INDIVIDUAL PSYCHOTHERAPY:  Together we will discover the best way to bring out the Best You.

• Perhaps you feel something is missing from your career, health, or relationships. 
• Maybe you know your purpose, but you just can't seem to manifest it.
• Life seems like a struggle and it's hard to find a reason to get up in the morning.
• It seems that others possess the skills to be happy, but you don't.

       I use psychotherapy, hypnosis, guided visualization, humor, instruction, philosophical discussion, and education to help you discover and manifest your potential. 

      My goal is to help you achieve the success in life, career, relationships, and good health that you want. 

Format:  Approximately 45-50 mins. once a week. 

Fee:      Sliding fee.  Call me to discuss your situation. 

      If I may, allow me to share my philosophy:

           The world is a place of constant change and unrest.  Each point in time is distinct from the point before and the point after.  Every point in space is its own world, with its own conditions and state of being.  It is a world of fragments, constantly rushing like traffic in anarchy.

       Look at your own life: You do so many different things, one after the other, without any apparent connection between them.  Yet, inner peace is when every part of you, and every facet of your day, is moving in the same direction.

       When you have purpose, you have peace.  Open yourself up to the discovery of your purpose.  Call me, I can help you find the joy in living.             

COUPLE'S COUNSELING/MARITAL THERAPY: 

If you have a troubled marriage, then you will require marital counseling (aka marriage counseling, couple's therapy).  I have plenty of tools and skills with which to help you repair, build, and grow your marriage/relationship.  Your relationship is probably not as bad as you think it is, and couple's counseling doesn't have to be as scary as you might think it will be.  Together we can help you create the relationship that you want.

What is Relationship Facilitating?

Let's start with what it is not: it is NOT a cure for a serious relationship problems.  If you have a deeply troubled relationship, then you will require marital therapy.

• If your relationship is basically good,
• if you feel that you can grow and thrive in your relationship, 
• BUT, the same small matter pops up now and then,
• or you can't seem to come to an understanding, 
• or maybe you just don't know how to be in a relationship,
• then  Relationship Facilitating may be the option for you (and your beloved).

Sometimes, all we need is a little push in the right direction, or a little knowledge, or perhaps someone to answer some questions, and then we're on the sure path to joyfulness and relationship success.

If you have a nagging sense that if you could just love from a place of centeredness and everything would be divine, call me.  Together, we will walk the path to real love.

Format:  Approximately 45-50 mins. once a week. 

Fee:      Sliding fee.  Call me to discuss your situation. 

FAQ's:

• "Do both of us have to come to Relationship Facilitating or Marriage Counseling ?"

No.  "They" say one person can change the world, so, surely one person can change a relationship, yes?

• "Do you work with Gay, Lesbian, Bi-sexual, or polyamorous relationships?

Yes, and I have done so for the 30+ years of my career. 

• "Will our insurance cover this as marriage counseling?"

Inasmuch as it is marriage/couples counseling, they should provide benefits.  However, it depends upon your insurance company.  Some provide benefits only for individual counseling.  Some cover marriage counseling, but not family counseling.  Some cover for 10 sessions, 15 sessions, or 40 weeks. Call your provider to determine coverage limits.

• "Do you accept insurance payments?"

Clients are expected to pay for services when they are rendered.  I do not bill insurance companies, nor do I accept co-pays.  I will, however, provide you with a statement for services so that you may apply for reimbursement, assuming that your insurance company pays benefits for marital/couples counseling.

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                               Change your attitude, change your love life.

Gwen A. Finestone, MFT, PhD                (714) 658-7488                  DrGwenF@yahoo.com

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