Karina Sergi, Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist in La Jolla, CA — therapist at ThriveTalk

Karina Sergi

Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist

14 yrs experience

Updated August 19, 2026 How we verify

About

Karina Sergi, MS, LMFT is a California-licensed marriage and family therapist offering online therapy through Octave, specializing in ADHD, family conflict, and religious trauma. She integrates research-based and traditional approaches (CPT, IFS, mindfulness-based cognitive therapy, motivational interviewing, psychodynamic and solution-focused therapy) with adults and older adults. Alongside direct practice, she has an extensive background in psychedelic-assisted psychotherapy: she provides Ketamine-Assisted Psychotherapy and serves as a clinical trial therapist at Kadima Neuropsychiatry Institute, previously served as Director of Psychedelic Therapy Training and DEI at Pacific Neuroscience Institute's Treatment & Research In Psychedelics (T.R.I.P.) Center, co-founded ReWild Medicine, and trains/instructs through the California Institute of Integral Studies and Beckley Academy.

Services

  • ADHD
  • Family conflict
  • Religious trauma
  • Anxiety
  • Depression
  • Anger management
  • Burnout
  • Caregiver support
  • Divorce
  • Grief
  • Life transitions
  • Relationship issues
  • Stress management
  • Panic
  • Cultural/racial stress
  • Codependency
  • Intergenerational trauma
  • Psychedelic-assisted therapy (ketamine, MDMA, psilocybin)
  • Workplace stress
  • Cognitive processing therapy
  • Harm reduction
  • Internal family systems
  • Interpersonal therapy
  • Mindfulness-based cognitive therapy
  • Motivational interviewing
  • Psychodynamic
  • Relational
  • Solution-focused brief therapy
  • Strength-based
  • Trauma-focused therapy
  • Attachment-based therapy

State licenses

  • California · License #52290 · LMFT Active

    expires 2026-08

Reputation

What clients praise

  • Clients describe her as warm, direct, and understanding
  • Makes couples feel comfortable and safe expressing difficult emotions
  • Non-judgmental, accepting stance even with strong emotion

In the field

Sources

The facts on this page are drawn from 14 public sources and independently fact-checked before publication.

Psychology Today directory

  • Identity anchor: name, credential (LMFT), practice (Octave), location (La Jolla, CA), phone, specialties, issues, modalities, populations, insurance, license #52290, 14 years in practice (psychologytoday.com)

NPPES NPI registry

  • NPI 1952623514, taxonomy Marriage & Family Therapist, license #52290 CA, practice addresses in Lancaster/Northridge/Santa Monica CA (npiregistry.cms.hhs.gov)

mind-diagnostics directory

  • License #52290 CA (renews August 2026), NPI 1952623514, 14 years experience, bio, specialties, English-only, telehealth (mind-diagnostics.org)

Octave provider directory

Beckley Academy team page

  • Bio, 18 years experience, psychedelic training credentials (CIIS, MAPS, Ketamine Training Center, Polaris, Usona, MindMed, Fluence), current headshot photo (beckleyacademy.com)

Kadima Neuropsychiatry Institute team page

  • Affiliation as Ketamine-Assisted Psychotherapy provider and clinical trial therapist at Kadima (kadimanp.com)

LinkedIn profile

  • Professional history, 18+ years experience, Director of Psychedelic Therapy Training/DEI role, education (linkedin.com)

web search aggregation

PubMed

  • Peer-reviewed publication co-authorship confirmed: Psychedelic-Assisted Therapy and Psychedelic Science review, Neurosurgery 2023 (pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov)

Frontiers in Psychiatry

  • Led/co-authored Visual Healing nature-video psilocybin/alcohol-use-disorder pilot RCT (frontiersin.org)

Santa Monica Daily Press

  • Press coverage of the Visual Healing psilocybin research (smdp.com)

Yelp

  • 2 reviews on now-closed Northridge, CA MFT practice listing; positive sentiment (warm, understanding, non-judgmental) (yelp.com)

Apple Podcasts

YouTube (Think Neuro podcast)

  • Guest interview on psilocybin clinical trial work (youtube.com)
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