I am Randy Wynglass — a former U.S. Navy and U.S. Marine Corps combat medic, now a California-licensed psychotherapist with fourteen years of clinical experience. The same instinct that ran toward emergencies in service now sits with patients in the slower, more careful work of repair.
My work is shaped by two parallel experiences — the discipline of medicine practiced under pressure, and the slower, more careful work of helping a person trace the architecture of a belief that no longer serves them. Both demand the same thing: presence without performance.
I help patients identify and challenge unhelpful beliefs rooted in early childhood — the quiet assumptions that govern how we relate, how we work, and how we tolerate being seen. Using evidence-based cognitive and acceptance-based methods, I team with each patient to make the implicit explicit, so it can be questioned, revised, and lived with differently.
In our first session, you can expect a warm greeting and the experience of feeling safe, heard, and protected as we share this sacred space. My strengths are listening, reflecting back what I actually hear, attention to structure, and the use of humor when humor is honest. I work best with patients who are willing to do the work — thought records, suggested reading, skills practiced between sessions — and who are comfortable working with a Black professional and value diversity in clinical care.
My clinical work draws on cognitive, acceptance-based, and trauma-focused frameworks. The right tool depends on the patient and the moment — not the other way around.
Tracking and modifying unhelpful thoughts and beliefs that drive emotional reactivity. Challenging distorted perceptions through thought records, behavioral experiments, and structured between-session practice — the discipline of bringing the implicit into view so it can be revised.
Teaching cognitive fusion and defusion skills so patients can align daily behavior with their core values — not with whatever thought happens to be loudest in the room. ACT recovers agency without requiring you to win an argument with your own mind.
A trauma-focused protocol that helps the nervous system metabolize memories the body has been holding. Used selectively, with proper preparation, and within a stable therapeutic alliance — never as a shortcut around the relational work that makes it safe.
Additional approaches — including Trauma-Focused CBT, grief and bereavement therapy, and faith-informed Christian counseling — are available when clinically indicated or by request.
The testimonials below are paraphrased from verified client reviews submitted through Grow Therapy. Personal identifiers have been removed; emotional outcome has been preserved.
"From the very first session I felt heard and respected. He met me where I was and made it clear he was ready to work alongside me to become better.
Verified Client · After Session One
"He doesn't stay on the surface. He looks for the root of the problem and helps you find a way through it. A genuinely skilled therapist.
Verified Client
"The intake was warm and unhurried. I left the first session with real hope that this would be a relationship I could trust over time.
Verified Client · After Intake
"I came in guarded. He didn't push, didn't perform. He just stayed steady, and over time I noticed I had started telling the truth more often, including to myself.
Verified Client
Drawn from 26 verified client reviews across Grow Therapy. Reviews paraphrased to protect client identity per professional ethical guidelines.
A short introduction to two clinical themes that surface repeatedly in my practice. These are starting points, not substitutes for individualized treatment.
Many of the beliefs that govern adult relationships were installed in childhood, when a child's nervous system had to decide quickly what was safe to feel and what was safer to bury. Those rules — "do not need too much," "do not be a burden," "do not let anyone see the soft part" — keep working long after the original threat is gone.
Cognitive work is the practice of bringing those rules into the room. Naming them. Examining the evidence. Testing what happens when the rule is allowed to bend. Over time, the belief loses its grip — not because we attacked it, but because we finally let it be looked at.
Racial trauma is the cumulative impact of racism on the body, the relational system, and the sense of self. It does not always arrive as a single event. More often it accrues — a thousand small accommodations made before lunch — and shows up later as exhaustion, hypervigilance, and a quiet conviction that the cost of being whole in public is too high.
Clinical work in this space holds two things at once: the structural reality of what is happening, and the personal labor of metabolizing it without being defined by it. The goal is not to resolve racism in a session. The goal is to recover the self that has been doing so much of the carrying.
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