Carl H. Shubs

With 25 years of specialized clinical experience, Carl H. Shubs has built a practice centered on one sustained conviction: that meaningful change begins when people are helped to find and inhabit their real selves. A licensed psychologist based in Beverly Hills, California, he brings particular depth to trauma work — having published in professional journals and authored books on the subject — and approaches each person’s history not as something to be managed but as something worth genuinely understanding.

He works with children, teenagers, adults, and older adults navigating a wide range of concerns: addiction to substances or behaviors, anxiety and depression, abuse and its aftermath, relationship breakdown, divorce, co-parenting conflict, and sexual identity and orientation. For clients dealing with compulsive patterns around pornography or screen use, his somatic and behavioral tools offer a concrete way to interrupt automatic cycles and rebuild a felt sense of choice in daily life. Sessions are available in person and online.

Dr. Shubs describes his role as ally, guide, and navigator — present not to tell clients who they are, but to help them figure that out for themselves. He works in both traditional talk therapy and body-based approaches, adapting to what each person actually needs rather than applying a fixed method.