You've Built a Life That Works. So Why Does Something Still Feel Off?

Therapy for Adults and Couples Navigating Life Transitions, Relationships, and Identity

You may have built a life that looks good from the outside—career, relationships, family, responsibilities—yet find yourself wondering what comes next, or why something still feels unsettled. Perhaps you're questioning long-standing relationship patterns, feeling emotionally distant from your partner, or sensing that the path forward isn't as clear as it once was. Maybe you're moving through a significant life transition, rethinking who you are or what you want, or recognizing patterns that no longer serve you.

Anxiety, depression, or experiences from earlier in life may also be making it harder to show up the way you want to at work, at home, or within yourself.

I'm Kristine Moe, a Registered Associate Marriage and Family Therapist offering in-person therapy in Silver Lake, Los Angeles, and online therapy throughout California. I work with thoughtful adults and couples who want to understand the patterns shaping their emotional lives and relationships—and move forward with greater clarity, connection, and purpose.

Ready to begin? Schedule a free 15-minute consultation.


My Approach

My work is grounded in psychodynamic and attachment-informed therapy, exploring how early relationships, family systems, and past experiences shape who we are today. Rather than focusing only on symptoms, we work at a deeper level to understand what's driving your patterns and what meaningful change actually looks like for you.

Therapy with me is collaborative, reflective, and grounded in the belief that meaningful change begins with understanding. Together, we'll explore how you relate to yourself and others, what you've learned to expect from relationships, and how past experiences may still be influencing the choices you make today.

For adults, this work often becomes particularly meaningful during times of transition. Children grow up. Relationships change. Careers evolve. Parents age. Roles that once gave us a strong sense of identity may shift or fall away. These changes can bring uncertainty, grief, anxiety, and also the possibility of discovering something new.

Therapy offers a space to slow down in a life that rarely allows it—to reflect, gain awareness, and begin transforming patterns that once helped you cope but may now be holding you back.

Midlife, Identity, and Life Transitions

Midlife can bring questions that are difficult to ignore:

Who am I now? What do I want? What still fits—and what no longer does?

You may be questioning a career, relationship, family role, or version of yourself that once felt familiar. You may have spent years taking care of others and are beginning to ask what you want for yourself. Or perhaps nothing is obviously wrong, yet you have a growing sense that something needs to change.

Therapy can provide a place to slow down, listen to what is emerging, and explore what a more authentic next chapter might look like.

Relationships and Couples

Relationships can bring out our deepest hopes—and our most familiar patterns. I work with individuals and couples experiencing conflict, emotional distance, difficulty communicating, loss of intimacy, resentment, or uncertainty about what comes next.

Together, we can explore not only what is happening in the relationship, but the patterns beneath it: attachment, vulnerability, trust, shame, family history, and the ways each partner has learned to protect themselves.

My goal is to help you develop greater understanding, flexibility, and choice in how you relate to the people who matter most.

Children, Adolescents, and Families

I also work with children, adolescents, and families navigating anxiety, school challenges, identity development, parent-child relationships, and family transitions.

With younger clients, I consider the larger relational and family context in which they are developing and tailor therapy to their age, needs, and circumstances.

About Kristine Moe, AMFT

I'm Kristine Moe (she/her), a Registered Associate Marriage and Family Therapist (AMFT #150745) practicing in California under clinical supervision.

My path to becoming a therapist has been anything but linear. I've worked as a teacher, writer, entrepreneur, university administrator, women's organization leader, and executive and leadership coach to mid- and senior-level professionals in technology, government, military, higher education, healthcare, and the creative industries.

These experiences have given me a genuine appreciation for the complexity of adult life—and for what it means to carry multiple identities as a partner, parent, daughter, sibling, professional, and individual through different stages of life.

I bring that perspective to my work with adults and couples, particularly those who are reflecting on long-standing patterns, relationships, identity, and what they want their lives to look like moving forward.

I also bring a culturally attuned, trauma-informed perspective to my work, with an appreciation for the complexities of identity, belonging, family history, and intergenerational experience.

I believe growth is lifelong. And I believe some of the most meaningful work happens when we're willing to slow down long enough to understand ourselves more honestly.

Areas of Focus

  • Midlife transitions, identity, and life reflection

  • Relationship challenges, conflict, and emotional disconnection

  • Couples therapy

  • Anxiety, depression, and self-esteem

  • Childhood and intergenerational patterns and trauma

  • Women's life transitions, including perimenopause and menopause

  • Family dynamics and parent-child relationships

  • Estrangement and changing family relationships

  • Multicultural identity and belonging

  • Children and adolescents: anxiety, school challenges, and identity development

Therapy Services and Availability

Individual therapy
For adults navigating life transitions, relationships, identity, anxiety, depression, and longstanding patterns.

Couples therapy
For couples seeking greater understanding, connection, communication, and intimacy.

Child, adolescent, and family therapy
For younger clients and families navigating anxiety, identity, school challenges, and changing family dynamics.

In-person therapy: Silver Lake, Los Angeles
Weekends and Tuesday evenings

Online therapy: Throughout California
Weekday mornings, evenings, and weekends

Fee: $185 per 50-minute session

A limited number of reduced-fee/sliding-scale appointments may be available based on need. Please inquire during your consultation.

Group therapy:
Current offerings available by inquiry.

Ready to begin?

If you recognize yourself in these words and have been waiting for the right moment, this might be it.

I'm currently accepting new clients and welcome the opportunity to connect for a free 15-minute consultation to see whether we might be a good fit.

I serve clients in person in Silver Lake, Los Angeles, and online throughout California.