Pasadena Clinical Group is an outpatient mental health practice serving the City of Los Angeles, Los Angeles County, the greater LA metro, and Orange County. We are anchored in group therapy because, for depression in particular, having other people in the room changes what is possible.
Many practices treat the first call like an admissions test. We don’t. Most people who reach out aren’t in crisis. They’ve been quietly not okay for a while and they’re tired of the cost of pretending. Our job is to make showing up easier, not harder.
We are organized around the belief that depression is rarely solved by trying harder alone. It usually shifts in the company of people who get it — sometimes a therapist, sometimes a small group, sometimes a partner or family willing to do the work alongside you.
We are not a medication practice and we are not an emergency service. If you are in crisis, please call or text 988. For everything else, we are here.
Group therapy is named in our front door for a reason. The most reliable thing about depression is the loneliness it generates. Group is one of the few interventions that meets that loneliness directly.
Our clinicians collectively speak English, Spanish, Chinese, Vietnamese, Hindi, Italian, Arabic, and Armenian. The mental health field is famously bad at this. We are trying to be less bad.
LGBTQ+ affirmative care is not a separate offering — it is how we work. The same goes for cultural humility. We don’t expect clients to do extra labor educating their clinician.
Los Angeles is one of the most linguistically diverse cities in the world, and the standard of mental health care available in non-English languages is often a step behind. We staff intentionally to close some of that gap. If your strongest language isn’t English, ask when you call — we will try to match you accordingly.
The office is in Pasadena. Clients come from across LA County — Los Angeles itself, Glendale, Burbank, South Pasadena, Alhambra, Arcadia, Eagle Rock, Highland Park — and from Orange County. Telehealth is available seven days a week to anyone physically located in California at the time of session.
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Most people sit with the question for a long time before making the call. Whatever you’re carrying, we’ve almost certainly sat with someone holding something similar. The first step is just a conversation.