Brett Richards, MA MFT

I came across Brett Richards while doing a Unilocal search in my area for counseling and psychotherapy services. I couldn’t be happier with Brett. He is extremely professional, genuinely caring, and a truly amazing psychotherapist!
I came to Brett because I was struggling with various personal issues, and finally decided to explore counseling and psychotherapy as a possible solution. Because this was my first time in therapy, I really didn’t know how it was going to go, or if I would like working with a counselor or psychotherapist. But, I was willing to give it a try, and after working on myself in therapy with Brett, I can honestly say I’m very glad I did. Because of my psychotherapy sessions with Brett, many of my issues and problems that I feared could never be helped were actually very well healed and resolved!
Brett’s psychotherapy guidance and tutelage has not only been instrumental in improving my personal life, including my marriage relationship, but also in improving my professional life, as well. Now, after therapy with Brett, my mood has lifted, I’m much more in control of my emotions, my perspective on everything including myself and my marriage has improved, and I’m much better able to handle whatever comes my way!
As a psychotherapist, Brett is very professional, intelligent, detailed, knowledgeable, and skilled. He’s also very warm, friendly, caring, and kind. And, I found his counseling and psychotherapy methods to be truly insightful and ingenious. Brett listened carefully and understood me, offered wise and effective counseling that helped me better understand my life and myself, and taught me effective psychotherapy tools and skills that helped me improve many areas of my life. I truly wish I had come across Brett five years ago. He has helped me that much!
In my experience of psychotherapy with Brett, it’s clear that he is a very special person, with talent, skills, experience, and heart, which as I’ve discovered firsthand through therapy with him are some of the best qualities a psychotherapist can have. He accepts me fully and never judges me, always makes me feel welcome and comfortable, and has done excellent psychotherapy work with me.
I would like to take this opportunity to truly thank you, Brett, for the great changes and improvements you have helped me make. You have made a huge positive difference in my life! Thank you! I’m very grateful.
If you’re looking for an outstanding, very professional, and very effective psychotherapist, I absolutely recommend Brett Richards!

First of all, I would like say a big THANK YOU to Brett Richards for all of the ways he has helped my fiancé and I. Brett is a wonderful psychotherapist, and we’re very glad that we found him. We began going to Brett for couples counseling because our communication was breaking down, because we had some other issues, as well, and because we also really wanted premarital counseling before getting married (we’re engaged).
I found Brett by searching on Google. My fiancé and I really liked Brett’s website because it had plenty of helpful information, was very easy to navigate, and was very well organized. On Brett’s website I also saw that he gives an initial consultation at no charge, with no obligation, so I decided to reach out and contact him. Brett replied very quickly (which was definitely a plus!).
I must admit, I felt somewhat nervous as we began our phone consultation because prior to this I had never seen a psychotherapist before, and I really did not know what to expect. However, talking to Brett during my phone consultation actually made my nervousness go away! Brett was extremely welcoming, gentle, and kind, which actually made me feel very comfortable.
Throughout our entire phone consultation, Brett was very friendly, professional, and understanding, and he was quite generous with the amount of time he spent with me on the phone. Brett got a good feel for the situation that my fiancé and I were dealing with and why we were seeking couples therapy, he answered all of my questions, he asked questions of his own to make sure he really understood me, and he offered that my fiancé could contact him as well, the same way I did, if my fiancé had questions, too. After talking with Brett, I felt cared for and understood, and I definitely felt like it was really important to him to help my fiancé and I. It was just a very enjoyable experience. Because of this, I knew for sure that I wanted to have Brett as our therapist.
After we had our first therapy session with Brett, my fiancé and I were both very relieved and happy that we found Brett, and this has been our experience through our entire time in therapy with him. In addition to Brett being among the most genuinely kind, understanding, and caring people we’ve ever met, he’s also highly intelligent and knowledgeable, he offers amazing insights which are deeply thought-​provoking, and he’s very easy to talk to. Brett is also a very astute observer, a fabulous listener, and is incredibly detail oriented. And in every one of our couples counseling and premarital counseling sessions, not once did Brett ever judge us or take sides. He always remained objective, impartial, and nonjudgmental in how he dealt with my fiancé and I, which helped us both to feel comfortable and safe to really let our guards down and be ourselves. I’ll say it like this, Brett is very good at what he does.
As a result of our premarital counseling and couples therapy sessions with Brett, my fiancé and I have made significant improvements in our relationship. When we initially began working with Brett, he very quickly identified our troubling patterns and core issues, as individuals and as a couple, and then he helped us work to improve them. Brett also instructed and guided us on how to communicate effectively with one another and on how to skillfully avoid conflict. He assisted us in learning how to understand each other with much more clarity, which has helped us get along much, much better. And, he has also helped us to re-​connect emotionally and deepen our bond as a couple, which means the world to us!
My fiancé and I are deeply appreciative of how much Brett helped us heal and improve our relationship. We are noticeably much better now than when we began therapy with Brett, that’s for sure. We are eternally grateful for everything Brett has done for us, and from the bottom of our hearts, we would absolutely recommend Brett to anyone!

Brett Richards is the first psychotherapist I’ve ever seen. And, to be completely honest, as far as therapists go I feel like I was very lucky to have found a great one, because Brett has been absolutely fantastic!
I started therapy with Brett because it was important to my fiancée that we do couples counseling before getting married. Initially, I wasn’t sure what to expect, or if seeing a psychotherapist would even help us. However, after working with Brett, I’m so happy I agreed to go, because he’s helped my fiancé and I make a lot of improvements which have taken our loving relationship to the next level.
Brett has helped us in so many ways. He’s opened our eyes to perspectives and insights about what it takes to have a successful and happy relationship that we had never even thought about before, but which have really made a huge difference in improving our relationship. He’s helped us better understand each other, more deeply appreciate each other, and grow closer as relationship partners, and he’s helped both of us gain better self-​awareness and self-​understanding of ourselves as individuals. And with Brett’s help, we’ve been able to identify and resolve a lot of our issues and problems which had been getting in the way.
Brett has also helped us enormously in the area of communication. He’s given my fiancé and I a ton of strategies, tools, and skills that we’ve been using to improve how we discuss things (including difficult topics). We’re now able to communicate in a healthier, more accurate, and more effective way, which has been very satisfying for both of us.
I’m also extremely impressed by how well Brett listens and remembers. We’ve been working with Brett for a while now. But, even though we only see him for an hour every week, he recalls names, details, and pretty much everything from our past sessions with ease. And, when he feels it’s helpful to do so, he brings to our awareness key points from prior sessions in ways that enhance the work we’re doing in current sessions. This has definitely helped us gain even clearer and deeper understandings, and has definitely helped us make more progress.
In all of our therapy sessions, Brett has always been actively engaged and very focused, and it’s always very apparent to both of us that he’s sincerely committed to helping us make real progress (which is so important!).
One of the things that has touched me the most about therapy with Brett, and which has been most meaningful for me, is that in addition to how professional, knowledgeable, intelligent, and skilled he is, Brett is truly one of the nicest, kindest, most genuinely caring people I’ve come across in a long time.
If you’re looking for an amazing psychotherapist, then I highly recommend Brett. I just can’t imagine someone better. He has definitely made a huge positive difference in our relationship, and we would not be where we are today without him. Brett is definitely a rare gem.

If you’re looking for a great psychotherapist for individual or couples therapy, look no further!!! Brett Richards is a brilliant, kind, and very effective therapist who’s helping my husband and I save our marriage!
My husband and I have been having struggles in our marriage for a while, and recently decided to go to couples therapy. I researched online for a professional psychotherapist who does relationship therapy and marriage counseling, and narrowed it down to several options including Brett. I gave them a call and easily decided that Brett was the right therapist for us, because not only was it obvious very quickly that he’s a very knowledgeable and experienced professional, but he gave my husband and me a very detailed and generous phone consultation at no charge before even attempting to schedule an appointment in his office. It made me feel like he truly cared, and that he sincerely wanted to help us save our marriage.
We’ve been seeing Brett for several months and can already see a lot of improvement in our marriage. Brett is helping us better understand each other, and to develop deeper emotional connection and closeness as a couple. He’s also helping us learn better communication and conflict resolution skills by teaching us effective tools which he customizes to fit our personal style. He has given us a good perspective of what goes into a healthy relationship, and he’s teaching us how to bring it to life in our marriage. And he’s also helping us identify and resolve the personal issues we both have that cause our problems in the first place. We’re very thankful.
Throughout our marriage counseling with Brett, he has helped both of us feel very comfortable and safe because he has never taken sides, has always remained unbiased, and because he’s been very patient, kind, understanding, accepting, and supportive.
Brett has a calm and very easy-​going demeanor which, along with his professional knowledge and skills, and his remarkable attention to detail, has been incredibly helpful to my husband and I. We also really appreciate Brett for being so great at maintaining professional control of our sessions, even when we’ve had a tough conflict and gotten triggered. When that has happened, he’s been great at getting us back on the rails, so to speak, and keeping us on track. He is very interactive in our therapy sessions, and he always knows how to guide us in the right direction.
Generally speaking, Brett is a very intelligent, wise, and insightful person who deeply understands relationships, marriage counseling, psychotherapy, and life. And yet, we’ve always been amazed by how well Brett conveys it to both of us so we can really understand it and apply it in our marriage.
My husband and I have seen other psychotherapists and marriage counselors before, but none of them were nearly as good as Brett. And none of them had the kind of memory that Brett has, or retained the details of our complex relationship and busy lives like Brett. When we start each therapy session with Brett, he has demonstrated the ability to easily pick up right where we left off in our last session, often recalling and drawing connections between details we discussed even a bunch of sessions ago. It’s actually pretty remarkable.
This entire couples therapy experience with Brett has essentially been a miracle for me, because my husband had never respected or connected with our prior therapists, and I was desperate for us to find a marriage counselor and couples therapist my husband would like. Fortunately (with much credit to Brett), my husband truly respects Brett and responds very well to him (as do I!).
I highly recommend Brett if you are struggling with your marriage, relationship, or life, and if you truly want to heal yourself and improve your relationship or marriage with the help of one of the best psychotherapists around!

If you need the help of a truly great psychotherapist, then I totally recommend Brett Richards. Based on my direct experience in therapy with Brett, he has proven himself to be an experienced and very skilled psychotherapist who genuinely cares, and who has helped me make some very big and very needed improvements in my life. For too long a while, I had struggled with some pretty bothersome issues that really disrupted my life. When I finally decided to get the help of a professional, I initially started therapy with a different psychotherapist here in the San Fernando Valley before I ever found Brett. While I imagine that this previous other therapist was probably well-​intended, it turns out that this previous other therapist actually offered only superficial «solutions» to my issues and problems which almost always missed the core of the problem and never really provided real, actual solutions. When I was with this previous other therapist, I really didn’t see any progress at all or any hope for long-​term benefits, so I ended my sessions with this other therapist and just about gave up on psychotherapy entirely, thinking that if this was the best psychotherapy could offer, then maybe seeing a psychotherapist just wasn’t for me. Fortunately, I eventually did another search for a therapist, which is when I found Brett. When I called Brett, he gave me a really great phone consultation. I just remember him being very smart, knowledgeable, and kind, and I really felt like he understood me not just a little, but in a very deep sort of way. This really helped me start to change my mind about psychotherapy, so I decided to give Brett a try because I still really needed help. Throughout the time Brett has been my therapist, he has proven to me that with the right psychotherapist, I actually could make real progress and see lasting improvements in my life. Brett has without a doubt been the right psychotherapist for me! Through therapy with Brett, I’ve gained many valuable understandings and insights about my life, myself, and life in general. I’ve also seen significant improvements in how I function in relationships, how I think about and respond to a wide range of life situations that used to be hard for me, and in the way I feel about myself. In fact, I really can’t think of a problem or issue that I’ve asked Brett to help me with that he hasn’t provided excellent help and insight for. I couldn’t be more thrilled and grateful for the progress I’ve made in therapy with Brett! One of the things I like most about psychotherapy with Brett is that he’s not there just as some person to «vent to». He’s very actively involved in my psychotherapy sessions, he’s always focused on helping me achieve solutions and results, and he has offered me many great approaches and tools to help me resolve my issues, understand myself better, and improve myself as a person and how I live my life. Also, when I ask Brett to help me with specific problems and issues, he not only helps me with those things, but he also gives me insights and tools that I can use with future situations which might not have even happened yet but which are related or similar and that could possibly arise. Other things that have really impressed me about psychotherapy with Brett is that as a psychotherapist, Brett is very professional, very knowledgeable about psychology and psychotherapy, is very intelligent, has a great memory, and is very skilled and experienced as a psychotherapist. In addition, I have also experienced Brett to be very sincere, very kind, accepting, understanding, supportive, non-​judgmental, very down-​to-​earth and easy to talk with, and he always seems genuinely interested in my progress and well-​being, which really means a lot to me. Brett has helped me tremendously, and I’m just hoping that if there’s anyone out there like me who needs a really good psychotherapist but who basically gave up on psychotherapy because they initially had a poor experience with a bad or mediocre therapist, or if you just need a really good psychotherapist, period, then I highly recommend you try Brett, because the way Brett has helped me so much, I’m confident he can probably help anyone!

I had said some very high goals to accomplish professionally, mainly in expanding my business while trying to also manage the insane amount of projects already piled mountain high on my desk.
At the time, I found myself having to put out a number of personal fires elsewhere. They say when it rains it pours. Yeah no kidding. Trying to be superman when dysfunctional family gets in the way of productivity sucks.
I was referred to Brett through a colleague who is also self-​employed. I’ve never been to a therapist before, but gave him a call and had a good impression of the initial phone convo.
Brett had some great suggestions for me. First, he has this super calm attitude that just puts you at ease instantly. Completely makes a difference! But the real meat and potatoes was that he gave me an outside the box perspective that I would never get from my «business» colleagues. In the end, I’m halfway through blasting my goals and haven’t looked back. Definitely recommend Brett! Calm, honest, caring, knowledgeable and truly capable of giving you that «Wow!» moment needed when you’re looking for solutions.

I stumbled across Brett Richards in a google search and am so incredibly grateful that I did. I’ve seen him for his counseling and psychotherapy services.
I have worked with Brett in couples counseling to help resolve some interpersonal relationship conflict as well as individual counseling for some feelings of anxiety and depression.
Brett is intelligent, intuitive, empathetic, caring, easy to talk to and non-​judgmental. I’ve had more success (in less time) with him than any other therapist or counselor I’ve ever visited in the past.
I highly, highly recommend giving him a visit. If you’ve stumbled across the review, consider yourself lucky (like I did and still do!) and give him a call :-)