With over 20 years of professional psychotherapy experience, I help my clients improve their emotional well-being, reclaim personal power, embrace authenticity, and increase fulfillment. Therapy is a personal journey of self-discovery and getting unstuck so you make the changes you want and design a life that is more meaningful and satisfactory to you. Whether you’re dealing with a personal challenge, addressing old wounds, building self-esteem, or tackling relationship issues or career changes, I will help you navigate challenges, find your strength, and grow. My specialities include couples therapy, life transitions, depression, and anxiety and supporting LGBTQ clients and their families in the coming out process by fostering self-expression, honesty, and self-acceptance. I offer a comprehensive toolkit to promote thriving on the path to holistic-well-being.
Psychotherapy Services
I am committed to helping people thrive, bounce back, connect with their inner resilience and feel inspired to live a life with joy and freedom.
Top Specialities
I take general psychotherapy referrals and my specialties include:
- Anxiety and depression
- Healing from family issues
- Couples therapy and relationship issues (including affairs and ethical polyamory)
- Life transitions (divorce, death of a loved one, retirement, lay off, relocation)
- Lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer (LGBTQ+) clients
- Coming out, gender affirmation and Straight Spouse/Mixed Marriage Issues
- Spiritual issues
I use Positive Psychology, CBT, Family Systems, Narrative, Mindfulness, Guided Visualization, and Psychodynamic therapeutic approaches.
Multicultural, culturally sensitive, LGBTQ+ affirming, feminist perspective.
Additional Expertise
- Codependency
- Coping Skills
- Depression
- Divorce
- Family Conflict
- Grief
- Infidelity
- LGBTQ+
- Life Transitions
- Marital and Premarital
- Mood Disorders
- Parenting
- Peer Relationships
- Relationship Issues
- Self Esteem
- Sex Therapy
- Sleep or Insomnia
- Stress
- Substance Use
- Transgender
- Women’s Issues
I don’t take insurance. I provide clients with a superbill at the end of the month with all of the information needed for clients to directly seek reimbursement from their own insurance company.
Therapy is only offered for residents of California, Oregon and Washington states.
At this time I am only doing video sessions.
Contact:
Call for a free consultation or to schedule an appointment.
Phone: (626) 200-4375 or (360) 845-3131. Do not text.
Email drdavina@ drdavinakotulski.com
You may also wish to view my therapist profile online at Psychology Today.
About:
Dr. Davina Kotulski is a clinical psychologist who has helped clients move through fear, self-doubt, transition, creative blocks, grief, loss and trauma to become resilient, empowered and successful individuals.
Dr. Davina graduated from the California School of Professional Psychology (Alameda-CA) in 1996 with a Ph.D. in Clinical Psychology. She worked for over thirteen years as a psychologist in prison settings, first with male inmates for the California Department of Corrections and then with female inmates at the Federal Correctional Institution in California. The focus of her work was helping inmates recover from addiction and trauma, build self-esteem and pro-social values, and find their positive passion for life. She has presented at the Association of Women in Psychology Annual Conference and the American Society of Corrections Conference.
Dr. Kotulski has consulted with universities, residential treatment centers with high risk adolescents, rape trauma centers, and the Anthony Robbins Foundation Prison Summit. Dr. Kotulski was an adjunct professor of psychology and counseling at Holy Names Names University, John F. Kennedy University, the California School of Professional Psychology at Alliant International University and New College of San Francisco.
Dr. Davina Kotulski identifies as non-binary, LGBTQ and uses the pronouns she or they and hers or theirs. Dr. Davina has had to live with binary designators for most of their life and is happy to finally have a choice. That being said, Dr. Davina offers you to use the pronouns that are most comfortable for you. Just don’t call Dr. Davina “ma’am” or “miss.”
ONLINE CONTINUING EDUCATION COURSES:
Dr. Davina Kotulski has developed 4 Continuing Education Courses for the Zur Institute on working with the LGBTIQ+ population and allies. These courses provide CONTINUING EDUCATION CREDITS for: Psychologists (APA), MFTs & LCSWs (BBS) Social Workers (ASWB), Counselors (NBCC) and Nurses (BRN)
2. Diversity: Beyond Cultural Competence in Psychotherapy With the LGBT Population
3. LGBT: Psychological Realities and Culturally Competent Therapy with LGBT Clients and Their Families
4. Allyship for LGBTIQA+ Patients: How to support, advocate, and promote diversity, equity, and inclusion —Developed with Dr. Richard Espinoza