About Me

Dr. Gabriella Azzam-Forni is a licensed clinical psychologist and relationship expert offering high-quality, evidence-based therapy for adults and couples in Los Angeles and across California, New York, Texas, and Florida via telehealth. Her private practice provides a supportive and warm space for clients navigating anxiety, trauma, depression, life transitions, and relationship challenges.

Dr. Azzam-Forni is especially known for her work in couples therapy and relationship counseling, and has been featured in several magazines including Time Magazine, Real Simple, TIME for Kids, Bored Panda, among others. In therapy, she helps partners strengthen emotional connection, improve communication, work through affairs, trauma, and other betrayals, and rebuild trust through thoughtful, research-based approaches such as Emotionally Focused Therapy (EFT), the Gottman Method, and Relational Life Therapy (RLT). Her work is warm, structured, and deeply focused on helping couples feel closer, more understood, and more secure with one another. She can even help couples decouple amicably if that is what they may be seeking help with.

Dr. Azzam-Forni integrates trauma-informed modalities including Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR) therapy, Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT), and psychodynamic therapy, tailoring care to each individual and couple with depth, clarity, and compassion. She is also highly respected for her specialized psychological evaluations, including forensic, and medical-legal assessments. She has testified as an expert in clinical psychology in superior court, criminal court, and mental health court, and is frequently contacted as an expert on forensic cases by attorneys and mental health professionals across the United States.

In addition to her clinical work, Dr. Azzam-Forni has extensive experience supporting first responders, executives, high-achieving professionals, and organizational leaders managing burnout, stress, and the emotional demands of responsibility. She also consults with small, medium, and large corporations and organizations to promote workplace mental health, leadership development, employee wellness, and healthier professional culture. Relatedly, she enjoys providing trainings on various topics related to effective communication, increasing morale, and managing stress and burnout, among others.

Additionally, Dr. Azzam-Forni teaches graduate courses on an adjunct basis at Pepperdine University in areas including psychological assessment, theory, interventions, and treatment. She also provides clinical supervision to pre- and post-doctoral individuals, as well as associate therapists, who are in the advanced stages of training to becoming licensed psychologists or therapists.

Dr. Azzam-Forni offers in-person therapy in Los Angeles and online services across California, New York, Texas, and Florida welcoming clients seeking meaningful and emotionally-attuned psychological care.