Andrea A. Thornton, Ph.D. practice markAndrea A. Thornton
Where this practice goes deep

Areas of practice

Where this practice goes deep

Five areas shaped by twenty-five years of clinical work with individuals, couples and families across Los Angeles.

Mood and Anxiety Disorders
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Mood and Anxiety Disorders

Depression, generalized anxiety, panic, social anxiety and obsessive worry rarely announce themselves clearly. More often they arrive as exhaustion, irritability, sleeplessness or a sense that you are running on a system that no longer works.

Treatment begins with relief from what is most disruptive, then turns to the patterns underneath so the improvement holds after therapy ends. Where medication may help, Dr. Thornton coordinates with trusted prescribing physicians.

Eating Disorders and Body Dysmorphia
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Eating Disorders and Body Dysmorphia

Restriction, bingeing, purging, compulsive exercise and a punishing preoccupation with appearance are treated here with experience and without shame. These are serious conditions, and they respond to skilled care.

Work addresses both the behaviors and the beliefs that sustain them, alongside the anxiety, perfectionism or trauma that so often sits beneath. Care is coordinated with physicians and dietitians when medical oversight is needed.

Trauma
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Trauma

Trauma can follow a single event or accumulate quietly over years. It shows up as hypervigilance, numbness, intrusive memories, difficulty trusting, or a body that reacts before you have decided anything.

The work is paced deliberately. Stability and coping capacity come first; difficult material is approached only when there is enough safety to hold it, so that remembering leads to relief rather than to re-injury.

Human Sexuality and Relationships
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Human Sexuality and Relationships

Intimacy, desire, sexual identity and orientation, mismatched libido, infidelity and the arguments that repeat for years are all welcome subjects here, discussed frankly and without judgment.

Couples learn to hear what is actually being said underneath the conflict. Individuals gain clarity about what they want and why certain patterns keep repeating across relationships.

High Profile and Celebrity Clientele
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High Profile and Celebrity Clientele

Public life adds a layer of pressure that most therapy does not account for: scrutiny, unpredictable schedules, teams of people with opinions, and the risk that comes with being recognized in a waiting room.

Dr. Thornton has long experience working with performers, executives and their families. Sessions are arranged with discretion, flexibility and privacy protections appropriate to a visible life.

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