Julia Callas, Registered Associate MFT #161425

Therapy for Teens, Young Adults & Couples in Hermosa Beach

Warm, relatable, and direct therapy for anxiety, relationships, life transitions, trauma, and the pressures of growing up and figuring out what comes next.

Julia Callas, Registered Associate Marriage and Family Therapist #161425, works with teens, young adults, adults, and couples at Beach Cities Psychotherapy in Hermosa Beach.

Julia has a natural ability to connect with teens and young adults, including those who may be hesitant about therapy in the first place. Her style is warm and supportive, but also straightforward and practical. She helps clients understand what is keeping them stuck while giving them concrete tools to begin making meaningful changes.

Julia is currently accepting new clients.

Therapy for Teens

Being a teenager has always been complicated. Today’s teens are also navigating constant social comparison, academic pressure, friendships and relationships that follow them home through their phones, uncertainty about the future, and enormous pressure to succeed.

Sometimes that shows up as anxiety or depression. Sometimes it’s irritability, withdrawing from family, perfectionism, struggling at school, relationship problems, low self-esteem, or simply feeling overwhelmed.

And sometimes parents know something isn’t quite right but can’t get their teen to talk about it.

Julia is particularly skilled at building relationships with adolescents. Rather than feeling like another adult telling them what they should be doing, therapy with Julia gives teens a private, nonjudgmental place to talk honestly, understand themselves better, and develop healthier ways of coping.

Julia works with teens experiencing:

• Anxiety and excessive worry
• Depression and low mood
• Academic and social pressure
• Perfectionism and fear of failure
• Low self-esteem and self-doubt
• Friendship and relationship problems
• Family conflict
• Trauma and difficult experiences
• Major life changes
• Stress about college and the future

Learn more about Teen Therapy at Beach Cities Psychotherapy

Therapy for Young Adults

Growing up, you look forward to adulthood.

Graduate. Find a career. Become financially independent. Meet the right person. Build a life.

But then actual adulthood arrives and it’s not what you had hoped it would be.

The job market is difficult. Living in Southern California is expensive. Relationships are complicated. Social media makes it look as though everyone else is succeeding faster than you are. You may find yourself wondering why everyone else seems to be moving forward while you feel stuck.

Julia works with young adults navigating the messy transition between adolescence and established adulthood.

Therapy can help with anxiety, dating and relationships, career uncertainty, family dynamics, comparison, people-pleasing, perfectionism, self-esteem, trauma, and the persistent feeling that you should have your life figured out by now.

You don’t have to have everything figured out. Therapy can help you understand what’s getting in the way and begin creating a life that actually feels like yours.

Premarital & Foundational Couples Counseling

You don’t have to wait until your relationship is struggling to go to couples therapy.

Julia works with engaged, newly married, and committed couples who want to build a strong foundation for their relationship before problems become entrenched.

Using the evidence-based PREPARE/ENRICH assessment and program, Julia helps couples better understand their strengths, identify potential areas of conflict, and have important conversations about:

• Communication
• Conflict and repair
• Finances
• Family expectations
• Sex and intimacy
• Roles and responsibilities
• Personality differences
• Children and parenting
• Values and long-term goals

Premarital counseling isn’t about finding problems where none exist. It’s about developing the skills to navigate the inevitable challenges that come with building a life together.

Learn more about PREPARE/ENRICH Premarital & Foundational Couples Counseling

Trauma, Anxiety & Life Transitions

Julia is trained in EMDR and also works with adults experiencing anxiety, depression, trauma, relationship difficulties, self-doubt, perfectionism, and major life transitions.

Before joining Beach Cities Psychotherapy, Julia gained experience working with individuals facing significant life stressors, mental health challenges, substance use, housing instability, and trauma.

She understands that people often arrive in therapy after spending a long time trying to handle things themselves.

Her approach combines compassion with honesty and practical support. Therapy isn’t simply about understanding why you feel the way you do. It’s also about helping you move forward.

Julia’s Approach to Therapy

Julia believes therapy works best when you can actually be yourself with your therapist.

Her style is warm, collaborative, and direct. She creates an environment where clients can feel comfortable talking openly without judgment while also being challenged when it helps them grow.

Julia doesn’t believe therapy should feel like endlessly talking in circles. She helps clients identify patterns, understand where those patterns came from, develop new coping strategies, and practice making different choices outside the therapy room.

For teens and young adults especially, having a therapist who feels approachable and relatable can make an enormous difference. 

I brought Julia onto the Beach Cities Psychotherapy team because I was impressed by both her clinical instincts and her ability to genuinely connect with people.

Julia is warm and compassionate, but she’s also refreshingly direct. She has a particularly natural way of connecting with teens and young adults, including clients who aren’t necessarily excited about the idea of therapy.

After ten years of building Beach Cities Psychotherapy, I’m very thoughtful about the clinicians I invite into the practice. I trust Julia’s work and am excited for more clients and families in our community to get to know her.

— Whitney Boole, LMFT
Founder, Beach Cities Psychotherapy
EMDR Certified Therapist & EMDR Consultant-in-Training

Meet Julia

Julia earned her Master’s degree in Clinical Psychology with an emphasis in Marriage and Family Therapy from Pepperdine University.

She works with teens, young adults, adults, and couples at Beach Cities Psychotherapy in Hermosa Beach and is currently accepting new clients.

Registered Associate Marriage and Family Therapist #161425
Supervised by Whitney Boole, LMFT

Interested in Working With Julia?

Reach out to Beach Cities Psychotherapy to learn more about Julia’s availability or schedule an initial appointment.