Dissociative Disorders therapists in Santa Clarita, California CA

My private practice has been established for over 30 years and focuses on the unique needs of every adult, child and family that I see. Therapy is about helping you understand yourself better, solve problems that have effected your relationships and work and to help enhance your life in many ways.  

Counseling Center for Sexual Health specializes in sex therapy in Westlake Village and caters to the entire continuum of sexually-related issues. With a specialized focus on sexual addiction treatment, we offer compassionate and empathic services in a safe, confidential environment.  

We work with clients who express issues or concerns with Dissociative Disorders.  

These disorders call for therapies which have prove successful in encountering them and which will be selected based on the personality, characteristics, and needs of the client.  

Significant trauma may lead to the onset of a dissociative disorder. Our work together can help work on managing the significant emotional distress and trauma and improve affect tolerance.  

We can work through your dissociated disorders with different tools. Clients have found the emotion code, and RTT to be very helpful in managing their dissociative disorders.  

I was previously the program director for a trauma program specializing in dissociative disorders.  

Do you feel as though you walk around in a fog, time gets lost and you have no idea what has happened, or hear voices inside of your head? Does everything around you feel like you are just watching a movie but it doesn’t feel like you are in the picture, only a part of you is even though you are there? Do you find things that you know you must have done or written, but cannot recall having done it, or it seems to be in someone else’s handwriting? Do you lose big chunks of time? If you answered yes to any or all of these questions, you may have a dissociative disorder. We work with all kinds of dissociative problems, from routine mild dissociative problems like feeling like you are always in a walking dream, to severe dissociative problems.  

Dissociation is the mind's defense against persistent or severe trauma and neglect. It is when a person disconnects from their thoughts, feelings, memories or sense of identity. This process is an amazing defense/survival mechanism, but it also leads to patterns that interfere with normal functioning. Ego-state work, combined with EMDR works to heal the profoundly painful impact of this type of trauma, and leads to significantly enhanced resilience and the ability to experience joy, love and belonging - both internally, and in relationships with others.