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About
I'm an integrative psychotherapist working with individuals and couples. My approach is engaged and caring, providing a safe and supportive environment, where you can reflect and develop new ways of handling challenges you are facing. The focus of my practice is threefold: relationship issues, life transitions (e.g. themes like change in relationship, career changes, relocation, changes in values and morals, and loss as well as seeking more meaning and fulfillment in life), and healing from physical/emotional abuse.
I draw from my background in depth psychological training and study as well as combining a somatic based approach. I also will utilize other forms of therapy including gestalt, EMDR, humanistic/person-centered, and psychoanalytic.
My goal is to help integrate your experiences on a soul-level, coming back to Self, and returning to the greater community with a sense of safety and trust in relationship.
Call or Email Amanda Palen for a free 15 minute consultation now - (805) 262-8856
Finances
- Session Fee: $150 per session
- Couples Session Fee: $200 per session
- Sliding Scale: Yes
Pay By:
Mastercard, Paypal, Venmo, Visa
Accepted Insurance Plans
- Aetna
- Blue Cross
- Blue Shield
- Cigna and Evernorth
- Optum
- Oscar Health
- Oxford
- UnitedHealthcare UHC | UBH
Verify your health insurance coverage when you arrange your first visit.
Qualifications
- Years in Practice: 5 Years
- License: California / 132573
- School: Pacifica Graduate Institute
- Year Graduated: 2020
Additional Credentials
- Membership: EMDRIA
- Membership: CAMFT
Endorsements
"Amanda is a great clinician who brings somatic awareness and depth exploration to her work. Her capacity to maintain equanimity in the face of deep emotion guides her trauma informed practice."
"Amanda holds the people whom she meets with in her practice and the people within her personal communities with high regard, love, and dignity. Her ability to hold the light and dark, the tears and laughs, the pains and joys offers safety to be yourself."
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Specialties
Issues
- Anger Management
- Anxiety
- Behavioral Issues
- Bipolar Disorder
- Borderline Personality (BPD)
- Codependency
- Coping Skills
- Depression
- Emotional Disturbance
- Family Conflict
- Grief
- Life Transitions
- Peer Relationships
- Relationship Issues
- Self Esteem
- Stress
- Trauma and PTSD
- Women's Issues
Mental Health
- Mood Disorders
- Psychosis
- Thinking Disorders
Client Focus
Age
- Adults
Communities
- Aviation Professionals
- Veterans
Treatment Approach
Types of Therapy
- Attachment-based
- Compassion Focused
- Culturally Sensitive
- EMDR
- Emotionally Focused
- Family Systems
- Gestalt
- Humanistic
- Integrative
- Interpersonal
- Jungian
- Person-Centered
- Psychoanalytic
- Relational
- Somatic
- Trauma Focused
Modality
- Individuals
- Couples
Last Modified: 9 Jan 2023
(805) 262-8856