About Payam
Payam Kade is a licensed marriage and family therapist who helps people manage anxiety, stress, and relationship strain. He speaks English and Persian and brings 26 years of clinical experience in California to each session. He aims to create a calm space where clients can speak honestly and feel heard.
He works with people facing trauma, abuse, and problems tied to self-esteem and depression. He also supports those dealing with chronic pain, control issues, or the fallout from separation and infidelity.
Background and approach
Sessions focus on practical steps clients can try between meetings. Payam emphasizes a straightforward, respectful approach. He listens first, then helps clients identify patterns that keep them stuck.
Conversations often include small experiments and coping skills to reduce anxiety and improve daily functioning. Over his career he has helped people with concerns such as abandonment, guilt and shame, impulsivity, narcissism, and obsessive-compulsive behaviors. His experience also covers domestic violence, family problems, and men’s midlife struggles.
He frames work as a collaborative effort toward clearer goals. People interested in short-term problem solving or longer-term change can expect clear options for next steps. He supports international clients and offers multiple session formats to match different needs.
The process begins with a short questionnaire and scheduling that fits the client’s availability.
Evidence-based approaches and online care
Payam uses evidence-based therapeutic techniques focused on helping people reduce anxiety and manage stress. One common technique involves learning concrete skills to manage anxious thoughts and body signals so daily routines feel less overwhelming. This approach is useful for worry, panic, and everyday stress.Another frequent technique centers on changing unhelpful relationship patterns. Sessions explore how interaction styles and expectations contribute to conflict, and then introduce small behavior changes that improve communication and trust. This work can help with infidelity, separation stress, and recurring arguments.
Finding the right approach is a team effort. He works with each person to match techniques to their needs, goals, and preferences. Together they track what helps and adjust the plan as progress unfolds.
Online sessions are offered by video calls, phone, live chat, and text-based messaging to make therapy more flexible. Video works well for deeper conversations, phone can be easier when bandwidth is limited, and text or chat suits quick check-ins or brief skill practice. These options let people fit therapy into busy days and maintain continuity while traveling or living abroad.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Control issues
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Post-traumatic stress
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
- Experience
- 26 years
- Licensed
- California
- Languages
- English, Persian
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