Perimenopause and Menopause Therapist in Los Alamitos, CA
JEN YATES, LMFT, CIMHP
I want therapy to feel like a conversation with someone who is actually paying attention.
I’m warm, curious, direct when it’s useful, and pretty involved in the room. I’ll ask questions, tell you what I’m noticing, and help us make connections between what’s happening now and the patterns that have been around much longer.
I also use humor. Not because the hard things aren’t hard, but because you’re still a whole person while we’re talking about them. Sometimes we’ll sit with something heavy. Sometimes something will be genuinely funny. There’s room for both.
I’m much more interested in getting to know you—what matters to you, what you’ve lived through, what you’re carrying, and what you want this part of your life to feel like.
I’ve been doing this for a long time.
I’ve been a therapist for almost 30 years and a clinical supervisor for 18, working across community mental health and private practice with adults, adolescents, families, and multidisciplinary clinical teams.
I have a Master’s Degree in Counseling Psychology, and my background includes extensive work with trauma, anxiety, relationships, and high-acuity children and families. My training includes trauma-informed and culturally responsive care, CBT, TF-CBT, Somatic Therapy, EFT, mindfulness, and integrative mind-body work. I’m also a Certified Integrative Mental Health Professional (CIMHP).
That depth of experience matters to me. But mostly, it has made me less interested in fitting people neatly into boxes and more interested in understanding what your life actually feels like from the inside.
What would change if you trusted yourself more?
There are things you can understand intellectually and still find yourself doing anyway. People-pleasing. Over-explaining. Taking responsibility for someone else’s feelings. Ignoring what your body has been telling you because you can come up with seventeen perfectly reasonable arguments against it.
Our work can include practical tools and evidence-based therapy alongside mindfulness, nervous-system awareness, and attention to the mind-body connection.
What if what you’re really looking for is peace?
Not being happy all the time. That’s not really the goal.
I mean feeling grounded enough in yourself to recognize your patterns without automatically following them. Knowing what belongs to you and what doesn’t. Trusting your own judgment. Being able to stay connected to yourself even when a relationship, a transition, or life itself gets complicated.
After almost 30 years of doing this work, that still feels much more interesting to me than becoming some perfectly healed version of yourself.
Her Turn grew from a simple idea: women spend an enormous amount of their lives paying attention to everyone else.
Children. Partners. Parents. Work. Relationships. The invisible things that need remembering and tending.
I wanted to create something that turns some of that attention back toward you.
That happens here through individual therapy, and it also happens through the Her Turn community- a therapist-led space for connection, reflection, practical tools, and conversations about identity, relationships, boundaries, emotional wellness, and figuring out what comes next.
Different spaces. Same idea: making a little more room for you.
The Official Stuff:
Jennifer Yates, LMFT, CIMHP
Licensed Marriage & Family Therapist
Certified Integrative Mental Health Professional
Master’s Degree in Counseling Psychology
Almost 30 years as a therapist
15 years of clinical supervision
Approach + training includes:
Trauma-informed care · Culturally responsive therapy · CBT · TF-CBT · Somatic Therapy · EFT · Mindfulness-based interventions · Nervous-system awareness · Integrative mind-body work
In person: Los Alamitos, California
Online: Throughout California
You get to have a say in what comes next.
You may not know exactly what you want yet. That’s okay. Therapy can be a place to get clearer about what matters to you, what no longer fits, and what you want more of in this part of your life.
