Male Therapists in Calabasas, CA

It is my mission to provide high-quality psychotherapy to my clients by assisting them in how they manage and cope with the stress and anxieties in life. The way we perceive a problem greatly affects how we deal (or don't deal) with that problem. Using proven evidence-based interventions and building on insight and self-awareness, we can move the mountains in our minds to see a clearer picture of ourselves and the world around us – improving our ability to cope, our self-esteem, and the quality of our personal life relationships.

My goal is to create a safe, warm, open (and sometimes humorous) environment where relational support through challenging times will be provided. While drawn toward Motivational Interviewing (MI) and Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT), I have piqued interests with integrating Mindfulness/Positive Psychology tenets along with discovering psychodynamic processes.

I believe everyone deserves a chance at better understanding themselves in a world that can be deeply judgmental, racist, homophobic, transphobic, sexist etc. The impositions that society places on us can produce self-loathing, low self-esteem and general feelings of unworthiness. I find great value in helping people connect with their truest selves and cultivate self-compassion.

The struggle is real! Grief is one of the hardest things we go through. Does your world feel frozen and stuck since they left. A storm of emotions fear, sadness, anger, crashes over you daily. And missing them is a constant ache. Life without them feels terrifying and all you want to you do is hit the reset button. Maybe you're going through the motions, afraid to face the reality of this loss. And you even yearn to feel accomplished, to move forward, but every day feels like you are falling behind.

I take on a very client-centered approach, starting where you are at and what you are needing most. Together, we will create a therapeutic space that provides you with safety, awareness, and growth. There will be times when what's most important for you that day is just unloading the stress and anxiety of life's expectations: other times, we may need to dive deep into past traumas and life experiences, untangling the knots of the past that keep tying you down in the present moment.

Greetings, Are you dealing with some life challenges? The challenges of growing up, parenting, and navigating the vicissitudes of relationships, and work, and careers, are often very daunting. Sometimes we all can use some guidance and direction and coaching when we encounter life's challenges and difficulties. Coaching and guiding young people, mothers, fathers, sisters, brothers, workers, and friends, is what I do in my life and my profession. I coach and guide them to more productive attitudes, and thinking, and behavior. I coach and guide them to be better equipped to meet the challenges that they encounter in their lives,

As a seasoned professional, I offer you understanding, guidance and support based upon my many decades as a counselor, lawyer, businessman, husband, father and evolving person. It's likely that I can help you get to the root of your problem and develop new and successful ways to manage better in your life.

I view the therapeutic relationship as the most significant aspect of productive therapy and vital to the healing process. As your therapist I will respect your unique gifts and challenges and will strive to honor who you are. We all share in the same basic needs, but how we prioritize the many areas of our lives (familial, work related, spiritual etc.) is determined by our unique histories. I will honor your uniqueness in our work together, which ideally becomes a collaborative process.

Bilingual Spanish/English speaking therapist; working in the mental health area since 2015 I have learned to take a holistic and person-centered approach to work collaboratively with adults to help them reach closer to their goals. I have worked with populations from different cultural backgrounds such as different ethnicities, nationalities, socio-economic groups, and older adults (gerontology) to target issues related to complex traumas, stress, and or life-transitions. I have also been trained in areas to work with LGBTQ+ groups, and as part of the LGBTQ+ community myself, I take pride in this population.

I am a strong believer in taking an active approach to feeling better. Having better control over your mood can often seem hopeless, but you can make things better. Achieving a healthier approach to the way you think, make decisions, and relate to others can help clear a path towards a new direction in your life.

I'm a Gestalt Therapist grounded in experiential phenomenon. Perhaps you're telling yourself things are not going so well, while you try and console yourself what's going wrong? Transpersonal Psychology researched healthy attitudes and optimal creative functioning. I can share what attitudes and expectations to hold that help you to understand the power of the flow of actuality. Your life's mission is to help you grow into your highest and best self and develop a strong inner sense of being. Allow me the opportunity to help you to understand the optimal ways to view your moment to moment experience to enhance your journey.

Of special interest to me are those individuals who have been raised to believe that they are not special, and experience the suffering resulting from focusing more on the needs and feelings of others than their own. I assist my clients in developing their personal boundaries and limitations required to establish their own equal "space" within relationships, and to achieve the necessary freedom from re-enacting their familial role and associated feelings with that role.

I specialize in short and long term psychotherapy and psychoanalysis for individual adults, couples, children, adolescents, and parents. I am a trained psychoanalyst, a child specialist, with additional training in cognitive behavioral therapy and EMDR. I focus on the importance of finding balance, vision, creativity, and meaning in one's life. From disorder and chaos comes balance and order. My clients have found my approach to mental health effective in creating long-term positive change.

I have specialized in treating individuals families and children for over 40 years. My approach combines resolving current issues as quickly as possible with an in-depth understanding of the self. Therapy is a collaborative process for persons wishing to take back control and responsibility of their lives

You've entered the right field when you love it after thirty years. Genuine caring, empathy, intensive training and experience enable me to provide accelerated, lasting and substantive results. I have expertise in the assessment and cognitive-behavioral treatment of children, adolescents and adults with ADHD and learning disabilities, including, psycho-educational testing and psychotherapy with children. I also specialize in accelerated, emotion-focused therapy, a powerfully effective treatment for depression, anxiety/panic, stress reduction, and relational difficulties. Having developed men's support groups,I help men to become more connected to their emotions.

I am passionate about helping my clients achieve their goals, whether it is to save their marriage; free them from destructive relationships; grow insight into their life's meaning, purpose and life's work; or find joy and happiness in a well developed relationship with God and others.

Specializing in the treatment of trauma, grief, loss, depression and anxiety. I believe in a holistic approach designed to address both body and mind. By using modalities such as Mindfulness, EMDR and Integrative Somatic Therapy (TRM), as well as Art Therapy, I strive always to be gentle and supportive and to let you, the client set the pace and parameters of therapy. With 24 years of experience, I work with a broad range of problems with individuals, couples and families.

If only you could just tell your kids what to do and watch them feel better! It seldom works out that way, though. To help a child, you have to "speak the language of youth" and find ways to help that aren't lectures or punishments. My office is half consulting room and half art studio. Your child is invited to express their emotions in whatever way suits them--colors, brushes, toys and, yes, a couch. I help kids and teens find their own answers and begin growing into the people they were meant to be.

I have two decades of experience in the behavioral sciences as a clinician and educator. Over the years my approach to clients has evolved from psychotherapy to creative problem-solving. I have found that many clients struggle not necessarily with “mental disorders” but with ineffective mental strategies. The mind doesn’t come with a user’s manual. But you can learn to use your mind. The mind is the user-interface for your neurosomatic (brain-body) system, similar to the screen of an iPhone or computer. Although we have limitless potential, we need the proper apps (mental strategies) to utilize that potential.