Counseling Adults, Children & Couples
Psychologist, PsyD, CHYP
Finances
Fees
- Sliding scale: apply if you may be eligible
- Pay by Cash, Check, Discover, Mastercard, Paypal, Visa
Insurance
- ILWU
- Out of Network
Qualifications
- Verified by Psychology Today Expired Licensed by State of California / PSY 10881 Carol Francis
- Certificate from Board of Behavioral Sciences Marriage, Family & Child Thera / 1983
- Certificate from California Board of Psychology Clinical Psychology PSY 10881 / 1985
- Certificate from California Board of Psychology PSY 1088a / 1985
- Attended Rosemead School of Professional Psychology, Graduated 1985
Psychologist: Carol Francis
Specialties and Expertise
Top Specialties
- Relationship Issues
- Family Conflict
- Emotional Disturbance
Expertise
- Addiction
- ADHD
- Adoption
- Alcohol Use
- Anger Management
- Antisocial Personality
- Anxiety
- Asperger's Syndrome
- Autism
- Behavioral Issues
- Bipolar Disorder
- Bisexual
- Borderline Personality (BPD)
- Cancer
- Career Counseling
- Child
- Children, Teens, Parenting, Marriage, CareTaking
- Chronic Illness
- Chronic Impulsivity
- Chronic Pain
- Chronic Relapse
- Codependency
- Coping Skills
- Dementia
- Depression
- Depression, Anxiety, Body Image, Personal Satisfac
- Developmental Disorders
- Dissociative Disorders (DID)
- Divorce
- Domestic Abuse
- Domestic Violence
- Drug Abuse
- Dual Diagnosis
- Eating Disorders
- Education and Learning Disabilities
- Gambling
- Geriatric and Seniors
- Grief
- Hoarding
- Impulse Control Disorders
- Infertility
- Infidelity
- Intellectual Disability
- Internet Addiction
- Lesbian
- LGBTQ+
- Life Coaching
- Life Transitions
- Marital and Premarital
- Medical Detox
- Medication Management
- Men's Issues
- Mood Disorders
- Narcissistic Personality (NPD)
- Obesity
- Obsessive-Compulsive (OCD)
- Oppositional Defiance (ODD)
- Parenting
- Peer Relationships
- Personality Disorders
- Pregnancy, Prenatal, Postpartum
- Racial Identity
- School Issues
- Self Esteem
- Self-Harming
- Sex Therapy
- Sexual Abuse
- Sexual Addiction
- Sleep or Insomnia
- Spirituality
- Sports Performance
- Stress
- Substance Use
- Suicidal Ideation
- Teen Violence
- Testing and Evaluation
- Thinking Disorders
- Transgender
- Trauma and PTSD
- Video Game Addiction
- Weight Loss
- Women's Issues
Client Focus
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Treatment Approach
Types of Therapy
- Acceptance and Commitment (ACT)
- Adlerian
- Applied Behavioral Analysis (ABA)
- Art Therapy
- Attachment-based
- Biofeedback
- Brainspotting
- Child and Teen Depression, Conflict, Underachievin
- Christian Counseling
- Coaching
- Cognitive Behavioral (CBT)
- Cognitive Processing (CPT)
- Compassion Focused
- Couples Intimacy, Communication, Affair-Recovery
- Culturally Sensitive
- Dance Movement Therapy
- Dialectical Behavior (DBT)
- Eclectic
- EMDR
- Emotionally Focused
- Existential
- Experiential Therapy
- Expressive Arts
- Family / Marital
- Family Systems
- Feminist
- Gestalt
- Gottman Method
- Humanistic
- Hypnotherapy
- Imago
- Integrative
- Internal Family Systems (IFS)
- Interpersonal
- Intervention
- Jungian
- Mindfulness-Based (MBCT)
- Motivational Interviewing
- Music Therapy
- Narrative
- Neuro-Linguistic (NLP)
- Neurofeedback
- Parent-Child Interaction (PCIT)
- Person-Centered
- Play Therapy
- Positive Psychology
- Psychoanalytic
- Psychobiological Approach Couple Therapy
- Psychodynamic
- Psychological Testing and Evaluation
- Rational Emotive Behavior (REBT)
- Reality Therapy
- Relational
- Schema Therapy
- Solution Focused Brief (SFBT)
- Somatic
- Structural Family Therapy
- Transpersonal
- Trauma Focused
Groups
Saving Marriage After an Affair
Marriage can survive and even improve after one or both partners have engaged in an affair but the percentage of success is low. When both partners want to save the marriage because of children, love and regret, this group helps with rebuilding trust, growing beyond naivete, and emotional/physical intimacy.
Expertise
Age
Session Cost
Location
Counseling - Dr. Carol Francis
3655 Torrance Blvd Third Floor
near Del Amo Center
Torrance, CA 90503
Teenage Pressures & Angst
Teens facing peer pressure, academic pressures, and stress from family conflicts often need a neutral and reasonable place to explore feelings, options and resolution to daily difficulties. Preparing for college testing, apps and intense courses, over-whelming schedules can aggravate anxieties, depression, confusion. Teen relationships can be stormy and painful too. Body image, feeling worthless or unattractive, or seeking peer approval ineffectively also trouble teens. This group allows teens to process their issues while remaining focused on not sabotoging their future college/career success and emotional/physical health.
Expertise
Age
Session Cost
Location
Teen Group Psychotherapy/Counseling
3655 Torrance Blvd Third Floor
Near Del Amo Mall
Torrance, CA 90503
Women's Depression, Anxiety, Changes, Relationship
From ages 30-60, women face so many physical, emotional, family and career changes which are befuddling and overwhelming. Fortunately, women vitally benefit from processing and talking. Often such therapeutic exchanges reduce stress, anxiety, depression, feelings of worthlessness, confusion about hormonal changes, relationship dissatisfactions, parenting worries, divorce recovery distress, and puzzling identity changes. This group provides the confidential, private environment and psychotherapeutic assistance which helps women optimize their next decisions and future endeavors.
Expertise
Age
Session Cost
Location
Women's Group
3655 Torrance Blvd Third Floor
Near Del Amo Mall
Torrance, CA 90503
Location
Primary Location
Counseling Adults, Children & Couples
Centrally Located On Palos Verdes Peninsula
Rancho Palos Verdes, CA 90275
(310) 421-2863Email us
Additional Location
Counseling & Psychotherapy for Adults, Children, C
3655 Torrance Blvd, Suite 160
(near Del Amo Shopping Center)
Torrance, CA 90503
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