San Pedro Healing Arts Medical Clinic, Inc. is pleased to offer Counseling Services!

What if we had the courage to look inside?  What if we had the capacity to really see what was there and know that we could handle it, whatever it was?  And what if we had the tools to apply that understanding with wisdom and compassion into our daily lives, our actions, and our relationships?

Every person carries all the resources they need to move toward their goals, improve their lives, heal their wounds, and address difficulties in their lives.  Psychotherapy can help in this process.  In therapy we work with individuals and couples to develop the insight and skills to identify, access, and apply those resources to move toward their goals and lead happier, healthier lives and enjoy richer and more satisfying relationships.

How We Work

We use an integrative approach to psychotherapy, combining insight and skills-based frameworks.  we help our clients understand how their past experiences and relationships shaped and influence who they are now and how they experience the world, and we help them develop tools for addressing current life situations and for putting that insight to work in moving their lives in the direction they want. This approach helps clients link the past which formed them, the present they are living in, and the future they wish to experience.
Both therapist and client bring important expertise to the table.  We bring knowledge of psychological theory and practice, and you bring knowledge of your present experience, history, life goals, fears, and aspirations which I cannot understand alone.  Together we develop a deeper understanding than either of us could do alone, and we create a uniquely designed treatment best suited to you.

Psychotherapy is not a mechanical endeavor, and what is effective and useful for one person may look quite different than what is helpful to another.  We work collaboratively with each individual to identify and integrate the most useful approach or combination of approaches for them and their present situation.

Psychotherapy can help clients gain an increasing and deeper understanding of the thoughts and feelings that are steering them, evaluate the intention of their habitual ways of coping, judge whether those ways of coping are still effective, and identify and begin to integrate new and more effective and satisfying ways of living their lives.

Real change and recovery from suffering can occur through psychotherapy, although it is often difficult work.  Undertaking and realizing the benefits of such work takes courage, commitment, humor, and compassion on the part of both the therapist and client.

We are dedicated to helping our clients work toward their goals in a safe, comfortable, and confidential space.  We will work with you to build an understanding of your situation and your self to solve problems when possible, accept painful truths when necessary, and help connect you to your deep, and sometimes unknown, inner resources with which to courageously and actively engage whatever situations arise in your life.

Services

• Individual Counseling

• Family Counseling

• Marriage Counseling 

• Counseling for children and adolescents

• Mood Disorders

• Counseling for Trauma

• Anxiety (Panic disorders, OCD, etc)

• Addictions

• Weight Management

• Smoking Cessation 

• Mediation

* Treatments and services are not limited to the list above.

PAYMENTS ACCEPTED

• Checks
• Cash
• Insurance

If you have insurance eligibility questions call  310.547.2197