Telehealth in California
Online Psychotherapy for Adults in California
Trauma, relationship difficulties, and the patterns that keep returning
For adults seeking greater clarity around difficult experiences, recurring patterns, relationships, and emotional responses. Therapy can create space to understand what is happening and develop different ways of responding.
Kalen Aradia, PhD, MSW
Registered Associate Clinical Social Worker
ASW #139653
Practicing under Natalene Barbarian, LMFT#132701
You may be looking for support with
What feels difficult to carry alone.
You do not need to know whether an experience “counts” as trauma or arrive with a diagnosis. We can begin with what you are noticing, what has become difficult to carry alone, and what you would like to understand or change.
Trauma & recurring patterns
Safety, trust, attachment, emotional regulation, relationships, and responses shaped by earlier experiences.
Depression, despair & difficult emotions
Disconnection, grief, shame, anxiety, existential distress, or thoughts that need room for honest discussion.
Relationships, communication & boundaries
Expressing needs, navigating conflict, trusting your perceptions, people-pleasing, withdrawal, and recurring relational patterns.
Perfectionism, burnout & self-criticism
Exhaustion, harsh internal standards, over-responsibility, shame, and feeling disconnected from yourself.
Collaboration
Understand the pattern
Connect present reactions with trauma, attachment, relationships, internalized beliefs, and earlier experiences.
Build capacity & new responses
Develop ways to tolerate emotion, communicate needs, establish limits, and respond with more choice.
Turn insight into change
Experiment with gradual behavioral shifts, practice between sessions when useful, and revisit what is actually helping.
What the work may feel like
Practice being yourself here, so you can live more freely out there.
The work is grounded in the understanding that people are shaped in relationship. Family, culture, power, attachment, expectations, and repeated experiences can all become part of how we learn to see ourselves and respond to others.
My background in psychology, research on internalized oppression, leadership coaching, writing, and clinical social work informs that perspective, while the focus remains on what is happening in your life and what emerges in the relationship we build together.
Some moments call for questions or direct conversation. Others call for slowing down and staying with an emotion, bodily response, silence, or shift in connection long enough to notice what is happening before the familiar pattern takes over.
When something begins to unfold between us, we can work with it in the moment. Reactions within the relationship may become useful information, including what I notice in myself when that helps illuminate a pattern. There is no need to perform therapy correctly; uncertainty, contradiction, anger, ambivalence, humor, and what is difficult to put into words are welcome.
Kalen Aradia, PhD, MSW
Registered Associate Clinical Social Worker, ASW #139653
Practicing under licensed supervision by Natalene Barbarian, LMFT #132701
Insurance, fees & access
Know the practical details before you commit.
Plans shown below require individual verification. Coverage and estimated cost depend on your benefits, clinician eligibility, deductible, and plan requirements.
- Aetna
- Health Net
- Medi-Cal
- UHC/Optum
- Carelon
Self-pay
$100 per session
Individual 50-minute sessions are available at the self-pay rate.
Sliding scale
Reduced-fee openings
Ask the practice whether a reduced-fee opening is currently available.
Need immediate help?
The practice inquiry is not monitored for emergencies. Call or text 988 for immediate emotional support.