Kindman & Company

Kindman & Company Kindman & Co. is a relational psychotherapy practice located in Highland Park. We're real, messy, humans, first. and are LGBTQIA+ affirming.

is a group of skilled, compassionate psychotherapists in Highland Park. We specialize in helping people deepen & improve relationships, heal trauma, manage big feelings like anxiety & distress, and cultivate purpose & joy. We provide social justice-informed, feminist therapy to the diverse folx of L.A. As relational therapists, we are transparent about who we are, our values, & what we stand for.

We offer individual therapy, relationship & couples therapy, and group therapy. We work with poly, kink, creative relationship structures, blended families, & families-of-choice. Let us help you better understand your distress and build tools to get the support and connection that we all need!

More people are finding therapy right now.But where you find it shapes the kind of care you receive.A lot of what’s most...
06/10/2026

More people are finding therapy right now.
But where you find it shapes the kind of care you receive.

A lot of what’s most visible isn’t always rooted in community, relationship, or long-term care.
And that matters.

Independent, local practices exist for a reason.
They’re built on connection, continuity, and the belief that healing doesn’t happen in isolation.

Right now, many of these practices are harder to find.
Not because they aren’t doing meaningful work, but because they’re up against systems with far more visibility and resources.

This is our small way of shifting that.

If this resonates with you:
• Visit https://www.localtherapists.com
• Share it with your community
• Help more people understand their options

Care should feel human.
And people deserve to know where to find it.

06/08/2026

Pretend I’m fine when my body is screaming for help at 12:26am.
Push through pain just to prove I’m capable.
Explain my experience over and over just to be believed.
Measure my worth by how much I got done today.
Ignore the grief, the disappointment, the constant recalibration this life requires.

Living in a body that doesn’t follow the rules means navigating pain, fatigue, unpredictability, and loss in ways most people don’t see. And still being expected to function like nothing’s wrong.

It can feel lonely. It can feel like time stretches and disappears all at once. It can feel like you’re constantly negotiating between what your body needs and what the world expects from you.

You’re not too much. You’re not failing. And you’re definitely not alone.

Chronically Human is a therapy group for people living with chronic illness, pain, or disability who are tired of pretending, explaining, or shrinking their experience.

A space where you don’t have to prove your pain.
A space where your reality is believed.
A space where you can just be human in it.

If you’ve been looking for support that actually gets it, this might be it. 💌 Learn more on our website or send us a DM.

You don’t have to be the strong one here.Chillona Is Chingona is a bi-weekly, in-person therapy group for Latinas in Los...
06/05/2026

You don’t have to be the strong one here.

Chillona Is Chingona is a bi-weekly, in-person therapy group for Latinas in Los Angeles who are holding a lot and want a space to actually feel it, speak it, and be met in it.

No shrinking. No over-explaining. No doing it alone.

Every other Tuesday • Highland Park • 6–7:30pm

Spots are limited. Book a discovery call to learn more.

Happy Pride! 🏳️‍🌈🫶Dani, Liz and Logan all provide queer-affirming care at Kindman & Co., offering spaces where you can s...
06/03/2026

Happy Pride! 🏳️‍🌈🫶

Dani, Liz and Logan all provide queer-affirming care at Kindman & Co., offering spaces where you can show up fully as yourself, without judgment or having to explain your identity.

We are proud to support the LGBTQIA+ community during Pride Month and always. At Kindman & Co., we believe therapy should be inclusive, identity-affirming, and rooted in respect for every lived experience.

Before AAPI Heritage Month comes to a close, we want to name the mental health impact of the “model minority” narrative....
05/27/2026

Before AAPI Heritage Month comes to a close, we want to name the mental health impact of the “model minority” narrative.

For many Asian American and Pacific Islander individuals, the pressure to succeed can become deeply tied to safety, belonging, family loyalty, and survival. High achievement is often celebrated, but the emotional cost is rarely discussed.

Perfectionism, over-functioning, emotional suppression, and the belief that worth must be earned through productivity can all become nervous system adaptations to pressure, racism, migration stories, and intergenerational expectations.

At Kindman & Co., we believe healing includes questioning the stories that taught us we had to perform in order to deserve care.

AAPI Heritage Month is not only about celebrating brilliance. It is also about making space for the emotional realities many AAPI people continue to carry beneath the surface of “success.”

So remember, healing can look like redefining achievement, choosing rest, and allowing identity to exist beyond expectation.

Rupture does not always look like conflict.Sometimes it is the strange shift in energy you cannot quite name. The gut f...
05/25/2026

Rupture does not always look like conflict.

Sometimes it is the strange shift in energy you cannot quite name.
The gut feeling that something feels off.
The quiet disconnect, the pause, the withdrawal, the part of you that starts protecting before you even fully understand why.

These smaller moments matter.

In the latest Kindman & Co. podcast episode, Sarah, Elizabeth, and Madison explore how rupture can show up in subtle ways, why our nervous systems are so quick to protect us, and how repair can become one of the most powerful pathways to deeper trust, healing, and connection.

Together, they unpack what successful repair can actually feel like, why it can be so transformative in therapy and relationships, and how moments of tension often become the doorway to something stronger.

This is a conversation about communication, nervous system protection, relational repair, and the kind of healing that happens when we stop avoiding the hard moments and learn how to move through them.

The latest episode is live now and ready to listen.
Tap the link in our bio to tune in. 🎙️

This Mental Health Awareness Month, we want to name something clearly:Affirmation is mental health care.For trans, nonbi...
05/22/2026

This Mental Health Awareness Month, we want to name something clearly:
Affirmation is mental health care.

For trans, nonbinary, gender-expansive, and questioning folks, emotional well-being is often shaped by much more than “stress.” It is shaped by the daily realities of dysphoria, misgendering, transphobia, fear, invalidation, and the exhaustion of moving through spaces that do not always feel safe.

These experiences can live deeply in the nervous system through anxiety, hypervigilance, grief, shutdown, and the painful feeling of disconnection from self and others.

That is why Beyond the Binary exists.

A therapist-led group for trans, nonbinary, gender-expansive, and questioning folks who are ready for more than survival. A space to process identity, difficult emotions, healing from harm, and the joy of being deeply seen in community.

Mental health healing becomes possible when you no longer have to explain your existence first.

You deserve spaces where your truth is met with care, connection, and affirmation.

Even therapist founders are still talking to the younger versions of themselves.This post features Kaitlin and Paul Kind...
05/20/2026

Even therapist founders are still talking to the younger versions of themselves.

This post features Kaitlin and Paul Kindman, not just as the founders of Kindman & Co., but as two humans who were once the little versions of themselves you see in these photos.

Before the titles, before the work, before the responsibilities and expectations of adulthood, there were younger parts learning what it meant to be safe, loved, and enough.

It can be so easy to stand in front of the mirror and criticize the adult version of yourself.
To call yourself lazy, behind, not doing enough, too emotional, too sensitive,
or not where you “should” be.

But when you pause and remember that you are still speaking to the younger parts of yourself, something softens.

You are not only the grown adult carrying today’s pressures. You are also every younger version of you who needed encouragement, gentleness, reassurance, and someone to believe in them.

This is why self-talk matters so deeply.
The way you speak to yourself can either repeat old wounds or become part of the reparenting process.

At Kindman & Co, we believe emotional vulnerability is not weakness. It is part of healing.
Even therapists, founders, and helpers are human enough to need softness too.

So let this be your reminder to speak to yourself in a way that the younger you would have needed.

Save this for the days your inner critic gets loud.
Share it with someone who needs the reminder that they are still worthy of gentleness.

This AAPI Heritage Month, we are reflecting on the wisdom, care, and resilience carried through Asian American and Pacif...
05/18/2026

This AAPI Heritage Month, we are reflecting on the wisdom, care, and resilience carried through Asian American and Pacific Islander communities.

So much of healing in AAPI communities lives beyond traditional therapy language. It lives in food, ritual, sacrifice, discipline, family systems, migration stories, silence, devotion, and the ways care is often shown through action rather than words.

At Kindman & Co., we know healing is deeply shaped by culture. For many AAPI individuals, identity work includes holding complexity: gratitude and grief, family loyalty and boundaries, resilience and exhaustion, pride and invisibility.

This month is a powerful reminder that wisdom does not only come from textbooks or clinical spaces.
It also lives in cultural memory, intergenerational stories, and the values communities pass down every day.

AAPI heritage offers so many lessons on collective care, endurance, and what it means to hold one another through hardship.

There is so much healing wisdom already present in the stories we come from.

Mother’s Day can stir up so much more than celebration.For some, it’s a day of deep gratitude and connection.For others,...
05/10/2026

Mother’s Day can stir up so much more than celebration.

For some, it’s a day of deep gratitude and connection.
For others, it can bring grief, estrangement, longing, complicated family dynamics, or the ache of missing what never was.

This is true not only for mothers and mother figures, but for the children, adult children, and families holding the many layers of these relationships.

Today, we want to acknowledge all of it.

To the mothers, the grandmothers who raised you, the chosen mother figures, those longing to become mothers, those grieving a loss, those navigating distance, and the children carrying love, hurt, memory, or unanswered questions, there is space for your experience here.

If today feels especially tender, a gentle place to begin can be asking yourself:
What would feel most supportive for me today?

That might mean setting boundaries, limiting social media, reaching out to someone safe, creating a ritual of remembrance, spending time in nature, or giving yourself permission not to participate in the day at all.

However this day meets you, may you offer yourself the same compassion you so often give to others.

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109 North Avenue 56, Suite B
Los Angeles, CA
90042

Opening Hours

Monday 8am - 9pm
Tuesday 8am - 9pm
Wednesday 8am - 9pm
Thursday 8am - 9pm
Friday 8am - 7pm
Saturday 9am - 4pm

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+12137938223

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