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I’m Courtney Hamlin, M.A., LMFT, a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist (LMFT), licensed in both California and Oregon. I provide online therapy throughout California and Oregon. I began my private practice in the South Bay of Los Angeles in Hermosa Beach and have served clients throughout the South Bay, Santa Monica, Pacific Palisades, Brentwood, Malibu, and the greater Los Angeles area.
I provide therapy to adults, adolescents, and couples throughout California and Oregon through secure, HIPAA-compliant telehealth. I specialize in addiction and substance use, relationships and attachment, trauma, anxiety, and major life transitions. I am also currently completing training in Brainspotting, a trauma-focused approach that can complement traditional psychotherapy.
**50-Minute & Extended 80-Minute Sessions**
I offer a free, initial 15-minute phone consultation, as well as 50- and 80-minute therapy sessions for individuals and couples.
Extended sessions provide additional time to explore complex concerns, deepen the therapeutic work, and process difficult material without feeling rushed.
***Courtney Hamlin M.A., LMFT Receives 2023 Best of Hermosa Beach Award***
**HERMOSA BEACH August 27, 2023 --** Courtney Hamlin M.A., LMFT has been selected for the 2023 Best of Hermosa Beach Award in the Psychotherapist category by the Hermosa Beach Award Program.

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Welcome to my practice.

I'm Courtney Hamlin, MA, LMFT, a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist licensed in both California and Oregon. I provide secure telehealth therapy to adults, adolescents, and couples throughout California and Oregon.

I specialize in addiction and substance use, relationships and attachment, trauma, anxiety, and major life transitions. My work with addiction goes beyond the substance or behavior itself to explore what may be the underlying factors that may contribute to it - including shame, trauma, anxiety, depression, isolation, relationship patterns, and difficulties with self-worth.

I also work extensively with individuals and couples navigating relationship challenges, including communication difficulties, intimacy, infidelity, resentment, emotional disconnection, attachment insecurity, and major transitions. Together, we look beyond the immediate problem to better understand the patterns that keep repeating and what may be driving them.

My approach is warm, supportive, and nonjudgmental, while also being active and engaged. Therapy can provide a space to develop greater insight and self-awareness, understand longstanding patterns, process difficult experiences, and create meaningful change in your relationships and your life. My goal is not simply to help you manage symptoms, but to help you understand yourself more deeply and develop healthier, more fulfilling ways of moving forward.

“A great many clients have conflicts in the realm of intimacy, and obtain help in therapy sheerly through experiencing an intimate relationship with the therapist. Some fear intimacy because they believe there is something basically unacceptable about them, something repugnant and unforgivable, Given this, the act of revealing oneself fully to another and still being accepted may be the major vehicle of therapeutic help.”

-Irvin D. Yalom