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About Me

Hello,
I’m Elena.
Let’s Grow

Licensed marriage and family therapist helping adults and couples through anxiety, burnout and life’s big transitions — for twelve years and counting.

Licensed marriage and family therapist helping adults and couples through anxiety, burnout and life’s big transitions — for twelve years and counting.

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Elena Hart, LMFT

Twelve Years of Listening

Warm, evidence-based care for adults and couples.

Twelve Years of Listening

Warm, evidence-based care for adults and couples.

Seen. Heard. Held.

My Story

A Deeper
Purpose
Behind
My Work

Before I trained as a therapist, I spent years high-achieving on paper and quietly exhausted underneath. Therapy helped me notice what I’d been carrying — and I’ve never forgotten how much it mattered to be met with warmth instead of judgement.

Before I trained as a therapist, I spent years high-achieving on paper and quietly exhausted underneath. Therapy helped me notice what I’d been carrying — and I’ve never forgotten how much it mattered to be met with warmth instead of judgement.

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Why I Do
This Work

Why I Do This Work

Today I sit with people who look fine from the outside and feel stretched thin within — helping them slow down and come home to themselves.

Today I sit with people who look fine from the outside and feel stretched thin within — helping them slow down and come home to themselves.

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“Change begins when we’re met with kindness — especially our own.”

My Why

Training & Credentials

Grounded in
Evidence.

I keep learning so that what happens in the room is safe, current and genuinely helpful.

I keep learning so that what happens in the room is safe, current and genuinely helpful.

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Better Therapy. Brighter Tomorrows.

Better Therapy. Brighter Tomorrows.

MA, Marriage & Family Therapy

2014

Pacific Graduate University

Licensed MFT

LIC. 104821

State Board of Behavioral Sciences

Emotionally Focused Therapy

CERTIFIED

Couples and individual EFT

CBT & ACT

ADVANCED

Anxiety, burnout and mindfulness-based practice

What I Believe

Care That
Feels Human.

A supportive, down-to-earth space where you can show up just as you are — because meaningful change happens through real human connection.

A supportive, down-to-earth space where you can show up just as you are — because meaningful change happens through real human connection.

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01

You are the expert on you

I bring tools and perspective; you bring your story. The work is always shaped together.

01

You are the expert on you

I bring tools and perspective; you bring your story. The work is always shaped together.

02

Slow is not stuck

Lasting change grows from small, steady steps — not pressure to be fixed by next week.

02

Slow is not stuck

Lasting change grows from small, steady steps — not pressure to be fixed by next week.

03

Everyone is welcome

An affirming, inclusive practice for every identity, background, relationship and body.

03

Everyone is welcome

An affirming, inclusive practice for every identity, background, relationship and body.

Outside the Room

Outside
the Room,
Into the
Wild Green

When I’m not in session you’ll find me on a forest trail with my dog, Juniper, tending an over-ambitious balcony garden, or lost in a novel that has nothing to do with psychology.

When I’m not in session you’ll find me on a forest trail with my dog, Juniper, tending an over-ambitious balcony garden, or lost in a novel that has nothing to do with psychology.

Say Hello

Say Hello

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Where I
Recharge

Where I Recharge

Nature is where I slow down and listen — and it quietly shapes how I work with you.

Nature is where I slow down and listen — and it quietly shapes how I work with you.

“Rest is part of the work.”

The Verdant Way

Let’s Take the First
Step, Together.

A free 15-minute call to see if we’re a good fit. No pressure, no preparation needed.

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