Meet My Team
Ossi Pace, LMFT (Owner)
Ossi is a Certified Emotionally Focused Couples Therapist and is extensively trained in The Gottman Couples Method. Based in the Los Angeles area, she is dedicated to helping her clients achieve their therapeutic goals.
Ossi is a seasoned therapist specializing in relationship counseling and individual support. Her expertise covers a wide spectrum of issues, ranging from couples seeking to enhance their relationship to individuals dealing with various personal challenges. Here's an overview of her areas of expertise:
Couples Counseling:
- Deepening Connection: Helping couples strengthen their emotional bond and connection.
- Overcoming Betrayals: Assisting partners in navigating trust issues or breaches in the relationship.
- Bolstering Communication: Improving communication patterns within relationships.
- Navigating Conflicts: Providing guidance on resolving conflicts constructively.
- Enriching Intimacy: Supporting couples in fostering intimacy and closeness.
Individual Support:
- Anxiety & Depression: Assisting individuals in managing and coping with anxiety and depression.
- Trauma Recovery: Helping individuals process and recover from traumatic experiences.
- Self-Worth: Supporting clients in building a healthy sense of self-worth and self-esteem.
- Self-Discovery: Assisting in the journey of self-exploration and personal growth
Ossi's therapeutic approach is characterized by empathy
and collaboration, with the goal of helping clients break free from negative cycles and patterns. She challenges her clients when necessary and brings attention to areas where they may be feeling stuck in their progress. Ossi finds great joy in her work as a therapist and is inspired by witnessing the remarkable capacity for self-transformation that humans possess. By creating a safe and supportive space, she guides her clients through the exploration of their emotions and experiences, empowering them to become the individuals they aspire to be. Her warm, intuitive, and humorous demeanor fosters an environment that encourages growth and facilitates positive change.
Isabella Rose Alonzo-Gatti, MA, PH.D. (CAND.), AMFT
Isabella's specialty is working with couples seeking to deepen their bond, heal from betrayals, improve communication, get unstuck from repetitive cycles of conflict, enhance their sex and intimacy, and navigate relational shifts such as moving in together, getting married or becoming parents.
Individually, she helps adults, and teens experiencing anxiety, depression, mood swings, post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), Complex trauma (c-PTSD), suicidal ideations, self-harm, grief, low self-esteem, burnout, perfectionism, identity exploration, or just simply wanting to get to know themselves better.
In addition, Isabella is a Family Therapist, meaning she works with families with adult or teen children seeking to reconnect after periods of estrangement, heal from relational hurts and trauma, navigate challenging conversations, develop healthy boundaries, and build cohesion.
Contact Isabella at: (310) 561-1431
Email: Isabella.ossipace@gmail.com
Vanessa Sutera, AMFT
As an Associate Marriage and Family Therapist (AMFT122910), Vanessa is passionate about helping and empowering people through the therapeutic journey. Whether you’re feeling alone, personally or in your relationship, struggling as a parent, overwhelmed with work and the stresses of life, or feeling like you can’t catch a break or get above water, Vanessa completely understands. Sometimes therapy can be just the space you need.
Taking the first step is the hardest, and she recognizes the courage it takes to make those changes. Vanessa's goal is to create a safe and non-judgmental space for you to explore your thoughts and feelings, identify the challenges you are facing, understand your patterns and narratives, develop new coping skills and tools to deconstruct negative thinking patterns and cycles. She will meet you where you are at, and together you will work towards creating a balanced and joyful life.
Contact Vanessa at: 949-313-8236
LIBBY MUNEY, AMFT
Libby Muney, AMFT, focuses on helping individuals and couples transition into new stages of life. Libby specializes in individuals and couples struggling with fertility, helping them find their resilience, light, and connectedness during a difficult and emotionally taxing process. Libby’s work also supports new parents in creating a loving and peaceful home after bringing a new baby into the world.
Periods of transition can be challenging to navigate as a couple. Maybe you’re newly married, and the “honeymoon” period hasn’t felt blissful. Perhaps you and your partner are ready to start a family but are hitting roadblock after roadblock. Maybe you just had a baby and are wondering where your relationship went. During these times, it can be beneficial to connect with someone who can offer support, resources, and tools so your relationship can find its footing again and emerge even stronger than before.
Libby is passionate about educating couples on effective communication, conflict resolution, and how to ask one another for the love and support they need. Libby is a Gottman Bringing Baby Home educator and has training in The Gottman Method and Emotionally Focused Therapy for Couples. She has also completed training with Postpartum Support International’s Maternal Mental Health Program.
To schedule a free 15-minute phone consultation with Libby, please email libby.ossipacetherapy@gmail.com.