Payam Ghassemlou
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Psychotherapy / Counseling Expert
Payam Ghassemlou Quick Facts
- Main Areas
- Since 1992, Payam Ghassemlou has been helping individuals and couples from different walks of life and sexual orientations to live happier and more meaningful lives.
- Career Focus
- Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist (Counselor/Psychotherapist)
Dr. Payam Ghassemlou Ph.D. is currently in private practice in West Hollywood providing individual therapy. Having over twenty-five years of extensive training and research in the field of counseling and mental health, Dr. Payam has developed an integrative approach toward helping his patients to improve the quality of their lives. Dr. Payam also taught first-year medical students in the Doctoring 1 program at the David Geffen School of Medicine at the University of Califo ia, Los Angeles (UCLA). Here, he instructed medical students on topics related to patient-centered interview, ethics and professionalism, empathy, cultural sensitivity, and developing communication skills.
As a psychotherapist (Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist), his areas of experience and training include, but are not limited to, somatic psychotherapy, interpersonal neurobiology, insecure attachment, mindfulness, dream analysis, substance abuse, managing emotions, pain management, sexual compulsion, coming out, internalized homophobia, self-esteem, midlife crisis, shame, depression, anxiety, HIV/AIDS, dual diagnosis, grief/loss, trauma, immigrant families, work conce s, personal growth, and codependency.
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Sharing and Listening
Have you ever had the experience of sharing your life challenges or problems with an empathic listener who gave you his or her undivided attention? A kind of listener who did not judge you and really cared about what you had to say. Someone who was not quick to give you advice and solutions but was interested to hear how you felt about your life challenges. When I recall my experiences of feeling heard and deeply understood by someone I know how much the experience helped me to cope with whatever I was dealing with at the time.
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From Loneliness to Solitude
From Loneliness to Solituder By Payam Ghassemlou MFT, Ph.D.
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The Flame of Love
The Flame of Love Byr Payam Ghassemlou Ph.D. On a daily basis, many of us spend a lot of time thinking about our life challenges. We think about all sorts of difficult situations, like financial problems, and make ourselves believe we can’t handle them. Catastrophic thinking about our lives bombards us with anxiety and contributes to our feeling of insecurity.
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Breath & Love: A Different Kind of Intoxication
The word intoxication often gets associated with substance use. Even though some people do experience a physical high through drinking or drug use, such behaviors have nothing to do with the real desire of the soul for elevation. There is a different kind of intoxication that comes from certain body-mind practices. Such practice draws breath and love together with the intention of a journey into the heart, which is into an inner place you can call “home.”
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Personal Myth
Personal Myth Byr Payam Ghassemlou Ph.D.
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| Contact Information |
| Email : |
| Phone : |
| 310-801-2927 |
| Address : |
| 9056 Santa Monica Blvd |
| STE205 |
| West Hollywood |
| CA |
| 90069 |
| USA |
Payam Ghassemlou MFT, Ph.D.
310-801-2927