Beth Kadlec M.A, LCSW

Beth Kadlec M.A, LCSW Psychotherapy for adults/couples in Santa Monica. Ketamine assisted psychotherapy
Bethkadlec.com Psychotherapy for adults and couples in Santa Monica.

Bethkadlec.com

INCLUDING:
Spiritually integrated treatment for anxiety and depression. Help coping with life and career transitions. Recovery coaching/aftercare, and premarital counseling

04/25/2026

Wanna glimpse into my solo birthday trip to Maui?
Very stellium in Aries ♈️
Here’s a taste
🌺 🥳🌊 🍔 🌴🌈 ☀️ 🌅

And may it serve to remind you
Do the thing
Take the risk
Be brave
Explore
Rest
Eat
Have patience (youuuu, not me lol 😂)
Practice compassion
Keep becoming
Dream
L I V E

04/21/2026

Don’t shy away from GROWTH.
Even in the best of ways, it can feel hard or uncomfortable.

Being still As an AriesAs a manifesting generator As a womanWith a HIGH dopamine brain IS AN ACT OF REBELLION to my nerv...
04/16/2026

Being still
As an Aries
As a manifesting generator
As a woman
With a HIGH dopamine brain

IS AN ACT OF REBELLION
to my nervous system.

Still rebelling. Still pushing against.
It’s my nature.
And it’s still hard for me.

🌺

04/08/2026

This spring feels a whole lot different than last year. 🌺Last year at this time I was crying every day and I was panicki...
04/06/2026

This spring feels a whole lot different than last year. 🌺

Last year at this time I was crying every day and I was panicking and barely able to stay present in my body. I was so dysregulated and just trying to survive.

I had left my marriage and my home of 15 years February of 2025… it was drastic, dramatic and traumatic.

It felt like the biggest storm I’ve ever encountered and even when I felt completely lost and powerless— I remembered that I AM the storm.

It was so much change, so fast and all at once. It took so much energy to adapt and adjust and become who I needed to be to face that transition.

In doing so I get to keep evolving to meet the parts of myself that are now emerging.
Even though I’m still in limbo, I feel the magic and the flow that delights me each day.

It wasn’t just time that helped. I will do another post on what tools and practices that helped me get here. 💫 stay tuned.

02/23/2026

Come on a ride with me…

Happy Monday.

02/15/2026

Do you ever find yourself full of RAGE while you’re also navigating deeeeeep layers of healing and letting go- like the recognition of your most shadowiest pain and the patterns you’ve perpetuated that keep repeating and you know liberation is so close but it can’t be forced and healing is a process all while trying to build a business that serves more people, expresses your full creative potential aligned in co-creation with spirit while also in your luteal phase going through a divorce and trying to show up regulated for your clients and your daughter while also being authentic and visible in your vulnerability?

❤️‍🩹

Me too.

01/31/2026

♥️In our journey as humans just about everyone I meet has spent so much time and energy trying to AVOID feeling. Especially trying to avoid feeling pain and discomfort.
This cuts off the pathways and channels to FEELING ALL OF IT.
We cannot truly feel the expansive of joy and peace if we’re suppressing and avoiding certain feeling states. It creates a life experience where we are half asleep or partially numb.

Dr. Jill Bolte Taylor, a renowned neuroanatomist had a stroke and wrote about it in My Stroke of Insight. Her ability to observe her brain functions disappearing in real-time offered profound insights into her human experience.

♥️We are not meant to suppress and avoid. We are meant to feel and we are meant to wake up to the deliciousness of this opportunity

01/28/2026

THIS right here ⬆️ is a watershed moment

When we can NAME and identify the forces that have been pushing us “to prove” our
Value
Worthiness
Goodness
Acceptability
Deserving-ness

We can start to dismantle the old, and build a new way of relating to ourself and our drives. More authentically

This is the work - finding the truth behind the drive.
You will still be driven, you will still be competent, you will still be successful when you stop trying to prove it.
It might just all flow with more grace… if this resonates drop a 🦋 in the comments

01/28/2026

I love everything about this clip.
Larry in therapist/ patient mode is 🎯

WHY IS IT SO HARD TO CHANGE PATTERNS? Even when we can see issues and the consequences… Because all dysfunction/destruct...
01/11/2026

WHY IS IT SO HARD TO CHANGE PATTERNS? Even when we can see issues and the consequences…

Because all dysfunction/destructive behaviors are an attempt to protect us from feeling pain/hurt.

Lasting change requires us to slow down and find the place where we can identify and FEEL the hurt.

For most of us, we need some nervous system regulation and mental preparation before we are able to tolerate these feelings.

Having a compassionate, safe, connected, therapeutic relationship in place is great foundation.
That’s what we are building every time we show up to session. It feels like magic when we both bring curiosity, willingness and bravery to our meetings.
I may be the guide, but there is no hierarchy. I must show up with same qualities.

My role is to help you feel safe enough to experience and lean into uncomfortable emotions so patterns of protection/dysfunction can be addressed.

Left to our own tendencies, humans choose coping — like distraction, pleasure, comfort and familiarity over change. 🤍

My office this week.
01/08/2026

My office this week.

Address

2665 30th Street
Santa Monica, CA
90405

Opening Hours

Monday 9am - 8pm
Tuesday 9am - 8pm
Wednesday 9am - 8pm
Thursday 9am - 8pm
Friday 9am - 5pm

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