Elena Wash(She/Her/Hers)

Elena Wash is a licensed clinical social worker in Torrance, California. She provides therapy to Millennial populations who are struggling with quarter-life crisis, financial anxiety, loneliness, depression, life transitions, and managing their adult lives in general. Through her holistic therapeutic approach, she helps individuals identify their issues with a compassionate and empowering lens to manifest positive change in their daily lives. She also treats issues related to chronic pain and illness.

Elena approaches her clients with empathy, encouragement, and acceptance. She collaborates with her clients to develop sensible goals and teaches useful tools to help them see immediate changes in their daily functioning. Elena aims to empower clients to access and strengthen their internal resources so they can leave therapy feeling more confident in their ability to navigate life in a meaningful way.

Elena completed her graduate degree in Social Work with a sub-concentration in Systems of Mental Health Recovery from the University of Southern California and her undergraduate degree in Psychology from the University of California, Santa Cruz. Through her years of working with Los Angeles County’s Department of Mental Health’s forensic population, she has received training in trauma-focused CBT, somatic, and strength-based therapies to help treat the most severe populations. Elena’s clinical training has equipped her to treat a wide-spectrum of mental health disorders and life dilemmas.