"Not everything that is faced can be changed. But nothing can be changed until it is faced."

— James Baldwin

You're here because something needs to change.


This practice is for those who are exceptionally capable in most areas of their life and privately struggling in others. Those who are ready for more than symptom relief. Deeper healing, stronger relationships, real self-understanding, and lasting change.

I work with individuals and couples navigating complex transitions, relationships in crisis, and the internal patterns that are hardest to see from the inside. I don't make assumptions about why you are here or what you should feel. Whatever you are navigating, I bring clinical insight and directness, without judgment, to help you understand what is underneath it.

This is where the deep work happens. We look at the patterns, the relationships, and the decisions that got you here to understand what is helping you and what is keeping you stuck.

If you are ready to dive in, you are in the right place.

The Approach

Depth, Discretion,
and Real Change

Insight without action is just observation.

01
Direct and Active
I am a vocal and active presence in the room. I share observations, challenge patterns as they emerge, and offer perspective grounded in clinical training and firsthand understanding of the world you navigate.
02
Depth-Focused
We look at the past to understand how you were shaped, not to ruminate in it. How you relate to me in the room is often a precise blueprint for how you relate to everyone else, and that becomes some of our most useful material.
03
Oriented Toward Action
Sessions move with intention. We work toward a clearer understanding of what is actually driving your experience and what to do about it.
04
Completely Confidential
This practice serves executives, founders, lawyers, and high-achieving professionals in Hermosa Beach, Manhattan Beach, Redondo Beach, and across California via telehealth. Your privacy is treated with the same care as everything else in this room.

Services

What to Expect in Our Work

If you have tried therapy before and found it passive, you will find this work different.

I am a vocal and active collaborator. I share direct observations, challenge the ways you are currently stuck, and offer a perspective grounded in clinical training and a firsthand understanding of the high-stakes environments you navigate. Sessions move with intention because I respect your time and I know you are looking for more than a place to vent.

We look at the past only to understand the foundation of where you are now and how it impacts the decisions you make today.

You will leave each session with a clearer understanding of what is driving your experience and something concrete to apply before we meet again. This is accountable, substantive work. It is also completely confidential.

This practice serves executives, founders, lawyers, and high-achieving professionals and couples in Hermosa Beach, Manhattan Beach, Redondo Beach, and across California via telehealth.

About Me

A Different Kind of Perspective

Before becoming a therapist, I spent twenty years in high-stakes professional environments as a structured finance lawyer and investment banker at Goldman Sachs and Royal Bank of Scotland, as General Counsel and Head of Product at companies that reached unicorn valuations, and as co-founder of a fintech company with a successful exit to private equity.

When you sit across from me, you are not talking to someone who learned about your world from a textbook. I know the cost of keeping everything together when no one is watching. I understand how competence becomes armor. I understand how your public life can look very different from your private one.

Beyond the Symptoms

I work with founders, lawyers, executives, doctors, entrepreneurs, and couples. People who are accomplished, often under significant pressure, and dealing with something they have not been able to resolve on their own.

You will be met with warmth, professionalism, and someone who understands the world you are navigating from the inside. Sessions are direct and active. We get to what is actually driving your experience and address it through weekly sessions or accelerated intensives designed for people who do not have time to waste.

The Practice

This is a private, cash-pay practice. I do not work with insurance because I prioritize your privacy and a level of personalized attention that the standard model does not allow.

I am an active, direct presence in the room. I will notice things and say them. I will challenge what needs to be challenged. And I will take your time seriously, because I understand what it costs you to be here.

The goal is a steadiness in yourself and your relationships that does not depend on everything going well.

Education
  • B.A. (Summa Cum Laude), University of Michigan
  • J.D., University of Michigan Law School
  • M.A. Marriage and Family Therapy, Pepperdine Graduate School of Education and Psychology
  • Ph.D. Candidate, Clinical Sexology — intimacy, communication, and sexual health
Professional Accreditation
  • Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist #148775
  • Member, California and New York Bar Associations
Advanced Training
  • Relational Life Therapy (RLT)
  • Gottman Method Couples Therapy
  • Intensive Trauma-Focused Therapy
  • Emotionally Focused Therapy (EFT)
  • Basic and Advanced Mediation and Dispute Resolution

The Hermosa Beach Office

Located in Hermosa Beach

Evening and weekend availability for in-person and virtual sessions statewide.

Hermosa Beach
Manhattan Beach
Redondo Beach
Palos Verdes
El Segundo
Marina Del Rey
Torrance
Playa Vista
Greater Los Angeles

Telehealth available throughout California

 

Contact Info:

Hermosa Beach Office

2309 Pacific Coast Hwy Suite #202
Hermosa Beach, CA 90254-2751

Phone Number & Email
(323) 646-6263
info@reginaabayev.com