Heal past emotional wounds
About Dr. Gardin
Gardin Counseling was founded by Dr. Gardin, DrPH, LPCC, LMHC, a psychotherapist, educator, and speaker devoted to helping individuals, couples, and families improve their lives and relationships. Her work is grounded in compassion, clinical insight, and a deep belief in the human capacity for growth, connection, and healing.
With decades of experience, Dr. Gardin supports people in navigating emotional challenges, strengthening relationships, and creating lives guided by values and filled with meaning and purpose.
Gardin Counseling was founded by Dr. Gardin, DrPH, LPCC, LMHC, a psychotherapist, educator, and speaker devoted to helping individuals, couples, and families improve their lives and relationships. Her work is grounded in compassion, clinical insight, and a deep belief in the human capacity for growth, connection, and healing.
With decades of experience, Dr. Gardin supports people in navigating emotional challenges, strengthening relationships, and creating lives guided by values and filled with meaning and purpose.
How Gardin Counseling can support you
Gardin Counseling helps individuals, couples, and families:
Professional background
Dr. Gardin brings a unique integration of clinical practice, academic training, clinical practice and real-world experience to her work. She is known for her thoughtful, heart-centered approach and her ability to translate complex psychological concepts into practical guidance that clients can apply in everyday life.
Her work focuses on healing past wounds, developing healthy communication patterns, restoring emotional safety, and helping individuals and families move forward with clarity and confidence.
Education & Training
- A Doctoral Degree from UCLA
- Master’s degrees from UCLA, USC, and Brooklyn College
- Bachelor’s degree from Stanford University
She has also completed advanced post-graduate training at the Ackerman Institute for the Family, Sensory Integration International, and Harvard Medical School, further shaping her integrative and relational approach to therapy.
Clinical & Academic Experience
In addition to her clinical work, Dr. Gardin has served on the faculty of colleges in Brooklyn College of the City University of New York including:
- Touro College, Manhattan
- Los Angeles Valley College
Her academic experience informs her therapeutic work, grounding it in research, developmental science, and evidence-based practice while remaining deeply human and accessible.
Heart-Powered Parenting®
Dr. Gardin is the creator of an emotionally-focused approach to parenting that helps parent navigate the challenges of parenting with confidence and clarity. Informed by the most up-to-date research in child development and brain science, Heart-Powered Parenting © offers parents evidence-based parenting strategies and a toolbox of skills for raising emotionally healthy and resilient children. Heart-Powered Parenting helps you:
- Feel successful as a parent.
- Effectively connect and communicate with your child.
- Validate your child’s feelings, struggles, and successes.
- Establish developmentally appropriate expectations and consequences.
- Prevent power struggles and temper tantrums.
- Eliminate homework battles, mealtime chaos, and bedtime wars.
- Transform sibling rivalry into sibling partnership.
- Navigate the complexities of parenting teens.
- Raise children to become capable, responsible, caring, decision-makers.
- Raise awareness of how your childhood experiences influence your parenting style.
- Build an enduring, lifelong relationship with your child.
Words from those I’ve worked with
Thoughtful reflections shared by individuals and families about their counseling experience.