Online therapy for men in Santa Monica is available through Life Telling Therapy, a California-licensed private practice offering virtual depth therapy for high-achieving men throughout Santa Monica, Venice, Brentwood, and the Westside. Jon Holmes, LMFT, specializes in narrative therapy, executive burnout, trauma integration, and men's wound work. Free 15-minute consultations are currently available.
Santa Monica has a particular version of the wound.
Santa Monica sits at the edge of the continent. It is a place where high-achieving men come to have arrived — the Westside address, the ocean view, the career in entertainment, tech, or entrepreneurship that justifies the cost of living here. The men I work with in Santa Monica have often built exactly what they set out to build. And they arrive in therapy not because it failed, but because it succeeded, and something is still missing.
The Westside produces a particular kind of man: sophisticated, self-aware, often in therapy before, familiar with the language of emotional intelligence. And still, somehow, at a distance from himself. The vocabulary is there. The access is not. The work is learning the difference.
The visibility problem on the Westside.
Santa Monica and the Westside are small worlds. The entertainment executive, the tech founder, the physician in Brentwood — they move in overlapping circles where reputation is currency and privacy is scarce. For many men here, the barrier to therapy is not willingness. It is the risk of being seen walking into an office by someone who knows them.
Virtual therapy removes that barrier entirely. Sessions happen from your home office, your car, or anywhere private. The work is the same. The exposure is not.
100% Virtual. Available to Any California Resident.
All sessions are conducted via a secure, HIPAA-compliant video platform. You join from wherever you are. There is no commute on the 10, no parking, and no gap in your calendar that colleagues can see. Sessions are 50 minutes and scheduled around the demands of a demanding life.
Who I work with on the Westside.
Entertainment professionals — writers, directors, producers, executives — navigating the identity cost of a career built on performance and the particular exhaustion of a business that rewards youth and punishes stillness. Tech founders and operators who have built companies and find themselves, at the far side of the exit, not knowing who they are without the mission. Physicians, attorneys, and financial professionals carrying the weight of high responsibility and the isolation that comes with it. Men in midlife who have done everything right and are quietly asking what the second half is for.
Life Telling Processing
Life Telling Processing (LTP) is a contemplative-archetypal approach to men's therapy developed over twenty years of clinical practice. Rather than managing symptoms, LTP follows the story underneath the struggle — gathering the fragmented pieces of a man's narrative and arranging them into a mosaic that is whole, honest, and genuinely his. The work draws on narrative therapy, Jungian archetypal psychology, and contemplative practice.
Does Jon Holmes work with Santa Monica clients?
Yes. Virtual therapy is available to any man who currently resides in California, including throughout the Westside — Santa Monica, Venice, Mar Vista, Brentwood, Pacific Palisades, Culver City, Marina del Rey, and throughout Los Angeles County.
Jon Holmes, LMFT. California License MFC 45850. Virtual: throughout California. In-person: 7996 Old Winding Way, Suite 210, Fair Oaks, CA 95628. Phone: 916-534-8244.