Ana Lisa Tucker, MA, LMFT123477
Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist
Your West LA Based
Psychotherapist
Here to Assist You On Your Path.
You found this website, I would imagine, because of a desire for renewal, a change, or perhaps a shift in your life. Have you lost someone, lost your way in trauma, anxiety or depression and need something that will awaken and enliven your life?
You are welcomed here.
There are places in the heart where deep seated pain resides
that needs to be moved and expressed with great care,
guidance and a holding space for healing.
I'd like to create a safe space for you to come speak, where you normally couldn't in moments alone with yourself
or with the people in your life.
I have extensive experience working with individuals, couples and families moving through bereavement, grief and loss, relationship conflict, anxiety, depression, PTSD, trauma, life cycle changes, a multitude of mental health diagnoses and with those who long to expand their consciousness and awaken something within themselves.
We were all children once just wanting to be loved. In life, we all experience traumas and setbacks that impede our ability to express our true selves and live our best lives. I want to help you find a richness to your life again.
"The only way to make sense out of change is to plunge into it,
move with it, and join the dance."
-Alan Watts
Therapy Sessions With Ana Lisa
"Your task is not to seek for love, but merely to seek and find all the barriers within yourself that you have built against it."
-Rumi
The therapeutic approach I utilize, that will bring movement to emotions and will create empowerment along the healing path is Somatic Psychology (the body's awareness of stored emotions).
Added work may incorporate Creative Visualization & Guided Imagery, Mindfulness-Based practices, Relaxation techniques including breath-work to increase the parasympathetic nervous system and a variety of Cognitive Behavioral Therapy techniques to shift maladaptive thought patterns.
Holding space for grief and loss is a speciality of mine. Grief and loss can include a deep emptiness when someone we are connected to leaves or dies. Grief and loss can also manifest in our life cycles, during major life changes, or perhaps when a dream we put an abundance of energy into is gone or didn't turn out as we expected.
Grief can also be a disconnection with our hearts longing. Sometimes when coming out of an abusive or toxic relationship, we are walking around with wounds of abandonment so embedded that we have lost our sense of self. Grief can show up in our bodies physically or emotionally without any solution to move through the depths of the feelings.
Would you like to be able to express yourself more authentically and embrace who you really are as a human being? The choice to begin psychotherapy work can test your dedication and be challenging at times and those are the great moments of opportunity for change and transformation.
Consider the possibility that everything you need to heal already exists in you, and always has. I'll just help you find it again.
About Ana Lisa Tucker, MA, LMFT
Ana Lisa Tucker is a licensed marriage and family therapist who received her Masters in Clinical Psychology from Antioch University, Los Angeles. She primarily works with teens, adults, couples, and families in her private telepractice in Westchester Los Angeles. Ana Lisa carries double bachelors degrees in Child Development (California State University, Northridge) and Therapeutic Recreation (Virginia Commonwealth University). She holds ongoing certifications in Somatic Psychology Trauma-Based practices, she has earned 500+ registered hours in integral, vinyasa and prenatal yoga, pranayama breath-work and mindfulness-based teacher trainings. She is the previous owner and founder of Pacific Flow Yoga, she is a Certified Moon Mother and a Usui Reiki attuned practitioner.
Ana Lisa has had the opportunity to work in a multitude of clinical settings in the course of her professional path. She provided expressive therapy, process groups, psycho-education and began the Yoga/Mindfulness stress reduction program for adolescents and adults struggling with trauma related symptoms for Peachford Behavioral Health Psychiatric Hospital. At The Center For Rehabilitation Medicine, Ana Lisa led creative arts therapy classes and facilitated aquatic bodywork known as Water Shiatsu (Watsu) in the therapy pool for individuals recovering from stroke. While employed at The Shepherd Center-Spinal Cord Injury Hospital, Ana Lisa created treatment plans and implemented interventions around adapting activities to support patients' leisure interests such as pottery, painting, singing, dancing, and adaptive sports. Additionally, she led process groups around stigma, interpersonal relationships and navigating the various emotions one experiences when readjusting to the new normal of having a spinal cord injury. She was employed as an early childhood interventionist while at The Communicative Disorders Department at California State University Northridge for children, adolescents and their families with various pervasive developmental disorders. Additionally, Ana Lisa served as adjunct faculty member instructing stress reduction and mindfulness-based practices at Emory University.
Most recently, Ana Lisa's calling has been in the area of Relationship/Family Conflict, Grief, Addiction and Recovery. She has worked with families and teens surrounding the loss of a family member or friend, depression, bullying, sexual activity, gender identity, family conflict, gang violence, drug use, abuse, divorce, and self-esteem in the Los Angeles county high schools for Outreach Concern. In conjunction with the start of Ana Lisa's private practice she received extensive clinical training and experience in her employment as a group facilitator and psychotherapist in four LA based outpatient addiction recovery treatment centers . Ana Lisa led recovery groups utilizing Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT), Dialectical Behavioral Therapy (DBT), and Somatic Psychology principles. As a psychotherapist, she has worked with a multidisciplinary team of psychiatrists, therapists, substance abuse counselors, and experiential facilitators. In outpatient recovery, Ana Lisa conducted biopsychosocial assessments, clinical interventions and treatment planning for clients moving through substance abuse and dual diagnoses components.
Ana Lisa has extensive knowledge and experience in helping those struggling with bipolar disorder, borderline personality disorder, suicidal ideation, PTSD, various areas of trauma, generalized anxiety disorder, chronic pain, bereavement and grief.
Ana Lisa's holistic and integrative training is deeply embedded in the depth of her work with her clients. She is graced with the ability to arrive with full-presence and a perspective of a whole-person approach to psychotherapy. Ana Lisa is able to pull from a multitude of modalities in the therapy room to facilitate self-actualization and help each client, seek in themselves, what intrinsically motivates healing and inspires clients to live a purposeful life.
“We are all just walking each other home.”
-Ram Dass