Therapy That Changes You.

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

Explore Working With Our Practice
Explore Working With Our Practice

You’re intuitive. Thoughtful. Self-aware.

You’re also burnt out, anxious, depressed, emotionally overwhelmed, afraid, or relationally exhausted. You’re tapped out, resources feeling gone or very limited.

You likely work hard to be the "best" in everything you do: your relationships, your work, your communities. And yet… something isn't working.

More distracted. Mind never stops running. Sleep is worsening. Getting motivated feels like climbing a mountain. Poor coping mechanisms are increasing.

Slowly but surely, you're getting less and less of what you need or desire in life and in your most important relationships.

This isn’t the life you’re used to or want for yourself.

Whatever is happening, one thing feels clear: your functioning is off.

This is the exact moment where our clients often reach out to us: they've realized not all is well, that their own efforts aren’t working, and that they need someone’s help to figure out what's going on.

This realization is very significant.

Most people resist this moment for longer than they'd like to admit. Reaching out takes honesty. It takes courage. It means confronting something most people would rather keep avoiding: that you can’t do it all on your own.

This is where we want you to know: whatever is going on, you don't have to have it figured out before you reach out.

Our clients often start the therapeutic process right here: they know something is off, but they’re not sure what or why.

You don't need the right words, a clear diagnosis, or a perfect explanation of what's wrong. You just need to be willing to explore what’s happening with another.

That's exactly what we're here for and we invite you to trust your instinct that another person may be able to help.

Explore Working Together
Explore Working Together

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

Learn More About Depth-Oriented Therapy
Learn More About Depth-Oriented Therapy

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.

Learn more about us!
Learn more about us!

Meet Our Therapists

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.

Begin! We'll get your first session on the calendar — and the real work starts here.

Let's Work Together.

Reach out to us using the contact form or give us a call to set your initial 15m consult.

Reach out to us using the contact form or give us a call to set your initial 15m consult.

Within 24 hours we'll reach out for a real conversation to understand what's bringing you in and see if we're the right practice for you.

Within 24 hours we'll reach out for a real conversation to understand what's bringing you in and see if we're the right practice for you.

Begin! We'll get your first session on the calendar — and the real work starts here.

Our Offices

We offer therapy sessions online or in-person from our central Orange County location right by John Wayne Airport.

4060 Campus Dr STE 120, Newport Beach, CA 92660