Dr. Howard is a Licensed Clinical Psychologist in private practice in Los Angeles, California.  She has helped thousands of people, and has a commitment to excellence, assisting both couples and individuals in their journey of personal growth and childhood healing.  One of her many interests includes working with couples.  Dr. Howard strongly believes that one of the most powerful catalysts to growth, change and childhood healing is through the couple relationship.  Therefore, she co-founded Focus On Relationship and is dedicated to helping couples to thrive, by teaching them to recreate, deepen and maintain their initial feelings of attraction and "being in love".

She is particularly skillful at empowering couples to discover, or
rediscover, their own unique sense of playfulness and romance by helping
them to find a more loving, humorous, enlivening, passionate, intimate,
deep, fulfilling, life-long connection with one another.  She is one of the
few practitioners who combines EMDR, ego-state work with both individual and couples' therapy and has a professional reputation of being able to provide help to couples in minor distress, as well as to those in tremendous crisis; such as helping couples survive and thrive after infidelity, impregnating other women and other kinds of betrayals.

Additionally, Dr. Howard is an expert and is certified in the practice of
Eye Movement Desensitization, and Reprocessing (EMDR), as well as in
hypnosis and treats individuals and couples who have experienced both large and small childhood and adult onset trauma which have tremendous impact on our lives and on our relationships and utilizes those modalities in the successful treatment of depression, anxiety, eating disorders, relationship issues, and career dissatisfaction and relationship difficulties.

Further, Dr. Howard has a wide base of experience from which to draw when she is helping people change their lives and believes in keeping up with the most cutting-edge, well researched, treatment modalities available today in the area of psychology and mental health.  Therefore, she uses an eclectic approach to her therapy work, because she believes that each person deserves an individually tailored treatment and one form of therapy, just like one antibiotic, does not and should not work for all.  She utilizes a combination of psychodynamic, object relations, solution focused, cognitive behavioral, humanistic/existential, EMDR, somatic experiencing, hypnosis, imagery, meditation, breath work, as well as the contents of her life experiences to help catapult people into growing and enjoying the most of their human potential.  She enjoys working with, and has a tremendous amount of experience working with individuals, couples and groups.