Counseling for Couples & Families
Psychologist, PsyD, MFCC, CHT
Finances
Fees
- Sliding scale: apply if you may be eligible
- Pay by Cash, Check, Discover, Mastercard, Paypal, Visa
Insurance
- ILWU
- Out of Network
Qualifications
- Psychologist: Carol Francis
- Verified by Psychology Today Licensed by State of California / PSY 10881 Carol Francis
- In Practice for 42 Years
- License: California Board of Behavioral : Marriage, Family and Child Therapist ML19429 / 1983
- Certificate from IHF Certified Medical Hypnotherapy / 1990
- Attended Rosemead School of Professional Psychology, Graduated 1985
Specialties and Expertise
Top Specialties
- Family Conflict
- Child
- Relationship Issues
Expertise
- Addiction
- ADHD
- Adoption
- Alcohol Use
- Alzheimer's
- Anger Management
- Antisocial Personality
- Anxiety
- Asperger's Syndrome
- Autism
- Behavioral Issues
- Bipolar Disorder
- Borderline Personality (BPD)
- Career Counseling
- Chronic Illness
- Chronic Impulsivity
- Chronic Pain
- Chronic Relapse
- Codependency
- Coping Skills
- Depression
- Developmental Disorders
- Dissociative Disorders (DID)
- Divorce
- Domestic Abuse
- Domestic Violence
- Drug Abuse
- Dual Diagnosis
- Eating Disorders
- Education and Learning Disabilities
- Emotional Disturbance
- Gambling
- Geriatric and Seniors
- Grief
- Hoarding
- Impulse Control Disorders
- Infertility
- Infidelity
- Intellectual Disability
- Internet Addiction
- Lesbian
- LGBTQ+
- Life Coaching
- Life Transitions
- Marital and Premarital
- Medical Detox
- Medication Management
- Men's Issues
- Mood Disorders
- Narcissistic Personality (NPD)
- Obesity
- Obsessive-Compulsive (OCD)
- Oppositional Defiance (ODD)
- Parenting
- Peer Relationships
- Personality Disorders
- Pregnancy, Prenatal, Postpartum
- Psychosis
- Racial Identity
- School Issues
- Self Esteem
- Self-Harming
- Sex Therapy
- Sexual Abuse
- Sexual Addiction
- Sleep or Insomnia
- Spirituality
- Sports Performance
- Stress
- Substance Use
- Suicidal Ideation
- Teen Violence
- Testing and Evaluation
- Thinking Disorders
- Transgender
- Trauma and PTSD
- Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI)
- Video Game Addiction
- Weight Loss
- Women's Issues
Client Focus
Age
Participants
Communities
Ethnicity
Age
Participants
Communities
Ethnicity
Treatment Approach
Types of Therapy
- Acceptance and Commitment (ACT)
- Art Therapy
- Attachment-based
- Biofeedback
- Coaching
- Cognitive Behavioral (CBT)
- Couples Counseling for Intimacy, Communication etc
- Dialectical Behavior (DBT)
- Eclectic
- EMDR
- Existential
- Experiential Therapy
- Family / Marital
- Family Systems
- Gestalt
- Humanistic
- Hypnotherapy
- Interpersonal
- Intervention
- Mindfulness-Based (MBCT)
- Motivational Interviewing
- Neuro-Linguistic (NLP)
- Neurofeedback
- Parenting, Parent-Child Relationship, Adult Child
- Play Therapy
- Positive Psychology
- Pre-marriage or Pre-engagement Counseling
- Psychoanalytic
- Psychodynamic
- Psychological Testing and Evaluation
- Rational Emotive Behavior (REBT)
- Reality Therapy
- Relational
- Solution Focused Brief (SFBT)
- Transpersonal
- Trauma Focused
Groups
Affairs and Infidelity--Surviving Distrust
Men & women devastated by their partner's disloyalty, betrayal seek to restore their destroyed relationship or move-on to a more satisfying relationship. Within the confidential group setting, those who have a spouse or partner who has had an affair of the heart or body discuss the horrible feelings, sinking sensations, confusion and anger of infidelity. They also reveal ways to recover, perhaps repair the relationships or move-on to other more satisfying relationships.
Expertise
Age
Session Cost
Location
Varies--within the South Bay Area of Los Angeles
Serves Redondo Beach, Manhattan Beach, HB & PVP
San Pedro, Long Beach, El Segundo
Manhattan Beach, CA 90266
Divorce Difficulties
Divorce is a long and difficult path to take because of legal proceedings, hurt feelings, loss, sense of failure, strife, child custody battles, monetary battles, etc. This group discusses emotional, practical and relationship issues which arise from wanting to divorce, being in the middle of a divorce, or trying to move on from divorce devastations.
Session Cost
Location
All South Bay Beach Cities and surround Cities
Hermosa Beach, Redondo Beach, Torrance, San Pedro
Manhattan Beach, Palos Verdes Estates, Rolling Hil
Rancho Palos Verdes, CA 90275
Sexy and Sexual After Children or Conflicts
Sexual satisfaction is disrupted by many issues, including young children, fatigue, stress, infidelity in the past, physiological complications, mistrust, history of sexual abuse or trauma, body changes such as weight gain and hormonal fluctuations. How to be a lover, a good sexual partner when sexual desires are hindered, emotional complications are boiling, or stressful circumstances are interfering are dealt with in this group for women.
Expertise
Age
Session Cost
Location
Throughout the South Bay Area of Los Angeles
Manhattan Beach, Hermosa Beach, San Pedro, El Segu
Torrance, Palos Verdes Estates, Rolling Hills, LB
Rancho Palos Verdes, CA 90275
Location
Primary Location
Counseling for Couples & Families
3655 Torrance Blvd, Suite 160
Suite 160 (A,B,C)
Torrance, CA 90503
(310) 543-1824Email us
Additional Location
Counseling for Couples and Families Manhattan Beach, Redondo Bea
3655 Torrance Blvd
Torrance, CA 90503
(310) 543-1824Nearby Areas
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