Eight therapists. One careful practice.
Jasmeet Bhullar, LMFT
CA BBS #117019Best fit if you’re working out who you are between two cultures, or you and a partner keep having the same fight.
Fifteen years in practice, and the clinician behind how Align works. He sees most of what comes through our door, and is often the person for couples and premarital work, family systems and cultural identity.
- Sees
- Individuals · Couples · Families
- Known for
- Motivational Interviewing · EFT · Bowen · Narrative · Existential · Sex therapy
- Background
- IOCDF member · AASECT member working toward certification · Pepperdine adjunct faculty
- Sessions in
- English, Hindi, Punjabi
Danielle Miller, AMFT
CA BBS #144995Best fit if your mind keeps checking, and you want a structured, gentle way out of the loop.
Close to half her caseload is OCD. She brings the same gentle, exposure-based approach to anxiety, and to intrusive thoughts that linger after trauma has been processed.
- Sees
- Individuals
- Known for
- CBT · ACT · ERP · Somatic
- Background
- IOCDF member · former OCD Exposure Coach
- Sessions in
- English
Elaina Envia, AMFT
CA BBS #149268Best fit if you’re dating, or deciding, and you’re clear-eyed for everyone but yourself.
Works with single adults on dating, situationships and self-worth, and co-leads our work on people-pleasing, loneliness and life transitions. Direct and warm, with women and men alike.
- Sees
- Individuals · Couples · Families
- Known for
- Person-centered · Compassion-Focused · Solution-Focused · Somatic
- Background
- Works with women and men in their 20s and 30s
- Sessions in
- English
Fidel Quintanilla, AMFT
CA BBS #125756Best fit if you look high-functioning on paper and you’re running on empty underneath.
Works with high achievers, with men who were never given words for what they feel, and with Latino/Latinx clients balancing career and family. EMDR-trained for trauma; also treats OCD, depression and people-pleasing.
- Sees
- Individuals · Couples · Families
- Known for
- CBT · ACT · Motivational Interviewing · EMDR · Mindfulness
- Background
- EMDR-trained · IOCDF member · Pepperdine adjunct faculty
- Sessions in
- English, Spanish
Julia Melvin, AMFT
CA BBS #137797Best fit if you overthink, judge yourself hard, or carry something that talking about it hasn’t moved.
Uses IFS and EMDR with the parts of you that overthink, criticize or stay on guard. Also works with life transitions, including matrescence and new motherhood, fertility, and chronic illness.
- Sees
- Individuals
- Known for
- Attachment · Psychodynamic · IFS · Narrative · EMDR · Mindfulness
- Background
- EMDR-trained · IFS practitioner · Fulbright Scholar
- Sessions in
- English
Marjolaine Bernstein, AMFT
CA BBS #164685Best fit if intimacy has gotten hard to talk about, or anxiety keeps getting between you and the people you love.
Leads our sex therapy and people-pleasing work: desire, arousal and performance, the shame that can build around them, and the yes you don’t quite get to choose. Sees individuals, couples and families.
- Sees
- Individuals · Couples · Families
- Known for
- Person-centered · Compassion-Focused · Gottman · Sex therapy
- Background
- AASECT member working toward certification · IOCDF member
- Sessions in
- English
Molly Binenfeld, LMFT
CA BBS #151728Best fit if food, eating or your body have started taking up more room in your life than you want them to.
The only clinician here who takes eating disorder cases; about half her caseload is disordered eating. Weight-inclusive and non-diet, and co-leads our depression work.
- Sees
- Individuals · Couples · Families
- Known for
- DBT · CBT · Compassion-Focused
- Background
- IAEDP member · weight-inclusive, non-diet
- Sessions in
- English
Nazzi Vazira-Bhullar, LMFT
CA BBS #102581Best fit if you’ve spent years adjusting to everyone else and want room to hear yourself again.
Deep experience supporting women, especially South Asian women, through relationships, accommodation and family expectation. Leads our family-boundaries, identity and couples work.
- Sees
- Individuals · Couples · Families
- Known for
- Attachment · Psychodynamic · EFT · Bowen · Solution-Focused · Gottman
- Background
- Pepperdine adjunct faculty
- Sessions in
- English, Farsi
Who leads each specialty.
Most of us work across several of these, and most specialties have two leads. The leads review that specialty’s page and are good first people to ask about it. Every one of us works with people-pleasing in some form.
- Anxiety & overthinkingDanielle Miller & Fidel Quintanilla
- Relationship anxietyElaina Envia & Julia Melvin
- Family boundariesJasmeet Bhullar & Nazzi Vazira-Bhullar
- People-pleasingElaina Envia & Marjolaine Bernstein
- OCD & intrusive thoughtsJasmeet Bhullar & Danielle Miller
- TraumaFidel Quintanilla & Julia Melvin
- Sex & intimacyJasmeet Bhullar & Marjolaine Bernstein
- Disordered eatingMolly Binenfeld
- Identity & cultural belongingJasmeet Bhullar & Nazzi Vazira-Bhullar
- Depression & low moodFidel Quintanilla & Molly Binenfeld
- Burnout & work stressJasmeet Bhullar & Fidel Quintanilla
- Life transitionsElaina Envia & Julia Melvin
- Loneliness & connectionElaina Envia & Julia Melvin
- Couples & premaritalJasmeet Bhullar & Nazzi Vazira-Bhullar
Tell us what’s going on, and we’ll match you.
- Book a free 15-minute consultation. Name a therapist, or leave it to us.
- Tell us a little about what’s bringing you in. A sentence or two is enough.
- Talk with the therapist we think fits best, and decide if it feels right. No pressure either way.
Prefer to talk first? Call or text (310) 818-3901, or reach us another way.