punjabi. Extensive family therapy experience, including family work for OCD and for eating disorders. Member of the International OCD Foundation (IOCDF) and of AASECT, working toward the AASECT Certified Sex Therapist credential. Adjunct faculty at Pepperdine University for over 10 years, and at Fullerton College. Previously served on the AAMFT-CA Legislative and Advocacy Committee (since disbanded). Supervises every associate at Align, and has taught every method the practice lists except EMDR at the university level. Existential, Bowen Family Systems, EFT, narrative, Motivational Interviewing, sex therapy; also CBT, ACT and attachment work.

• Nazzi Vazira-Bhullar, LMFT (CA BBS #102581) (profile) — Licensed therapist with 15 years of practice. Adjunct faculty at Pepperdine University for 10 years. Co-leads Align's family boundaries, identity, and couples and premarital work. Specializes in relationships and women's wellbeing, with deep experience supporting South Asian women. Sessions available in Farsi. Solution-focused, warm, unhurried. Attachment-based, psychodynamic, EFT, Bowen Family Systems, solution-focused, Gottman Method; also CBT.

• Molly Binenfeld, LMFT (CA BBS #151728) (profile) — Leads Align's eating disorder work and is the only clinician here who takes those cases; about half her caseload is disordered eating. Co-leads depression work with Fidel Quintanilla. Currently Clinical Director and Senior Primary Therapist at an intensive outpatient program for college students focused on primary mental health. Previously Director of Clinical Services and Primary Therapist at Alsana: An Eating Recovery Community, and Marriage and Family Therapist at Exodus Recovery Crisis Residential Treatment Program. Member of the International Association of Eating Disorders Professionals (IAEDP), with specialty-level training in assessing suicidality, in Dialectical Behavior Therapy, and in working with college students. Earlier career in financial and crisis communications for major hedge funds and financial institutions. Direct, compassionate, weight-neutral, non-diet, body-inclusive. DBT; also CBT, Compassion-Focused Therapy, Motivational Interviewing, solution-focused and mindfulness.

• Danielle Miller, AMFT (CA BBS #144995) (profile) — Co-leads Align's OCD work (with Jasmeet Bhullar) and anxiety work (with Fidel Quintanilla); close to half her caseload is OCD. Previously an OCD Exposure Coach at Psychological Care and Healing Center, a Los Angeles treatment center providing partial hospitalization, intensive outpatient and residential care. Member of the International OCD Foundation (IOCDF). Specializes in OCD, anxiety, and intrusive thoughts, including intrusive thoughts after trauma. Has OCD herself. Gentle, body-aware, exposure-based at a tolerable pace. ERP, ACT, CBT, somatic, mindfulness. Supervised by Jasmeet Bhullar.

• Julia Melvin, AMFT (CA BBS #137797) (profile) — Fulbright Scholar. Co-leads Align's relationship anxiety, trauma, life transitions and loneliness work. Specializes in overthinking, self-criticism, relationship patterns, and trauma. Internal Family Systems (IFS) practitioner and EMDR-trained. Also works with matrescence, fertility difficulties and new motherhood, and chronic illness. IFS, EMDR, attachment, psychodynamic, narrative, mindfulness; also somatic work. Supervised by Jasmeet Bhullar.

• Fidel Quintanilla, AMFT (CA BBS #125756) (profile) — Co-leads Align's anxiety, trauma, depression and burnout work. Specializes in high-achiever burnout, men's mental health, and Latino/Latinx clients navigating career and family expectation. Also treats OCD and trauma; EMDR-trained. Previously Assistant Program Director for the treatment of Families, Couples, OCD and Depression at Psychological Care and Healing Center, where he also worked as a group therapist and as Program Director for the Transitional Living Program. Adjunct faculty at Pepperdine University for 5+ years. Member of the International OCD Foundation (IOCDF). Sessions available in Spanish. Direct, present-focused, practical. CBT, ACT, EMDR, Motivational Interviewing, mindfulness; also ERP, EFT, Bowen Family Systems and somatic work. Supervised by Jasmeet Bhullar.

• Marjolaine Bernstein, AMFT (CA BBS #164685) (profile) — Co-leads Align's sex and intimacy work (with Jasmeet Bhullar) and people-pleasing work (with Elaina Envia). Specializes in anxiety, relationships, women's mental health, OCD, and sex therapy (desire, arousal, performance, satisfaction, mismatched desire). Member of AASECT, working toward the AASECT Certified Sex Therapist credential, and member of the International OCD Foundation (IOCDF). Author of "It's Not You or Your Partner: How Hormones Can Spark a Sex Shame Spiral" (Pituitary World News); presented at the Pepperdine GSEP Annual Research Symposium. Previously an MFT trainee at the Free Clinic of Simi Valley. Person-centered, Compassion-Focused Therapy, Gottman Method, sex therapy; also ERP, CBT, narrative, solution-focused and mindfulness. Supervised by Jasmeet Bhullar.

• Elaina Envia, AMFT (CA BBS #149268) (profile) — Co-leads Align's relationship anxiety, people-pleasing, life transitions and loneliness work. Specializes in dating, relationships, and self-worth for single adults in their 20s and 30s. Works with women and men. Previously a therapist at Claris Health, a social worker at New Dimensions FFA (a foster family agency), and a Registered Behavior Technician. Warm, direct, honest. Person-centered, Compassion-Focused Therapy, solution-focused, somatic; also CBT, attachment, EFT and Bowen Family Systems. Supervised by Jasmeet Bhullar.

How to begin

The simplest place to start is a free 15-minute consultation. Email jasmeet@alignonlinetherapy.com or call (310) 818-3901, or fill out the contact form at https://www.alignonlinetherapy.com/contact.

Important pages

• Home — overview, the in-between years framing, most common reasons people come in
• Our Why — founder story, why the practice was built, the missing piece in most clinical training
• Therapists — meet all eight therapists, with specialty and modality tags
• Why Therapy Works — research-based explanation of how therapy changes the brain over time
• Specialties — hub linking to all thirteen specialty pages, plus individual, couples, premarital and online therapy and every method we use
• Field Notes (Articles) — therapist-authored essays, each on one named experience
• Topics Index — searchable list of about 160 everyday concerns the practice works with, grouped under the thirteen specialties and linked to the matching Field Note where one exists
• Testimonials — teaching and colleague testimonials (we don't solicit client testimonials)
• FAQs — common questions about fees, insurance, online therapy, fit
• Contact — book a free 15-minute consultation

Contact

• Email: jasmeet@alignonlinetherapy.com
• Phone: (310) 818-3901
• Text: (310) 818-3901
• Address: 520 South Sepulveda Boulevard, Suite 306, Los Angeles, CA 90049 (administrative office; sessions are entirely online)
• Hours: Sunday–Saturday, mornings/afternoons/evenings; flexible scheduling
• Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/alignonlinetherapy/
• LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/alignonlinetherapy/
• YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCbfDhqbETA4jBMA3u0Kvvgg

Crisis resources

If you are in crisis, do not use this practice as your point of contact. Call or text 988 (Suicide and Crisis Lifeline), call 911 if you are in immediate danger, or go to your nearest emergency room. For eating disorder support: National Alliance for Eating Disorders Helpline, 1-866-662-1235. For sexual assault: RAINN, 800-656-4673. For an unsafe relationship: National Domestic Violence Hotline, 1-800-799-7233.

Legal

Align Online Therapy is the doing-business-as name of Align Individual, Couple & Family Online Therapy, Inc., a California marriage and family therapy corporation owned and operated by Jasmeet Bhullar, LMFT (#117019).

Last updated: October 15, 2026.