If you learned early on to read everyone else's feelings before your own, or to make yourself smaller so everyone else could feel okay, you're in the right place.
I'm Drew Mirman, a licensed therapist in Los Angeles working with adolescents and adults who've spent a lifetime being "fine" and are ready to find out what's underneath that.
Areas of Expertise
My focus is helping people who have gotten used to making themselves smaller so the people around them could feel okay. That pattern can show up anywhere — in your relationships, your career, and the way you talk to yourself.
Through this lens, I also support clients navigating:
Anxiety
Your mind is in constant overdrive, running the worst-case scenario on a loop.
Depression
Just getting through each day feels like carrying something heavy that no one else can see. You don't have to carry it alone.
Grief
Some days it feels lighter, and some days it knocks the wind out of you all over again. Both are okay.
Perfectionism & High Achievement
You've built a life that looks impressive from the outside, yet inside you can't remember the last time it felt like enough.
Relationship Difficulties
You can see the pattern repeating — in your friendships, your family, your relationship — and you're tired of feeling stuck in it.
Self-Esteem
You deserve the same kindness you so easily give to everyone else, but the voice in your head tells you otherwise.
Substance Abuse
It makes sense that you found a way to cope with what felt unbearable. You deserve support in finding what comes next.
Trauma
What happened to you mattered, and however you've carried it since is understandable. You deserve help in carrying that weight.
Ready to stop carrying this alone?
Schedule a free 15-minute consultation about what you're going through and whether we're a good fit to work through it together.
Pain doesn’t need a solution, it needs a witness.
That's what I try to be for my clients: someone who finally sees you, not someone who fixes you.
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