NIKI PAYNE, LMFT
CA #156310

Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist
Owner of Nicole Christina Payne, LMFT
DBA NCP Relational Counseling & Couples Therapy

If you’re here, you may be someone who thinks deeply, cares about your relationships, and still finds yourself questioning your judgment at times—especially when emotions, attachment, or past experiences get stirred up. Many of the people I work with aren’t lacking insight or effort; they’re navigating internal conflicts that feel hard to sort through alone.

Therapy offers a space to slow things down. It’s a place to understand what’s driving your reactions, make sense of patterns that keep repeating, and rebuild trust in your ability to respond with intention rather than urgency. The goal isn’t to eliminate emotion or doubt, but to help you relate to them differently—so they no longer run the show.

My work focuses on helping individuals, couples, families, and groups develop greater emotional regulation, clarity, and relational security. I take a relational, trauma-informed approach that integrates attachment-based work, DBT skills, and psychodynamic understanding. Together, we look at how protective patterns formed, how they may be showing up now, and how to create more flexible, self-respecting ways of relating.

I work with clients throughout Los Angeles and across California via telehealth. My approach is collaborative, thoughtful, and paced to support meaningful change—so you can move forward with greater steadiness, confidence, and self-trust.

You don’t need to become someone else to feel better—you need support understanding what’s already happening inside you.