our team

Rachel Jones, MA, LMFT

Rachel (she/they) is a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist, DBT-Linehan Board of Certification, Certified Clinician™, & Clinical Director at Miracle Mile Therapy. Rachel understands therapy as a collaborative process that allows trust and authenticity to foster insight and growth, exploring how the past informs the present. She specializes in LGBTQ+ identities and gender-affirming care, as well as individuals struggling with borderline personality disorder, trauma, anxiety, and addiction.

Rachel helps clients learn and practice skills for tolerating pain in times of crisis, responding instead of reacting, increasing self-respect, improving relationships, and participating fully in each moment. She tailors her sessions to most effectively fit each patient's unique needs, always meeting them with empathetic understanding and radical genuineness. As a queer therapist, she understands the importance of affirmative treatment where all the intersecting identities of each client are honored, recognized, and respected. She works mainly from a person-centered and relational perspective, using dialectical behavioral therapy to cultivate skills and inform ways to approach change. Her ultimate goal is to remind you of your own resourcefulness as you work together to create and enhance your life worth living.

  • Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist (LMFT 119496) • California Board of Behavioral Sciences

    DBT-Linehan Board of Certification, Certified Clinician™ • DBT®-Linehan Board of Certification

  • Master’s Degree in Clinical Psychology, LGBT Specialization • Antioch University • Culver City, California

    Bachelor’s Degree in Psychology • Pepperdine University, Seaver College • Malibu, California

  • DBT Supervision & Consultation Training
    Alan E. Fruzzetti, PhD & Aditi Vijay, PhD | Center for DBT and Families, Consultation & Training

    Intensive Training in the Dialectical Behavior Therapy Prolonged Exposure Protocol for PTSD
    Melanie Harned, PhD, ABPP, & Annie McCall, LMHC | DBT PE, Harned Consulting

    DBT with Parents, Couples, & Families
    Alan E. Fruzzetti, PhD | Center for DBT and Families, Consultation & Training

    Back into the Book::Cognitive Behavioral Treatment of Borderline Personality Disorder
    Shari Manning, PhD | Treatment Implementation Collaborative

    DBT Skills Training for Trainers
    Patricia Gielseman, LMFT, DBT-LBC | Choices Counseling & Skills Center

    DBT for Adolescents & Families
    Drs. Alec Miller, Jill Rathus, & Marsha M. Linehan | Behavioral Tech – A Linehan Training Institute

    Prolonged Exposure for PTSD & Trauma
    Drs. Lata K. McGinn & Lauren Bonavitacola | Cognitive & Behavioral Consultants

    Oaklander Model of Gestalt Play Therapy
    Karen Fried, PsyD, LMFT | Violet Solomon Oaklander Foundation

    Cognitive Behavioral Therapy For Anxiety Disorders
    Drs. Judith S. Beck & Aaron T. Beck | Beck Institute for Cognitive Behavioral Therapy

    Comprehensive Dialectical Behavior Therapy
    Drs. Marsha M. Linehan, Tony DuBose, & André Ivanoff | Behavioral Tech – A Linehan Training Institute

  • Licensed Marriage & Family Therapist • Private Practice • Los Angeles, California

    DBT Therapist & Program Director • Comprehensive DBT Program • Beverly Hills, California

    Crisis Resource Associate • Center for the Study of Young People in Groups • Cheryl K. Eskin, LMFT • Cedars-Sinai Hospital

    MFT Traineeship and Practicum • Being Alive Los Angeles • Susan Holt, PsyD, LMFT • West Hollywood, California

    Resident Counselor • Promises Malibu• Addiction and Dual-Diagnosis Residential Treatment Center •Malibu, California

    Resident Counselor • Malibu Vista • Women’s Mental Health Residential Treatment Center • Malibu, California

    House Manager • Spero House • Women’s Transitional Home and Sober Living • Pacific Palisades, California

  • California Association of Marriage & Family Therapists (CAMFT)

    Lesbian and Gay Psychotherapy Association (LAGPA)

    International OCD Foundation (IOCDF)

    Bisexuality-Aware Professionals

  • Jones, R. (2023, August 21). Traumatic invalidation and its impact on LGBTQIA+ clients. The Affirmative Couch.

    Jones, R. (2023, June 26). 5 supervisor “green flags”. The Affirmative Couch.

    Timmins, J. (2022, August 30). 9 signs of borderline personality disorder (BPD). GoodRx.

    Jones, R. (2020). Fighting without fighting: DBT skills for addressing microaggressions [Course]. The Affirmative Couch.

    Jones, R. (2019, July 1). Hiding in plain sight: Why we need to pay attention to bi/pan erasure. The Affirmative Couch.

    Jones, R. (2019, August 26). Trans women ARE women. The Affirmative Couch.

    Jones, R. (2019, July 15). Who helps the helpers? 8 tips for therapists after client suicide. The Affirmative Couch.

Lauren Smith, MA, AMFT

Lauren (she/her) is an Associate Marriage and Family Therapist at Miracle Mile Therapy, offering therapy for adults and adolescents. The foundation of her practice includes meeting clients with empathy, warmth, and authenticity. Lauren’s goal is to offer a non-judgmental space for clients to begin the process of personal exploration and growth. She is dedicated to creating a safe, affirmative, and inclusive environment for individuals with unique lived experiences.

Lauren’s primary focus is on helping clients struggling with anxiety, low self-esteem, perfectionism, trauma, borderline personality disorder, and addiction. She uses evidence-based practices, including CBT and DBT, to teach skills that help challenge old thinking patterns and incorporate new tools to navigate life. Along with this, she incorporates a psychodynamic approach to help clients explore and gain insight around how the past impacts the present. At her core, Lauren is a humanistic therapist, focusing on developing a collaborative relationship that allows her clients to feel validated, respected, and honored in their own unique journey in life.

  • Registered Associate Marriage and Family Therapist (AMFT 132888) • California Board of Behavioral Sciences
    Supervised by Rachel Jones LMFT #119496

  • Master of Arts in Clinical Psychology • Antioch University • Culver City, California

    Bachelor of Arts in Liberal Studies – Psychology • Antioch University • Culver City, California

  • DBT with Reactive or High Conflict Couples • Alan E. Fruzzetti, PhD • Centre for MindBody Health

    Dialectical Behavior Therapy Skills • Nick L. Salsman, PhD, ABPP • Behavioral Tech

    Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction (MBSR) • Gloria Kamler • UCLA

    Fierce Self-Compassion Workshop • Kristin Neff, PhD • Insight LA

    Implicit Human Motivation Study (Research Assistant) • Barnard College of Columbia University

  • Crisis Resource Associate • Center for the Study of Young People in Groups (“Teen Line”) • Cedars-Sinai Hospital • Los Angeles, California

    Marriage & Family Therapist Trainee • The Center for Professional Counseling • North Hollywood, California

    Resident Advisor • Transcend Recovery Community • Los Angeles, California

Lyndsey Doolen, MA, AMFT

Lyndsey (she/they) is an Associate Marriage and Family Therapist at Miracle Mile Therapy, with a background in gender & sexuality exploration & internalized oppression through an intersectional & culturally sensitive lens. Lyndsey firmly believes in each client’s inherent worth, power, and self-determination to facilitate the shift they are seeking. Her approach to therapy is collaborative & relational – as she believes there is much to be learned by exploring our internal experience with a compassionate and informed collaborator. She tends to be engaged and curious in the therapeutic space, offering observations, asking questions, and sharing any noticeable patterns or connections.

Lyndsey works with individual adults and adolescents, with a special focus on LGBTQ+ and gender affirming care, trauma and PTSD, anxiety, depression, grief, relationship issues, and life transitions. Her treatment approach includes a thoughtful combination of narrative, feminist, person-centered, relational, and cognitive-behavioral therapies. Lyndsey works to establish the relational safety needed to examine barriers to clients’ goals, previously adaptive behaviors that may no longer serve them, and new perspectives on existing beliefs while increasing the connection to sense of self and developing ways to communicate boundaries more effectively. She knows therapy can be challenging and finds great benefit in balancing difficult topics with levity and warmth.

  • Registered Associate Marriage and Family Therapist (AMFT 134972) • California Board of Behavioral Sciences
    Supervised by Rachel Jones LMFT #119496

  • Master of Arts in Clinical Psychology, LGBTQ Affirmative Specialization • Antioch University • Culver City, California

    Bachelor of Fine Arts • Stephen F. Austin State University • Nacogdoches, Texas

  • Eye Movement Desensitization & Reprocessing (EMDR), Part II (In Progress) • EMDR Institute, Inc.

    Eye Movement Desensitization & Reprocessing (EMDR), Part I • EMDR Institute, Inc.

    Helping Couples Heal Workshop • The Center for Relational Healing

    Trauma-Focused Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (TF-CBT) • Los Angeles LGBT Center

    CPR Certification • Los Angeles LGBT Center

  • Associate Marriage and Family Therapist • Brave Trails

    Marriage and Family Therapist Trainee • Los Angeles LGBT Center

    Intake Coordinator • Addiction Recovery Counseling Center

    Volunteer • Resisterhood LA

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