Payam Ghassemlou
Somatic Experiencing Practitioner (SEP)
Psychotherapy / Counseling Expert
Payam Ghassemlou Quick Facts
- Main Areas
- Payam Ghassemlou Ph.D., SEP is a licensed MFT (Psychotherapist). He is a telehealth provider for CA (MFC33893), OR (T3518), and FL (TPMF1589). www.DrPayam.com
- Career Focus
- Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist (Counselor/Psychotherapist)
Dr. Payam Ghassemlou, Ph.D., MFT, SEP, is a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist offering online psychotherapy throughout California, Oregon, and Florida. With more than 30 years of counseling experience, he works with individuals from diverse backgrounds, including LGBTQIA+ clients, BIPOC communities, neurodivergent individuals, and people from a wide range of cultural, religious, and socioeconomic backgrounds.
Payam’s integrative, body-centered approach draws on psychotherapy, mindfulness and meditation, somatic approaches to healing, and life coaching. As a member of Somatic Experiencing® International and an educator who has taught at the David Geffen School of Medicine, he brings extensive clinical and educational experience to his work.
His trauma-informed, sex-positive, and anti-oppressive practice helps clients reconnect with their bodies, access their inner wisdom, and heal from trauma. Through this work, clients can cultivate greater resilience, vitality, self-awareness, and more fulfilling relationships with themselves and others.
Payam welcomes people of all identities, backgrounds, and relationship styles. He is committed to creating a compassionate, affirming, and nonjudgmental space where clients can show up fully as themselves.
Learn more: www.DrPayam.com
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From Loneliness to Solitude
From Loneliness to Solituder By Payam Ghassemlou MFT, Ph.D.
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The Flame of Love
The Flame of Love Byr Payam Ghassemlou Ph.D. On a daily basis, many of us spend a lot of time thinking about our life challenges. We think about all sorts of difficult situations, like financial problems, and make ourselves believe we can’t handle them. Catastrophic thinking about our lives bombards us with anxiety and contributes to our feeling of insecurity.
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Breath & Love: A Different Kind of Intoxication
The word intoxication often gets associated with substance use. Even though some people do experience a physical high through drinking or drug use, such behaviors have nothing to do with the real desire of the soul for elevation. There is a different kind of intoxication that comes from certain body-mind practices. Such practice draws breath and love together with the intention of a journey into the heart, which is into an inner place you can call “home.”
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Sharing and Listening
Have you ever had the experience of sharing your life challenges or problems with an empathic listener who gave you his or her undivided attention? A kind of listener who did not judge you and really cared about what you had to say. Someone who was not quick to give you advice and solutions but was interested to hear how you felt about your life challenges. When I recall my experiences of feeling heard and deeply understood by someone I know how much the experience helped me to cope with whatever I was dealing with at the time.
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Personal Myth
Personal Myth Byr Payam Ghassemlou Ph.D.
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| Contact Information |
| Email : |
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| 310-801-2927 |
| Address : |
| 9056 Santa Monica Blvd |
| STE205 |
| West Hollywood |
| CA |
| 90069 |
| USA |
Payam Ghassemlou MFT, Ph.D.
310-801-2927