Paul Standal, Ph.D.
Affordable Quality Counseling
Welcome to Affordable Quality Counseling
We are San Diego psychologists and marriage and family therapists. We help individuals, couples and families to gain renewal, growth and development. Our goal is to assist you in realizing the highest level of self-fulfillment and well being. We replace negative feelings and self-limiting behaviors with a positive self-image, healthy coping skills, and a high level of personal satisfaction.
As experienced counselors, we teach conflict resolution, anger management, parenting, and communication skills to enhance individual, marital and family relationships. Affordable Quality Counseling (AQC) intervenes to resolve negative feelings and behaviors like anger, oppositional attitudes and grief or loss between relationship partners, husbands and wives and parents and their adolescents or children. In addition, we help clients recovering from affairs and infidelity, co-dependency, sex addiction, impulse control disorders, and post-traumatic stress disorder, including violent crimes like rape, domestic violence and physical, sexual or emotional abuse.
We ascribe to a person-centered approach that makes use of specific psychotherapeutic interventions, based on present-time, solution focused strategies as well as caring and consistent feedback and support. We specialize in resolving depression, anxiety, panic disorder, phobias, work-related injuries, occupational and vocational issues, weight loss, dating/ internet dating problems, social isolation and interpersonal conflicts that affect mental health and self-esteem. AQC offers psychotherapy, consultation, training and crisis intervention services as well as help with addictions, including drug and alcohol abuse and dependence, relapse prevention and addiction recovery for adolescents and adults.
Practice Areas/Issues Treated
 Therapy
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Family Conflict
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Addiction
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Gifted / Talented Issues
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Adolescents
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Learning Disabilities
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Adoption
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Life and Wellness Coaching
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Anger Management
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Life Transitions
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Anxiety and Panic
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Loneliness
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Attention Deficit Disorder (ADD)
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Neuropsychological Evaluation / Testing
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Body Image Issues
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Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder
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Caregiver Issues
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Psychopharmacology
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Children's Counseling
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Religious Counseling
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Chronic Illness
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Seniors and Elder Care Issues
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Couples
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Sexual Dysfunction
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Depression
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Stress Management
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Domestic Violence
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Trauma and PTSD
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EMDR
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Women's Issues
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