About

Janna Fond, PsyD, LMFT

You don’t need another person telling you what you should do. You’ve heard the advice, and you’ve probably already given it to yourself.

What you may need is someone who can recognize the pattern underneath the problem, ask the question no one has asked, and help you understand why knowing what to do hasn’t been enough to change it.

That’s what thirty years of experience is for.

I’m not a sit-back-and-nod therapist.

I’m active in the room. I’ll ask questions, tell you what I notice, and point out things you may not have considered. You won’t have to wonder whether I’m listening or what I’m thinking.

I’m interested in the past when it helps explain the present. But understanding why you do something isn’t enough if you keep doing it. At some point we have to work out what you can do differently.

We’ll talk like two people in a room. I take the work seriously without every minute of it needing to feel serious.

Experience doesn’t mean I assume I know your story before you tell it. It means I know what to listen for.

I’ve worked with people through relationships beginning and ending, marriages struggling, betrayals, family conflict, career changes, losses, big decisions, and times when a life that looks fine from the outside doesn’t feel fine at all.

I can usually hear the difference between talking about the problem and getting close to what’s underneath it. I know when to ask another question, when to challenge something, and when to leave you room to get there yourself.

And I’m still curious. I think that matters.

You can be completely honest here

You can tell me that you miss the person everyone says you should be over.
That you’re furious with someone you love. That you know you’re
contributing to a problem and don’t know how to stop. Or that you have a
life other people would envy and you’re still not happy.

None of that makes me think less of you.

EXPERIENCE AND CREDENTIALS
  • Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist, California #38602
  • Certified EMDR Therapist since 2022
  • MA, Psychology · [institution]
  • In practice since 1996
  • PsyD · [institution]
  • BA · Pacific Oaks College