Tanya Samuelian, LMFT
Licensed Marriage and Family TherapistI'm Tanya—a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist in private practice in the San Fernando Valley.
I see clients in-person in Encino and Studio City, and virtually throughout California, Nevada, and Oregon. Sessions can be in English, Armenian, or both.
I work with people who hold a great deal together — a company, a family, a full life — whose external lives look like they’re working, and whose internal lives are asking for something more.
You might recognize yourself in this: capable, driven, the person other people lean on. And underneath the capability is a quiet exhaustion you've been carrying for longer than you realized.
That's the kind of work I'm built for: the deeper, slower work of understanding what's running underneath your life, and starting to shift it.
In addition to in-office and virtual sessions, I offer concierge therapy for clients across Westside LA, Greater LA, Malibu, Calabasas, and Westlake Village—including executives, founders, public-facing clients, new parents, and families whose schedules or privacy needs require sessions to come to them. Learn more about concierge sessions
Book a ConsultationA complimentary 15-minute call with me · Prefer to text? (818) 652-3495
How I think
about this work
I want therapy to feel like it's going somewhere. There's room to say whatever is true, and there's also direction: we'll look at what keeps repeating, and work on changing it in your real life.
My approach is depth-oriented without being meandering. Clinical without being cold. Modern without being trendy. I work with what's actually happening in your life right now — and with what's underneath it, because the present moment is almost always shaped by older patterns trying to keep you safe.
I integrate insight-oriented therapy, Internal Family Systems (IFS), psychodynamic work, and evidence-based cognitive tools. The framework adapts to what you need — but the foundation stays the same: we go to the root.
I’m not a passive therapist. I brainstorm with my clients, collaborate with them, and challenge them when it’s needed. It’s one of the things people specifically come to me for.
A few things I believe
about this work
Insight is necessary but not sufficient.
Most of my clients arrive with significant self-awareness. What they need isn't more analysis — it's a process that reaches the level where patterns are actually held.
The body is part of the conversation.
Anxiety, burnout, and patterned reactivity live in the nervous system. Working with what's happening physiologically isn't a wellness trend — it's clinical practice.
The relationship is the work.
For people whose patterns are relational — and most people's are — the experience of being in a consistent, attuned, professional relationship is part of what changes the template underneath.
You don't have to be in crisis to deserve good therapy.
Some of the most meaningful work happens with people who are functioning, capable, and starting to suspect there's more available to them than they've been letting themselves want.
Background
& training
Education
I received my Master of Science in Counseling Psychology with an emphasis in Marriage and Family Therapy from California Lutheran University. My undergraduate degree is a Bachelor of Science in Family and Human Development from Arizona State University, where I graduated Magna Cum Laude.
Experience
I have over a decade of experience working with adults and couples across a range of clinical settings, and a private practice focused on high-functioning anxiety, perfectionism, burnout, and relationship dynamics.
Licenses
California LMFT #108113 | Nevada LMFT #5237-R | Oregon LMFT #T3621
How I'm trained to work
For couples, I use the Gottman Relationship Checkup to start with a clear picture.
Business background
I built my own private-pay practice in Encino and Studio City, and I coach other therapists who are building theirs. That same view of how decisions, pressure and people work inside a business shapes my Executive Advisory work with founders, CEOs, attorneys and physicians.
A little more
about me
I'm based in Los Angeles, which means I understand—up close—the specific cultural pressures my clients are navigating. The achievement culture. The optimization culture. The performance of wellness. The strange experience of being surrounded by ambition that doesn't quite leave room for being a person.
That context matters. You don't want a therapist who has to be taught what it's like to live in this city.
Available for media, podcasts and talks on high-functioning anxiety, burnout and relationships under pressure. Get in touch
Start working
with Tanya
Prefer to text? (818) 652-3495