Relationship Therapy Los Angeles
Therapy for Toxic Relationships for First-Gen & Queer Adults
Many First-Gen and BIPOC adults experience emotional exhaustion stuck in toxic relationship patterns. As a culturally affirming therapist in California, I offer online therapy to help clients hold space to feel something different—like safety, clarity, and relief.
Toxic Relationship Therapy
Your anxiety has you constantly bracing for something to go wrong.
You’ve been trying to keep it together by making sure everyone else is okay, not to disturb the peace, being the most understanding, forgiving, and letting things slide.
But now, you’re beginning to see the toll it’s taken emotionally for you, a built up anxiety in relationships. You’re noticing walking on eggshells with certain people, avoiding hard conversations, or keeping your feelings quiet because it feels easier or safer.
You try to talk yourself out of this feeling by telling yourself “I’m just being too sensitive” or “they did not mean to do a, b, or c.” But if you are really truthful to yourself, you’re tired of feeling stuck in these cycles that leave you feeling anxious, invisible, confused, or overwhelmed.
It makes sense. You’re not overreacting and you’re not alone.
As a First-Gen, BIPOC, or Queer adult, your relationships have likely been shaped by more than just personal history. They’ve been woven through family expectations, cultural norms, and systems that told you survival meant silence. Systems built upon unsaid rules to keep the peace that never made space for your full self. But it doesn’t have to stay this way, having to question your worth and feel emotionally drained in relationships.
That’s where Online Therapy for Toxic Relationships and Anxiety can help. I offer culturally affirming therapy throughout California for adults who are ready to stop fawning, start feeling, and rebuild safety in their relationships without dimming themselves.
If you’re also struggling with putting others first or saying yes when you mean no, you may be navigating people-pleasing patterns as well. You can learn more about how I support People-Pleasing Therapy Clients here.
Hi! I’m Ligia (she/her/ella) a Therapist in Los Angeles and I Help First Gen & Queer Adults Heal from Anxiety Rooted in Toxic Relationships
Many First-Gen and Queer adults feel emotionally drained by anxiety and people-pleasing. As a culturally affirming therapist in California, I offer online therapy to help clients move from overwhelm to clarity and self-trust.
I’m an Anxiety therapist in Los Angeles and throughout California. I specialize in helping adults who are tired of dimming themselves to stay connected to others through helping them manage their anxiety and create healthy relationship patterns- often for the first time.
I know how hard it can be to unlearn those patterns rooted into family, culture, or survival.
What Therapy Looks Like With Me
We'll start my slowing things down and help your body feel safer being fully you. Maybe that is noticing how stress shows up in your body, understanding where patterns of survival and protection are coming from, practicing boundaries in a way that feels safe and doable, and a rebuilding a sense of safety so you don’t have to disconnect internally to stay connected with others.
I'll be honest, kind, patient, and direct. I’ll be there with you, in your pain, your anger and confusion, as we explore weekly how to unravel what is yours and what isn't and ask for what you truly want and deserve.
We’ll go at your pace. You’ll never be asked to go somewhere you’re not ready for. The work is gentle, collaborative, and grounded in honoring your lived experience.
Together, we’ll work towards
Creating a safe space to untangle those dynamics, explore how these patterns have started and how they show up in your body, practice nervous system regulation and grounding tools, and learn how to reconnect with what’s true for you
Therapy for Toxic Relationships helps Queer and First-Gen adults move from feeling emotionally unsafe to clarity in navigating their relationships. As a culturally affirming therapist in California, I support clients in embracing who they are—without fear.
Changes You Start Seeing in Relationship Therapy in Los Angeles for Toxic Relationships
You will begin to feel less anxious in your relationships, and choose relationships that feel calm, mutual, and safe.
This is accomplished in our work together in learning how to stop the head noise in overthinking, the over functioning to earn love and connection from others, and learn to say no while also not drowning in guilt. You will get to a place of recognizing red flags earlier and trust yourself to respond.
If you’re ready to feel more grounded, more connected to yourself, and less overwhelmed, I’m here to support you.
Get in contact with me today to work together to calm the noise, reconnect with your needs, and build the emotional safety you’ve been craving.
