Isabella (Bella) Allen, AMFT, works with teens, adults, couples, athletes, and high performers navigating anxiety, burnout, identity shifts, relationship challenges, disordered eating, and major life transitions. She has a particular interest in supporting individuals and families connected to the world of professional and competitive sports, where high expectations, constant pressure, and the demand to perform can impact not only the athlete, but the entire family.

Bella also works with sport parents navigating the unique emotional challenges that can come with supporting an athlete. This may include coping with the helplessness of watching a child experience an injury or devastating defeat, learning how to best support an athlete through the highs and lows of competition, or working together as parents when the demands of their child’s sport begin to create stress or conflict within their own relationship.

Her approach is collaborative, relational, and grounded in curiosity. Bella integrates humanistic and narrative approaches with Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) and is also an EMDR-trained provider. EMDR (Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing) can help clients process distressing experiences, difficult memories, and patterns that continue to impact how they feel, think, or respond in the present. She incorporates these approaches based on each client’s individual needs and goals.

Bella believes clients are the experts on their own experiences and sees therapy as a partnership. She works alongside her clients to help them better understand themselves, strengthen their relationships, improve communication, and develop a greater sense of confidence and agency through both struggles and triumphs.

Bella earned her Master’s Degree in Clinical Psychology from Pepperdine University and has experience working with children and families through Counseling Partners of Los Angeles. She is especially interested in helping clients explore the ways identity, relationships, body image, performance expectations, and self-worth can become intertwined, including supporting those who have struggled with disordered eating.

For Bella, therapy is about more than appearing successful on paper. It’s about helping clients feel confident, connected, and at home in their own lives and relationships.