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Expertise in child and teen school, developmental, behavioral, and emotional concerns. If you’re a worried parent losing sleep about your child, and things are not getting better and you fear that it might not just be a phase. You want to go through the day without worrying about your child constantly. You’re tired of getting calls from school. You don’t want to think about that awful thing that happened, their behavior, or their emotional outbursts. After taking to other parents, your friends, their teachers, or maybe even your pediatrician, you feel like it’s time to see someone.

We are here to help you heal and grow. We are genuine, real people, and we believe that providing you with actual, loving feedback is more useful than simply listening and repeating. That is why we partner concrete take-home skills with open and active listening, all while integrating humor and play. We want to be by your side, to listen, support, and challenge you every step of the way. You are not in this alone. Find Your Center is here to help you find comfort, health, and courage in your relationships, career, family, and friendships. Together, we will discover untapped purpose, passion, clarity, and strength.

Stacy is a licensed therapist in private practice in Santa Barbara, CA, providing guidance and support to individuals, couples and families going through major life transitions. She assists and empowers her clients to do their best to practice empathy, self-compassion and gratitude, be mindful, and maintain healthy boundaries. A mother, stepmother, grandmother, former childcare provider and teacher, Stacy has spent her career dedicated to enriching the lives of children. Stacy opened her practice in early 2005 to help families reduce conflict and minimize the negative effects of separation and divorce.

I have been in the helping field for more than 15 years practicing as an addiction counselor and clinical social worker. I am a proud graduate of the University of Southern California School of Social Work.

Life can be incredibly painful, and at times we can find ourselves confused, lost, anxious, and seemingly alone. We cannot have a pain-free life, but there are ways of managing the issues in our lives that help us be more present, connected to our values, and fulfilled in that which we do. Whether it is anxiety, depression, relationship issues, or trauma, there are ways to respond to these so that we can move back toward the lives that we want to lead.

I believe therapy to be a powerful process by which individuals can examine patterns of behaviors. My role as a therapist is to offer an emotionally safe and supportive environment where this process can unfold. For the past 19 years I have worked with individuals, couples, and families in a variety of settings.

I am a psychotherapist and a teacher. I offer psychotherapy to individuals, children, and families. I offer psychotherapy to individuals seeking short-term and long-term treatment in times of life transitions, relationship crisis, and major life changes. I have worked extensively with children and their families for many years. I offer a distinctive combination of experiences that provide a strong basis for helping children and their families make positive changes to improve family life, relationships, and children's behavior.

Conflict is a part of every vital relationship. If you are suffering in your relationship, it’s not because you have differences. In most cases, it’s because the way couples automatically protect themselves from being hurt - with silence, defensiveness or harsh words – builds walls between them, in an escalating cycle of frustration and misunderstanding. When even your best efforts at reconnecting just seem to exacerbate your mutual feelings of disconnection, it may be time to shine a healing light on these interactions and the hurt places that fuel them. This is the path of Emotionally Focused Therapy.

With degrees in psychology, coaching certifications, and over 20 years of experience, Jessica offers you an integrative and comprehensive approach to achieve successful results. Her ultimate goal is to help people acquire the insight, learning, and practice to navigate the terrain of intimacy more effectively. She guides clients on a path from confusion and heartache to clarity and authentic connection. Couples and individuals transform pain and struggle into deep love, connection, and vitality. She is also the creator of Connected Couple, which is a comprehensive, research-based, transformational, relationship program, which helps couples at any stage in their relationship.

Suicidal thoughts, self-harm, angry outbursts, or other damaging behaviors impacting your or your teen's relationships &/or academic/job success? If you answered "yes" you would benefit from Central Coast DBT's comprehensive Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) program for adults & adolescents including individual therapy, skills training groups, & phone coaching. I have intensive DBT training & extensive experience treating severe emotional/behavioral issues in adults & teens. I am also able to offer DBT-Informed Therapy, CBT, & psychodynamic interventions for clients who aren't candidates for comprehensive DBT.

I graduated with my Masters's degree in Social Work in 2007. During my 1st internship, at an inpatient psychiatric hospital in 2005, it was there I realized my passion - mental health. Subsequent to my internship, that same psychiatric hospital hired me. I dedicated 10 years to thousands of patients, loving every moment I helped someone achieve goals. Currently, I work at an acute medical hospital, and have for 10 wonderful years, still loving what I do, helping! I continue to work in-depth with mental health, substance, homelessness, death, dying, grief, crisis.

Our lives are filled with challenges, large and small. The best of these expose us to the power and vulnerability of our humanity. Facing these challenges can make for positive, at times life-affirming experiences. At other times, these challenges can be daunting. The thought of confronting them leaves us stuck, anxious or fearful. In extreme cases, we may be rendered emotionally unstable - our psyches overwhelmed - unable to live in accordance with our values in our everyday lives. We question everything - our values, our purpose. Pushed to the edge of or beyond our limits, we feel small, alone, unlovable, unworthy.

Therapy can be the catalyst that allows you to evolve past overwhelming feelings of discouragement, disappointment, distraction, frustration, boredom, heartbreak, burnout, and uncertainty. Exploring possible resistances and defenses like toxic habits/relationships, perfectionism/fear of failure, procrastination/avoidance, imposter syndrome/inferiority complex, unresolved anger/grief, and ancestral trauma are often themes people attend to in session. Identifying strengths, cultivating confidence/authentic expression and unlocking dormant gifts/talents/"the unlived life" are also addressed.

In my private practice I specialize in relational issues as well as anxiety, depression and PTSD due to trauma. EMDR is a modality that I offer in addition to an integrative approach to talk therapy to help deepen an individual’s healing process. I help clients learn how to access internal resources by integrating body awareness with the thought process. In addition to hands on counseling experience , it is my my own life experiences that have helped inform my practice and deepen my understanding of the challenges that accompany complicated life transitions.

**100% ONLINE TELE-HEALTH** My primary focus includes treatment for men experiencing Depression, Anxiety, Stress, Addiction, Anger Management and Relationship issues. I teach men, fathers and couples how to cope with difficult times. My treatment plan(s) are based on eclectic therapeutic modalities that include Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, Mindfulness, Solution Focused Therapy and Emotional Focused Therapy. I am a Supervisor for PreLicensed therapists gaining their hours toward licensure and also serve as a board member in our local chapter of California Assoc. Marriage & Family Therapists.

Hi, my name is Martha Renteria and I am a Licensed Marriage Family Therapist and I am very passionate about helping individuals and seeing them transition into long-lasting change that will have a positive impact on their lives for years to come.

I work to create a safe environment for my clients to be seen and to better know themselves. I offer a holistic, individualized approach to therapy, and strongly believe that each person holds the answers to their own wellbeing. I am passionate about supporting women and their partners while working through fertility issues. I have also focused on empowering teenage girls that are struggling with self-esteem issues. In addition to psychodynamic therapy, I am trained in mindfulness meditation and somatic experiencing (SE) as well as EMDR with the Parnell Institute.

It takes a village...Navigating through the transitions and challenges in our lives is meant to be a collaboration with family, friends, elders, wise women and men. However, in the times of instant change and mobility, some may find themselves lost and alone, far from those they confide in and look up to. Sometimes they isolate for fear of vulnerability and the pressure to appear "to have it together". When this self-judgement and drive to be “perfect” eventally takes its toll, one can be left feeling bereft of deep connection to self and others. Finding a therapist you can trust and confide in, can help you find your way.

Anxiety Experts has offices in Santa Barbara, Montecito and Ventura, as well as virtual outpatient and Virtual Intensive Outpatient (VIOP) Treatment. Our team is specialized in treating anxiety, panic, social phobia, school refusal, OCD, PTSD, BDD, and disordered eating. These problems rob one's sense of freedom, confidence and self-worth. We treat these issues with a type of CBT called Exposure Response Prevention (ERP), and Medical Nutrition Therapy from a Registered Dietician as appropriate. We have helped hundreds of adults and kids master their fears; research shows in-person and live video to be equally effective!

I help those who feel that life has become a struggle, when transitions in relationships, academic life, or career may bring inhibiting anxiety or an overwhelming depression. I share observations and insights with the intention of helping clients as quickly as possible. My work as a therapist is informed by my own life passages as a wife, mother, widow, single parent, empty nester, and older graduate student. As someone who has embarked on a new career in later life, I understand both the fear and the rewards in managing life-enhancing changes.