Isabel Kindberg
Licensed clinical Social worker (#83129)
She/Her/Hers
As a therapist, my intention is to explore your unique life experience while working through areas where you feel stuck or see unhelpful patterns so you can gain new understanding, healing and empowerment. My client work is informed by a belief that our historical, political, social, and cultural environments influence the way we navigate the world and shape how we relate to others. I am committed to creating a warm and safe space, specific to your needs, where you can learn more about yourself, make connections between present and past, and uncover new ways to thrive.
My clinical experience is focused on working with young people and adults managing major life crises and who are simultaneously impacted by complex trauma, depression, anxiety and identity issues. Additionally, I have a strong affinity for working with individuals who are moving out of young adulthood and into the next phase of life. I am trained in EMDR, trauma informed care, harm reduction, grief and loss and supporting healthy relationships.
I am also particularly passionate about working with individuals, at any level of functioning, who are interested in exploring their relationship to substance use through an alternative lens. I believe that substance use stems from deeply rooted, often complex systems of experience that can best be understood in an environment free of shame, judgement and externalized expectation. I am interested in utilizing the therapeutic space to shed light on some of these experiences and to co-create an individualized, trauma informed approach that aligns with your goals, whether they include exploration, moderation or sobriety.
A Los Angeles native, I received a Masters in Social Work from USC and a BA in Literary Studies with a focus on postcolonial poetry from Eugene Lang College at the New School. I've spent the last decade working with teenagers, young people and adults impacted by relational and systemic trauma, homelessness and substance use as a social worker, case manager, therapist and supervisor. My experience also includes supervising and supporting those in the helping professions with self-care, burnout and secondary trauma.
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