BioLeslie Tuchman, MS, MFT has worked as an educator and psychotherapist in Los Angeles for over 20 years.
In her private practice, Ms Tuchman works with individuals, couples and families. Special areas of focus include depression, anxiety, grief and loss, mid-life and issues of aging. Ms Tuchman works with gay men, lesbians, their friends and families. She also works closely with issues of addiction and has a wide range of experience with 12-step and recovery issues.
Ms Tuchman is a clinical supervisor of MFT students, trainees and interns in West Los Angeles. She also provides affordable psychotherapy to students who are working toward various degrees and licenses in the field of Marriage, Famlily Therapy, Psychology and Social Work.
Ms. Tuchman is a staff member of Echo Malibu Treatment Center where she runs expressive arts/ psychotherapy groups with adolescents on a weekly basis. She also has weekly therapy groups using expressive writing as a healing tool in her private practice in West Los Angeles (310) 562-6105
Ms. Tuchman is presently completing a Certificate in Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy at New Center for Psychoanalysis in Los Angeles.
Education M.S. University of Southern California, Counseling M.S. Loyola Marymount University, Education B.S. California State University at San Jose, Education
Professional Licenses, Credentials, Memberships - California Marriage and Family Therapy License #08952
- California Lifetime Teaching Credentials including Special Education and School Psychology
- Clinical Member, California Association of Marriage and Family Therapists (CAMFT)
- Clinical Member and Board Member, LA/ CAMFT
- Clinical Member and Board Member Group Psychotherapy Association of Southern California (GPASC)
- Member, National Association of Poetry Therapy
Clinical Training - Switzer Center for Educational Therapy, Torrance,CA
- West Hollywood Mental Health Clinic
- Airport Marina Counseling Center
- New Center for Psychoanalysis (Certificate Program)
Current Employment - Private Practice, West LA individuals, couples, groups
- Psychotherapist, Echo Malibu Treatment Center, Malibu, CA
- Clinical Supervisor: Open Paths Counseling Center, West LA, CA
- Workshop Facilitator: “Using Creative Writing as a Healing Tool in Psychotherapy Groups”
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