Dr. Louis Buchhold, LMFT

Dr. Louis Buchhold is a licensed Marriage and Family Therapist practicing in California with 22 years of professional experience. He is a gay cis-gendered White male whose pronouns are he/him/doctor. He holds a Doctorate in Counseling Psychology, a Master’s Degree in Marriage, Family, and Child Counseling, and a Master’s Degree in Art Therapy - graduate training that prepared him to work with individuals, couples, families, children, and to integrate creative modalities into clinical care. He is also credentialed as an LMFT, which stands for Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist and authorizes him to provide psychotherapy in California.

His work centers on experiential arts therapies, including art therapy, sand play therapy, play-based approaches, and psychodrama, integrated within an existential therapeutic orientation. He pairs these creative methods with focused techniques such as brief therapy, cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT), motivational interviewing, and solution-focused strategies to help clients identify goals and practice self-driven assignments between sessions.

Over the course of his career he has supported people addressing stress and anxiety, addictions, LGBT-related concerns, relationship and alternative relationship issues, trauma and abuse, grief, intimacy-related challenges, self-esteem difficulties, and depression. He has additional clinical focus in areas such as aging and geriatric concerns, BDSM and kink, chronic pain and disability, codependency, substance and process addictions, HIV/AIDS, isolation and loneliness, men’s issues, polyamory and non-monogamous relationships, sexual and sex addiction issues, and seasonal affective disorder.

He practices from a client-centered stance and emphasizes that individuals are the experts in their own stories; he aims to draw out existing strengths and support people as they take steps toward a more fulfilling and satisfying life.