Citta Balance began from a conviction that the moment between what happens to us and how we respond is where healing lives — and that families in crisis are too often denied the space to find it. When a loved one is struggling, the people around them are frequently handed pamphlets, waitlists, and contradictory advice, then left to manage the rest through fear and exhaustion. This practice exists to change that experience.
Citta is a word that holds mind, heart, and awareness as a single field — not separate parts to be managed, but an ecology to be understood. That understanding sits at the center of everything here. The work integrates contemplative tradition with empirically grounded methods: Community Reinforcement and Family Training (CRAFT), Mindfulness-Based Relapse Prevention, trauma-sensitive practice, and restorative facilitation. None of it is offered as technique alone. It is offered as a way of being with people in difficulty.
There is more than one way to reach this care. Most individual and family engagements are private-pay, with rates reflecting the depth of the work and discussed during your initial consultation. Citta Balance also maintains pro bono capacity and partnerships with organizations extending care to the people they serve — reach out, and we'll find the path that fits. Citta Balance also maintains pro bono capacity and institutional partnerships for those who need another way in.
The work meets people where they are — in the middle of something hard — and helps them find steadier ground. That might begin with a parent awake at two in the morning after a difficult call, or with someone in an organization's leadership who isn't sure how to support an employee they're quietly worried about. It rarely begins at a convenient moment, and it doesn't need to. From wherever it starts, the aim is the same: not a fixed endpoint, but a direction — a family communicating differently than they did six months ago, a long-standing conflict finally given room to be worked through, a person in recovery building the daily practices that hold steady under real pressure. That steadier ground is what this practice exists to help people find.
Based in Los Angeles. Sessions are available worldwide, in person or encrypted video call — with the exception of Systems Navigation, which is limited to clients in the United States. Licensure and specific system familiarity vary by location — reach out and we'll quickly confirm what's available where you are.
