counseling for therapists & healing professionals
You spend your days holding others .
you deserve a space that holds you.
A supportive space for therapists and helping professionals
Therapists are people first.
We grapple with anxiety and fear, nurse broken hearts, struggle in our relationships, and carry emotional wounds and trauma — often while holding space for others. The work is incredibly meaningful, and can also be deeply taxing.
As much as we know it’s important to care for ourselves, it can be hard not to bring our work home. Loved ones don’t always understand the complexity of what we carry, and the isolation can be real. At the same time, there is also profound reward in being of service, supporting healing, and cultivating shared humanity.
We’ve all experienced the joys and trials of working in this field.
At Kindman & Co., we value working with our peers and welcome fellow therapists and healing professionals into a therapeutic space where you don’t need to explain, perform, or care for anyone else. We offer therapy in our Northeast Los Angeles office and via telehealth for California residents.
The realities of helping professions
The emotional cost of caregiving
Let’s state the obvious: being a therapist is not easy. There are days when it can feel like one of the most demanding jobs imaginable.
Many people who enter this field do so because they are deeply empathic and attuned to others. Empathy and compassion are essential to our work, but they can also make it hard to set boundaries in our professional and personal lives, especially when we’re holding so much for others.
Compassion fatigue is a very real experience for therapists and healing professionals. Over time, the emotional labor of caregiving, witnessing pain, and staying present can lead to experiences like burnout, compassion fatigue, or vicarious trauma — especially when support feels limited or unavailable. And while we often talk with clients about the importance of self-care and self-advocacy, many of us struggle to practice what we encourage.
At Kindman & Co., we know firsthand how hard it can be to make space for your own needs. Caring for yourself isn’t a luxury or an indulgence — it’s a necessary part of sustaining your work and your wellbeing. When we don’t have support, it becomes harder to stay connected to ourselves and to the people we serve.
If you’d like to explore this more, you can also read our blog on the importance of therapy for therapists.
helpers need support too
Holding space for others—session after session, year after year—can take a toll. Many therapists find themselves carrying the weight of emotional labor long after the workday ends, even when they love what they do.
Whether you’ve been in the field for one year or thirty, there is always room to grow and learn. If you’re coming up against a brick wall with a client, working with someone whose perspective feels particularly challenging, or simply holding space for a great deal of trauma, reaching for support is essential to your own wellbeing.
As an empathetic person, you may also feel the pain and injustice present in the world more acutely than others, and that carries its own weight. We know what this is like. You don’t have to carry it alone.
Additional support for helpers
Therapists and healing professionals need different kinds of support at different moments in their careers. Not because something is lacking, but because caring work is complex, relational, and ongoing. In addition to individual & relationship therapy, we offer other forms of support designed to meet helpers where they are.
Clinical supervision & consultation
For therapists interested in deepening their work, we offer clinical supervision and consultation grounded in a relational, feminist perspective. This space is collaborative rather than evaluative, and centers curiosity, reflection, and ethical care for both clients and clinicians.
Supervision can support you in thinking through clinical challenges, strengthening your therapeutic voice, and feeling less alone in the work.
Business consulting for private practice
We also offer business consulting for therapists who are starting or growing solo or group private practices. We know firsthand how daunting the business side of therapy can feel.
Our consulting work supports colleagues in navigating the practical and emotional realities of private practice in ways that align with their values, capacity, and desire for sustainability — without pressure to hustle or scale beyond what feels right.
If you’re curious about any of these supports, you’re welcome to learn more or reach out when it feels right.
why kindman & co. for support?
You already know the value of therapy. It’s likely part of what drew you to this work in the first place.
If you’re wondering what it’s like to be on the other side of the room here, and what makes our practice a meaningful fit for therapists and healing professionals, we want to be transparent about how we work and what we hold as important.
A Relational Approach
At Kindman & Co., our approach is deeply relational. We believe healing happens in the context of safe, attuned relationships, and we prioritize connection, curiosity, and shared humanity over performance or expertise. You don’t need to educate us, explain yourself, or stay in a professional role here.
When You’re the Therapist in the Room
We also know that therapy can feel complicated when you’re a therapist yourself. Many of us have had experiences of still leading the session, monitoring the room, or holding back because we didn’t want to intimidate a peer or overwhelm a clinician who felt unsure how to hold us. When that happens, it can feel hard to fully settle in, let go, or be messy in the ways real healing often requires.
We know how uncomfortable and isolating this can feel, because we’ve experienced it ourselves. Our intention is to offer a therapeutic relationship where you can step out of the helper role, trust that the container is solid, and allow yourself to be held with the same care you offer others.
Values & Context Matter
We are an inclusive, diverse team committed to social justice–informed care. Our work centers de-pathologizing distress, honoring context, and recognizing how systems of oppression shape both our clients’ lives and our own experiences as clinicians. We value community and actively work to counter the isolation that so many therapists experience in this field.
Experience Across Settings
Our clinicians bring experience from both community mental health and private practice settings, which allows us to hold the complexity of this work with nuance and care. We strive to create a space where big thoughts and feelings are welcome, humor is allowed, joy is celebrated, and tenderness is met with respect.
A Commitment to Accessibility
We also hold a commitment to accessibility, reserving twenty percent of our caseload for reduced-fee clients. We know firsthand how difficult it can be to find therapy that truly understands therapists.
This practice exists, in part, because we wanted to create the kind of support we ourselves were searching for.
And yes, there’s also Weezie—our sweet office dog—who provides a steady, comforting presence and offers unconditional affection and the occasional grounding moment.
Taking care of yourself, too
If you’re looking for a space where you don’t have to hold it together, explain yourself, or stay in the helper role, you’re welcome here.
If you’d like to explore working together, we offer a free info session as a low-pressure way to ask questions and get a feel for our approach.
You’re welcome to reach out when it feels right.
A low-pressure space to ask questions and see if this feels like a fit.