Therapy That Changes You.

Depth-oriented psychotherapy for people who know something is off and are finally ready to understand why.

In-Person & Online Therapy In Orange County, Office Right By John Wayne Airport
Serving Newport Beach, Costa Mesa, Irvine & All Orange County

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You're sensitive. Thoughtful. Very self-aware.

You feel things deeply, care about your relationships, and want to show up fully for the people you love, for your work, for yourself.

But something feels off. In fact, you know something is off.

Maybe it’s anxiety that isn’t going away. Perhaps a sense of being emotionally overwhelmed. Or maybe a gap between what you feel inside and what actually comes out in the relationships that matter most.

You can tell you're not getting what you need—and you're not entirely sure why.

Day to day it might look like distraction, poor sleep, low motivation, or quietly withdrawing from people you love. You know you’re not at your best, and yet you’re not sure what exactly is going on. It’s an overwhelming place to be.

You've tried to work through this on your own. And it’s not working.

You're reflective enough to know something is off. Self-aware enough to have theories. And honest enough to admit that whatever you've tried hasn't quite reached it.

You're beginning to sense that moving toward a more authentic, whole way of living might actually require the support of another person.

Someone safe. Someone curious. Someone who can sit with you in the places you haven't been able to get to alone.

We think that instinct is worth trusting.

This is where the work begins.

Not with advice or strategies for managing what you're feeling, but with a genuine, unhurried attempt to understand you.

What you're experiencing, why it keeps showing up, and what it might be pointing toward.

For people like you, what tends to make the real difference isn't more techniques.

It's a quality of relationship and exploration that goes deeper — into the emotional and relational world that shaped how you learned to express yourself, ask for what you need, and let people in.

That's the work that creates change that actually holds.

And it’s what we specialize in.

DEPTH-ORIENTED THERAPY & HOW IT CAN HELP

Your symptoms are real—and they matter. But they're also telling you something.

Depth-oriented therapy takes your symptoms—the anxiety, overwhelm, fatigue, etc.—as a starting place, then asks the harder question: where are these coming from?

Rather than managing what's on the surface, we work together to understand the deeper emotional and relational patterns underneath—the ones that were often shaped by early experiences, attachment wounds, or beliefs you may have never consciously chosen. That understanding is what makes change not just possible, but lasting.

We help you:

Finally understand why you feel the way you feel — and why certain things keep happening no matter how hard you try
Work through the parts of yourself still shaped by old pain, fear, or experiences that never fully healed
Find your voice — in your relationships, in your work, in the way you move through the world
Learn to ask for what you need, express what you actually feel, and let people in more fully
Develop a relationship with yourself that feels more honest, more grounded, and more like who you actually are

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THE THERAPEUTIC RELATIONSHIP IS AT THE CORE OF DEPTH WORK

The therapeutic relationship is the mechanism of depth work, not just the container for it.

The quality of attunement and trust between you and your therapist is one of the most powerful forces for change — which means who you work with matters enormously.

So we take the therapist-matching process seriously.

Before connecting you with anyone, we take time to understand your story, what you've already tried, and what you're hoping will finally be different. Then we make a deliberate recommendation—based on fit, experience, and clinical depth, not just availability.

If the right person isn't on our team, we'll tell you honestly and connect you with someone in our referral network who is.

Your healing comes first.

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Our Biggest Differentiator —
Training & Development

At Forbes Individual & Family Therapy, we engage in:

Monthly peer consultation groups where clinicians examine psychodynamic research and thoughtfully discuss clinical cases.
Quarterly private workshops for our team, led by leading researchers in the field and focused on topics most relevant to the lives and struggles of our clients.
Weekly clinical supervision dedicated to the ongoing development of each clinician’s theoretical understanding and clinical practice.

You can rest knowing
our therapists are committed
to excellence.