Tom Andre, MA
LMFT
512 Main Street, Suite 2, El Segundo, California 90245 | 310-776-5299
Meetings often feel like focused conversations that happen to take on tough problems. I'll ask you what's going on, and together we take it from there. My approach is to help you focus on whatever you may be facing, not to seek a label or diagnosis.
Sean Sprigle, LPCC
Licensed professional clinical counselor
Available for Online Therapy
Hi there, my name is sean. My clients find me to be attentive, compassionate, patient, understanding, and knowledgeable. I have been told before that I’m easy to trust and people feel relaxed around me.
Kimberly Koljat, LMFT, LIMFT-S, RPT-S, RDT
Licensed Independent Marriage and Family Therapist Supervisor
Available for Online Therapy
LMFT who combines talk, creative arts, and play to address personal hurdles and unspoken pains with my clients. I offer mutually co-created opportunities for change through creative arts therapies because sometimes words aren't enough, no matter your age.
Monica Dyer, Psy.D(c)
Psychological Associate
Available for Online Therapy
People come to me seeking someone who's done their own work and can help guide them through theirs—someone who is highly trained, compassionate, and honest. In our work together, you can expect to feel safe, understood, and free to show up as your true self.
Steve Rose, PhD
Addiction Counsellor
Available for Online Therapy
I can help you gain freedom from addiction, get back control, and start living the life you want. If the short-term escape is no longer worth the long-term damage, we can work together to find a new way forward, building confidence, clarity, and connection.
Philip Starkman, MSW, RSW
Registered Psychotherapist
Available for Online Therapy
Finding one's way through the stormy days and nights sometimes requires a highly experienced guide. Self-limiting thoughts and feelings can be overcome. Joy and love can be realized by means of a skillful blending of Eastern and Western modalities.
Yeshiva Davis, LMFT, MA, MBA
Licensed Marriage & Family Therapist
5200 W Century Blvd. Ste. 495, Los Angeles, California 90045 | 310-929-5519
Would you like to make some small changes that will have a BIG impact on your family or professional life? Are you, your child or spouse experiencing stress and frustration dealing with friendships or family relationships? If you do, I'd love to help.
Related Sites:
City Of El Segundo, CA
California Coalition for Counselor Licensure
Therapy El Segundo, CA
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El Segundo is a totally urban community. With a small population of only just over 16,000 people. Makes and females are currently almost equally placed.1 The median resident age is 39 which is slightly under the rest of California whose median age is 46.
Mental Health in El Segundo
El Segundo is one of the most desirable locations to live in Los Angeles County, California, second only to the city of Los Angeles itself. Los Angeles County has a moderately high poverty rate at 17.3%. This places it close to the mid-value poverty rate for all counties in the state of California. The California Healthcare Foundation has shown that there is a proportional link between the adult serious mental illness rate and the poverty rate in a particular county, which makes the former rate approximately 4.5%.2
The Los Angeles County Department of Mental Health (LACDMH) is the primary body that provides treatment for those who suffer from serious mental health problems. They have a support telephone line that can be reached at 1-800-854-7771.3
Another very active organization, which operates in the Los Angeles County and caters to mental health patients in El Segundo, is Mental Health America of Los Angeles.4 They assist people recovering from mental health problems.
Current Initiatives
The LACDMH recently introduced the Integrated Behaviour Health Information Management System (IBHIS) in collaboration with Netsmart.5 With this new system, medical facilities will find it easier to share and communicate clinical information regarding patients for a county that has a total population of nearly 10 million.
References
1. Wikipedia. (2017). El Segundo, CA. Retrieved from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/El_Segundo,_California2. California Health Care Foundation. (2017). Mapping the gaps: Mental Heath in California. Retrieved from http://www.chcf.org/publications/2013/07/data-viz-mental-health
3. LACDMH. (2017). Los Angeles County Department of Mental Health. Retrieved from http://dmh.lacounty.gov
4. Mental Health America of Los Angeles. (2017). Mental Health America of Los Angeles (MHA). Retrieved from http://www.mhala.org/
5. Business Wire. (2017). Los Angeles County Department of Mental Health and Netsmart Launch Integrated Behavioral Health Information Management System. Retrieved from http://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20140224005863/en/Los-Angeles-County-Department-Mental-Health-Netsmart#.Uw9JaPmqjwk
El Segundo is located in Los Angeles County, California. It has a land area of 5.46 square miles and a water area of 0.00 square miles. The population of El Segundo is 17,037 people with 6,747 households and a median annual income of $85,727. .
Therapy Affordability Meter for El Segundo, CA
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Establishing weekly sessions with a professional therapist is considered affordable in El Segundo for the average family. While sustaining a commitment to therapy is usually not an issue, if mental health treatment feels like a burden please ask your counselor about accepted insurance plans or sliding scale fees. Low cost counseling and affordable therapy are also sometimes offered by listed city and university level clinics, check with your local El Segundo public health department.