Daryl Temkin, Ph.D
Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist
Within driving distance of Salinas
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.
Mark Schwartz, Sc. D.
Marriage and Family Therapist
Within driving distance of Salinas
Co-Therapy team working with relationships, intimacy and attachment. They utilize the Masters and Johnson model, focusing each individual's contribution to the relational distress, as well as the interchanges within the relationship.
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.
Jenny Liu, MEd. MFT. NLP. Confidence Coach
Online Therapist & Coach, Online Career Counselor
Online Therapist / Coach
Perhaps now is the time to work on un-healed situations from the past so that you can release the pain and move on. Guidance from a counselor can help!The counseling process will lead you to let go of the heavy weights so that you can live your life to the fullest.
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.
Related Sites:
City of Salinas
California Board of Behavioral Sciences
Therapy Salinas California
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Salinas has been named America's Salad Bowl, because most of the world's lettuce is grown in the Salinas Valley.1 The economic workforce is fairly divided between blue collar and white collar workers. Although many people in Salinas make good money, the city's housing prices are among the least affordable in the country, with the median home price at around $560,600. The large disparity of income as compared to the housing prices is due to the sudden increase in housing prices throughout the state. Housing prices have increased by 142% since 2000, with the income level rising just 16% in the same timeframe. With such a disparity in the housing and income levels of the community, it is much more difficult for people to purchase homes.
Mental Health in Salinas
The homeless are one of the most underserved populations when it comes to a variety of services, including mental health care. This unfortunate situation is exacerbated by the fact that a very large percentage of people living on the streets also suffer from a diagnosable mental disorder. This dual problem is a significant issue for hundreds of people in Salinas. Only a fraction of those are able to take advantage of the city's emergency shelters, let alone the mental health services that the city and county provide.2
A wide variety of support groups are available to individuals and families in Salinas who need peer support, guidance, and understanding during a difficult time. Many bereavement groups are available throughout the city for those who have lost a loved one. Specialized groups for parents who have lost a child are also available. Groups meet on just about any day of the month in various locations throughout the city. All groups are offered free of charge and are completely confidential. Many groups are supported with funding by the Hospice Foundation. For more information about these groups, call 831-333-9023.3
Current Initiatives
Not far up the road from Salinas is Palo Alto University. The school offers a graduate degree program in counseling psychology that prepares students for practice and licensure as a marriage and family therapist or a licensed professional clinical counselor. The program offers classes on nights and weekends to accommodate students whose work or family schedule prohibits them from attending classes during the day. Classes are also offered in multiple locations, including in Monterey. Students combine classroom coursework with field experiences to develop a comprehensive set of therapeutic skills. More information about the program can be obtained by calling 650-417-2023.4
References
1. Wikipedia. (2017). Salinas Valley. Retrieved from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salinas_Valley.2. City of Salinas. (2010). Consolidated Plan. Retrieved from http://www.ci.salinas.ca.us/services/commdev/pdf/ConsolidatedPlan.pdf.
3. Hospice Foundation. (2017). Bereavement Support Groups - Monterey and San Benito Counties. Retrieved from http://www.hospicegiving.org/wp-content/uploads/2011/06/Grief-Support-Groups-2012.pdf.
4. Palo Alto University. (2017). M.A. in Counseling Psychology. Retrieved from http://www.paloaltou.edu/degree-program/ma-counseling-psychology-mft-and-pcc.
Salinas is located in Monterey County, California. It has a land area of 23.61 square miles and a water area of 0.03 square miles. The population of Salinas is 157,380 people with 40,892 households and a median annual income of $49,840. .
Therapy Affordability Meter for Salinas, CA
Some budgeting needed
While counseling can certainly be an expense for individuals and families in Salinas, with proper budgeting, it is entirely do-able and the risk/reward is worth it. For some families, it may be difficult to sustain a commitment to therapy without proper insurance coverage. If this is you, ask your therapist about low cost options as practitoners in and around Salinas may have flexibility or sliding scales