ThursdayToday

  • Pack the lunches
  • Call your mother back
  • Send the deck by noon
  • Sign the permission slip
  • Handle the work crisis from the parking lot

Put your name back on the list.

Therapy for women struggling with anxiety, low self-esteem, and the lasting effects of trauma, so you can feel confident, calm, and comfortable being yourself.

La Cañada Flintridge, and online throughout California

You’ve been carrying this for a long time.

How Long Will You Keep Replaying That Conversation?

Coffee with a friend ended an hour ago. You’re home, and you’re still in it – building versions of what she must think of you now, not one of them kind. Everyone else walked away when it ended. You carried it home.

Everyone Counts on You. Who Do You Count On?

It’s Thursday, a little past nine, and the kitchen is finally quiet. Dinner happened. The permission slip got signed. You sit down for the first time since six. When did you last show up on your own list?

The Critic in Your Head Never Takes a Day Off

The voice has opinions about your parenting, your body, your work, the way you laughed too loud at dinner last weekend. Underneath all its commentary sits a belief you’ve carried since before you could name it: never quite enough.

10+ Years in Mental Health
EMDR Certified Therapist
TF-CBT Specialized Training
3 Languages: EN · HY · RU
Anna Parfyonova, LMFT

Hi, I’m Anna.

I know how exhausting it is to carry anxiety, self-doubt, and emotional pain while keeping everyone else’s life running.

The women who find their way to me have spent years putting their own needs aside, questioning themselves, and repeating patterns they don’t fully understand. Helping them understand those patterns – and change them – is what I’ve built my practice around.

My goal is simple: a space where you can say the things you’ve been editing out everywhere else and be met with understanding instead of judgment. From there, the work gets practical. Together we’ll trace where your patterns came from, heal the experiences underneath them, and reconnect you with strengths that never left.

As a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist in the mental health field since 2013, I specialize in helping women heal from anxiety, low self-esteem, and the lasting effects of trauma. I’m EMDR Certified, with specialized training in Trauma-Focused Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (TF-CBT).

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A short list, this time for you

Every path here begins the same way: understanding the pattern, healing what sits underneath it, and giving you room to be yourself again.

What Reaching Out Actually Looks Like

Schedule a Free Consultation

A 15-minute call to share what’s bringing you in. No obligation, no pressure – just a chance to see if we’re a good fit.

We Map Your Path Together

In our first sessions, we understand where you are, where the patterns come from, and what change looks like for you specifically.

The Work – and the Relief

Week by week, the inner critic quiets. Decisions get easier. Your name makes the list more often. That’s the goal.

There’s a version of the drive home where the conversation ends when it ends.

A Thursday night where your name makes the list. A voice in your head that talks to you the way you talk to everyone you love. Tell me your story, and together we’ll decide whether working with me is the right fit.

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