Discussion Issues/Topics

Every individual has their own personal experiences. Some common topics and issues that come up in session are listed below. Please contact my office at (415) 742-1788 to discuss and schedule an intake appointment. We will collaborate on what you want to explore for treatment support.

Gambling Addiction Treatment (For Gamblers, Affected Family Members and Loved Ones)

If you feel like you have the need to:

  • Attend Gamblers Anonymous

  • Discuss a gambling problem in the family

  • Help a family member with gambling addiction

  • Lie to conceal gambling activities

  • Gamble with increasing amounts of money to feel excitement

  • Restlessness or irritability when trying to stop gambling

  • Repeated unsuccessful attempts to stop, control, or reduce gambling

  • Thinking often about gambling and making plans to gamble

  • Gambling when feeling distressed

  • Returning to gamble again after losing money

  • Experiencing relationship or work problems due to gambling

  • Depending on others for money to spend on gambling

  • Stop online gambling addiction

Drawn to:

  • Visit compulsive gambling spots

  • Gambling parties

  • Seek gambling bailout programs, services

  • Play online gambling games

  • Place bets

  • Stock market day trading

  • Bet on sporting events

  • Go on gambling events, vacations

  • Support the compulsive gambler

And if you have a need for gambling addiction or is the affected individual with the problem gambler, contact my practice.

I provide counseling for compulsive and problem gambling behaviors as well as for those affected/impacted by the problem gambler. I offer individual therapy for individuals and others affected by compulsive gambling. Tribal casinos, local card clubs, California lottery, and other gambling establishments fund your sessions, allowing you to get something meaningful back after all the time and hard-earned money you've given to them.

I am an authorized State of California and UCLA Gambling Studies Programs treatment provider. This program has authorized me to provide treatment, initially at no cost, with a block of eight sessions.

I will collaborate with you on completing a thorough history of how your gambling is challenging for yourself or if you are affected by the problem gambler, how it impacts you and then begin the process to reduce, if not silence it challenges.

Tribal casinos, local card clubs, CA lottery, and other gambling establishments fund your sessions, allowing you to get something meaningful back after all the time and hard-earned money you've given to them.

Gambling addiction is unlike any other addiction, as gambling promises to solve all of your problems if you just do it long enough. One small win can wipe out all the pain of losing. People with alcohol and drug addiction don't drink or use believing that it will allow them to pay the rent, get out of debt, or do it professionally; gamblers have this hope and belief every time they place a bet.

Like alcohol and drug addiction, compulsive gamblers build tolerance over time and require ever-increasing amounts of money and risk to get high. It doesn’t matter if they’re in it for the adrenaline, the action, to chase the money they lost, or to escape reality; they will always need more: more time, energy, and money. Because they need increasing amounts of money to support their addiction, compulsive gamblers often act in desperation to stay in action, leading to the destruction of careers, homes, personal finances, and family relationships, and ultimately leads to extreme feelings of hopelessness and despair. It's time to rediscover hope and experience peace in your life, and I look forward to working together to make it happen.

Anger/Battering Intervention/Intimate Partner Stabilization Management

Are you or someone you know is experiencing any of the following?

  • Legal problems

  • Family Problems

  • Health Problems

  • Custody problems

  • Financial problems

  • Employment problems

  • Friendship problems

  • Housing problems

  • Business problems

  • Neighbor relations problems

  • Child welfare problems

  • Intimate/Partner-Domestic Violence problems

Anger is a legitimate emotion yet when it is channeled inappropriately, it causes harm to self and to others. My practice offers to help clients address their resentments, stabilize their emotions, utilize constructive coping interventions, reducing both the emotional feeling of anger/violence and the corresponding physical reactions. I am an authorized San Francisco Probation Department Batterer Intervention program provider helping both self-referred and Court-ordered individuals seek support with their anger and aggression.

Substance Use/Addictions Program

My practice provides substance use/addictions treatment support. I have been supporting individuals, loved ones and families with various addictions, obsessive preoccupations. These include:

  • Playing Video Games

  • Smoking

  • Drinking

  • Drugs

  • Stealing

  • Pornography

  • Social Networking

  • Short term relationships

  • Cheating

  • Co-Dependency

Men’s Issues

My practice has provided men’s individual and group emotional supportive behavioral counseling for several years. This offers an outstanding opportunity for adult men of all ages to gain immediate support, encouragement, and useful therapeutic skills to cope with all life’s challenges and unfortunate circumstances.

Common Challenges and Issues:

  • Self-Identity

  • Stress

  • Avoidance

  • Anger-Frustration/Irritation

  • Anxiety & Panic

  • Sleep

  • Depression

  • Parenting

  • Life Skills

  • Grief and Loss/Bereavement or Death of a loved one

  • Addictions and impulsive behaviors

  • Sexuality

  • Relapse Prevention

  • Spiritual Awareness

  • Loneliness

  • Trauma

  • Self-Worth/Self-Esteem

  • Abuse

  • Relationships: Divorce/Separation/Infidelity

  • Unemployment/Job Loss

  • Family Issues-Dynamics (Roles, Expectations)

  • Legal problems

  • Custody

  • Life adjustments-career, home, health

  • Major illness or injury