Reconnect. Repair. Relate.
Therapy for Individuals and Couples in Pasadena and San Diego
Specialized therapy for relationship and personal struggles—we help individuals and couples create lasting, meaningful change in their lives and relationships.
In-person in Pasadena + San Diego • Virtual throughout California
Welcome. We’re glad you found us.
At Relate Therapy Center, we provide relational therapy for individuals, couples, and families. We help people grow and heal so they can live better lives and have better relationships.
Since you found your way here, either you or someone you care about has been feeling stuck, noticing unhealthy patterns, struggling with relationships, or looking to make changes to heal and grow.
We also understand that personal struggles and relationships are often interconnected. Regardless of whether you are seeking individual, couples, or family therapy, we know that relationships are essential to helping you get unstuck.
Meet our Therapists
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Dr. Mary Mansour
PSYCHOLOGICAL ASSOCIATE | PASADENA + CA TELETHERAPY
Services Offered: Individual therapy, couples therapy, premarital therapy, individual therapy intensives, psychological assessments.
Ages: Adolescents, Emerging Adults and Adults
Relationships & dating, caregivers, relational trauma, family dynamics, identity & culture, grief & loss, college & graduate students, attachment & relationship patterns, life transitions.
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Dr. Celeste Carlson
PSYCHOLOGICAL ASSOCIATE | PASADENA + SAN DIEGO + CA TELETHERAPY
Services Offered: Individual therapy, psychological assessments, couples therapy, individual therapy intensives, couples therapy intensives.
Ages: Children, Adolescents, Emerging Adults and Adults
Unresolved childhood trauma and abuse, relationship conflict, athletes, student-athletes, spirituality and faith concerns, LGBTQIA+ topics, adolescents, college students, young adults, performance pressure, perfectionist behavior, attachment issues, ADHD, anxiety/panic, depression, identity exploration.
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Dr. Lauren Mueller
LICENSED CLINICAL PSYCHOLOGIST | SAN DIEGO + CA TELETHERAPY
Services Offered: Individual therapy, couples therapy, premarital therapy, family therapy.
Ages: Adolescents, Emerging Adults and Adults
Relationships, self-esteem issues, sexuality/sexual identity, spirituality, life transitions, women's issues, body image, new moms, overwhelmed moms, parenting concerns, history of abuse, identity issues.
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Nicole Wilkins, MA
CLINICAL PSYCHOLOGY INTERN |
PASADENA + CA TELETHERAPYnicolewilkins.relate@gmail.com
Services Offered: Individual therapy, couples therapy, family therapy, individual therapy intensives.
Ages: Children, Adolescents, Emerging Adults, and Adults
Attachment issues, unresolved trauma, relationships, faith and spirituality, shame, trauma and the body, stress and anxiety, self-esteem, codependency, identity issues, parenting, new moms, body image concerns.
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Dr. Steve Simpson
LICENSED CLINICAL PSYCHOLOGIST | PASADENA + CA TELETHERAPY
Services Offered: Individual therapy, couples therapy, premarital therapy, family therapy, couples therapy intensives, individual therapy intensives.
Ages: Adolescents, Emerging Adults and Adults
Relationship problems, infidelity, sexual issues for couples and individuals, sexual performance, ADHD, depression, anxiety, impulse control, self-esteem, identity concerns, spirituality.
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Dr. Kelsy Richardson
LICENSED CLINICAL PSYCHOLOGIST | SAN DIEGO + CA TELETHERAPY
Services Offered: Individual therapy, individual therapy intensives, adoption assessments, reading group for therapists
Ages: Adolescents, Emerging Adults and Adults
Therapists in training/new therapists, gender/sexual identity, religious/spiritual issues, cultural identity, OCD, trauma/history of abuse, chronic illness & disability, psychodynamic case conceptualization
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Dr. Mollie Shrader-Perry
LICENSED CLINICAL PSYCHOLOGIST | SAN DIEGO + CA TELETHERAPY
Services Offered: Individual Therapy, Couples Therapy, Premarital Therapy, Individual and Couples Intensives.
Ages: Adolescents, Emerging Adults and Adults
Interpersonal Relationship Concerns, Identity Development & Exploration, Eating & Body Image Concerns, Grief & Loss, 3rd Culture Kids/Cross-Cultural Concerns, Religious & Spiritual Trauma, Family of Origin Concerns, Mood Disorders, Sexual & Gender Concerns, and Chronic Stress related to Intersecting Identities.
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Dr. Rebecca Rouse
LICENSED CLINICAL PSYCHOLOGIST | PASADENA + CA TELETHERAPY
Services Offered: Individual therapy, couples therapy, premarital therapy, family therapy, couples therapy intensives, individual therapy intensives.
Ages: Children, Adolescents, Emerging Adults and Adults
Anxiety, depression, unhealthy relationship patterns, trauma, identity issues, infertility, pregnancy and loss, postpartum, parenting.
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Dr. Melissa Hofstetter
LICENSED CLINICAL PSYCHOLOGIST | PASADENA + CA TELETHERAPY
Services Offered: Couples therapy intensives
Ages: Adults
Infidelity, relationship struggles and crisis, married couples, unhealthy relationship patterns.
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Dr. Brett Veltman
LICENSED CLINICAL PSYCHOLOGIST | FOUNDER + DIRECTOR | PASADENA + CA TELETHERAPY
Services Offered: Individual therapy, couples therapy, premarital therapy, family therapy, couples therapy intensives, individual therapy intensives.
Ages: Children, Adolescents, Emerging Adults and Adults
Relationship struggles, leaders and professionals, infidelity, life stressors, relationships, separation & divorce, premarital therapy, dating struggles, spirituality and faith, college students, young adults, adolescents, work struggles, therapists, alcohol & substance abuse, industry professionals, identity issues, infertility, adoption, men’s issues.
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Gry Apeland, MA
ADVANCED CLINICAL THERAPIST | PASADENA + CA TELETHERAPY
Services Offered: Individual therapy, couples therapy, premarital therapy.
Ages: Children (10 and up), Adolescents, Emerging Adults and Adults
Religious and spiritual trauma, faith questions and deconstruction, coercive control and high-control groups, identity exploration, LGBTQIA+ affirming care, neurodivergent-affirming care, college and graduate students, shame and self-criticism, perfectionism, people-pleasing, anxiety, depression, relationship patterns, couples therapy, premarital counseling, life transitions.
We’re here to help
If you are struggling with depression, anxiety, trauma, loss, relational issues, life transitions, stress, are seeking personal growth, or more—check out our individual therapy services for more information.
Maybe you are a couple struggling with communication problems, infidelity, betrayal, or have been dealing with ongoing issues that you have struggled to solve. Maybe you’re engaged and are looking to invest in your marriage. Check out our services for couples—couples therapy, premarital therapy, or intensive couples therapy.
Check out the other services we offer—family therapy, teletherapy, and psychological assessment.
Our Services
We work with children, adolescents and adults. To learn more about our services, check out the links below.
Individual Therapy
Couples Therapy
Intensive
Couples Therapy
Family Therapy
Therapy
Teletherapy
Premarital Therapy
Psychological
Assessment
Our Locations
In-person in Pasadena + San Diego | Virtual throughout California
In-person therapy services are available at our Pasadena and San Diego offices.
Remote therapy services are available through secure teletherapy platforms from anywhere in California.