Stanton Ava Louise LCSW

Stanton Ava Louise LCSW is a licensed clinical social worker based in Santa Monica, CA, offering psychotherapy services to individuals facing various emotional and circumstantial challenges. With a focus on establishing emotional safety, providing gentle kindness, and promoting self-discovery, Stanton helps clients reconnect with their authentic selves, values, and spiritual lives. Incorporating mindfulness and self-compassion practices, as well as drawing from the Internal Family Systems Therapy model, Stanton aims to support clients in finding emotional relief, understanding, and developing effective coping strategies.

With a background in Zen meditation, Stanton also offers spiritual direction and is an authorized teacher in the Soto Zen tradition of the San Francisco Zen Center. Stanton's approach to therapy is informed by personal meditation practice, which has enhanced both their role as a therapist and their own experiences as a patient. Additionally, Stanton has extensive experience supporting women diagnosed with cancer and has authored "The Breast Cancer Notebook." Whether clients are meditators or not, Stanton strives to build a therapeutic relationship that best serves their unique needs and goals.

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