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Relationship Therapy in Santa Monica & Los Angeles
Relationship difficulties are rarely just about the other person. The patterns we bring to our closest relationships — how we communicate, how we handle conflict, how much we let ourselves be known — are often rooted in our earliest experiences of connection and loss.
Dr. Sally Hackman, PhD, MFT, helps adults in Santa Monica and Los Angeles understand the relational patterns that keep them stuck, whether they show up in romantic partnerships, friendships, family dynamics, or adult relationships with parents or grown children.
Key Points
Guiding You Toward Healthier Connections.
Empowering Resilience
Understand the unconscious beliefs about yourself and others that drive how you show up in relationships — and develop the capacity for the closeness, honesty, and mutual respect you deserve.
Healing Space
Individual relationship therapy offers a private space to explore dynamics that are too complex or too vulnerable to work through alone. Available in person in Santa Monica or via Zoom.
Transformative Support
Dr. Hackman integrates attachment theory, relational therapy, and psychoanalytic insight to address communication problems, trust issues, patterns of conflict, and difficulties with adult children or aging parents.
OUR COMMITMENT TO YOU
Your Wellbeing Is Our Priority.
Whether you are navigating a recurring conflict with a partner, struggling to connect with an adult child, feeling unseen in a friendship, or finding that you keep ending up in the same painful relational dynamics — individual therapy can help you see the pattern clearly, understand its origins, and change it.
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Years of Relationship Therapy Experience
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Serving Santa Monica Continuously
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Confidential — Always
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First Session Free If You Don't Return
FAQ
Common Questions
Yes. Even without couples counseling, individual therapy can significantly improve your relationships by helping you understand your own patterns, triggers, and needs — which changes how you show up with others
The work always begins with what you can understand and change in yourself. Often, when one person in a relationship changes — genuinely changes — the dynamic between them shifts too.