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WILA Welcome to the Wright Institute Los Angeles (WILA). We offer Affordable Therapy for everyday people.

You don’t have to choose between your mental health and your ocular health! Therapy at WILA is both high quality and aff...
09/11/2026

You don’t have to choose between your mental health and your ocular health! Therapy at WILA is both high quality and affordable, with sliding scale fees based on your financial circumstances. 😎

If you or someone you know are looking for therapy in LA, check out the link in our bio for more info on our services and how to contact us!

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If you free associate to this word, what comes to mind?For us, it’s the experience of rumination. Rumination involves re...
09/08/2026

If you free associate to this word, what comes to mind?

For us, it’s the experience of rumination. Rumination involves repetitive, negative thoughts that loop continuously in our mind. Though their intention is to be helpful and/or protective in some way, these thoughts often leave us feeling distressed, mentally and emotionally exhausted, and stuck. Rumination is most often associated with anxiety and obsession/compulsion, but it is not exclusive to these mental states.

Share your associations in the comments!

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Ready to explore another common therapy belief? WILA is once again asking the question: “Is the belief a fact, or is it ...
09/04/2026

Ready to explore another common therapy belief? WILA is once again asking the question: “Is the belief a fact, or is it a defense?”.

In this series, we’re exploring how common beliefs about therapy may serve as unconscious defenses, aimed at protecting us—from deeper, harder beliefs, feelings, conflicts, etc.—but ultimately preventing us from getting the care we deserve.

Today’s belief centers around what is “needed” for therapy to be affordable. Is it insurance, and the oversight that comes with it?

At WILA, we believe that psychodynamic therapy should be affordable for all, not just those with insurance. That is why we offer fees based on a sliding scale, often priced like a copay.

For more information about WILA and how to contact us, check out the link in our bio!

09/02/2026

Can allowing ourselves to NOT know things actually be a positive? In today’s therapeutic minute, 2nd year WILA therapist Gregory Bendau, PsyD explores this question using the psychoanalytic concept of “negative capability” and the context of the therapeutic relationship.

*Disclaimer: Many psychoanalytic/psychotherapeutic terms are complex and require much more than a minute to describe in full. The descriptions offered in the “A Therapeutic Minute” series are not meant to be concrete definitions, they are simply meant to introduce terms in the language of therapists currently training in these fields. As always, we encourage you to do further research if you’re interested to learn more about a term or concept we touch on!

Have you heard about the new “Therapy That Sticks” initiative from Psychotherapy Action Network ? It’s a multifaceted in...
08/26/2026

Have you heard about the new “Therapy That Sticks” initiative from Psychotherapy Action Network ? It’s a multifaceted initiative aimed at empowering individuals to pursue mental health treatment that creates meaningful, lasting change by educating them about their options, debunking myths and misinformation about therapy, and sharing resources for affordable psychotherapy services.

This includes a Low-Cost Psychotherapy Directory, which provides information on clinics around the country that offer depth-oriented care that is free or low-cost—like WILA!

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What comes up for you when you think about “the unknown”? What is unknown (or uncertain, unfamiliar, mysterious, unpredi...
08/20/2026

What comes up for you when you think about “the unknown”?

What is unknown (or uncertain, unfamiliar, mysterious, unpredictable, etc.) is a major topic of discussion in psychoanalysis. Two of the major themes in these discussions are making the unknown known (by bringing what is unconscious to consciousness) and accepting the unknown (by tolerating the discomfort that comes with it).

The latter theme is particularly important, as there will always be limits to what we can know—even about ourselves. As contemporary psychoanalyst Adam Phillips states in his book “Terrors and Experts”: “if psychoanalysis doesn’t also facilitate the patients’ capacity not to know themselves, it becomes merely another way of setting limits to the self.”

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Feeling ambivalence about therapy is not uncommon, especially with depth therapies like psychodynamic. Bringing up exper...
08/18/2026

Feeling ambivalence about therapy is not uncommon, especially with depth therapies like psychodynamic.

Bringing up experiences from our past and feeling them in the present can be hard, uncomfortable, scary…which sometimes makes us want to avoid doing the work altogether. And yet, this same work can feel relieving, freeing, connecting, healing…the things that keep us coming back.

What is probably less common than feeling this ambivalence is talking about it with the therapist themselves. But exploring and working through our ambivalence about therapy can help us better navigate the ambivalence in our everyday lives—like when we’re going through a change, faced with a difficult decision, or developing a new relationship.

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Part of you wants therapy. Part of you has already decided you can’t afford it, or it’s just not for you. That second pa...
08/15/2026

Part of you wants therapy. Part of you has already decided you can’t afford it, or it’s just not for you. That second part might not be fact—it might be part of the situation, but it might also be a defense. Against hope, against disappointment, against the idea that you deserve care.

At WILA, we’re big on recognizing and working through defenses. We’re also big on providing psychodynamic therapy and affordable fees, based on a sliding scale, often priced like a copay.

For more information about WILA and how to contact us, check out the link in our bio!

WILA is excited to share our Alumni Association’s next virtual CE event: “The One and the Many: Bion and the Science of ...
08/13/2026

WILA is excited to share our Alumni Association’s next virtual CE event: “The One and the Many: Bion and the Science of At-One-Ment” with Thomas Helscher, Ph.D. This talk will trace the work of Wilfred Bion—from his pre-Kleinian work on groups, to his seminars in Los Angeles, to his last major work, Attention and Interpretation, and concluding with his clinical seminars. Special attention will be paid to Bion’s developments of Freud’s primary and secondary processes and his own “science of at-one-ment”.

Register between now and September 4th, 2026 to receive ***early bird pricing***. And please don’t forget to share this event with your clinical community!

Learn more and register at our link in bio.

The recent NYT opinion essay by Daniel Duane “Therapy Needs to Get Help.” lays out something the field has known for yea...
08/11/2026

The recent NYT opinion essay by Daniel Duane “Therapy Needs to Get Help.” lays out something the field has known for years but rarely names directly: “evidence-based” therapy has become almost code for CBT-related therapies. Not because the evidence actually favors their effectiveness, but because these therapies are the few that are able to fit into an insurance-mandated clinical trial.

If we look beyond clinical trial evidence, we can see reports that not only does psychodynamic therapy (and other depth therapies) have noticeable effects, but also those effects keep growing after treatment ends—while the effects of “evidence-based” therapies often fade once the trial does. So, insurance’s insistence on clinical trial evidence didn’t lead to finding the best therapies. It led to finding the simplest ones to measure.

At WILA, we believe in the power of psychodynamic therapy. We also believe that no insurer should decide what kind of care you can access. That’s why we offer sliding scale therapy, often priced like a copay—so you can afford to choose the therapy that is right for you. If you’re in the LA area and are looking to start therapy, contact us at the link in bio!

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