WILA Welcome to the Wright Institute Los Angeles (WILA). We offer Affordable Therapy for everyday people.

The relationship between therapist and patient is one of the most important factors in therapy. It’s a relationship like...
06/18/2026

The relationship between therapist and patient is one of the most important factors in therapy. It’s a relationship like the one we hope for between parent and young child—a relationship that is symbiotic but completely oriented towards you, the patient. This kind of relationship allows us to heal by discovering resources you didn’t get, uncovering lost parts of yourself, and developing a strong internalized sense of self.

WILA’s newest Reading Roundup is here! From the Spring 2026 quarter, our student therapists have highlighted readings fr...
06/17/2026

WILA’s newest Reading Roundup is here! From the Spring 2026 quarter, our student therapists have highlighted readings from the following courses:

•Intersubjectivity Theory
•Poetry of Psychoanalysis

If you’re interested in full citations for one or more of these pieces, leave us a comment. If you’re interested to learn more about the training programs in which these courses are included, check out our website at the link in our bio.

Taking what we’ve carried and working with it to build ourselves a home…sounds familiar! 😉Original post from Alessandra ...
06/15/2026

Taking what we’ve carried and working with it to build ourselves a home…sounds familiar! 😉

Original post from Alessandra Olanow

06/11/2026

Remember, applying what you learn in the therapy room to in-the-moment experiences in your daily life takes effort, practice, and patience! Feeling like this is a common part of the process.

Edited post from ecards

06/10/2026

Meet WILA therapist Jade Forrest Marks! She shares:

“’It is good to love the unknown.’ -Charles Lamb

Psychoanalytic therapy invites us to explore our inner worlds, bringing light to subterranean patterns and places that have been previously unknown and hidden from view. I aim to be a companion on this dive—slowing down, turning towards, and noticing whatever emerges. I hold this work as both courageous and beautiful, as it expands our capacities to be with what is, to mourn our losses, and to inhabit our lives more fully.”

Learn more about Jade and their therapeutic background at our link in bio.

If you imagine yourself being back in the womb, what do you feel? The womb holds multiple meanings within psychoanalysis...
06/09/2026

If you imagine yourself being back in the womb, what do you feel?

The womb holds multiple meanings within psychoanalysis, literal and symbolic. Many theorists have written about the womb as a place that we long to return to, with its safety, connectedness, and containment. Others have focused on the traumas and anxieties that stem from our eviction from the womb, a.k.a. birth. And still others have highlighted the power of the womb, for its roles in both procreation and in the development of our ability to share affective worlds with others.

Do your imagined feelings resonate with any of these meanings?

Thanks to .lou__ for the original post!

06/04/2026

There is something deeply psychoanalytic about the statement that we and our partner(s) marry each other’s childhoods. Why?

Because analysis believes that our prior experiences are not just in the past—they continue to impact us in the present via our unconscious patterns. In particular, the patterns of relating to ourselves and others that we learn in childhood stick with us throughout our lives, presenting themselves again and again in new situations and relationships.

That is, until we bring conscious awareness to them and use this awareness to develop new patterns. When it comes to relational patterns, however, we can’t develop new ones on our own—that must happen within relationships.

Within psychoanalytically-oriented couples therapy, partners have they opportunity to work together to shift their unconscious patterns. With the therapist’s assistance, they can gain awareness not only of their own patterns, but also of each other’s. Using this awareness, partners can collaboratively create new patterns of relating that better serve themselves and their relationship.

If you and your partner(s) are interested to get better acquainted with each other’s childhoods, consider contacting WILA about starting couples therapy! You can find contact info and more at our link in bio.

PS: offers many other great insights in her full video!

Two sides of the coin of emotional expression. 🪙Reposts from
06/03/2026

Two sides of the coin of emotional expression. 🪙

Reposts from

It’s Pride Month! May Thomas Lanigan-Schmidt’s reflection on the 1969 Stonewall uprising serve as a reminder that we mus...
06/02/2026

It’s Pride Month! May Thomas Lanigan-Schmidt’s reflection on the 1969 Stonewall uprising serve as a reminder that we must continue actively working toward a world where everyone has the freedom to dance together—this month and every month.

Excerpt from “1969 Mother Stonewall and the Golden Rats” in The Stonewall Reader.

05/29/2026

Did you know that when you work with a therapist from an analytically-oriented training program, your therapy tree expands far beyond a grand therapist?

Here at WILA, each therapist has a primary supervisor and a delegated supervisor, who support them one-on-one in providing the best possible care to their patients. One might say these are like therapy parents, as they directly impact the therapist’s development. Therapists also have a group supervisor and course facilitators, who offer knowledge, experience, and support in group settings. These are like therapy aunts and uncles. Last but not least, therapists also have their therapy siblings—other therapists in training, who provide camaraderie and solidarity throughout the training experience.

While as a WILA patient you may never find out exactly who belongs in your therapy tree, it can be reassuring to know that your care is facilitated by multiple generations of therapists! *With confidentiality remaining of paramount importance, of course.*

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