La Vida Life Counseling Center
Our Therapists at Orange County
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Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist 82977
Licensed Professional Clinical Counselor 651 Languages: English and Spanish Offices: Santa Ana, San Juan Capistrano, Encino, Paramount, Newport Beach Luisa provides therapy to children, adults and families experiencing complex trauma, difficulties in relationships or emotional pain. She believes that understanding the past can help make sense of present experiences, identify patterns and transform the future. Luisa has helped many clients create closer connections to their loved ones to overcome the effects of trauma and emotional distress. She works collaborative with her clients to address the emotional pain and challenges of life. Luisa has a warm and empathic therapeutic style and is trained in various therapy modalities including Emotionally Focused Therapy, Trauma Focused-Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, Parent-Child Interaction Therapy, and Gottman Method Couples Therapy. For more information about Luisa's therapy services visit www.therapywithluisa.com |
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Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist 116144
Languages: English and Spanish Offices: Santa Ana Arasha obtained her Bachelors Degree at the University of California, Riverside and obtained her Masters degree from the Chicago School of Professional Psychology. She began her therapeutic work helping at-risk youth within the community schools of Santa Ana and has helped clients with issues such as trauma, substance abuse, anxiety, depression, grief, conduct, and psychosis. In addition to working within the community schools, she has gathered experience working in institutional settings, such as Santa Ana Federal Jail, Lamoreaux Justice Center, and Youth Guidance Center/Youth Leadership Academy. She has been trained through the Gang Certification Intervention Program, Crisis Response Certification, and Joven Noble training through the National Compadres Network. She believes that healing begins with uncovering one's truest needs and making a sense of meaning within their personal lives. She uses various therapeutic approaches including, Psychodynamic, Existential, and Cognitive Behavioral and ensures that each approach fits the needs of each of her clients. She is passionate about working with at-risk youth and young adults, as well as adults struggling with life adjustment issues. She understands that therapy can be a difficult place for expression and works on implementing techniques through a creative lens in her sessions through the use of art, music, and dance. Her overall goal is to give clients a safe place to explore and understand their inner workings of their minds. |
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Associate Marriage and Family Therapist 87746
Languages: English Offices: Santa Ana Cristina is a mother of two adult children and a grandmother of her two year old grandson. She has been successfully married for 35 years. Cristina grew up in a single parent home with her 7 siblings and suffered physical and emotional abuse within her family. Her own therapy helped her to grow, learn and heal from this challenge and the traumatic experiences early in her life. Through her healing journey she became passionate about helping others to grow and heal as she did. Before becoming a therapist she worked in the beauty industry as an Esthetician/Make-Up Artist helping women to feel beautiful on the outside. Now she gains great satisfaction from helping her clients to feel beautiful inwardly, showing them how to live a more emotionally fulfilling, healthy and happy life. |
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Associate Marriage and Family Therapist 103646
Languages: English and Spanish Offices: Santa Ana, Encino Ernesto Cruz utilizes an existential-humanistic approach to psychotherapy. An existential-humanistic approach is characterized by a confrontation with the here and now of the clients life where the client is ultimately responsible for who he wills himself to be. He works primarily with individual adults and couples. He also has experience working with children and families. Ernesto graduated from Phillips Graduate University and is bilingual, fluent in both English and Spanish. For more information about Ernesto's therapy services visit www.therapycruz.com |
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Associate Marriage and Family Therapist 115066
Associate Professional Clinical Counselor 6752 Languages: English Ofices: Santa Ana, Newport Beach In therapy, Kaelen provides her clients with a safe and nonjudgmental space to discuss their emotions and life stressors. She has experience working with children and adolescents in the Santa Ana school district, tackling problems such as impulsivity, behavioral problems, and abuse. Additionally, she has worked with homeless women and adults experiencing a variety of issues including anxiety, depression, low self-esteem, grief/loss, trauma, relationship issues, and adjusting to life transitions. Regarding her approach to therapy, she strives to collaborate with her clients in a way that is empathic, safe, empowering, and tailored to the client’s individual needs. In Kaelen’s free time, she enjoys exercising, spending time with friends and family, watching Disney movies, and playing Dungeons and Dragons. |
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Associate Marriage and Family Therapist 96472
Languages: English and Spanish Offices: Santa Ana, Newport Beach As someone who has battled Chronic Pain & Illness for 13 years (and counting), as well as, Triple Negative Breast Cancer (2015), Tacha has a unique combination of first hand knowledge coupled with professional training & experience. She dedicates herself to providing therapeutic services to individuals and their loved ones dealing with the emotional impact of health and life issues. Tacha works as a catalyst to build hope, promote healing and inspire growth, so that clients & their families can thrive while courageously live fulfilling lives despite their difficult circumstances. |
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Associate Marriage and Family Therapist 114457
Associate Professional Clinical Counselor 6659 Languages: English Offices: Santa Ana Rebecca earned her Bachelor’s in Human Services and her Master’s in Counseling with an emphasis in mental health from California State University, Fullerton. She welcomes all populations and is LGBTQ+ Safe Space trained. She offers an emphatic and nonjudgmental client-centered approach in therapy to provide a safe space for you to explore areas of your life that can be painful and scary to process alone. She utilizes an eclectic approach to meet the needs of each client and collaborates with you to understand and embrace all parts of yourself, find balance in your life, and determine what obstacles are getting in the way of positive change and meaningful relationships. She welcomes all populations and has experience working with children, adolescents, and adults. She also has experience counseling children who are sight impaired or have other disabilities. Rebecca enjoys working with young adults and the challenges they face entering adulthood which could lead to mental health issues such as anxiety and depression. She is passionate about the therapeutic benefits in psychotherapy that arts, nature, and animals can provide, thus extends this passion when appropriate in therapy. |
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Associate Marriage and Family Therapist 112661
Languages: English Offices: Santa Ana, Newport Beach Ryan is an LGBTQ affirming therapist who understands that each client has a unique story. By working on a deeper level, Ryan helps both individuals and couples to develop a more intimate understanding of themselves and how they relate to the world around them. In addition to completing his Masters from Brandman/Chapman University, Ryan gained his clinical experience at the LGBT Center and has also done training in both Acceptance and Commitment Therapy and Internal Family Systems (Parts-work). He has helped clients work through many life issues including anxiety, depression, trauma, grief, couples communication issues, and recovery from toxic relationships. His primary goal is to not only help clients heal but also to thrive in their daily life. He also has a personal passion for working with Adults with ADHD and the LGBTQ community. For more information about Ryan's therapy services visit www.ryanborlandtherapy.com |
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Santa Ana
1850 E. 17th Street, Suite 119 Santa Ana, CA 92705 |
Newport Beach
1451 Quail Street, Suite 211 Newport Beach, CA 92660 |
San Juan Capistrano
31726 Rancho Viejo Road, Suite 204 San Juan Capistrano, CA 92675 |
Encino
17337 Ventura Blvd, Suite 220 Encino, CA 91316 |
Paramount
7300 Alondra Boulevard, Suite 201 Paramount, CA 90723 |