About Elise
A clinically grounded approach to modern relationship life.
Elise Michele Martinet, LMFT, is a Southern California psychotherapist, writer, educator, and speaker whose work sits at the intersection of emotional responsibility, attachment, achievement, and intimate partnership.
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Psychotherapy with a point of view—and room for your full humanity.
Elise helps highly capable women understand why strength can become compulsory, helps men develop the emotional skills healthy relationships require, and helps couples recognize the pattern beneath their repetitive conflicts.
Her approach is relational, attachment-based, trauma-informed, and compassion-focused. It does not pathologize women for carrying too much or shame men for what they were never taught. Instead, it makes space for the adaptations that helped people survive—and the capacities that help them build something different.
Her founder story includes motherhood, heartbreak, faith, survival, rebuilding, and reinvention. These experiences inform her humanity, not the boundaries of her clinical work.
Credentials & experience
California Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist #135111
Master of Arts in Clinical Psychology, emphasis in Marriage and Family Therapy
Master of Arts in Psychology
Master of Arts in Spiritual Psychology
Individual, couples, and family psychotherapy
Attachment-based, emotionally focused, and trauma- and EMDR-informed care
Cognitive-behavioral, relational, and compassion-focused approaches
Community mental-health, clinic-launch, youth-services, and leadership experience
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