I have been successfully coaching and counseling people in my private practice since 1990. Typically, my clients are looking to overcome obstacles to their optimum happiness and fulfillment. Many clients are working through unfinished business from their past experience, while many are more recently blocked or stuck in self defeating habits or behaviors. Together, clients and I draw upon a variety of understandings and tools from Western social psychological knowledge and Eastern traditions and philosophies.

“I'm the product of 20 years of therapeutic practice and have attended to over 1,800 clients. I'm eclectic - I work in many modes -cognitive, behavioral, psychodynamic, existential. Each client is assessed at the beginning, middle and end of therapy. I customize my approach to my clients' symptoms, their character & their talents. I have no ideal client but I press hard to go beyond clichés and stereotypes. I look for a "healing fiction" that is practical & useful. My specialty - way beyond techniques of behavioral, cognitive and inter active and psychodynamic modes - I believe is that I am quick to cut to the chase with fresh insights. I believe I listen well and am direct. I work cross culturally; across gender and race. I'm a patient advocate. I team up with ancillary helpers to move clients through their issues. I have won awards for my work with Multiple Sclerosis and with older adults. I am a published writer and I nurture my clients' creativity.”

There are many reasons why you might be considering a Los Angeles psychologist at this time: a long-standing problem, the impact of a current life situation, and/or wanting support for your personal growth. Whatever your reasons, I know that it's important for you to find a therapist with whom you feel you can develop a good working relationship - someone whom you feel you can trust, who can understand your situation, someone with solid training and experience. In our work together we will come to understand more about the sense you may have that your life is not your own - feeling stuck, feeling driven by old habits, feeling depressed, feeling consumed and forestalled by rage, feeling that change is needed in your relationship or in your career. You and I will work together to build a trusting and non-judgmental relationship where you can feel safe to talk about yourself openly. The strength of our relationship is a crucial foundation for our work together. You know your life better than anyone else. Therefore, we will hold great respect for your wisdom about yourself. I will offer my professional knowledge and wisdom as well, and together, we will work to help you discover how to live the life that is best and most fitting for you. In individual therapy, I see my role as a guide and facilitator to help you discover the resources within to become an active agent of your own healing and growth. You'll develop new awareness about the patterns in your life that no longer serve you and new skills to transform those patterns. For couples, I'll help you lower reactivity and shift the dynamics that block intimacy and connectedness so that you can engage with each other with more authenticity and empathy.

I have been in private practice for 30 years. I work mostly with individuals and couples. Most of my clients come for relationship /communication issues- with spouses, partners, kids, and co-workers. I primarily problem-solve, use cognitive behavioral therapy techniques, help with goal-setting, and coping tools and techniques. I am action-oriented, and provide lots of ideas and assistance in solving problems and difficulties. I don't just sit and listen. i provide feedback and make suggestions of specific behaviors to use between sessions. Some areas that I cover are ,anxiety, depression, life transitions ,disordered eating, stress, grief and loss. I help individuals find meaning in their lives, get "un-stuck and move on with their lives. I know how difficult change is. but you have made the first step by looking for help. Congratulations!

As an interactive, solution-focused therapist, my treatment approach is to provide support and practical feedback to help clients address current life challenges and long-standing issues. I am a teacher and student of Milton Erickson's work and use Ericksonian hypnosis in my practice. With compassion and understanding, I help individuals find resolution to a wide range of personal concerns and psychological issues. With an integration of complimentary approaches, I draw from a variety of methodologies and techniques to incorporate what is most helpful for each individual. In a comfortable and supportive atmosphere, I enjoy helping couples and utlize John Gottman's research so focus on respectfully beng able to dialogue about the difficult issues in life. I offer a highly personalized approach tailored to each of my clients individual needs to help them attain the personal growth they’re striving for. Together with each client, I work to develop strengths and achieve life goals.

I work with individuals, couples and work groups in a dynamic, engaged style with the aim of facilitating compassionate awareness and comittment to behavioral adjustment. I am comfortable with challenging emotions and complex relationships that have the potential of real breakthrough with the clarity and support that I can provide.

Yo hablo Espanol. I offer a sliding scale! Are you struggling with life and wondering what to do? Depressed? Are you feeling stack? Do you wake up feeling sad, stressed, lost, anxious or discouraged? Are your relationships or job causing your stress? I can help. Usted está luchando con la vida y se pregunta qué hacer? Está su niño fuera de control? Deprimido? Él se niega a hacer su tarea? Se niega a escuchar? Se despierta sintiéndose triste, estresado, ansioso o desanimado? Sus relaciones o trabajo que causan el estrés? Llámame para una consulta. Precios bajos. I became a therapist to help others live a fuller, happier life. As a certified Positive Parenting Program Counselor, and a trained Marriage and Family Therapist, I will provide you with the skills you need to ease your emotional pain, build better relationships and change your life for the better. I have extensive experience with children and teenagers. I view therapy as a sacred healing process built on trust, acceptance, and deep understanding. My style is warm, non-judgmental, empathetic, engaging, direct and honest. I combine a nurturing, spiritual and supportive approach with the practical skills I have gained in 20 years of training and experience. I accept most insurances. Mrs. Penelope Rayas-Moore offers a free phone consultation To arrange a time, send an email to Mrs. Penelope Rayas-Moore. Treatment Approach Treatment Orientation: Cognitive Behavioral (CBT) Eclectic Family/Marital Therapy Forensic Psychology Gestalt Humanistic Interpersonal Mindfulness-based Cognitive Therapy (MBCT) Play Therapy Psychoanalytic

I have been a licensed marriage, family, and child therapist since 1980 and earned a PhD in counseling from University of Southern California in 1986. I help clients identify and reach goals, and avoid roadblocks. I offer feedback with a non-judgmental, and solutions-oriented approach. I work with individuals, couples, and groups, and accept most insurance. My specialties include: sexual assault (survivors and their significant others), adult children of alcoholics, depression, anxiety, job stress, communication strategies, women's issues, LGBT (lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender), and PTSD (post-traumatic stress disorder). My clients come from very diverse backgrounds and cultures. I offer a caring, sympathetic and understanding response to life's challenges. I suggest appropriate behavioral homework, such as relevant reading materials, taking necessary actions, writing journals and therapeutic letters, and trying holistic steps (homeopathic and herbal remedies, exercise, mindfulness and relaxation approaches).

“I work from a strength-based perspective, which uses the client's history as a guide but focuses on finding practical ways to bring healing and hope to the client's present challenges. I have several years of experience in working with individuals, couples, families and children in a therapeutic setting. Previously I worked in the Santa Cruz County Jail System to provide help with Anger Management training, dealing with PTSD, addiction issues, managing ADHD, coping with Bi-polar disorder, crisis intervention and support, domestic violence, and many other issues. Working with children I draw upon play and narrative therapy and my own experience as a father. I have experience with helping children work through grief and loss, teaching parents how to take the stress out of parenting and replace it with fun with the principles of Love and Logic Parenting, and many other issues.

I use a multidisciplinary approach which includes Somatic therapies, Transpersonal and Mindfulness-based therapies, Cognitive-Behavioral, EMDR, Internal Family Systems therapy, parenting skills, relationship counseling, hypnotherapy, meditation, music and sound therapy. I see individual, couples and families. My work focuses on releasing those patterns that create suffering, stress, or loss of joy. Within us all is the capacity to move in life from a center of wholeness, creativity and Love. Learning to access this Center or Essential Self is the way to release pain, and thus awakening freedom and fulfillment. Transformation can be experienced in may aspects of our life: physically, mentally, relationally, emotionally, vocationally and spiritually. Though difficulties in life may be the initial reason to seek therapy, the result can bring balance, harmony, and new resources. The ultimate goal is to access your own inner strength, wisdom and capacity to heal and express your Authentic Essential Self.

In my work with individuals, couples, children, teens and families I strive to create a warm, nurturing and compassionate environment for personal exploration and healing. In this space all parts of you are welcome. I see therapy as a collaboration where you and I partner to create an achievable plan to improve your relationships, increase your sense of vitality, and work towards your personal goals. I utilize a wide variety of therapeutic modalities including: Internal Family Systems Expressive Arts Mindfulness Somatic Techniques Cognitive Behavioral Play Therapy And many others I tailor our sessions and the techniques used to best fit your desires, needs and goals. I feel so blessed and grateful to get to live my passion. On a daily basis I have the honor of witnessing and helping facilitate healing and transformation of my clients toward greater freedom, peace, and embodiment of who they truly want to be.

NOT ACCEPTING NEW CLIENTS CURRENTLY. Caring empathy.Learn to Find Happiness in all the right places. Many of us need support to integrate our emotional, intellectual, & spiritual awareness with life dreams, sexual relationships, & day-to-day commitments. I help my clients recognize and work through repressed or misdirected anger & other destructive patterns which inhibit self growth, self respect, intimacy, spirituality, or commitment in relationships. I help both individuals and couples, including treating anxiety, menopause, post traumatic stress, dissociation and life changes. We may work intensively (at least two hours a week) for short, contracted periods of time such as 2 or 3 months. During that period of meeting a minimum of two days a week, the therapy has the opportunity to build in intensity and increase its effectiveness. After that much intense, introspective work, we take a break for integration of the work on your own. First we negotiate the time period of the break, and if needed, a re-starting time. This empowering time period gives my clients a personal space to assimilate the work and let any positive changes be felt and integrated. I find that for many people this is the fastest way through change and/or crisis. If needed, I am always available by phone or email during the hiatus in therapy. I use a variety of techniques including EMDR, shamanic journey, hypnosis and imagery, talk, homework --whatever works at the time. Many of these techniques, useful life tools, can be incorporated by my clients into their everyday lives. I invite you to consider this form of intensive, condensed therapy as a useful way of dealing with our present life stresses and crises, although I am also available for once a week sessions as well. When COVID is no longer a. threat, Visit my peaceful hill top office only 8 minutes from the freeway. Wheelchair accessible. Private entrance and exit. Separate exit for maximum privacy. 8 minutes from the freeway. It is time to give to yourself. I also maintain a consultation practice for other therapists. I ONLY OFFER INTERNET SESSIONS in addition to phone sessions. Over 30 years of experience as a licensed MFT. Much more life experience. Please call or email me. I cannot respond to messages here.

As a counselor, I have been in practice for more than 30 years and have very diverse and solid experience working in the areas of county mental health, psychiatric crisis and emergency in hospital settings, rural clinics working with bilingual clients and refugees, school district and all levels of education working as a university and school counselor,. I have served as a crisis worker responding to all district student crises regarding students and families oftentimes involving suicidal threats and severe depression and anxiety, couple and relationship counselor building communication skills and resolving long standing resentment and anger issues, internet addictions and affairs, provider of inner child healing and transformational work for adult survivors of dysfunctional families and childhood abuse and addiction, university administrator and counselor for college and graduate level students experiencing adult transitions at various stages of growth and development, bereavement and grief counselor for persons experiencing severe and debilitating losses including death, divorce, separation, moving, aging, job loss or change. I have experience with multiple modalities of therapy including Family Systems and Communication, Gestalt, Psychosynthesis, Art Therapy Play Therapy and Spiritual Counseling. My years of experience in many diverse settings have allowed me to become a very effective counselor able to provide both long term supportive therapy and short term problem solving therapy depending on the individual, couple or family goals and needs. I am flexible, direct and responsive to each client's stated needs and goals in therapy.

Anxiety Treatment Services offers practical and comprehensive help for: Generalized Anxiety, Depression, Posttraumatic Stress (PTSD), Panic Attacks, Agoraphobia, Social Anxiety, Body Image (BDD), Obsessive-Compulvise Disorder (OCD), Trichotillomania, Specific Phobias, Grief/Loss, Stress/Worry, Insomnia, and Irritable Bowel (IBS). Dr. Dufford incorporates a variety of psychotherapeutic approaches and techniques into his treatment based on clinical reserach as well as his own personal experience in helping people change. Dr. Dufford has conducted over 35,000 individual psychotherapy sessions and hundreds of hours of group therapy during his 25 plus years experience as a therapist. Some of the methods Dr. Dufford uses are: Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy (CBT), Psychotherapy, Eye Movement Desensitization & Reprocessing (EMDR), Hypnotherapy, Mindfulness/Meditation, Biofeedback and Energy Psychology. The course of individual therapy with Dr. Dufford can be brief (six to 12 weekly 45-50 minute sessions) or extend over a longer time period depending upon the complexity of issues involved. For example, the process of therapy will take longer when overcoming multiple issues, chronic conditions, the effects of a traumatic history or deep seated personality issues. You can expedite your process with the use of Self Help Tools, participation in our Anxiety Support Group and following through with homework between sessions.

Would you like to live a more fulfilled life with meaningful relationships? You have taken the first step! Finding the right therapist can be scary and confusing. I believe that a personal connection is the corner stone to a successful therapeutic experience. Sometimes traumatic events can bring us to lose our sense of well-being and our center and we need help regaining them. I see my role as guide and support in your path of uncovering your full potential. I work with adults, adolescents, children, couples and families. Please call me to see if we are a good fit. As a holistic therapist I belief that our mind, body and emotions are connected, and to heal we need to reconnect with our deeper knowing and find ways to re-trust our Selves. I use mindfulness based and somatic approaches to reconnect with our deeper truth and to regain well-being. As an adoptive and step mother I bring first hand experience and specialized training to the issue of adoption, especially international adoption, and step parenting. As a early childhood educator, I have had many years of working with children and their parents. I also bring extensive training and experience in working with adolescents and young adults. I love working with families, couples and individuals to help support you in your journey to greater peace of mind and love for life. Please contact me for a free phone consultation, and I will be happy to meet with you to see if we are a good fit. I believe that a good connection is the first step to a successful therapeutic relationship.

Bright Future Recovery serves Northern, Central and Southern California with alcohol and substance abuse treatment services; including intervention, detox, residential treatment, outpatient treatment, and aftercare. Our drug rehab, alcohol rehab, and dual diagnosis services provide a full continuum of care where individuals are able to find healing. Begin Your Journey to Recovery with Us The first step in the addiction recovery journey is the moment when you or your loved one acknowledges the need for help and is ready to take that crucial step toward healing. At Bright Future Recovery, we’re here to support you when you’re ready to embrace change, offering compassionate guidance and professional care every step of the way.

Don't put off working on your marriage another day. Invest in becoming the husband and father that will create a lasting sense of satisfaction. Greg Whittaker is a licensed Marriage, Family, and Individual Therapist in Gilroy. He has been licensed and working in private practice since 1987. Greg has been a CAMFT member since 1983 and subscribes to CAMFT's professional and ethical guidlelines. Following is a list of some of the areas he specializes in. Marriage Therapy Relationship Problems Men's Issues Parenting Depression Anxiety Disorders Post Traumatic Stress Disorder EMDR Christian Based Therapy

Life is complex at all ages, yet knowing this does not necessarily help or give us direction. In my work, I try to help guide people through the complexities and nuances of life, examine choices and explore options, personal history, and experience. I have a deep respect for my clients, for their wisdom and their struggles. I provide an encouraging and non-judgmental space to look at each unique concern and situation. I often explore the role of meaning and choice in our lives, and how both powerfully (but often invisibly) affect how we live our days. While I work with many issues, I have specialties in sex therapy and bipolar disorder.

I talk to nervous people who question if therapy works. They leave my office relaxed, sometimes laughing, most importantly hopeful. I am fascinated by the growth that happens when people feel safe and not judged. I invite you to be yourself. Only when we accept who we are; are we open to change. My approach is first of all nonjudgmental. I love to see people blossom when they feel that they can be who they are, and share all their thoughts and feelings.  Theories that influence my practice: existential, gestalt, cognitive-behavioral, EMDR

Relationships are painful when you don't know how to resolve conflict. Trying to work things out gets tiring on your own. You can learn how to communicate in a way that works and actually helps heal your relationships. If anger is a problem, I teach simple, effective strategies to catch it easy and stay calm. I also offers workshops and webinars. I help people struggling with recovery issues like food addiction, alcoholism and codependency with childhood pains. If you're going through a divorce or a break up, I can teach you the tools to get what you want in relationship. Couples need help communicating, rebuilding trust or co-parenting. I use the Gottman method that is backed by 25 years of research. Is addicton impacting your life in a negative way? Together we can develop a strong foundation of recovery that can improve your relationships. We'll work to set goals related specifically to your concerns. Change happens when you take a chance to try something different. You deserve that support! Please call me today for a free phone consultation.

Are you feeling stressed? Do you wake up moody? Is your anger affecting your loved ones? Has your addiction isolated you? Is your relationship suffering? I offer empathic therapeutic services to individuals, couples and families. My areas of clinical focus include: Relationship issues Depression & anxiety Anger Addictions Improve your quality of life. You can feel better.

I have been in clinical practice since 1988 and as an adjunct professor for JFKU since 1991. I work with clients in an integrative and prescriptive manner based on the client's specific needs. I work with my clients in a brief as well as longer term approaches, per their needs. My hope is to help clients empower themselves and understand how their past learning has inflluenced their current mind, thought, emotions, and consciousness, as well as, help them to fulfill their overall goals in progressive higher levels of funcitoning and passion throughout unique developmental challenges and lifespan.