Quick Answer
Relationship Therapy at Angeles Psychology Group for Beverlywood is depth-oriented, affirming care for partners, polycules, and chosen families. Sessions work with the attachment patterns, character-level defenses, and unmet developmental needs underneath the recurring conflict — not just the surface argument. Care is delivered in person at our Mid-Wilshire office or by secure telehealth across California, and begins with a free 20-minute consultation with no obligation.
Key Takeaways
- Relationship Therapy at Angeles Psychology Group for Beverlywood is depth-oriented: it works beneath the recurring conflict to the underlying patterns.
- Affirming across relationship configurations — partners, polycules, throuples, chosen families — as a named specialty across the clinical team, not a disclaimer.
- Clinicians integrate EFT, IFS, depth psychology, and Orgonomic somatic work — matched to the specific relationship rather than defaulted to a single protocol.
- Delivered in person at our Mid-Wilshire office (6363 Wilshire Boulevard, Suite 520) or by secure HIPAA-compliant telehealth across California.
- Care begins with a free, 20-minute consultation, with no obligation and no diagnosis required to start.
01 — OverviewAdult-family systems and the therapy they actually need
Multigenerational family and marriage work in Beverlywood arrives with a specific reality — established households where the couples work exists inside a broader family system that includes adult children, in-laws, and often traditional community structures shaping how the family operates. Standard dyad-focused couples counseling misses most of what actually structures the day-to-day.
The practice’s specific work: reach the underlying pattern, allow the surface to reorganize. Couples work, individual therapy, and adult family sessions all coordinate inside one clinical team, and the framework holds the material at whatever configuration the case actually needs. Community and cultural context that shapes the household’s operating baseline gets treated as clinical material.
Character-level work. Character-level work addresses the enduring patterns of relating that formed in early development and now shape how a person shows up in intimate partnership — often below the level of what talk therapy alone can reach. Orgonomic (Reichian) work is one of the traditions from which this approach draws.
Research from the National Institute of Mental Health suggests that psychotherapy is effective for the range of relational and emotional difficulties couples and partners bring to therapy, and the American Psychological Association notes that the fit between client and clinician is one of the strongest predictors of outcomes. That is the reason matching — modality, clinician, format — is the first piece of clinical work at Angeles Psychology Group.
02 — ApproachHow systemic family work integrates with couples care
The framework the group runs on is facilitator-led, depth-oriented, and doctoral-supervised. For established Beverlywood households the material often extends across multiple generations and often includes community and religious frameworks that structure daily life. Depth work reaches those layers as clinical material rather than treating them as context.
The delta between APG and the broader field is coordination inside one clinical team. Adult-family sessions with children, individual sessions for one partner, and couples work all run inside the same clinical team under doctoral supervision, and cultural and community context that shapes the family gets held clinically rather than sidelined. You can read more about the practice on our relationship therapy for all configurations page.
All configurations
Affirming care for monogamous, non-monogamous, queer, and chosen-family relationships alike.
Beneath the conflict
Depth-oriented work with the patterns and unmet needs underneath — not just the recurring argument.
Coordinated care
Individual, couples, and group work inside one practice, coordinated with consent.
Whatever you’re carrying, there’s a place to begin. Book a free, 20-minute consultation.
Start a free consultation03 — In BeverlywoodBeverlywood and multigenerational household patterns
Beverlywood concentrates specific household configurations — established families with adult children often nearby, traditional community structures that shape daily rhythms, multigenerational patterns that extend well beyond the couple. The clinical work often reaches into those broader systems because the material is genuinely located there.
Practically, Beverlywood is a short drive from the office at 6363 Wilshire, Suite 520; secure video across California covers weeks when the drive doesn’t work. Beverlywood is a short drive from the office, and many families anchor with in-person couples and family sessions with telehealth flexibility for adult family members joining from other cities. The clinician holding the case stays constant.
04 — Getting startedA family-systems first consultation
Beginning Multigenerational Family & Marriage Therapy usually starts from a place the couple already knows something they can’t quite name — the marriage isn’t in crisis, but the distance has been growing longer than either of you meant to let it. The first 20-minute consultation is designed to hear that in the language you’ve already been using, and to check whether the accumulated pattern is what depth-oriented long-arc relationship work is actually built for. Usually it is.
What that opens is a substantially longer arc than short-term couples counseling. Sessions work with attachment ruptures that never got repaired, roles each partner took on and then couldn’t put down, and developmental needs that got sidelined by the shape of the marriage. For Beverlywood families with adult children or multigenerational dynamics, APG’s systemic family work runs alongside the couples work inside the same clinical team — so a case that starts as Multigenerational Family & Marriage Therapy can grow to include adult family sessions without being handed to another provider. The APA’s guidance on choosing a psychologist is worth reading before any first call.
Sessions happen in person at Mid-Wilshire (6363 Wilshire Boulevard, Suite 520, Los Angeles 90048) or by secure telehealth; long-term couples often use a mix, especially when adult family members join for specific sessions. The practice is private-pay with superbills for out-of-network reimbursement. Call (310) 866-0440 to schedule directly, or use the online booking system.
Office hours are Monday–Friday, 8:00 AM–5:00 PM (additional times available as needed), with additional times arranged when the standard availability doesn’t quite fit. For Beverlywood clients specifically, the intake team can advise on current wait times, clinician availability, and whether the format that fits your schedule is in-person, telehealth, or a mix. The consultation is free, no diagnosis is required to start, and you can pause or end the work at any point without penalty.
Frequently Asked Questions
What is Relationship Therapy at Angeles Psychology Group for Beverlywood?
Relationship therapy at Angeles Psychology Group for Beverlywood is depth-oriented care for long-term partners and adult family systems, working with the accumulated patterns — not just the current argument — that shape how a partnership has evolved over years or decades. The clinical work integrates EFT for attachment repair, IFS for the parts each partner took on across the arc, and depth work for what the marriage was originally organized to hold.
Who provides the care?
Care is provided by a multi-clinician team including licensed psychologists, licensed marriage and family therapists, and associate (pre-licensed) clinicians working under doctoral-level clinical supervision. The practice is founded and clinically directed by Dr. Neil Schierholz, PsyD (PSY25154), a licensed clinical psychologist. Angeles Psychology Group is a psychology practice and does not prescribe medication — where medication is relevant, care is coordinated with the client’s own prescriber. All clinicians hold current California licensure or are registered associates working under supervision.
How is this different from short-term couples counseling?
Short-term couples counseling usually targets a presenting conflict at the surface layer. Depth-oriented relationship work also addresses the underlying patterns — attachment histories, character-level defenses, unmet developmental needs — that generate the recurring conflict. The two are complementary rather than competing, but for long partnerships carrying accumulated distance rather than acute conflict, the depth-oriented layer is usually where durable change happens.
Is telehealth available for clients in Beverlywood?
Yes. Sessions are available in person at our Mid-Wilshire office (6363 Wilshire Boulevard, Suite 520, Los Angeles, CA 90048) or by secure, HIPAA-compliant telehealth across California. Telehealth removes the commute barrier for clients in Beverlywood and is delivered with the same clinical depth as in-person work — the practice’s stated position is that depth-oriented care translates to the virtual format when the container is held accordingly. Clients often split between formats based on schedule and preference, keeping continuity with the same clinician.
How do we get started?
Begin with a free, 20-minute consultation — a conversation about fit before any commitment. A clinician helps you decide who should be involved (individual, couple, family, or group), what modality is likely to fit, and what the work might look like, with no obligation. You can book online or call (310) 866-0440. Office hours are Monday–Friday, 8:00 AM–5:00 PM (additional times available as needed), and additional times can be arranged by request.
About this page
This page reflects the practice of Angeles Psychology Group, a depth-oriented, affirming psychology practice in Los Angeles founded by Dr. Neil Schierholz, PsyD (PSY25154). Angeles Psychology Group provides psychotherapy and does not prescribe medication; where medication is relevant, care is coordinated with a client’s own prescriber. Claims about psychotherapy are framed as research suggests and cited to primary sources below.
Reviewed by Dr. Neil Schierholz, PsyD. Last updated September 2026.
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