Our qualified therapists work with you to help ease the burdens associated with issues that can negatively affect you. We use traditional talk therapy, as well as play therapy and art therapy, to help you build your healthiest, most balanced life. We’ve built our dedicated team to help you work through – and ultimately triumph over – whatever challenges you’re facing.
Psychotherapy
Family Counseling
We approach family issues by enhancing the relationship between all family members. We also offer parenting education and support for families dealing with stresses like financial challenges, addiction, and trauma. VCWC understands that creating a healthy family is simultaneously extremely challenging and extremely rewarding. We’re here to walk with you and your loved ones.
Educational Sessions
Ventura Counseling & Wellness Center will offer classes and educational workshops on wellness and mental health topics including yoga, nutrition, mindfulness, coping with anxiety, parenting in the digital age, and understanding the science behind emotions. Our community education is designed to help us grow individually and together.
Group Sessions
We offer a variety of support groups that will address and treat issues including depression and anxiety, grief and loss, raising mixed/blended/adopted families, mediation and mindfulness, couples’ therapy, LGBTQ+ empowerment, and teen groups. We listen and respond. If you’re looking for a group session on a specific topic, let us know.
Couples Therapy
At VCWC, we know that every relationship will face challenges – and are here to help you overcome them. We offer marriage, premarital, LGBTQ+, divorce, separation, cohabitation, and blended family couples therapy. Because each relationship is different, we tailor your therapy to your wants and needs. We’re here to help you reconnect and rekindle things with your partner.
Art & Music Therapy and Holistic Healing
We know that each person is unique. We also offer holistic therapy so you can find what works for you. Maybe it’s externally expressing what’s going on internally through art or music therapy. Maybe it’s Reiki and energy healing sessions. We’re here to help you in the way that’s most useful and comfortable for you. Let’s explore together.
At Ventura Counseling & Wellness Center, we work through issues by talking about them together in a comfortable, private setting. Our experienced licensed and pre-licensed therapists work with you, your family, and the other important people in your life to help ease emotional burdens, relieve stress caused by relationship issues and life transitions, and manage feelings of isolation, loneliness, and anger. We also have expertise in the areas of trauma recovery, substance abuse, codependency, and domestic violence.
Ventura Counseling & Wellness Center also provides a variety of specialty services, including but not limited to divorce and child custody mediation, co-parenting skills development, parenting education, and counseling for families with special needs.
Worried that you can’t afford therapy? We feel that no one should be denied therapy due to financial constraints. We are committed to working with you to determine rates and/or payment schedules that fit your needs. We want you to be comfortable here.
Services We Offer:
- Child & Adolescent Therapy
- Individual Therapy
- Family Counseling
- Couples Therapy
- Mindfulness Classes for Children
- Career Counseling
- Domestic Violence Counseling
- Parenting for Educational Success
- Groups for At-Risk Teens
- High-Conflict Relationships & Custody Issues
- Anger Management
- Parenting Classes
Groups & More:
- Teens Supporting Teens with Drug Education and Healthy Lifestyles
- Parents Supporting Parents in Addiction Recovery
- Adults in Healthy Relationships
- Trauma Recovery
- LGBQT+
- Surviving Sexual Assault
- Mixed, Mashed, & Modern Families (Adopted/Blended/Something New)
- Grandparents as Primary Caregivers
Additional Services & Class Topics:
- Meditation & Mindfulness Classes
- Life Coaching
- Reiki & Holistic Healing
- Yoga & Healing with Our Bodies
- High-Conflict Relationships & Custody Issues
- Anger Management
- Prenatal Support
- Fertility Issues
- Teen Violence Evasion
Psychotherapy
Are you having trouble managing your emotions? Are you struggling to overcome issues from your past? Is fear about the future or trouble making decisions about your life keeping you from moving forward? Do you suffer from anxiety? Are you just not sure what to do or where to go?
Ventura Counseling & Wellness Center offers psychotherapy services to individual adults, children, couples, and families facing a variety of challenges. VCWC aims to improve our clients’ sense of well-being and assist them in meeting their goals. Our therapists utilize traditional talk therapy as well as play therapy and art therapy.
Our therapists are certified and trained to offer support in a variety of topics, including psychological and emotional pain, relationship issues, anxiety, depression, emotional or physical abuse, career confusion, suicidal thoughts, post-traumatic stress disorder, abandonment, self-esteem, trust, sex, substance abuse, intimacy, addiction, alcoholism, eating disorders, and more.
Call or email us about what is troubling you. We will match you with the right therapist on our staff. Our team members will work with you to improve your health and resolve the issues that are causing pain in your life.
Family Counseling
If your family is struggling with issues in your household, a trained counselor can help guide you toward lasting, healthy resolutions.
In family counseling, some or all members of your family will work together with a trained therapist to address dynamics that may be causing distress and disharmony. VCWC counselors work with your family as a unit, helping to facilitate effective, honest communication that can bring about change, improve family relationships, and nurture personal growth among the individual family members.
Our skilled therapists can help your family navigate through difficulties stemming from marital conflicts, raising children, issues among siblings, financial strain, co-dependence, disciplinary problems, being a stepparent, single parenting, same-sex household challenges, parenting teenagers, dealing with in-laws, divorce, problems with authority, and a host of other issues.
Ventura Counseling & Wellness Center, with our staff of dedicated therapists, will work with you to improve interpersonal relationships and strengthen the family bond. Let’s get started on making your family environment healthier and happier! We can typically offer you an intake appointment within the week where your needs will be assessed by one of our therapists so we can start to build the right program for you. Call or email us today!
Educational Sessions
In addition to psychotherapy, VCWC also offers a number of educational sessions. We have therapists who specialize in teaching meditation and offering other supplements to psychotherapy. Our therapists also offer workshops to the community and local schools focusing on issues of concern, such as parenting, bullying, stress management, family wellness, anxiety reduction, and more.
We will also be offering nutrition workshops, yoga classes, and educational sessions to the public. For a schedule of current classes, please contact us.
Group Sessions
Sometimes, working together as a group helps you see things through new eyes or feel comfortable exploring certain emotions. Group sessions can help you get the support you need to work through whatever issue is keeping you from being your happiest and healthiest self, whether that’s depression and anxiety, relationship challenges, a need for LGBTQ+ empowerment, dealing with grief and loss, or raising mixed/blended/adopted families. The Ventura Counseling & Wellness Center also offers teen and meditation and mindfulness groups.
What type of group session would you like to see in Ventura County? Let us know by getting in touch. We listen and respond. If you’re looking for a group session on a specific topic, please contact us.
Couples Therapy
Being in a relationship is one of the best, hardest parts of the human experience. Nothing can bring you more joy and life than good times with your partner. But nothing can wear you down more than facing challenges you don’t know how to overcome. That’s where we come in.
The Ventura Counseling & Wellness Center offers couples therapy for any partners who want to learn how to communicate better, work through life’s challenges, and free themselves up to simply enjoy each other’s company. We offer couples therapy for married, dating, engaged, and cohabitating straight and LGBTQ+ couples. We can also help families who are working through separation, divorce, or blending families.
Art & Music Therapy
Art therapy can be a transformative way to work through trauma, face life’s challenges, and help yourself regain your balance. It’s a fun, easy, and recognized clinical approach to treatment. As you create art, you get the opportunity to express what’s going on in your inner world while in the company of a licensed or pre-licensed therapist. Artistic talent is not needed to use this engaging form of therapy to improve your overall sense of wellbeing.
Art therapy is a powerful tool that can help you bring out things from your unconscious mind so that you can safely, comfortably explore them. Art practice contains matters on the page, giving you the chance to explore your feelings and process emotional conflicts.
We also host music therapy sessions at our weekly “Connecting Through Music” group. We provide musical instruments and a safe space so you can reconnect with yourself. No musical experience is required and this group is open to everyone ages 18 and over. We host it every Friday at 4 pm. The cost is $65 per session.
Holistic Healing
If traditional therapy doesn’t feel comfortable for you — or if you simply want to explore additional ways to lead your healthiest, most balanced life — we invite you to explore holistic healing with us.
Our certified Reiki practitioner and intuitive counselor Kaitlyn Cantrell offers Reiki and energy healing sessions. These sessions can help you relax and release tension, increase harmony in your life, dissolve energy blocks, and help you emotionally, physically, and spiritually detox. Each session is designed to support your psychotherapy path and your journey to increased, sustainable wellbeing.
