Therapy

"Your vision will become clear only when you look into your heart. Who looks out, dreams. Who looks inside, awakens."

~ Carl Jung

Lynn Valverde, M.A.

Marriage, Family Therapist

(310) 582-5250

Lynn is a licensed Marriage and Family Therapist, a certified Interanalytic Couples and Sex Therapist, a certified Master Hypnotist and a relationship expert. She received her Master's Degree in Psychology from Phillips Graduate Institute in 2003 and graduated from UCLA with honors, earning her bachelor's degree in Economics. She completed a year long certiticate program offered at UCLA in couples and sex therapy.

Lynn currently maintains private practice locations in Brentwood and Beverly Hills. She has worked extensively with individuals coping with depression, anxiety, mood disorders, panic attacks, trauma, relationship problems, divorce, parenting, self-esteem issues, stress, grief, and life transitions. Lynn's focus in therapy is on identifying and working through the feelings, thoughts, and underlying issues contributing to the client’s emotional struggles, in order to address the unresolved issues, in contrast to merely eliminating the present symptoms.

Lynn's clients are individuals and couples. She works with couples that are dating, married, straight, and gay from diverse backgrounds and ethnicities. One of her specialties is helping couples improve communication, eliminate patterns of conflict that break down the relationship, rekindle romance, work through intimacy issues, and enrich their relationships.

She is a certified Rapid Change therapist, and co-facilitates women's groups on relationships, self-esteem, relationships, communication, self-hypnosis, spirituality, and love.

Licensed Member

MFC #42999

Her published works include "The Effects and Factors of Divorce on Women: A Review of the Literature" and her soon to be released book "Couples Counter-Attraction: Why Relationships Fail and How to Make Love Last".

As a Master Hypnotist with the International Hypnosis Federation, Lynn uses hypnosis to help clients access underlying thoughts and identifying negative core beliefs from the past that continue to play out in their current relationships and lives. In this process, she is often able to help release and integrate these once limiting beliefs replacing them with positive affirmations and understanding freeing clients to enjoy who they truly want to be.

Lynn also teaches self-hypnosis techniques that can help ease the stress of a busy life, improve the quality of relationships, and create greater success in work.

Lynn worked with Gerry Grossman Seminars creating and editing the following continuing education courses: