Jennelle is an empathetic and well trained healer who gets the mind body soul connection. Highly…read morerecommend!

Great service. Very professional and educational. She listened to my concerns! She gave me great…read moreadvice for my bf and I

Molly is one of the most compassionate, kind, and loving human being we have ever met. She helped…read moremy husband and I on our healing journey and has always been there for us no matter what day and time! She truly cares for you and you can genuinely feel that empathy and support from her. I never felt so free to discuss things that I would never otherwise. My husband and I would have sessions where we would laugh, cry and just finish feeling better than beforehand. We always looked forward to our sessions with Molly and she's able to make you feel heard and her guidance and therapy we received from her helped us in breaking barriers that bettered our marriage. Molly is really one of a kind! We absolutely love her and have so much to thank her for. Without Molly in our life, we wouldn't be where we are and have a lot of gratitude for her help. We highly recommend Molly for any couple(s) struggling in their relationship. Her experience and guidance will and can save your relationship struggles.

Molly Papp is personable, kind, and insightful. When my partner and I wanted a relationship tune up…read more(highly recommended!) after 18 years, she provided us with guidance, structure, and understanding. Molly deals with sensitive issues with intelligence, maturity, and warmth, making the process productive and comfortable. I highly recommend her.

Shezza is a thoughtful and intuitive therapist. She's helped me on so many levels along my journey…read more She's professional and I highly recommend her if you want to see deep and lasting change.

From the owner: I am passionate about helping people to live more fulfilling and authentic lives by releasing…read moreshame, healing trauma, and connecting deeply with themselves and others. With 20 years experience as a therapist, I empower individuals and couples to get to the core of their issue, while finding deep peace within. If you are ready to gain clarity and have a transformation in any area of your life, let's have a discovery call.

Marlene is a wonderful therapist. She is caring, professional, and very knowledgeable in her field…read more I would recommend her without hesitation.

I have worker with Marlene professionally for over six years now. She is knowledgeable, caring,…read moreprofessional and passionate. Her trainings are phenomenal and she delivers the information in such a welcoming, fun and supportive way to care providers.

To ensure this review doesn't get dismissed as a disgruntled client, I made sure to lay out in…read moredetail my experience with Luisa. If you do not care to read it all, I totally understand. To sum everything up she was late or didn't show on multiple appointments. The few appointments I did have, her provided care ranged from decent to completely checked out making me feel as if I was an inconvenience. For many people if they are at the point where they are in need of counseling, they are generally at a rough point in their lives. If you are at that point, please seek another provider or doctor. This might just be my experience, but typically speaking if somebody has this bad of an experience with this many attempts, they are not the only client/ customer who are facing the same difficulties with the provider. The first appointment was via zoom and she was 20 minutes late. She did compensate by allowing the session to go 25 minutes over. This did cause difficulty and strain since the appointment was made to correlate with my work schedule and I ended up being late. During this particular appointment she did seem attentive and provided good feedback. That's really about where her services stopped being at all helpful. The second zoom appointment she didn't even show. 30 minutes went by and after numerous phone calls to the provided number I finally gave up. I did receive a call back about 2 hrs later and she apologized and provided no explanation. During this call, she tried to rectify the situation by offering me an appointment right then and there and I told her due to availability I could not. I told her I made an appointment for later in the week during my next open time slot which happened to be later in the evening and the last available appointment she offered for booking. She attempted to have me rescheduled for something earlier in the day and I once again explained due to availability. I was not able to do that. On the day of the late scheduled appointment, she showed up on time but seemed very checked out during the whole appointment. I understand, I chose the last time slot available but during the whole appointment she did not seem engaged and came off as being tired. She kept asking the same question over and over without providing any insight or direction. She continuously asked me how I felt and when I provided an answer she would then ask me how I felt based off of the answer I provided. There were numerous long awkward pauses where nothing was being said and she was blankly staring without providing any questions or direction of where the appointment needed to go. This is not create a comfortable environment. After all those negative experiences, I really should have stopped there but I wanted to provide her the benefit of the doubt. I moved my schedule around and scheduled an in-person session in the late morning. I showed up to the location provided 20 minutes early and found the door locked. As listed on her website, She has multiple locations so I figured she might be commuting from one of the other locations. Just to be sure, I double checked to make sure I did not book a zoom appointment which I had not and verified it was an in-person session and I was at the right location, which I was. I stood by at the location until 15 minutes after the appointment time, at which point I went and sat in my vehicle for an extra 10 minutes bringing her total tardiness to 25 minutes with no call, text or email. During this time I called her line three different times just to get some sort of direction which I never received. On the final call I left a voicemail explaining to her that I had been waiting at the location and would not pay since she did not show. I never received any sort of communication back from her which is what led me to write this review. I want to ensure future clients stay away from this provider so they do not receive the same experience.

My doctor referred me to Luisa for psychotherapy. I was struggling with my sex life and personal…read morerelationships and it made me extremely depressed. I felt like I had no desire or purpose to live. Luisa was very kind, caring, understanding, and helping. She not only listened to my concerns and problems, she was also engaging and interacting with me to help find the root of the issues I was facing to address the problems that prevented me from having successful relationships and a meaningful life. I am slowly but surely improving and finding happiness in life again thanks to Luisa Contreras. She is truly an amazing gift and I am so grateful for everything she has done for me. I highly recommend her to anyone or any couple who is looking for a sex or relationship therapist or counselor as well as anyone who may need individual counseling. You will not regret going to her for therapy. Best of luck to you and God bless.

It genuinely felt like she was inside my head, articulating things I couldn't fully express myself…read more She helped me see patterns in my dating life that were creating anxiety and keeping me stuck, and gave me the clarity to finally shift them. I walked away feeling more confident, self-aware, and in control of my relationship choices. If you feel like you keep getting the same results in your love life and don't fully understand why- she's the person who will help you connect those dots.

I seriously cannot recommend London enough. My partner and I started seeing her for couples…read moretherapy, and she's been amazing. She makes it so easy for both of us to open up, actually listen to each other, and work through our communication and emotional intimacy challenges without feeling judged or defensive. I've also seen her on my own for anxiety, and she's just as great one-on-one. She has such an empowering demeanor and yet is simultaneously calm. She somehow always knows exactly what to say to make everything feel more manageable. I've made more progress with her than any other therapist. This was more than I ever expected. If you're looking for someone who you feel genuinely cares about self improvement, kind, and truly helpful, London is it. We're so grateful we found her.

Dr. Sayaka has literally been nothing short of a LIFE CHANGER for my husband and I, individually…read moreand as a married couple together. I am aware her main focus is sexual therapy, but she's also an excellent individual and couples relationship therapist, so please consider her if you need that, as well. A note for those afraid of or think therapy is not for them: Luckily, my husband and I have never had hangups about seeking professional assistance off and on when we get "stuck." We've seen a variety of therapists throughout our relationship from about year #2 on. That sounds like we have major issues, but we really don't. We are 16+ years into our very happy and successful monogamous relationship. We love and respect each other, we are each others' best friend, and we enjoy each other's company more than anyone else's on this planet - and always have. We live, work, and spend ~23 hours of every day together - BY CHOICE. No relationship is or can be perfect, but that hasn't stopped us from trying! When we identify an issue that keeps popping up and can't seem to work it out ourselves, we seek help to get past it. We love and respect each other so much that we know it is important. We aren't egotistical enough to think going to therapy is weak or that if we can't work it out on our own, it is not meant to be. We realize that couples who have issues and choose NOT to seek help are the ones that don't value their relationship. We value ours so much that seeking help is a no-brainer and it has always served us well. Having said that, of all the therapists we have seen, Dr. Sayaka has been the best, hands down. She has helped us both individually and in sessions together to fix some MAJOR life-long issues we each have that affected our relationship together and with others. There has to come a time when you "graduate," as she calls it, and while we both would still enjoy fine tuning ALL of our issues, Dr. Sayaka gleefully told us one day that we've graduated and there is no need to come in for regular sessions anymore. In our experience, this is unheard of; almost all therapists are happy to continue to take your money as long as you want to give it. Dr. Sayaka was goal oriented in her approach and knew further sessions would have diminishing returns since we had both grown so much individually and together over the 1.5 year we spent with her. She pushed us out of her nest! Between the two of us, we worked on issues such as letting go of childhood trauma, abandonment issues, alcoholic tendencies, anger, unrealistic expectations, getting closer and deeper emotionally, being vulnerable in general and with others, trust, not needing other's approval and wanting everyone to like you, respecting individual time/needs, perfectionism, and more. We covered a lot of ground and we each have grown a TON. And, so yes, sex is also much better since we are closer. It's all actually pretty amazing. You have to be willing to show up, do the work, and be active in your growth along the way to see the amount of change we have seen. But, it's worth the investment in time and money if you are at a point where you are ready for REAL change. Many people WANT change, but aren't willing to work for it or move through the uncomfortableness needed to achieve it. We were both there and willing, so we saw the results with her guiding us every step of the way. Now that we have graduated, we still practice the homework she assigned us, which is key to having lasting results. We love it though and it doesn't feel like homework; it feels like we get to play fun games together and benefit from them - a win-win! We even proactively share some of the exercises with our friends because we have seen such amazing results from them. I could go on and on about Dr. Sayaka, but in short, if you're stuck, you want change, are willing to work for it, and don't know where to start...RUN (don't walk) to Dr. Sayaka. She will greet you with her warm compassion and smile. She will be direct, present and compassionate. She will sit silently holding a space for you as long as you need and even cry with you through the uncomfortable times and the great breakthroughs. She is emotionally intelligent, as well as very intuitive. She is NOT a normal therapist; I'd put her up against anyone out there...and I have been to MANY therapists in the past. She is the one who has "fixed" us, individually and together, for now. We both have an easily accessible armory of tools to refer to when our instincts kick back in and we could not be more grateful to her for that. Will we likely see her again? Yes. Because we don't have expectations we won't have something in 5 or 10 years that comes up as our lives change that will benefit from an outside impartial professional. But, I can honestly say that I look forward to that day. If you are not growing and changing for the better, what are you doing with your life? And with growth, comes growing pains. It's OK. GO SEE HER.

OMG! Doctor Sayaka has transformed our marriage. "You don't know what you don't know" was the adage…read moreI leaned on when we sought a sex therapist to see what we could learn. Wow, our expectations have been far exceeded. If you live anywhere in San Diego county, you should book a session with Dr Sayaka.

The IOP program here really makes a difference and helps those who seek it. The staff there take…read morepride in their work to ensure clients get the best possible treatment and tools for success. Staff members like Dr. Stephanoff, Diane, Mark, and along with many more provide excellent care for clients and offer additional assistance to those who need it. This place really makes a huge difference in peoples' lives and would highly recommend.

Changed my life. I'm extremely grateful for the office staff and consideration of privacy and…read moretrauma informed care. Anyone who has complaints may not understand why they are getting frustrated- we all need to understand our own personal emotions regarding mental health care and how important it is to stay connected with yourself, especially if you have a disability. I am a late stage ASD diagnosis after years of not being able to see anyone who believed in and about me and what I experienced in life. The best are always busy and Doctor Stephanoff is definitely one of them, but there's accountability when it's warranted by clients and patients who are doing the work. Therapy is hard and shows a willingness to take accountability for ones self, and not everyone in these comments are prepared for that. I send everyone supportive vibes that we all get to where we need to go and take care of ourselves with the right team. I can't recommend this group enough, if your willing to take the time and initiative to get through the initial intake process.

Amazing care. I'm attending and I am impressed with the counselors,therapist and group members. Un…read morefortunately my medical insurance feels I need less of this treatment after 10 days.

This treatment center changed my life. From my first intake, I felt cared for and supported, even…read moreas I was talking about difficult topics. My case manager was incredibly thorough, intelligent, and helpful. While everyone will have different facilitation/facilitator preferences, there are a lot of wonderful and compassionate people working here. Everyone I worked with did nothing but offer support, acceptance, and kindness to the group. I learned so much through this program and it really gave me the tools I needed to uncover hidden and deep rooted trauma, address it, and begin to move on, as well as tools to practice self care and efforts towards continuous recovery in my daily life. One thing I love about AO is it offers you a care team that is in communication with one another about your wellbeing and are making sure you are getting the appropriate level of care based on your needs. My psychiatrist, therapist, and case manager were all in contact about what was going on in my treatment and in my life. It was during this time I was able to really focus on medication management and find something that worked for me. Finding the right medication is a difficult and can be a tumultuous process, but having the support of all the staff at AO really made a difference. I felt seen, understood, and respected by everyone. The groups have a wide variety of topics and while there were few activities or facilitators I didn't love, I felt like I always walked away learning something new with a new tool for my tool kit. On the whole, the people I've met through this group tend to be warm and welcoming; it was nice to connect with people who related to your struggles. AO evens offers aftercare; for up until a year after your time in treatment, you can attend one group a week. This has been crucial for me in my ongoing recovery and has allowed me to actively make time for self care beyond program and not defer back to old habits. Since my time at AO I feel as if I'm on a path of continuous growth; that's not something AO can give to you directly, but AO gave me the tools to make this life a reality. I don't think this review can do my experience justice. Taking time for treatment was an extremely hard decision for me, but it didn't just change my life, it saved my life. It's a hard leap, but I cannot recommend this facility enough. It was by no means easy, but it was most definitely worth it.