COUNSELING SERVICES

Individual, Couples, Family, Child,

Everyone struggles at some point in their life. Most of us will experience depression, anxiety, trauma, anger, grief or loneliness, for a variety of reasons. Open Paths’ highly-trained, diverse clinical team is here to help you through these times by providing compassionate, culturally-affirming counseling.

Although we work with people from all backgrounds and identities, as a nonprofit organization, we exist to serve Los Angeles residents who have historically not been able to access counseling due to financial, geographic and cultural barriers. For this reason, our fees are set using a sliding scale model based on family/household income, to ensure affordability.

 

VISION

Our vision is to eliminate three specific barriers to psychotherapy for Angelenos living in these communities. These barriers are financial, geographical, and cultural. Removing these three specific barriers is the foundation for how our programs and services are structured.

APPROACH

Open Paths is proud to offer compassionate, culturally-affirming, trauma-informed psychotherapy to Angelenos who continually face these three barriers to therapy. Our fees are structured using a sliding-scale based on household income to ensure affordability. Our clinical training program centers on the clients and communities served specifically by Open Paths, thereby ensuring our therapists are providing services through a culturally-affirming and trauma-informed lens. Most services are offered in Spanish and English. At times, individual, couples and family therapy is available in other languages as well. Please inquire if you seek services in a language other than English or Spanish.

HISTORY

Open Paths Counseling Center was founded in 1975 by two marriage & family therapists and three probation officers. These visionaries saw a need for low-cost counseling services on Los Los Angeles’s westside and rented the upstairs of a Victorian house in LAs’ Mar Vista neighborhood. In 1979, the therapists incorporated as a nonprofit organization and began training pre-licensed psychotherapists in the early l980s.

In 1987, Another Way, our Intimate Partners Abuse Intervention Program (DV), became a program of Open Paths through a merger. In 1988, Cosmos Circle, the only HIV/AIDS support center on the westside at the time, was formed as part of Open Paths. Our Therapy In Schools program was developed in 1998, and has served Title 1 schools in Los Angeles since then. 2017 brought our first non-school outreach partnership, which eventually grew into our Therapy Outreach Program, a program serving community members in their neighborhoods through partnerships with nonprofit social service and educational organizations.

After pivoting to 100% remote operations in March of 2020, due to the global pandemic, Open Paths moved to a new facility in Inglewood, CA in the fall of 2021. Services continue to be offered both virtually and in person, in English and Spanish. Open Paths Counseling Center currently serves between 1000 – 1200 unique clients annually.

 “In my 2.5 joyous years as a trainee and associate at Open Paths I was blown away by the total dedication of the supervisors and staff fortheir nuanced mission: caring for and supporting the needs of bothclients and therapists-in-training simultaneously. I found Open Paths tobe an incredible space for healing (clients) and learning (trainees) that fostered in me a sense of community and optimism for our mission.Open Paths is a precious gem in the world, and I am deeply grateful tobe part of it.”

contact us

For Counseling Services, please call 310-258-9677 or email info@openpaths.org

400 Corporate Pointe, Suite 300 Culver City, CA 90230
Administration: 310-258-9737  |  Fax: 310-258-9650