Affordable counseling for California residents.
Clinical training for mental health practitioners.
Bringing social justice values and community organizing principles to community mental health since 2007.
The Relational Center
Our mission is to lead a shift to a culture that values empathy, diversity, and interdependence.
We envision a world in which communities collaborate to practice mindful compassion, mutual support, and civic engagement.
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As a social change-driven counseling and community center, we aim to further our mission through two, primary avenues:
1) by providing low fee and affirming counseling services and community building practices to Angelenos
2) by training emerging therapists in relational gestalt theory and practices in order to expand the reach of our culture change efforts.
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We know that relationships heal.
We offer affordable, sliding scale counseling for individuals, couples, families, and other intimate relationship networks. In combination with our ongoing support groups, our low-fee counseling services foster community-centered healing.
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We know that quality mental healthcare matters.
Our highly-esteemed, clinical training program teaches emerging therapists to provide relational counseling that helps their clients feel affirmed and to build quality relationships and communities. Our training is open to mental health professionals of all levels of experience and provides practicum experience for students as well as licensure hours for associates.
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We know we can’t do it alone.
Our organization is sustained by the generosity of our donors, who fund the majority of our operations so that we can keep the costs for our service recipients and training participants as low as possible. We need YOU to help us realize our mission to build a more empathic and just culture for all.
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We know we have to adapt and create the culture we want to live in.
Since 2007, we have been incorporating activism and social justice values into therapy. We got our start trying to combat the harms of the loneliness epidemic and quickly realized that in order to do this, our culture needs to shift. It’s not enough to help one person heal and increase their connections when our culture works to keep all of us down.
We exist to illuminate the need for a culture shift toward more empathy and interconnectedness and provide accessible counseling services and therapist training that promote this shift through collective healing.
Sliding Scale Therapy
Match with one of our therapists-in-training for counseling at an affordable income-based rate, as low as $25 per session.
Counselors-in-Residence
With rates starting at $80 per session, you can work with one of our counselors-in-residence.
Support Groups
Our support groups span a broad range of topics & identities for community-centered healing.