Lara Sayles

Lara Sayles, LMFT works with individuals, couples, and families specializing in anxiety, trauma, interpersonal relationships, emotional management, identity, grief, life transitions, breakup & codependency recovery, creative blockages, thought/behavior patterns, and working with the LGBTQIA+ community. Lara has her Masters degree in Clinical Psychology with an Emphasis in Marriage & Family Therapy from Pepperdine University and her Bachelors degree in Psychology from San Diego State University.

Practicing therapy since 2009, Lara has a compassionate, straightforward, and strength-based approach, tailoring treatment uniquely to each client. She integrates practices from the orientations of Family Systems, Existential, Narrative, Internal Family Systems, Solution-Focused, and Cognitive Behavioral Therapy. Lara is fully trained as an EMDR Therapist for the treatment of trauma. Lara completed level 1 training in Gottman Method Couples Therapy and is currently progressing through level 2.

Lara loves being a therapist because it’s challenging and always provokes opportunities for growth. Her passion for traveling the world grants her a broader understanding of cultural factors and the extensiveness of their impact on an individual. Lara enjoys helping people heal, gain insight, find meaning, and evolve into better versions of themselves while cultivating a genuine therapeutic relationship with them.