Jessica Alba opens up about ‘one of the hardest times’ of her life (Exclusive)

Jessica Alba is opening up about the benefits of therapy.

The Honest Company founder opened up to AOL about taking her 10-year-old daughter, Honor Warren, to therapy. Alba, who has been candid about her parenting styles in the past, explains that therapy means different things to different people and seeking therapy has helped her through one of the "hardest" times of her life.

"It's nice to be able to talk something out and if i'm not seeing eye to eye with my daughter on something, there's some type of miscommunication and there must be a better way to talk to her so I want to find a way to be a better mom to her. Especially, [since] she's going to develop into being a pre-teen very soon and there [are] hormones she's developing very quickly and her brain and her body and all of it. I just want to really be there for her in the best way. I found that was one of the hardest times of my life," Alba says.

"And so I hope that I can be there for her and show up in the best way that I can," she added.

The Latina actress explained that her family and its Mexican culture are typically against therapy, however that doesn't stop her from having her own views and perspective on the matter.

"I didn't grow up with it. It's very weird for Latinos to talk about your problems and air your dirty laundry or whatever it is. I actually don't think of it as a bad thing and I think opposite to my family," Alba told AOL.

"It's very taboo in my family and people don't talk about it freely or openly or anything like that. They're all very confused by me [laughs]. Luckily, I feel okay to allow my family to have their opinion and that I respectfully have mine. I feel like that is a luxury that I get to have because not everyone gets feel that way -- they feel that what their family feels about something is how they need to."

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"People are afraid of what they don't know and I think people like to give generalizations about things that they don't know. Until you experience something and immerse yourself in it and also what therapy is for me might be very different for what it is to someone else. And so, you can't treat two things the same way. You have to give respect and space for it to be different for different people."