Linda Nusbaum, Marriage and Family Therapist

Spacious, warm, and inviting fully furnished office in Bixby Knolls near the corner of Wardlow and Orange. Just minutes from the freeway.
This shared counseling office has access to plenty of assigned and off-street parking, and is next to a local park. When you enter the premises, you will see a welcoming hallway leading to a serene and well-appointed waiting room. The private office is the largest in the suite. It is warmly and professionally decorated and includes several chairs, a couch, and desk for your business activities. Wifi included.
Please call 562-234-9348 or email [email protected]

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Do You Apologize When You Hurt Your Mate? - Relationship Counseling Center of Long Beach All of us in relationships come into our union with the skills we learned growing up. Many of us might have come from homes where the problems never got solved. Some of us might even be new to even thinking about saying, “I am sorry.” That’s how I grew up. My family was full of love and deep c...

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How We Bring Our Habits Into Our Relationship - Relationship Counseling Center of Long Beach All of us as children learned about the world. We understood if we were well taken care of, or if we were ignored. We figured out when we were coddled and not allowed to say much, or we had to discover things by ourselves and speak up. All of us have had childhood experiences that shaped us. And sin...

Name Calling in a Relationship - How to Stop

Name Calling in a Relationship - How to Stop Name calling in a relationship can hurt your loved one, undermine your connection, and stir conflict. Learn how to bring peace to your relationship today!

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When Couples Swear at Each Other Swearing at our loved ones damages relationships. Want to know why people do it and how they can make things better? Read this.

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Openness, Vulnerability, and Being Truly Known Openness and vulnerability are essential to truly being known. We long for acceptance, but true acceptance comes from understanding. So, how do we get it?

Why Our Habits Are So Hard to Break

Why Our Habits Are So Hard to Break Most of us, by the time we choose a mate, have spent our lives figuring out how to be ourselves. Often it takes a while to just know who we are and what we will do when we need something or have to do something. These are very unique and individual skills, and we all know that we are not the same as...

Are You The Authority in Your Relationship?

Are You The Authority in Your Relationship? - Relationship Counseling Center of Long Beach Some of us in life are leaders, and some of us are followers. There is nothing wrong with the way we are. We are mostly just being the way we are and the way we are wired. But when we are in a relationship if one person wants to be the leader and can’t tolerate sharing that role with the other, th...

Do You Rehash the Difficulties in YOUR Relationship?

Do You Rehash the Difficulties in YOUR Relationship? - Relationship Counseling Center of Long Beach Often when people get their feelings hurt they take what happened to them and re-run it through their brain again and again. Sometimes we can see that we should have said something different, and sometimes we just get madder and madder. This situation happens in all our relationships, especially wit...

Do You Tell Your Partner About Their Faults?

Do You Tell Your Partner About Their Faults? It hurts when our partners pick at our faults. Learn how to express how you and your partner can make be happier, without hurting each other's feelings.

Where Our Heart and Mind Take Us in Love

Where Our Heart and Mind Take Us in Love - Relationship Counseling Center of Long Beach I read an expression recently. It said, “We fall in love with our heart, we fall out of love with our head.” When I think about this I know it makes a lot of sense. I have this friend who is sad that her marriage is ending. She still loves her mate, and she is feeling what her love is creating f...

Help Yourself by Looking Inside

Help Yourself by Looking Inside - Relationship Counseling Center of Long Beach When we are in a relationship, some of us often look at our partners and wonder how could they treat us they way they do. We might even try and get them to change their actions by complaining about what it is that makes us uncomfortable. Many of us do this. I know I have done this in the past. But n...

How We Are So Different from Our Partners

How We Are So Different from Our Partners - Relationship Counseling Center of Long Beach All of us are connected to our special person in our own way. And it is usually pretty great for those of us who are in a relationship with another person. But on occasion I am wondering if you ever feel that you are talking to someone who is from another planet? I know sometimes I am talking to my....

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Be Yourself, Love Yourself, and Love Will Come - Relationship Counseling Center of Long Beach Many of us seek love from another person. That kind of explains why we couple. We look for the right kind of mate so we can feel good about ourselves. This is very human. But the more I learn about myself and other people, the more I understand that when we are fully ourselves, and only ourselves, t...

Taking Stock in Our Better Selves to Reduce Suffering

Taking Stock in Our Better Selves to Reduce Suffering - Relationship Counseling Center of Long Beach All of us in this world have basic kindness, compassion and insight. These are human traits that we all have inside of us. Sometimes, though, when there is a fight between partners, we forget our goodness and make our mates the enemies or tell ourselves we are at fault. This always creates hardship....

Nurture vs Criticism in Relationships: Where Do You Stand?

Nurture vs Criticism in Relationships: Where Do You Stand? Criticism in relationships separates us from our loved ones. Learn what you can do instead to more effectively change your partner's habits and feel closer.

When Expectations in a Relationship Lead Us Astray

When Expectations in a Relationship Lead Us Astray Expectations in relationships dictate a lot of how we interact, plan, and feel. Learn what you can expect in your relationship, and how you can improve it!

The Importance of Apologizing in Relationships

The Importance of Apologizing in Relationships - Relationship Counseling Center of Long Beach When you get into misunderstandings or disagreements with your mate, what do you do? All of us have a reaction, and that is normal. People will not always understand each other even if they love each other dearly. And when the misunderstandings occur, most of us get our feelings hurt. Sometimes thos...

Why Being Pushy in a Relationship Doesn’t Get Us What We Need

Why Being Pushy in a Relationship Doesn’t Get Us What We Need Being pushy in a relationship won't help you or your partner get what you want. Learn about a different strategy that can help both of you be happier TODAY!

How Memories Build Walls Between Us and Our Loved Ones

How Memories Build Walls Between Us and Our Loved Ones - Relationship Counseling Center of Long Beach All of us humans get our feelings hurt, and if we are in a relationship this might happen to us often. Someone does something and immediately we feel as if we have been wronged. This is just the way people interact with each other when they are in close quarters. It makes you normal if this happens....

Feeling Judged in a Relationship? Here’s What You Should Know

Feeling Judged in a Relationship? Here’s What You Should Know - Relationship Counseling Center of Long Beach Feeling judged in a relationship? Learn how we can better communicate our wants and needs to our partner without making them feel disliked or rejected.

What Do We Do About the Distance Between Us?

What Do We Do About the Distance Between Us? - Relationship Counseling Center of Long Beach All of us in relationships get our feelings hurt. I know I do. It happened again last night. I worked late and then came home. My husband had prepared dinner and had been waiting. I felt the pressure but sometimes things can’t be helped. I had some details of my work to continue as I sat down at t...

How to Get Over Hurt Feelings in a Relationship

How to Get Over Hurt Feelings in a Relationship - Relationship Counseling Center of Long Beach Hurt feelings in a relationship are unavoidable. Spending time with someone close eventually involves pain. But it's not the end of the world. Here's why.

Is Needing Space in a Relationship Normal?

Is Needing Space in a Relationship Normal? - Relationship Counseling Center of Long Beach We are all great at being ourselves—in fact no one is better. We are our own experts at knowing what we like, don’t like, want, or don’t want. And sometimes we just need to be by ourselves to figure things out, even if we are in a relationship. This is normal. Everyone needs his or her alone t...

How Wants Can Derail Your Relationship

How Wants Can Derail Your Relationship - Relationship Counseling Center of Long Beach All of us want things to go a certain way. That is the way humans are hardwired. We like this, we don’t like that. We want more of this so we can feel good and we want less of that because it makes us feel bad. These are our wants and dislikes, or in another way to express it, the stuff we want mo...

How to Defuse Conflict in Relationships by Grounding Your Partner

How to Defuse Conflict in Relationships by Grounding Your Partner Often when people are in relationships they can’t help but see the partnership from their own perspective. We all do this in the beginning, and we ask ourselves questions. Do I like this person? Are they right for me? Am I happy? Do I love them? Of course we come from our own mind, we don’t know...

Self-Care in Relationships and Knowing Your Limits

Self-Care in Relationships and Knowing Your Limits - Relationship Counseling Center of Long Beach Self-care in relationships is important and easy to neglect. Here's how to feel happier, stress less, and not feel you're letting your partner down.

Resentment in Relationships: How Self-Pity Divides Uss

Resentment in Relationships: How Self-Pity Divides Us - Relationship Counseling Center of Long Beach Resentment in relationships is all too familiar to us. It’s when our anger towards someone gets so hard it turns into a wall of everything we don’t like about that person. That’s what we normally refer to as “resentment.” We treat resentment like it is the most important thing we can feel....

My Spouse Blames Me for Everything

My Spouse Blames Me for Everything - Relationship Counseling Center of Long Beach My spouse blames me for everything! Learn where that blame comes from, & discover what you can do to reduce the finger pointing in your relationship today!

Hurt People Hurt People: Here’s Why

Hurt People Hurt People: Here's Why - Relationship Counseling Center of Long Beach Hurt people hurt people. Learn about how our past pain and difficulty from childhood trickles forward to complicate our relationships as adults.