Colleen Russell
Marriage & Family Therapist, MA, LMFT, CGP
During our shelter in place order, I continue to offer virtual individual, couple, group and workshop sessions through HIPPA-compliant Zoom
Finances
- Cost per Session: $100 - $175
- Sliding Scale: Yes
Accepted Insurance Plans
- Out of Network
Qualifications
- Years in Practice: 29 Years
- License: California / MFC29249
- School: John F. Kennedy University
- Year Graduated: 1987
Additional Credentials
- Certificate: American Group Psychotherapy Association / Group Psychotherapist (41715)
- Certificate Date: 2008
- Certificate: Our House Grief Center; Center 4 Domestic Peace / Grief ; Domestic Violence
- Certificate Date: 2015
Colleen Russell's Groups
Former Members of High Demand Groups or Cults
A safe, successful face to face on-going group. Also educational Online Workshops/Support Sessions (via secure Zoom). Each format is for former members of "High-Demand Groups" including those raised in them, categorized as "Family", "Political", "Eastern", "Religious", "Large Group Awareness Training", "Clergy Abuse," etc. Participants address relevant issues in their lives, current and past, gain support for healing from loss and trauma; learn successful skills; make sense of their experience, pursue individual goals. Topics include recruitment; coercive influence and manipulation tactics; relationships; personal rights; disconfirming inaccurate, self-limiting beliefs from ideologies; self-care; boundaries; challenges; successes.
Women Older & Wiser (WOW) - Current Opening!
An on-going supportive group for Women 55+ (WOW) meets every other Wednesday 12:30 - 2:00 PM. In a supportive environment, motivated women address and explore important issues including those related to relationships, losses, trauma, difficult transitions, family of origin, stages of life, adult children, challenges, successes, self-care and more. Women receive acknowledgement, mutual support, and pursue individual goals with opportunities for healing and growth. An individual consultation and eight session commitment is requested.
Secure Online Motherless Daughters Group
A group for adult women who have lost their mothers in childhood, adolescence, or adulthood through death, illness, separation, estrangement. Women address and explore relevant issues in their lives, current or past. Frequent themes include the process of grieving, trauma, self-identity (Who am I? Who was mom?), relationships, trust, family of origin issues, challenges, successes, motherless mothers, self-care. Group is a time for mutual support, acknowledgement, validation, better outcomes with opportunities for healing and growth. This on-going group is developed and facilitated by Colleen Russell (also a motherless daughter) since 1997. Six session commitment and individual consultation requested.
Specialties
- Relationship Issues
- Trauma and PTSD
- Grief
Issues
- Adoption
- Anxiety
- Bipolar Disorder
- Borderline Personality
- Codependency
- Coping Skills
- Depression
- Divorce
- Domestic Abuse
- Emotional Disturbance
- Family Conflict
- High Demand Group/Relationship Education& Recovery
- Infidelity
- Life Coaching
- Life Transitions
- Marital and Premarital
- Men's Issues
- Motherless Daughters, Mother Daughter Relationship
- Narcissistic Personality
- Parenting
- Peer Relationships
- School Issues
- Self Esteem
- Sexual Abuse
- Spirituality
- Stress
- Women's Issues
Mental Health
- Dissociative Disorders
- Mood Disorders
- Personality Disorders
Client Focus
Age
- Elders (65+)
- Adults
- Adolescents / Teenagers (14 to 19)
Treatment Approach
Types of Therapy
- Brief and Longer-Term Psychotherapy & Counseling
- Coaching
- Cognitive Behavioral (CBT)
- Culturally Sensitive
- Educational Consultations Zoom and In-Office
- Family / Marital
- Family Systems
- Humanistic
- Integrative
- Person-Centered
- Psychodynamic
- Relational
- Strength-Based
- Trauma Focused
Modality
- Individuals
- Couples
- Group
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