Latoya Boston,
Licensed Marriage & Family Therapist (CA)
Helping families navigate life's most
important moments.
Therapist. Speaker. Founder. Strategist. Trusted Guide.
For more than 25 years, I have had the privilege of sitting with
people in some of the most meaningful moments of their lives.
I've worked with children and teens trying to understand big emotions. Parents doing their best to raise healthy, confident children. Couples trying to find their way back to one another. Families navigating change. Leaders carrying enormous responsibility. Professional athletes performing under pressure. Organizations caring for people after something unexpected has happened.
And through all of it, I have learned something that continues to shape my work:
People do better when they feel understood, supported, prepared, and connected.
I am Murdis "Latoya" Boston, a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist, founder, speaker, strategist, and mother. My work lives at the intersection of emotional wellness, leadership and life transition.
But underneath all of those titles is something much simpler.
I help people make sense of what they are experiencing and provide strategic guidance to discover next steps.
Sometimes that happens in a therapy room or on a sideline off the court.
Sometimes it happens with a leader carrying more than anyone around them realizes or inside an organization after a loss or crisis.
Sometimes it happens in a room full of people who simply needed someone to give language to something they have been feeling for years.
This is the work I love!
It Started With Families
Before I worked with organizations, leaders, and high-performing athletes, I worked with families.
In 2015, I founded Real Moms Live Child & Family Counseling, Inc.
The idea came from something very personal. As a mother, therapist, professional, and woman, I understood how easy it was to become responsible for everyone around you while slowly losing connection with yourself.
Personally, I felt that families didn't need more judgment. Parents needed places where they could say, "I love my child, and I don't know what to do." They needed support, practical tools for communicating, regulating emotions, repairing relationships, and staying connected through change.
Children and teenagers needed adults willing to listen to what they were communicating, even when they didn't yet have the words to explain it.
For more than 25 years, people have trusted me with their stories, their families, their relationships, their organizations, their questions, their grief, their transitions, and their hopes.
That is something I hold with tremendous respect.
Everybody has a story.
The child acting out has a story.
The parent who looks exhausted has a story.
And often, what looks like a problem from the outside makes much more sense once someone feels safe enough to tell you what is happening on the inside.
One of my priorities is to help people understand; asking for help does not mean their family is failing. Sometimes it simply means you are ready to learn another way. Use the link below to text 323-419-7171, to take the next step.
With care,
Latoya Boston, LMFT
