Whit Brown, AMFT

You Understand the Pattern. Now It’s Time to Heal It.

You may understand your emotions and patterns intellectually, yet still feel unable to change them. The ways you learned to regulate, cope, and stay connected as a child may have helped you survive, but they may no longer support the life you want as an adult.

Perhaps you learned to protect yourself by over-functioning, people-pleasing, anticipating others’ needs, or disconnecting from yourself. Over time, these once-protective strategies can contribute to anxiety, depression, addiction, shame, exhaustion, relationship difficulties, and a painful loss of connection with who you are and the life you want to create.

I provide trauma-based, relational therapy for adults and couples using Internal Family Systems-informed therapy, attachment-based work, EMDR, and nervous-system-oriented approaches. Many of my clients are highly capable, insightful people who have spent years taking care of others while feeling disconnected from themselves. Together, we work to heal the underlying patterns that keep them stuck so they can experience greater confidence, emotional regulation, authenticity, and secure relationships.

Before becoming a licensed therapist, I trained at New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts and worked professionally as an actor for more than a decade. That experience gives me a deep understanding of the emotional realities of creative careers—including constant auditions, rejection, comparison, uncertainty, public visibility, and maintaining a grounded sense of identity in highly competitive environments.

My areas of focus include:

•  Complex trauma and CPTSD
• Adult children of narcissistic or emotionally immature parents
• Fawning, people-pleasing, and self-abandonment
• Anxiety, depression, shame, and perfectionism
• Relational trauma and attachment wounds
• Couples and relationship difficulties
• Creative identity, performance anxiety, and career transitions
• Boundaries, self-trust, and nervous-system regulation

Let’s Connect

My approach is warm, collaborative, and deeply relational. As a trauma survivor with long-term sobriety, I bring my full, authentic self to the therapy space and meet you where you are at with an approach that is tailored to your unique perspective and experience. Together, we can explore the protective patterns keeping you stuck, process unresolved experiences, and help you build greater regulation, self-trust, and connection to yourself and others.

I see clients in person in Valley Village on Tuesdays and Wednesdays and online throughout California.

Call (310) 626-4789 or fill out the form below to schedule a free 20-minute phone consultation and find out how my therapeutic approach can help you.