Each year we grant Top Non-Profit Badges to agencies based on these criteria:
- Consistently accepting clients
- Offering a wide range of services e.g. marriage counseling and child counseling as reported by our users.
- Our users reporting affordable services.
Our aim is to guide our users to agencies most likely to be able to help. In addition to the above criteria we also exercise editorial discretion with our choice based upon our experience. We take our responsibility and objectivity seriously. We don't accept any form of payment from providers for this honor.
Shanti Orange County
Charles Garfield, the founder of the Shanti model in San Francisco in 1974 used the word Shanti, meaning "inner peace" in Sanskrit, to describe the model of volunteerism providing emotional support and assistance to people living with life- threatening illnesses. Our founders patterned our agency after this Shanti model, the first of its kind.
COUNSELING is a professionally-facilitated process that is designed to explore thoughts, feelings, and behaviors for the purpose of improving one's quality of life. Counseling helps people better understand the causes, influences, and triggers of issues in one's family of origin, current relationships, or problems at work. The goal is to develop proactive coping strategies and an enhanced sense of well-being. For people living with chronic illness, counseling can also help reduce stress to improve the body's immune system functioning, as well as foster social skills to promote an improved sense of community.
Individual counseling is a personalized approach to psychotherapy. Counselors work with clients to understand how anxiety, depression, substance abuse, and fear of disclosure interact with more general problems, and collaborate to find resolution.
Couples counseling focuses on facilitating more effective communication strategies between partners in light of difficult situations or circumstances. This approach incorporates more structured methods to problem solving.
Group counseling utilizes the principles outlined above and adds in the powerful component of group participation. A speaker with similar experiences to those of the group facilitates a safe and understanding discussion in which group members are encouraged to share their experiences. Rather than giving advice or commentary, members of the group provide support and a listening ear to one another.
Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR) therapy is a specific therapeutic approach that uses eye movement to target traumatic memories, allow them to be reprocessed and relieve any associated disturbances to the memories. This treatment is highly effective and is most commonly used for Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD).
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COUNSELING is a professionally-facilitated process that is designed to explore thoughts, feelings, and behaviors for the purpose of improving one's quality of life. Counseling helps people better understand the causes, influences, and triggers of issues in one's family of origin, current relationships, or problems at work. The goal is to develop proactive coping strategies and an enhanced sense of well-being. For people living with chronic illness, counseling can also help reduce stress to improve the body's immune system functioning, as well as foster social skills to promote an improved sense of community.
Individual counseling is a personalized approach to psychotherapy. Counselors work with clients to understand how anxiety, depression, substance abuse, and fear of disclosure interact with more general problems, and collaborate to find resolution.
Couples counseling focuses on facilitating more effective communication strategies between partners in light of difficult situations or circumstances. This approach incorporates more structured methods to problem solving.
Group counseling utilizes the principles outlined above and adds in the powerful component of group participation. A speaker with similar experiences to those of the group facilitates a safe and understanding discussion in which group members are encouraged to share their experiences. Rather than giving advice or commentary, members of the group provide support and a listening ear to one another.
Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR) therapy is a specific therapeutic approach that uses eye movement to target traumatic memories, allow them to be reprocessed and relieve any associated disturbances to the memories. This treatment is highly effective and is most commonly used for Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD).
Fees and Payment
Services Offered To:
Adults
Couples
Teens
Children
Special Groups:
LGBTQ
Adults
Couples
Teens
Children
Special Groups:
LGBTQ
Payment:
Sliding Scale
Medicare
Medicaid
Sliding Scale
Medicare
Medicaid
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