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Katrina Wood, Ph.D, Director
Specialty areas: Depth work. Recovery. Early childhood trauma, affect and emotional revitalization. Inner-child integration. Anxiety and depression. Dream exploration.
Dr. Wood is the author of That's Not Love! This Is. She also writes the psychology blog Shrink Central. Dr. Wood's line of children's stories on CD helps kids expand their imaginations and learn to relax.
Clarissa Abijaoude, MA, MFT
Specialty areas: Women's issues, substance abuse and recovery support, relationship issues, transitional concerns and phase-of-life problems. Depression, anxiety, abuse. Experience in treating chemically dependent adults as well as assisting their familiy members and support network. Individuals, couples, families. Bilingual: Spanish-English.
A. Marina Aguilar, MFT, CPCC
Specialty areas: Depth psychotherapy. Certified life coach. Adult individuals, couples, teens. Premarital counseling (Prepare Enrich). Life transitions, depression, grief, trauma, eating disorders, interfaith couples. Spirituality, women's healing and empowerment.
Rachel Baum, MFT
Specialty areas: Parenting, children and families, depression, anxiety, PTSD treatment and recovery.
Jennifer Bergman, MFT
Specialty areas: Grief and loss, including sudden trauma. Depression, anxiety and panic. Adult survivors of child abuse, dialectical behavior therapy. Relational issues, life transitions such as divorce, addictive relationships. Inner-child work, mindfulness. Adults, adolescents and couples.
Terry Birnie, LMFT
Specialty areas: Mood disorders, anger and stress management, relationships, parenting, couples therapy, ADD, young adults and life transitions. Provides services for adolescents, adults, couples and families. Utilizes a Integrative approach comprised of Cognitive, Cognitive-Behavioral, Psychodynamic and Solution Focused Therapies. Training in mindfulness meditation, adult ADD, couples counseling and addiction.
Linda Bonilla, MS, MFT
Specialty areas: Post-traumatic stress disorder, recovery from sexual assault, adult survivors of sexual abuse, depression, anxiety, panic disorders, premarital, marital and relational issues. Christian therapy. Works with adults, teenagers and children. Individual, couples and family therapy. Utilizes psychodynamic and family systems approaches.
Valarie Cascadden Ph.D, LMFT
Specialty areas: Midlife issues including major life changes and care of an aging loved one. Grief, loss (including pets), parenting, divorce and relationship breakups. Job stress. Helps patients establish healthy boundaries with friends, coworkers and adult children. Certified Alzheimer's Disease and Other Dementia Treatment Specialist (CADODTS).
Kathleen DeFronzo, LMFT
Specialty areas: Depression, anxiety, addiction, grief and loss. Divorce, relationships, life transitions, parenting. Issues of abuse, women's issues, codependency, eating disorders. Employment issues, anger management. Individuals, families, couples, teens and children. Licensed therapist since 1989.
Lynn Di Sarro, LMFT
Specialty areas: Hypnotherapy, couples, adults.
Stephen Feldman, MFT
Specialty areas: Depression, anxiety, anger and grief issues. Communication skills with couples. Jungian-based dream interpretation. Individuals, adolescents and couples. "I am not the silent type. I believe that relationships are based on good honest exchanges."
Spencer Figueroa, MFT, General Manager
Specialty areas: Adults, couples, teens, depression, anxiety, existential issues, life transitions and anger. Utilizes interpersonal, existential and psychodynamic approaches.
Richard Gadue, MFT
Specialty areas: Gestalt, Jungian and cognitive behavioral therapies for individuals, couples who may be struggling with relational and/or life transition issues, substance abuse, co-dependency, depression, anxiety, panic, gay and lesbian issues, (coming out, parents of gays, senior adjustment) mood disorders, grief, personality disorders, PTSD, returning veterans, death and dying, spiritual and existential issues.
Daniel Goldin, MFT
Speciality areas: Couples, teens. Addiction, recovery, relapse prevention. Harm-reduction treatment.
Lauren Goldstein, LCSW
Speciality areas: Young adults in their 20s and 30s, women's issues, gay/lesbian/bisexual issues, personal growth, self esteem, mind-body health, relationships and interpersonal challenges. Grief and loss.
Seta Haig, MFT
Specialty areas: Children (play therapy), adolescents and adults. Depression (including post-partum), anxiety, relationship issues, women's issues, parenting, self-esteem. Fluent in Armenian and Arabic.
Sandi Homchick, MFT
Specialty areas: Children, adolescents and adults. Individual and family therapy. Parenting, depression, grief and loss, relationship issues, life transitions; young adult and midlife, self-esteem issues. Utilizes psychodynamic and family systems approaches.
Lillian Huang, LMFT
Speciality areas: Children, adolescents and young adults; individual and family therapy. Trained in somatic experiencing, healing trauma using a body/mind approach. Mood disorders, PTSD, stress and trauma-related disorders, sexual, physical, emotional abuse and unresolved parent-child relationships. Utilizes interpersonal and psychodynamic approaches.
Marlene Vance Jaffe, MSW, LCSW
Specialty areas: Children 10 years and older, adolescents and adults; family and individual therapy. Parent education, trauma, anxiety and mood disorders; grief/loss and relationship issues, postpartum and attachment issues. Step/blended family concerns and the effects of divorce on children. Extensive experience with persons and families of color; biracial and interracial clients/families.
Louise Kerr, LMFT
Specialty areas: Individuals and couples. Specializing in relationship issues, work/career and midlife issues, stress reduction, anxiety, panic, trauma, depression, chronic pain and grief.
Eliza Magid, MFT
Specialty areas: Childhood/early childhood, adolescense, families. Substance abuse, addiction, anger management. Parenting, teenage boy struggles. Individuals, couples and family members.
Bryce Malek, PsyD, MFT
Specialty areas: Individuals, couples. Depression, bipolar disorder, anxiety, panic disorder, PTSD, phobias, relationships, life transition issues, parenting, men's issues, spiritual counseling, personality disorders. Utilizes cognitive-behavioral and humanistic approaches.
Elizabeth Malamed, MA, LMFT
Speciality areas: Integrative Body Psychotherapy, depression and anxiety, chemical dependency, anger management, relationships and couples, gender and sexuality issues (LGBT, KAP professional). Spirituality, creativity, alternative communities; increasing joy and satisfaction in life. Adults, adolescents and children.
Jodi Milstein, MA, MFT
Specialty areas: Substance abuse and dependence, eating disorders, body image concerns, relationship issues, premarital counseling, blended families, women's issues, fertility challenges and postpartum depression. Drawing upon nearly two decades as a music industry executive, I specialize in providing therapy to musicians and bands in an effort to help them improve personal relationships and group dynamics.
Chuck Moshontz, LMFT
Specialty areas: Relationship problems and couples counseling, family relationships, children and adolescents, sadness, grief and depression. Job difficulties, substance abuse, lack of social support and loneliness, life-transition issues such as the empty nest and midlife crisis. Aging, illness, death. Fundamental questions about identity, living a rich and meaningful life. Also teaches, trains and supervises beginning psychotherapists.
Tiffany Pang
Administrative assistant
Allison Parker, MA, LMFT
Specialty areas: Early childhood, children, adolescents, and families. Trauma, child abuse, domestic violence, depression. Autistic/Asperger's disorders, ADHD, parenting, school-related issues and play therapy. Bilingual: English/Spanish.
Zainy Pirbhai, MFT
Speciality areas: Registered art therapist. Play therapy. Credentialed school counselor school/behavior issues. Adolescents, teens, young adults, children. Depression, grief and loss. Speaks Urdu.
Barbara Robertson, MFT
Specialty areas: Adults, older adults, adolescents, preadolescents (age 9 and up). Individuals: Depression, anxiety, stress, problems of living, mood disorders, addictions, anger management, self-esteem building/assertion training. Couples: Increasing communication and intimacy, arguing constructively, dealing with differences. Divorce. Families: Parenting, family systems, resolving conflict.
Tamara Robinson, MA, LMFT
Specialty areas: Individuals and couples. Trauma, abuse (physical, sexual, emotional), ACOA issues. Self-esteem, anxiety, depression, and pre- and post-marital conflicts. Certified EMDR therapist.
Ayana Rose, MFT
Speciality areas: Depression, anxiety, stress reduction, life transitions. Parenting, blended families, new mothers or mothers-to-be, postpartum coaching. Women's issues, empowerment and victims of domestic violence. Adolescents, teens, young adults.
Elizabeth Russell, MFT
Specialty areas: Anxiety, depression, trauma. Self-esteem and self-discovery. Intimacy and relationships. Adoption issues. Psychodynamic treatment for adults and adolescents.
Kristin Scalfaro, MA, MFT (Ventura)
Specialty areas: Individuals, couples. Depression, anxiety, panic disorder, PTSD, life-transition issues, grief/loss, trauma. Divorce, co-parenting.
Dawn K. Scheibley, MFT
Specialty areas: Individuals (children, adolescents, adults, seniors), couples, families. Eating disorders, depression, anxiety, self-mutilation, post-traumatic stress, obsession-compulsion, domestic violence, divorce, parents and children, bereavement/loss.
Valerie Shore, MA, MFT
Specialty areas: Adolescents and adults. Uses interpersonal and relational approaches to treat depression, anxiety, work and career difficulties, life transitions (divorce, blended family, marriage, new baby, teenagers, job change, empty nest, midlife), grief and loss, parenting support, school issues, stress management, relationship communication and conflict resolution.
Marsha Tilles, LCSW
Specialty Areas: Infertility, adoption, pregnancy, post-partum, parenting, grief and loss, relationship issues, divorce, eating disorders. Adolescents, adults, couples and families. Psychodynamic and Cognitive Behavioral Therapy. Spanish-English.
Kris Topaz, MFT
Specialty areas: Systems therapy for those dealing with trauma and and chronic mental illness. Relational, parenting and behavioral issues. Victims of crime, accidents and domestic violence. Grief and loss. For individuals, couples and families. Bilingual-Spanish.
Courtney Volpi, MA, MFT
Specialty areas: Depression and other mood disorders, anxiety, ADHD, oppositional defiant behaviors, Autism Spectrum Disorders, personality disorders, grief and loss, self-esteem, relationships, self-injurious behaviors, abuse and anger management. Utilizes an eclectic approach consisting of talk therapy, play therapy, and other creative means. Children, adolescents, adults, and families.
Ilene Weingarten, MFT
Specialty areas: Anxiety/panic, depression, relationship issues, life transitions, recovery, loved ones of those in recovery. Provides services for individual adults, teens, families and couples. Trained in family systems to work with families, couples and teens. Works with trauma victims using psychodynamic and mindfulness-based approaches.
Karen Wiener, MA, MFT
Specialty areas: Depression, mood disorders, anxiety, chemical dependency. Coping with grief and end-of-life issues. Teens who are experiencing behavioral problems at home and in the classroom. Adolescents, adults, older adults, couples and families.
Laurel Wiig-Milan, Ph.D, MFT
Specialty areas: Depression, trauma-related disorders, anxiety/stress/panic, relationships, recovery. Parenting, children's learning differences. Inheritance/wealth issues, life transitions, grief/loss. Adolescents and adults.
Art Wood
CEO, Wilshire/Valley Therapy Centers
Glenn Abel
Web site direction (Los Angeles)
