Chris Avitabile, Psychotherapist

I am fascinated and motivated by relational dialogue and how we make sense together, especially in times of uncertainty.  In therapy we create a relationship that explores this sense making together.  Through direct engagement, being myself with you and a commitment to dialogue, my only aim is to help you bring awareness to what is happening in the here and now. And in this way, together, we learn to meet and enlist your innate healing intelligence to co-create a path forward.

I have experience working with a diverse array of people, coming to therapy for problems related to our common humanity, such as depression, anxiety, loneliness and relationship disruptions.  I have a particular fondness for working with people grappling with grief, mourning, death anxiety, and those currently in, or supporting others in the dying phase of life.  I am also very experienced working with people examining their relationship with substances, and those who are learning about, and working through how they have been shaped by trauma.  To be very clear, I know that the ways in which you are a diverse human, be it cultural, racial, sexual, age, gender, spiritual, body type is vitally important, will be affirmed and important to our work.  In fact, there is no therapy work without such confirmation of your existence.

My practice is conducted primarily via Telehealth sessions, although I maintain a hybrid schedule and come to Los Angeles for in person sessions once a month.  I work in person with people who live in the high desert of California (Landers, Yucca Valley,Joshua Tree area), and at times will do longer “intensive” sessions for people traveling from out of town.

I became a therapist as a consequence of my curiosity and my struggles.  I have a great love of this work and feel immense gratitude for the people who have trusted me enough with the vulnerable endeavor that is  therapyv.  Exploration and learning through music and art have long been part of my life, and these ways of being continue to support my work as a creative mental health practitioner.