Tom Andre, MA
MFTI
512 Main Street, Suite 2, El Segundo, California
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.
Philip Kolba, MA
Psychotherapist
Online Therapist / Coach
Are you fulfilled by your relationships as you deserve to be? I specialize in online relationship counseling for LGBTQ and hetero clients. By examining your life and relationships with a counselor you can increase your capacity for happiness and success.
Kevin Fleming Ph.D.
Coach/Change Agent/Consultant
Online Therapist / Coach
Grey Matters Intl & Dr. Kevin Fleming(cited expert for NY Times, CNN, Fortune, Sporting News)is all about bold thinking & neuroscience innovation in getting mood/behavior change when shrinking,feel good self-help, and pills aren't cutting it. Indiv/couples/family.
Daryl Temkin, Ph.D
Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist
Online Therapist / Coach
I strive to provide a nurturing and safe listening and responding environment for you to share your life concerns. My aim is to help discover options and possibilities that can bring hope and encourage successful life steps and liberating choices.
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
Mostly Affordable
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