Mostly video, because fifty minutes should not cost you three hours.
Newport is forty to fifty-five minutes from the Long Beach office. Almost everyone from here works on video, and the ones who drive in do it monthly rather than weekly.
People for whom being recognized has a real cost.
A lot of the inquiries from Newport involve someone whose professional life and social life overlap heavily, and who has concluded, reasonably, that the local option is not the private option.
The second recurring theme is couples who already have a therapist they trust and want a specialist for one specific, difficult phase rather than a full transfer of care.
Both of those are served well from a distance, which is why this page is mostly about how the work is arranged rather than about the drive.
Three arrangements, all of them real.
Open any one. None of them require you to pretend the distance is not there.
- Format
Weekly video, monthly room
The arrangement most Newport clients land on once the novelty of the drive wears off.
- Discretion
No building, no insurer
For people whose name carries locally, the mechanics matter more than reassurance.
- Scope
A defined stretch, then back
You can use a specialist for the specific part and keep the therapist you already trust.
The detail lives here.
Newport Beach Questions
Start with a conversation
A free 15-minute phone consultation is a low-stakes way to hear how I work and ask whatever you need to ask. No commitment, no intake paperwork.