ADOLESCENTS & TEENS | YOUNG ADULTS | ADULTS
Therapy for Relationships & Communication
Challenges with connection, conflict, or feeling heard are common. Support is available for individuals, couples, and families to strengthen communication and rebuild trust.
Communication can feel clearer and more caring.
THERAPY PROVIDES GUIDED PRACTICE FOR UNDERSTANDING, REPAIR, AND TRUST.
With steady support, conversations can move from tension to collaboration.
Relationships can drift when signals get crossed. Common patterns include talking past one another, stonewalling or shutdown, and old hurts resurfacing in new arguments. Some notice people-pleasing or overexplaining, while others lean toward criticism or withdrawal to stay protected. These moves make sense—nervous systems try to keep everyone safe—but they also make closeness harder to reach.
In session, the pace slows so needs, meanings, and body cues are easier to notice. Using integrative care — EMDR for negative core beliefs and practical dialogue skills — the focus is on listening without defensiveness, naming needs and boundaries, and repairing after conflict. Over time, interactions feel more respectful and flexible, opening space for connection, teamwork, and ease. Care is available in Redondo Beach and online across California.
HELP WITH boundaries, trust, repair
Relationships & Communication Therapy That Meets You Where You Are
How we help. Care at Catherine Alvarado, LMFT & Associates is strengths-based and consent-led. Sessions focus on co-creating goals, slowing conversations to notice what’s happening in the body and between partners, and practicing skills in real time—reflective listening, boundary mapping, and repair dialogue. Integrative methods may include EMDR therapy, somatic grounding for intensity, and practical tools that make everyday communication feel clearer and kinder.
Accessible, steady support. Services are available in Redondo Beach and online across California for individuals, couples, and families. Flexible formats support immediate relief from tension while building durable habits of clarity, respect, and trust that carry into home, work, and community life.
What might be addressed together:
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Gentle, guided practice helps conversations become clearer and less reactive. Sessions build relationship communication skills—naming needs, setting boundaries, and reflecting back meaning—so connection feels more cooperative.
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When tension rises, structured steps turn conflict into problem-solving. Work focuses on de-escalation, fair-fighting tools, and repair after rupture so patterns shift from gridlock to dialogue.
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Attachment lenses make sense of pursue/withdraw moves, shutdown, and people-pleasing. By noticing body cues and meaning underneath, partners can try new responses that support safety and steadier connection.
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Rebuilding trust is possible with transparency, boundaries, and consistent follow-through. Care supports emotional intimacy, desire, and small daily repairs that bring closeness back online.
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Families benefit from shared language for expectations, roles, and limits. Co-parent communication, teen dynamics, and transitions (moves, health changes, finances) are met with practical tools that keep home life more connected.
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Individual Therapy
Through individual therapy, adults and teens gain tools to manage anxiety, heal from trauma, and build resilience.
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Couples Therapy
Couples therapy offers a supportive space to deepen understanding, work through struggles, and strengthen emotional connection.
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Family Therapy
At Catherine Alvarado, LMFT & Associates, family therapy in Redondo Beach helps families create balance, build trust, and nurture resilience together.
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Standard EMDR Therapy
Standard EMDR therapy offers a 50-minute session for ongoing treatment or as adjunct support to existing therapy.
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Intensive EMDR Therapy
A 2-hour EMDR therapy session designed to provide more time for reprocessing, available for ongoing treatment or adjunct support.
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Adjunct EMDR Therapy
Try EMDR therapy in either standard 50-minute or intensive 2-hour formats, available as adjunct support when needed.
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EMDR Consultation for Clinicians
EMDR consultation for clinicians provides guidance, support, and resources to strengthen skills and confidence in EMDR practice.
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Adolescent & Teen Therapy
Therapy for adolescents and teens provides support for managing stress, building confidence, and navigating school, family, and relationships.
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Young Adult Therapy
Young adult therapy provides a safe space to explore identity, build confidence, and navigate relationships, career stress, and life changes.
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Adult Therapy
Adult therapy offers support for managing anxiety, grief, relationship stress, and life transitions with greater clarity and resilience.
Get matched to the right therapist for you.
You will get the most out of therapy if you’re working with the therapist who is the right fit for you, and we’re committed to helping you find that person.
Reach out to share more about your needs and goals, and we’ll match you with the therapist who has the background, training, & approach that will be best suited for you.
Catherine alvarado, lmft & associates
Therapy in Redondo Beach for Relationships & Communication
Our team provides relationship and communication therapy in Redondo Beach and the South Bay, welcoming clients from Hermosa Beach, Manhattan Beach, Torrance, Palos Verdes, and El Segundo. Support is available for recurring conflict, distance or disconnection, difficulty naming needs, people-pleasing, or navigating trust and intimacy. Drawing on EMDR therapy, somatic practices to steady the body, mindfulness for clarity, and attachment-informed dialogue skills, care centers on clearer conversations, collaborative problem-solving, and a steadier sense of connection. Sessions are available online across California or in person at our Redondo Beach office.
Strengthening relationships is a process, and consistent support makes a difference. At Catherine Alvarado, LMFT & Associates, therapy moves at a comfortable pace while attending to each person’s goals. Many find benefit in practicing listening without defensiveness, repair after rupture, and boundary mapping that honors care and accountability. Whether rebuilding trust after a breach, easing high-conflict cycles, or navigating co-parenting and life transitions, our South Bay therapists offer a grounded space to develop skills, restore warmth, and cultivate more ease in daily connection.
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