Ava Elmzadeh
She/Her/Hers
Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist, LMFTShe/Her/Hers
Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist, LMFTAva Elmzadeh is a Marriage and Family Therapist in Orange County, California. She specializes in young adults adjusting to adulthood, anxiety, depression, job stress, shame, guilt and identity issues. Ava Elmzadeh’s practice is offering telehealth services across the state of California. Ava uses a confidential platform for video therapy sessions through Zoom to protect your information. In the therapy session, Ava uses the Narrative Therapy approach of externalizing problems and interviewing her clients on their expert knowledge of how the problem affects them. Ava also thickens client’s preferred story, expands on their values and highlights cultural, political, spiritual and environmental aspects that affect individual as well. Ava received her B.A. in Psychology and Social Behavior from UCI and her M.A. in Clinical Psychology from Pepperdine University.
Academic challenges - Addressing underperformance in coursework, school avoidance, and procrastination
Artists' mental health - Understanding of highly creative minds; goal setting related to the artistic and creative process; support finding meaningful balance in one’s life
Body image - Development of skills for handling negative thoughts about physical appearance; building habits of more positive self-talk and self-perception.
Social anxiety - Helping clients increase confidence and ability to interact with others amidst fear of being judged, worry about embarrassment, or concern about offending others
Identity development - Understanding, accepting, and strengthening one’s sense of self through the exploration of family, work, and personal values; addressing issues such as, race, class, gender, and sexual orientation, in the context of self experience
Depression - Providing support and promoting healing of hopelessness, low motivation and energy, sadness, irritability, sleep disturbance, and loss of interest and pleasure in life
Ava Elmzadeh is not in-network with any insurances.
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Years of Experience: 3 years
Cottonwood Psychology , Clinician , 2021 - Present
Telecare Corp. Treehouse North and South , On-call Clinical Lead , 2021 - Present
Discovery Behavioral Health , Clinician , 2019 - 2020
Pepperdine Community Counseling Center , Clinician , 2018 - 2019
Pepperdine University , MA, 2019
UCI, BA, 2016
California: 125639
English
Farsi