Affinity Therapy
Marriage & Family Therapist, BFA, MA, LMFT
Location
I am currently seeing patients for individual sessions via a secure online video streaming service called ZOOM which is similar to Skype.
Finances
- Cost per Session: $125 - $250
- Sliding Scale: Yes
Accepted Insurance Plans
- Blue Shield
- Cigna
- Health Net
- MHN | Health Net
- MHN | Health Net
- MHNet Behavioral Health
- Magellan
- Optum
- UnitedHealthcare UHC | UBH
- Out of Network
Qualifications
- Years in Practice: 29 Years
- License: California / MFC 31086
- School: John F. Kennedy University
- Year Graduated: 1990
Additional Credentials
- Certificate: Institute for Educational Therapy / Certified Hypnotherapist
- Certificate Date: 1998
- Membership: California Association of Marriage & Family Therapists / Member in Good Standing
- Member Since: 1990
Affinity Therapy's Groups
LOVE LOST-LOVE FOUND Rational RelationshipRecovery
Whether you feel lost, angry, scared or devastated--leaving, separating, breaking up or recovering from a divorce--it's easy to feel overwhelmed. You may have expected it or been blindsided. You may not know what to do next. As a Group, we work together to help you move forward--by identifying the triggers and responses, the thoughts and feelings that are holding you back. Through rational, evidence-based group therapy you will gain the tools and techniques to move forward and experience happiness. The LLLF Group is a place to be heard, supported and challenged. Change happens NOW.
Procrastination Stoppers--Accountability Groups
In the Procrastination Stoppers Group, members will learn how to: · Identify the advantages of accountability. Following through and executing your plans. · Identify the disadvantages of the procrastination habit. · Re-identify personal passion, mission, vision · · Identify Triggers that lead to ineffective behaviors. · Use the Scientific Method to Dispute Irrational Thoughts · Reevaluate the idea of vacillating Self-Value · Confront low frustration tolerance · Confront the concept of perfectionism · Divide Goals into manageable sub-goals with manageable time-frames · Practicing Behavior Reinforcement · Practice Calculated Risks If you are ready to stop procrastination in its tracks TODAY contact us. LIVE and ONLINE Groups.
Writers Accountability Group
In the Writers Accountability Group, members will learn how to: · Identify the advantages of accountability?;"following through and executing your plans. · Identify the disadvantages of the ?;~procrastination habit.?;(tm) · Re-identify personal passion, mission, vision · · Identify Triggers that lead to ineffective behaviors. · Use the Scientific Method to Dispute Irrational Thoughts · Reevaluate the idea of vacillating Self-Value · Confront low frustration tolerance · Confront the concept of perfectionism · Identify New Goals · Divide Goals into manageable sub-goals with manageable time-frames · Practicing Behavior Reinforcement · Practice Assertive Behaviors · Practice Calculated Risks If you are ready to stop procrastination in its tracks TODAY contact us
Location
Specialties
- Relationship Issues
- Life Transitions
- Anxiety
Issues
- Addiction
- Adoption
- Alcohol Use
- Behavioral Issues
- Career Counseling
- Chronic Relapse
- Codependency
- Coping Skills
- Depression
- Divorce
- Drug Abuse
- Emotional Disturbance
- Family Conflict
- Gambling
- Grief
- Infertility
- Infidelity
- Life Coaching
- Marital and Premarital
- Men's Issues
- Peer Relationships
- Procrastination, COVID-19, Social Anxiety
- Recovering from Divorce and Breakup
- Self Esteem
- Sex Therapy
- Sexual Addiction
- Sleep or Insomnia
- Stress
- Substance Use
- Trauma and PTSD
- Weight Loss
Mental Health
- Mood Disorders
- Thinking Disorders
Sexuality
- Bisexual
- LGBTQ+
- Lesbian
Client Focus
Age
- Elders (65+)
- Adults
Communities
- Gay Allied
- Lesbian Allied
- Open Relationships Non-Monogamy
- Racial Justice Allied
- Sex Worker Allied
- Sex-Positive, Kink Allied
Treatment Approach
Types of Therapy
- Acceptance and Commitment (ACT)
- Coaching
- Cognitive Behavioral (CBT)
- Compassion Focused
- Culturally Sensitive
- Dialectical (DBT)
- Eclectic
- Emotionally Focused
- Family / Marital
- Family Systems
- Gottman Method
- Humanistic
- Hypnosis/Hypnotherapy
- Hypnotherapy
- Interpersonal
- Mindfulness-Based (MBCT)
- Motivational Interviewing
- Multicultural
- Narrative
- Neuro-Linguistic
- Person-Centered
- Psychodynamic
- REBT-Rational Emotive Behavior Therapy
- Rational Emotive Behavior (REBT)
- Reality Therapy
- Relational
- Solution Focused Brief (SFBT)
- Strength-Based
- Trauma Focused
Modality
- Individuals
- Couples
- Family
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