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

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. 🪙

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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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A path to feeling fully whole within ourselves requires looking at the painful parts of us and our lives that we might w...
05/28/2026

A path to feeling fully whole within ourselves requires looking at the painful parts of us and our lives that we might want to hide. Suffering is not something to be avoided in this process; it isn’t about being “happy” all the time.

05/27/2026

Meet WILA therapist Moshé Sayada! In his words:

“There is a quiet courage in therapy. It doesn’t announce itself. Someone enters the room, sits down, and starts where they can.
The deeper story usually comes indirectly. Not all at once, and rarely in neat form. It shows up in the ways a person learned to live with what felt too much—in defenses that once protected them, in losses that continue to echo, in what returns through dreams or keeps resurfacing in life.
The room is not separate from any of this. The familiar ways of expecting to be seen, or not seen, of moving toward closeness and then pulling back, of repeating something old without fully knowing it. And sometimes something shifts. The old sequence begins to unfold as it always has—and then it doesn’t. At times, that changes more than a mood or a symptom. It can change the way a person is able to be with themselves and with their life.
That is the part of this work I keep coming back for.”

Learn more about Moshé and his therapeutic style at our link in bio!

Starting to see signs that you might benefit from therapy, but worried you won’t be able to afford it? WILA offers high ...
05/21/2026

Starting to see signs that you might benefit from therapy, but worried you won’t be able to afford it?

WILA offers high quality therapy on an affordable sliding scale! Contact us at the link in our bio to schedule a free introductory or intake call. You could get matched with a therapist in as little as one week after intake!

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WILA is excited to share our Alumni Association’s next virtual CE event: “Untangling: What Patients Can Tell Analysts Ab...
05/20/2026

WILA is excited to share our Alumni Association’s next virtual CE event: “Untangling: What Patients Can Tell Analysts About Psychoanalysis” with Joan Peters. This talk will explore the place and value of patient narratives in psychoanalytic discourse—particularly those of lay patients, or those without theoretical training or professional community.

Register between now and June 25th, 2026 to receive ***early bird pricing***. And please don’t forget to share this event with your clinical community!

Learn more and register at the link in our bio.

“There is something particularly painful about being held onto while being held at arm’s length.” From “Unkind Cutting B...
05/14/2026

“There is something particularly painful about being held onto while being held at arm’s length.”

From “Unkind Cutting Back and its Navigation” by Margaret Crastnopol, Ph.D.

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