Quick Answer
Relationship Therapy at Angeles Psychology Group for Hancock Park 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 Hancock Park 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 — OverviewThe therapy problem short-term couples counseling doesn’t solve
Long-marriage relationship work in Hancock Park usually arrives without an acute crisis. The presenting concern is that the closeness has been eroding for longer than either partner realized, and neither has a clear starting point for when the drift began. That’s a fundamentally different clinical problem than short-term couples counseling is built to address — the pattern isn’t a fight to de-escalate, it’s an arc that needs to be traced back to what shaped it.
Depth-oriented work at APG treats the underlying pattern as the actual clinical object. Sessions work with the accumulated attachment ruptures that never got repaired, the roles each partner took on and couldn’t put down after children or career, and the developmental needs that got sidelined by the shape the marriage settled into. The aim is durable change in the underlying pattern, not managed containment of the presenting symptom.
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 depth work reaches accumulated attachment ruptures
Sessions run a coordinated set of modalities under doctoral supervision. For long marriages the character-level patterns each partner brought in have usually merged with the marriage’s own accumulated dynamic, and reaching the material requires working at both layers — the individual history and the shared pattern. That’s what the framework is built for.
Set against adjacent offerings, the practice’s specific difference is doctoral-supervised coordination. A case that starts as couples work can grow to include family sessions with adult children, or individual work for one partner, without any of it being handed off to a different provider with a different framework. The continuity is clinically load-bearing. 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 Hancock ParkHancock Park families and multigenerational care
Hancock Park brings a particular household reality — established families where the couple’s work happens alongside adult-child dynamics, in-law systems, and multigenerational patterns that predate the marriage. The relationship work often expands outward into family systems work because the material is genuinely there, not because the practice is upselling.
Weekly cadence runs in person at 6363 Wilshire, with secure telehealth available for continuity across California. Established families often use a mix — in-person for the deeper couples sessions and telehealth for adult family members joining specific sessions from wherever they live. The clinician holding the case stays constant across formats.
04 — Getting startedA first conversation about long-arc marriage work
Beginning Long-Term Marriage & Adult-Family 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 Hancock Park 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 Long-Term Marriage & Adult-Family 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 Hancock Park 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 Hancock Park?
Relationship therapy at Angeles Psychology Group for Hancock Park 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 Hancock Park?
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 Hancock Park 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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