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Debbie is a bilingual Licensed Professional Clinical Counselor who is passionate about guiding others along their journey of healing and growth. She believes that all people have an innate ability to find their way through struggles and hardships with the support of a caring therapist. She is a highly client-centered therapist who seeks to empower individuals to persevere in the face of depression, anxiety, trauma, or adversity. She aspires to help you find motivation, relaxation, hope and strength to navigate whatever challenges life may bring.

Debbie has years of experience working with children, adults, and families who struggle with generational trauma, stress management, attachment difficulties, and life transition challenges. She especially enjoys working with youth and transition-aged adults who are experiencing various stressors and uncertainties as they discover their sense of purpose in life. She also works with childhood trauma in adults.

She is a strength-based therapist who is empathetic, understanding, compassionate, and non-judgmental of all individuals from all backgrounds. Debbie tailors her therapy to each person and draws from Solution-Focused Therapy, Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT), Dialectical Behavioral Therapy (DBT), Motivational Interviewing, Experiential Therapy, and Expressive Arts Therapy. 

Debbie is a San Diego native and received her Masters in Counseling at the University of San Diego and her undergraduate degree in Psychology from UCSB. Debbie also has her Pupil Services Credential and has 5 years of experience supporting youth with social emotional challenges in the academic setting. She would cherish the opportunity to aid you on your journey towards personal growth.

Erin Bower is an associate therapist who studied Human Development, Neuroscience and Counseling Psychology at UC San Diego and National University. She respects the courage and strength that is required to reach out for professional mental health services and believes each person is an expert of their own experience with a wealth of inner wisdom. She has experience supporting adults with anxiety, depression, bipolar disorder, substance use disorder, and complex PTSD or developmental trauma. Erin meets people where they are, works to understand their unique motivation for healing, and uses heart-centered, evidence-based therapies to facilitate personal transformation and evolution.

She focuses on trauma-informed care and is familiar with several different therapy approaches including Somatic therapy, Mindfulness-based therapy, Motivational Interviewing, Solution- Focused therapy, Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, and Dialectical Behavior Therapy. As a former middle school teacher and musician, she uses her personal insights to support teachers and creative people through the unique sensitivities and mental health challenges that they face. She enjoys working with people who are questioning their relationship with alcohol or those who are in substance use recovery. She is familiar with the support group, Adult Children of Alcoholics and Dysfunctional Families, and is well-versed in working with ACA traits.

Paulina is a bilingual (English/ Spanish) Associate Marriage and Family Therapist with
experience providing individual, family, and group therapy in an outpatient setting. She enjoys working with individuals dealing with a range of challenges, including anxiety, depression, relational issues, life transitions, and more. She is passionate about supporting clients in their mental health journeys and values creating a safe and empowering space where each person’s experience is honored and their path to healing is supported. She believes in a non-judgmental, strength-based, client-centered approach. She is LGBTQIA+ friendly and committed to providing care that is accepting of all identities and backgrounds.

Paulina earned her Bachelor’s degrees in Psychology and Communications from UCLA
in 2019. In 2022, she moved to San Diego to attend the University of San Diego’s Master’s
program in Marriage and Family Therapy. She has a strong background in conducting
biopsychosocial Behavioral Health Assessments, creating personalized treatment plans, and utilizing evidence-based tools to conduct risk assessments. Through her academic and clinical training, she has developed a deep appreciation for cultural competence and the importance of family dynamics in the healing process.

Her therapeutic approach is grounded in a variety of evidence-based modalities, such as
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT), Trauma Focused Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (TF-
CBT), Dialectical Behavioral Therapy (DBT), Solution-Focused Brief Therapy (SF-BT),
Motivational Interviewing, Structural Family Therapy, Narrative Therapy, Parent Management Training (PMT), Unstuck and On Target, Play Therapy, Art Therapy, and Parent-Child Interaction Therapy (PCIT). Paulina is dedicated to tailoring treatment to the unique needs of each individual and is excited to accompany you on your journey of healing and growth.

Kion Fukuda is a compassionate Associate Marriage and Family Therapist dedicated to empowering individuals, couples, and families navigating mental health challenges, life transitions, and relational growth. With a client-centered approach, Kion believes in the innate resilience of every person and strives to create a safe, nonjudgmental space where clients feel heard and supported. His practice emphasizes collaboration, cultural humility, and fostering practical skills to help clients build emotional awareness, improve relationships, and reclaim agency in their lives.

Kion integrates evidence-based modalities such as Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT), Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT), and Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT). Passionate about helping couples navigate relational patterns and challenges, he utilizes the Gottman Method to foster deeper communication, rebuild trust, and create lasting intimacy. He holds a Master’s in Clinical Psychology with a focus on Marriage and Family Therapy from Azusa Pacific University and a B.S. in Psychology from UC San Diego. Fluent in Japanese and Chinese, Kion brings cultural sensitivity to his work, honoring diverse identities and systemic influences on mental health.

 

Whether supporting individuals in reclaiming agency or guiding couples toward deeper connection, Kion meets clients with empathy and intentionality. He looks forward to walking alongside you as you cultivate self-compassion, strengthen relationships, and embrace holistic growth

Dominique is an Associate Marriage and Family Therapist with a deep passion for guiding individuals, couples, and families through their healing journeys. With a person-centered approach, Dominique focuses on narrative therapy, incorporating interventions from Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT), Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT), and Cognitive Processing Therapy (CPT) to support her clients.

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She has extensive experience working with diverse populations, including individuals, couples, families, and children, addressing a wide range of challenges such as depression, anxiety, PTSD, addiction, communication difficulties, and life transitions. Dominique is dedicated to fostering a positive therapeutic relationship, creating a safe, nurturing environment where clients feel supported and empowered to heal and grow.

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Dominique has lived in San Diego for 10 years, having grown up in Temecula. She earned her bachelor’s degree in Psychology with a minor in Addiction Studies from Capella University. She completed her Master of Science in Marriage and Family Therapy from the same institution. Dominique’s journey as a therapist began supporting youth through challenges during the height of the COVID-19 pandemic. She continued to expand her experience by serving as a primary therapist at a holistic residential treatment facility and later as a clinician on a mental health crisis team, where she evaluated and supported individuals working through suicidal ideation, psychosis, and addiction-related challenges.

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You can expect a session with Dominique to include humor, kindness, and empathy, with a non-judgmental stance. She is looking forward to walking alongside you on your journey of healing.

Pearl Cohen (she/her) is an Associate Marriage Family Therapist who is passionate about supporting adolescents & teens, couples, and adult individuals. She strives to create spaces of inclusion and belonging for all clients, their unique identities and diverse backgrounds. 

A first-generation immigrant from South India and a Bay Area native since, Pearl completed her undergraduate studies at University of California, Davis in English Literature, Criticism & Theory. She worked for many years in the education non-profit world and lived abroad in Eastern Europe teaching English and supporting youth engagement in Roma communities. Pearl went on to complete her Master’s Degree in Counseling Psychology at The Wright Institute in Berkeley and has worked in community mental health settings as well as private practice, with extensive experience in Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion work.

Pearl employs a warm, person-centered approach to your healing that prioritizes your agency and dignity above all else. She will work with you to identify limiting patterns and beliefs, and will facilitate catharsis through storytelling and relationship. Pearl will utilize modalities such as Narrative Therapy, Emotionally Focused Therapy (EFT) and her background as a 200-hr Registered Yoga Teacher (RYT) to emphasize mindfulness. She has experience working with trauma, grief, and identity challenges, and enjoys working with clients struggling with navigating gender expression and sexual orientation. Pearl enjoys weaving her cultural values of collectivism, community care and social justice into her therapeutic style. She strives to support the unique personal narratives of her clients across their healing journey. She looks forward to working with you! 

During sessions with Christina, you will be met with warmth, empathy, and authenticity. She cares deeply about her clients and creates an affirming space for all. Christina specializes in working with families, children, teens, and young adults. She enjoys working with the LGBTQIA+ community and people experiencing trauma disorders, anxiety, depression, adoption and attachment issues, behavioral challenges, and other life and relationship stressors.

Christina’s approach is trauma-informed and strength-based. She incorporates techniques from a wide variety of theories to meet clients where they are, and draws heavily from Narrative, Solution-Focused, and Attachment theories. Using art therapy as an additional tool, Christina helps her clients work toward their goals while feeling safe and connected with themselves and others.

Christina (she/her) received her Master of Arts in Marital and Family Therapy with specialized training in Clinical Art Therapy from Loyola Marymount University. She has worked in various settings including schools, clinics, non-profits, and community-based services, and has worked with many different ethnicities, family types, cultures, gender identities, and sexualities.

Carissa is an Associate Clinical Social Worker with a passion to support individuals during their mental health journeys, navigating major life stressors, and addressing past trauma. Carissa graduated with her Masters in Social Work from the University of Denver and her Masters in Legal Studies from Pepperdine University.

Carissa enjoys working with children, adolescents, teens, adults, and families. She provides a strengths-based and client-centered approach to support clients with reaching goals and making positive changes within themselves and their lives.

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Carissa has experience providing individual and group support within behavioral health settings and specializes in borderline personality disorder, anxiety, depression, mood disorders, trauma, stress management, mediation, and life transitions. She utilizes various modalities such as Dialectical Behavior Therapy, Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, Narrative Therapy, Play Therapy, and Solution-Focused Therapy.  Carissa tailors her clinical knowledge to the specific needs of each client in order to best support clients and their goals for therapy. Carissa comes to each session with compassion, empathy, humor, and authenticity as she values the connection it can bring to the therapeutic relationship. Carissa emphasizes the importance of meeting clients where they are at and providing guidance towards healing and living a fulfilling life!

Yas is an Associate Marriage and Family Therapist who has had experience working with children ages 4-12, adolescents, adults, and families in both an educational and therapeutic setting for six years. She is trilingual in English, Persian and Spanish. Yas is originally from Shiraz, Iran and immigrated to the United States in 2004 with her family. She obtained her Bachelor’s degree in Psychology in 2014 and moved to Mexico City as an English instructor for three years. It was in the classroom where she realized she wanted to be a therapist more than an educator as she primarily focused on integrating mental health awareness into her students’ curricula.

In 2018 she returned to San Diego to pursue a professional degree in Marriage and Family Therapy at San Diego State University in order to participate in community healing across cultural and linguistic lines. Yas understands the importance of cultural sensitivity and open-mindedness. Because cultures adapt and change, she is invested in helping you examine the impact of cultural, social, and political forces in your own life/family dynamics.

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Yas has worked across various therapeutic settings such as school-based, non-profit outpatient programs, community-based and private practice. Through her experience, she has provided therapy to clients who have endured traumas, abuse, mood disorders such as anxiety and depression, relationship issues, parenting challenges and life transitions. As a therapist, Yas aspires to create a safe, nurturing and collaborative space for you and/or your family, so you may feel valued, heard, and able to show up authentically as yourself. 

Heather is a Licensed Marriage & Family Therapist who has experience helping adult individuals who are struggling with Major Depressive Disorder, Anxiety Disorders, Adjustment Disorders, trauma, relationship concerns, and life stressors. Heather additionally has a special interest in helping individuals heal through grief and other forms of loss.

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Heather earned her Bachelors degree in Psychology with a minor in Philosophy at the University of California San Diego (UCSD) in 2010, and her Masters degree in Marriage & Family Therapy at the University of San Diego (USD) in 2014.  She completed her internship as a Lead Therapist at the UCSD Family Medicine Collaborative Care Program. She then joined Positive Change Counseling Center after earing her MFT License in 2016.

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Heather incorporates techniques from a variety of theoretical models including: Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT), Person-Centered Therapy, Behavior Modification, Narrative Therapy, Emotionally Focused Therapy, Structural Therapy, and Solution Focused Therapy. In her work, Heather adopts a “bio/psycho/social/spiritual” perspective: seeing all of the parts that make a person whole. Heather welcomes clients of all backgrounds, ethnicities, faiths/belief systems, genders, and sexual orientations to join her in working toward creating meaningful change. Through empowerment and teaching self-efficacy, Heather hopes to join clients on the journey of creating the life they envision for themselves. She aims to not only offer therapy, but also hold a space for healing. She looks forward to meeting you.

Katrin Seifert PsyD (pronouns: she/her) is a licensed psychologist, EMDR-trained and board certified in Clinical Health Psychology, whose areas of interest and expertise include the effects of long-term trauma and stress, working with LGBTQ+ individuals, culturally diverse populations, and adolescents, and health psychology. Dr. Seifert practices from a culturally-sensitive, anti-racist perspective.  

Dr. Seifert completed her graduate training at the University of Denver, Graduate School of Professional Psychology. For over 10 years, Dr. Seifert worked in primary care settings, alongside medical doctors, focusing on providing short-term interventions to help people of all ages, addressing a wide array of physical, mental, and behavioral concerns. Dr. Seifert has been in leadership roles, overseeing a Behavioral Health team and a psychology training program at a community health center, and has also focused on providing supervision and training to behavioral health and medical learners.

Dr. Seifert welcomes people of all ethnicities, races, sexual orientation, gender identity, class, and education level. Dr. Seifert does not adopt a one-size-fits-all approach to therapy, and instead tailors her work to the individual and their preferences; however, Dr. Seifert is comfortable applying interventions from Cognitive Behavior Therapy, Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, Dialectical Behavior Therapy, and EMDR. Dr. Seifert aims to help each person make progress toward their goals by understanding that person’s perspective as well as sharing her own insights, observations, and strategies.