Domestic Abuse Therapists in Anaheim, CA

I am a counselor who focuses on the trauma behind substance abuse, and the affects it takes on us throughout our lives. I offer support in learning coping skills and techniques to bring in both your individual life, and to assist manage healthy relationships. With my education background being in Marriage Family Therapy, substance abuse, and trauma. I apply approaches that best fit the clients individualized need focusing on the success in their personalized growth.

Offering Video Sessions for Texas and in person sessions for Califonia. We are usually afraid of our feelings. We try to avoid them, mask them, hide them. We live in a world that tells us to be happy. We try, but we can't, the feelings catch up with us. So we feel even worse. We feel lost, afraid, and guilty for feeling our feelings. In my practice, I provide a safe environment where you can start exploring your feelings, accept them, and work through them. I will help you get in touch with your inner/true self, accepting yourself for who you are, moving away from shame, guilt and fear, and starting the process of change.

Our aim is to RESTORE HOPE and TRANSFORM LIVES to those seeking hope, healing and growth in addressing life challenges. Our goal is to cultivate emotional, physical, and spiritual healing that will allow clients to increase their ability to be in relationship with others. Our Marriage and Family Therapists and Registered Interns are available to serve you in many locations throughout Southern California. We offer a sliding scale for financially challenged persons. Please visit our website at www.SpareMinistries.org for more information.

Hi I'm Kameron Associate Clinical Social Worker who has worked in Intensive Inpatient, Outpatient & Enhanced Residential Service facilities. I have spent my time serving adults who were living in transitional housing shelters & have been struggling with anger management, anxiety, stress, grief, and PTSD through assault or sexual abuse. I have also worked with individuals who have been diagnosed with Schizophrenia, Major Depressive Disorder, & varying Personality Disorders. I am highly passionate and privileged to be able to provide my therapeutic services to individuals looking to start or continue their journey!

I'm Krystal Handy, a Doctor of Marriage and Family Therapy with 15 years of experience in mental health care. My foundation in multicultural studies and my past experience as a domestic violence legal advocate inform my current approach. I have worked with a wide range of people and clinical problems that keep people stuck. I have worked with men, women, and children who have survived traumatic experiences, along with couple and family relational problems, the transient population, and those with chronic medical problems. I am very committed to helping individuals, couples, and families live their best life now!

Dr. Kaneshiro (CA PSY22537) is a bilingual (Spanish/English) clinical psychologist who specializes in immigration evaluations, most commonly for I-601A waivers, VAWA (Violence Against Women’s Act), U-Visa, Asylum, I-751 removal of conditions on permanence residence, I-212 permission to reapply for admission after deportation or removal, and N-648 certifications for disability. During the 14+ years she has conducted immigration evaluations, she has proudly used her expertise to promote social justice, raise individual and community health, and deliver essential psychological knowledge needed by key decision-makers.

Over the years, I have had the opportunity to work with a variety of clients. To choose one ideal client would be impossible for me. I have enjoyed working with adolescents, children, young adults, older adults, couples, and families. Treatment has included addressing anger issues, substance abuse, self-esteem deficits, depression, anxiety, marital issues, domestic violence, as well as gay/lesbian issues. Utilizing a positive regard for each client while creating a treatment plan with the client to address his/her concerns, I strive to develop therapeutic relationships with my clients that will maximize effective healing.

If you are struggling with addictions, PTSD, depression, anxiety and relationship issues, you have come to the right place. Emotions are a natural part of life, but sometimes we struggle feeling stuck with painful emotions causing life and our circumstances to feel unmanageable. It can feel as though we are giving our best but have yet to see the desired outcome, and our emotions can get the best of us. My ultimate goal is to treat and heal the underlying root causes, thus providing an opportunity to break free from the chains of the harmful or negative past behaviors and thought processes.

How on earth do you choose from all these therapists? We must all start to sound alike! I recommend you call at least 3-5 of us, or email even more, and trust your gut feeling. It's important to help you feel emotionally safe with me, in order to share your struggles, so that you don't have to carry them alone anymore. I strive to help you get to the root of your pain, in order to heal it, rather than put a band aid on it. Many people seem to believe that they will have to carry the effects of prior trauma forever. I want you to know that is not the case. You CAN heal.

As the founder of Inspired Resolutions my goal is to provide more effective and consistent services for teens, families, and marriages. With over 18 years of experience I began at the Substance Abuse Foundation. I then joined with "Shields for Families" working with the middle and high school population in Compton. In 2007 I became a Drug Court therapist on a collaborative team including probation and legal experts. I am one of the few therapists that has integrated mental health with nutrition and physical health.

My areas of expertise are in strength based, solution oriented and Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT). I believe the children's emotional and pychological well being is impacted from the prenatal stage. Educating parents to learn the impact of nature and nurture might be helpful to understand their unique needs. Each of us are unique in our ways to face challenges of our lives. What matters is to use our strength and what we have learned to cope with life events. Please contact me if you need to talk in these tough and challenging times. Most insurance companies are allowing telehealth.

The type of therapy I do is called existential and person-centered. I believe in unconditional positive regard and that all people are entitled to respect, care, empathy, and to seek what is in their best interest as a human being. My approach to therapy is that we all have the ability to change and grow if provided with the right tools and insight. Treatment goals assist you in what you want and I am an instrument to assist you in obtaining your goals whatever those may be. Trauma, Addiction, Substance Abuse and Mental Health Issues are my specialty.

In person available........ Find the happiness you deserve: Holistic and mindfulness based approach. My specialties are; finding yourself again, relationship issues, depression, anxiety, self-harm, addiction, trauma, life transitions, and abuse (domestic, childhood & sexual). Find a new perspective of life. My goal is to provide you a safe and confidential space to help you learn coping skills to utilize in moments of stress helping you manage life easier. Also, helping people find ways to reduce the effects of stress, anxiety, depression and other issues that plague us on a daily basis.

Trauma is a lasting emotional response resulting from experiencing one or more distressing events that can change our sense of safety, sense of self and the ability to self-regulate, navigate daily interactions and relationships. For almost 20 years I have worked with survivors of sexual trauma, abusive relationships and intimate partner violence. Since 2016 I have been practicing individual and group therapy with survivors and I have used various therapy modalities including Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing therapy (EMDR) to process traumatic and adverse experiences that aids in reaching an adaptive resolution.

I am a licensed Clinical Social Worker who received my Master’s in Social Work from California State University, Los Angeles in 2006. I work with, adolescents, adults and couples/families. I have worked in various settings, including mental health outpatient clinics, inpatient mental health, state hospitals, detention facilities and prisons.

Soren Kierkegaard, the Danish philosopher, said "Be that self which one truly is" If we are to "be that self", we must embrace our own life. I believe that by giving people the tools to do this and learning how to use those tools is what therapy is about.

Taking the step towards therapy is an act of courage and self-care, and I'm deeply honored to be part of your transformative journey towards personal growth. I am truly passionate about helping you discover inner peace and resilience to create a sense of belonging within yourself. Together, we will navigate the obstacles that may have made you experienced fear, loss, rejection, or feel like you weren't enough. With over fourteen years of experience, my specialization lies in supporting emerging generation and adults facing a range of challenges, including anxiety, depression, burnout, trauma, loss, or life adjustments.

Dr. Martin Eaton is a clinical psychologist and former graduate professor at USC who specializes in identifying and providing individualized solutions for students and adults who have experienced learning challenges. Dr. Eaton's unique approach starts with a neurological assessment that identifies how the brain is processing information to discover the strengths and weaknesses for each individual. Coupled with his clinical background and over 25 years of counseling experience, Dr. Eaton will identify what's going on cognitively, emotionally, spiritually, and physically for that individual or family.

You are a unique individual, and your therapy should reflect that! I draw from a diverse range of modalities tailored to meet your specific needs. This world molds us into who we become, including the aspects we may find challenging to embrace. My fervor lies in using psychodynamic modalities including trauma-focused and attachment based approaches to uncover how those life experiences have shaped your thoughts and emotions, while also using aspects of Emotion Focused Therapy to help identify and discover those unhelpful thinking patterns and coping mechanisms that may be influencing you today.