Therapy for Individuals & Couples

Support for the parts of you that are hurting, worn down or longing for change.

✓⃝ Feeling overwhelmed, stuck or unable to move forward?

✓⃝ Repeating old patterns in relationships?

✓⃝ Carrying grief, stress, trauma or a medical diagnosis?

Allan Mouw, JD/MBA, LMFT (#147070) is a former BigLaw Attorney turned Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist based in Los Angeles, offering virtual therapy to lawyers, individuals and couples throughout California.

My Intention is Simple

I want you to feel seen, heard and understood.

In 2017, I went back to school to earn my Master’s in Clinical Psychology. After years of receiving transformative support through my own therapy journey, I knew I wanted to give back what had made such a difference in my life—understanding, attunement, a sense of direction and hope.

Life Concerns: Issues I Specialize In

01. Bereavement, Grief and Loss

Grief can feel overwhelming, isolating and disorienting. You may be:

  • Revisiting the death of a loved one

  • Feeling guilt, regret or "I should have done more"

  • Crying constantly—or not at all

  • Feeling stuck, numb or unable to move forward

  • Blaming yourself or questioning the meaning of things

  • Struggling to talk about it because you don't want to burden others

Loss can come in many forms: death of a loved one, loss of a job, a relationship, or a home (think of the Palisades fires).

Grief isn't something to "get over." Together, we make room for it, understand it and move with it—not around it.

I also work with teenagers coping with the loss of a parent, sibling or friend.

02. Growing Up in Trauma or Dysfunction

If you were raised in an environment of chaos, fear, emotional neglect, alcoholism or narcissism.

You may now be struggling with:

  • Low self-esteem

  • Difficulty trusting yourself

  • Challenges making decisions

  • Poor boundaries

  • People-pleasing (saying “yes” too much)

  • Choosing partners who repeat old patterns

  • Feeling small, unseen or voiceless

  • Fantasizing or dissociating to escape

  • Challenges with intimacy or emotional safety

These patterns are not flaws—they are coping skills that once served you.

In therapy, we gently uncover them and build new ways of relating to yourself and others.

03. Relationship and Couples Challenges

Relationships can be beautiful and meaningful but also challenging.

You and your partner may be experiencing:

  • Communication breakdowns, constant arguments, push/pull dynamics or silence

  • A lack of connection or alignment

  • Feeling unheard or misunderstood

  • Growing apart or thinking about separating

  • Parenting or family stress

  • Infidelity or breaches of trust

  • Loss of intimacy, sex or desire

  • A desire for change

Couples therapy provides a safe, neutral space to understand each other, repair ruptures and reconnect.

Most importantly, we slow it all down and look underneath to see what is being communicated.

04. Medical Diagnoses (Cancer, Heart, etc.)

A serious diagnosis can change everything—physically, emotionally and relationally.

You may be feeling:

  • Overwhelmed by treatment decisions

  • Terrified about the future

  • Unable to see a path forward

  • Exhausted from trying to hold it all together

  • Conflicted about needing support

  • Angry, scared or heartbroken

  • Burdened by wanting to stay strong for others

  • Forced to adjust to a "new normal"

Caregivers are often overlooked, yet carry their own silent grief, fear and sense of responsibility.

You don't need to process this alone.

Together, we create space for your emotional wellbeing the medical system often overlooks.

Working With Me:

I draw from years of lived experience, my clinical training and various modalities. My goal is for you to feel seen, heard and understood, with a clear path forward.

I sit beside you. We journey together.

How I Work

Take the Next Step

If something here resonates—whether a feeling, an old pattern, a way of being that you don’t like or hope for something different—I invite you to reach out.

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