Hi! My name is Larry Powell and thank you for visiting my profile. I am a Marriage and Family Therapy and licensed in California. I’ve been working in the mental health field for the past 19 years. I have worked with individuals on a range of challenges including psychosis, mood, anxiety, addiction, and relational difficulties.
I use a person-centered and collaborative counseling style. I think it’s important to connect on a human to human level. It’s important for us to have a shared understanding of you and what is most important to you. I also want to make sure that any preferences you have are integrated into our work. That will be a guide for us to work together on accomplishing your goals. I use two brief measures in our work every time we meet that will let us know if what we are doing together is helping you or not. If it is, great! If it isn’t, we will know we have to change something.
I use a combination of therapies including Humanistic, Solution Focused, CBT, and Motivational Interviewing.
Additional areas of focus: LGBT, Relationship issues, Trauma and abuse, Grief, Intimacy-related issues, Parenting issues, Anger management, Career difficulties, Bipolar disorder, Coaching, Compassion fatigue, Abandonment, Aging and Geriatric Issues, Attachment issues, Cancer, Co-morbidity, Codependency, Commitment Issues, Communication problems, Control issues, Coping with Natural or Human-Caused Disaster, Divorce and separation, Drug and Alcohol Addiction, Emptiness, Family of Origin Issues, Fatherhood Issues, First Responder Issues, Forgiveness, Guilt and shame, Impulsivity, Isolation / loneliness, Jealousy, Life purpose, Men's issues, Midlife crisis, Mood disorders , Multicultural Concerns, Obsessions, Compulsions, and OCD, Panic disorder and panic attacks, Paranoia, Phobias, Post-traumatic stress, Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling), Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD), Self-love, Sexuality, Social anxiety and phobia, Workplace issues
Clinical approaches: Client-Centered Therapy, Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT), Motivational Interviewing, Solution-Focused Therapy
CA LMFT 46424