"Therapy Does Not Have To Take A Long Time"

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As a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist (LMFT) in  Riverside and Moreno Valley, I have dedicated my professional practice  to high quality standards in counseling.    I think it takes courage and  guts to begin the counseling process as many people would rather be  doing other things in their life.  As a professional  Counselor/Therapist, I support each client by providing a safe  environment to express themselves.  When appropriate, I will ask  poignant questions to assist clients to decrease their time spent in  therapy.   Like any professional (teachers, police officers, mechanics,  etc), there are excellent professionals and lackluster professionals and  I have dedicated my professional practice to high quality standards in  counseling.   My interest is to assist you in meeting your goals, as I am a goal-oriented person and I strive to meet my goals.

IEHP Insurance is accepted.  

Individual Therapy  - $160 per 50 minute session  .  Sometimes it can be really tough to  admit that things are going in the "wrong direction".  A lot of times,  our experiences have been affected by unresolved past issues, broken  promises, loss of loved ones, old habits, and/or irrational thoughts.   By participating in professional therapy, a person can gently identify  the areas in life that need to be changed and be assisted to bring in  effective coping skills and to make the changes needed to change the  direction or experiences in one's life.  If you have noticed recent changes in any of these conditions for over a two week time frame:  

• Mood (increased anxiety, depression, or irritability)
• Appetite (too little or too much)
• Sleep (too little or too much)
• Thoughts (Intruding, racing, or excessive negative thoughts, or loss of interest)
• Ambitions (Scattered, diminished, or absent)
• Relationship Problems

Many situations can cause these symptoms to occur  

• Grief and Loss
• PTSD, Depression, Anxiety
• Experiencing something traumatic and/or overwhelming (abuse, crime, combat, chronic stress, etc.)
• Relationship changes or break up
• Biological or physical changes

I have  counseled many adults and adolescents nearly every business day for  over 17 years, most with success with their agreed-upon treatment  goals.   

EMDR - Eye Movement Desensitization & Reprocessing - $160 per session

For  people who have experienced Post traumatic Stress or anxiety-related  symptoms, we have a Clinical EMDR Provider since 2005, and have  witnessed symptom-reducing and long-lasting results from clients who  finished the EMDR therapy.  Please contact this office for further  information.  

With the invent of EMDR, I have been able to successfully assist clients to permanently remove the pain from their PTSD symptoms from people whom have experienced immense trauma from car accidents, rape and extensive molestations, death of loved ones, ugly divorces, corrupt judges, loss due to suicide, feelings of being stuck from upsetting past experiences (damaged goods, worthlessness, unloved, relentless thoughts of I should have done something, etc.) and more.   This may seem all too good to be true, but EMDR is a very successful therapy and that is why I use it for clients when I can.    

Couples and Family Therapy - $160 per session 

As a Marriage & Family Therapist, I am a strong advocate to keep  marriage intact and to dissect the ongoing problems that, quite often,  systemically, and methodically destroy relationships (i.e. Ultimatums,  behaviors learned from past relationships and/or generations,  communicating passively, aggressively or passive/aggressively).  During  couples counseling, we assist couples with identifying their goals in  therapy, identify their needs, their hurts, and propose the means to  solve the issues at hand.  I will assist the couple to becoming open to  change and to guide the couple to seeing how change can occur in a  small amount of time. As individuals in marriage, some people  have not had their needs met and have learned some unhealthy,  ineffective, self-sabotaging, or abusive coping skills.  Also, if one's  needs (Financial, Communication, Sexual, Physical, Emotional, etc.) are  not met in marriage, a partner can likely build resentment and stray  elsewhere to get their needs met and this is especially confronted and  worked on in Couple's Therapy.  Resentment  corrodes relationships.  Gossip undermines and corrupts the marital relationship.  These ineffective  coping skills can be changed and do not have to be a death sentence to  the marriage.   

Sometimes, a metaphorical "tune-up" is needed in  therapy and sometimes an "overhaul" is needed.   People with successful  marriages involve kindness, love, respect, a sense of belonging,  being cherished, being heard, understood, and acknowledged.  We can  damage our marriage with our communication skills and old "crusty"  habits.  Couple's therapy can be brief (3-10 sessions), but may need more sessions depending on the issues in the relationship.  

As Psychotherapists, most of us value marriage and we do everything possible to  find what does and does not work (i.e  communication, unresolved  business, past hurt, mistreatment, broken promises, etc.) to assist in  the healing.  How many divorced people do you know that still have  considerable "baggage"?  

Whether an individual chooses to divorce or not, that individual will still have the pain from the marriage and  actively participating during couple's therapy will often decrease the  pain.   

Professional Therapist to other Professionals 

If you are looking for a therapist and your licensing board has required you to attend therapy sessions as a result of an investigation, I have worked with the Department of Consumer Affairs' Division of Investigation with the Board of Behavioral Sciences and the CA State Board of Registered Nursing to see their candidates on probation and to write up quarterly reports.

If you would like to make a counseling appointment or have questions about therapy, please call #951-605-7911