About
the Lomi Psychotherapy Clinic - FAQ's
What
is the Lomi Psychotherapy Clinic?
The Lomi Psychotherapy
Clinic was founded in 1987. We are located in Santa Rosa,
CA, about 50 miles north of San Francisco. Our fees are determined
on a sliding scale basis, depending on household income.
Individual
Counseling: The Lomi Psychotherapy Clinic offers affordable counseling
services to individual adults, adolescents and children, couples,
families, and groups.
Group
Therapy: The Clinic also offers (occasional and ongoing) therapy
and support groups for teens, women at mid-life, individuals
dealing with severe mental illness and many other issues.
Clinical
Training: The Lomi Psychotherapy Clinic serves as a training facility,
offering continuing education to psychotherapists, and a comprehensive
somatic psychotherapy clinical training to intern therapists.
Supervision of MFT and LCSW interns and psychology assistants
is done by Thomas Pope, MFT, and Juliet Dantin, Ph.D. The
clinic is licensed by the CA Board of Behavioral Sciences
as a Continuing Education Provider.
Staff:
Today our counseling staff includes three CA State licensed
Marriage and Family Therapists, a CA State licensed Clinical
Psychologist, and 18 clinic pre-doctoral interns fulfilling
hours towards their MFT and psychology licenses.
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Are
You Considering Therapy?
The Lomi Psychotherapy Clinic offers a safe place for short-term or in-depth,
long-term psychotherapy. Therapists are thoroughly trained
in well-established and innovative techniques. Lomi work is
a somatic therapy, which means that it brings aliveness, awareness,
and healing of the mind, body, and heart as one connected
whole. Our wide range of healing modalities at the Lomi Psychotherapy Clinic includes verbal therapy, breathwork, bodywork, movement,
meditation, Gestalt, group therapy, and the therapist-client
relationship. Your therapy will be shaped to your needs.
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What
Will Therapy Be Like?
As a client, you
will have a relationship with a therapist who offers understanding,
support, and skills to help you:
- Move beyond loneliness and isolation
- Be free from long-standing fears and defenses
- Be in touch with your capacity for love and creativity
- Bring change and healing to your most challenging issues
- Find fulfillment and belonging in your life and your relationships
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What
issues are treated at the Lomi Clinic?
Areas of Specialization
include:
- Personal and Spiritual Awareness and Growth
- Self-esteem
- Abuse and Trauma Recovery
- Depression
- Anxiety
- Stress Issues
- Parenting
- Marital and Couple Relationships
- Addiction and Health Concerns
- Eating Disorders
- Major Life Changes
- Loss and Bereavement
- Child and Adolescent Issues
- Gay and Lesbian Issues
- Work Related Issues
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Why
do psychotherapy?
Counseling
as it's done at the Lomi Psychotherapy Clinic can dramatically help
people change their lives for the better. After nearly two
decades of work in this community, we challenge the misinformation
or cultural taboo that would have you believe that doing either
short- or long-term therapy is frivolous or a sign of weakness.
Instead, on a daily basis, we see clients from all walks of
life deal with emotional issues that are often hampering their
ability to confront practical issues in their lives. Therapy
at the Lomi Psychotherapy Clinic can provide the self-awareness and
self-care skills to live a more secure and satisfying life.
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Can
you give examples of real Lomi client stories?
For those new
to mental health care or for anyone considering doing counseling
with one of our therapists, here are ten real and representative
stories of clients treated at the Lomi Psychotherapy Clinic over
the past eighteen months. To protect their privacy, details
in some cases have been omitted or slightly changed.
A man
in his forties comes to therapy to deal with marital separation
and estrangement from his teenage son. After counseling focused
on developing the client's self-esteem and communications
skills, he's no longer depressed and is better able to deal
with his angry son while moving through the divorce process.
A married
couple in their early twenties - with a young child - are
on the verge of separation. He's a seasonally employed construction
worker overwhelmed by the demands of work, new fatherhood
and marriage. Not wanting to break up, they locate Lomi in
the Yellow Pages and, after couples counseling, find their
communication is improving, leaving them hopeful for a future
together.
A fifty-five-year-old
widowed homemaker slips into depression after her youngest
adult child leaves the nest. After four months of counseling,
she's able to find the confidence she needs to begin a new
career as a real estate agent.
An elementary
student steals and lies at school. A teacher makes the referral
to the Lomi Psychotherapy Clinic. In therapy the child confronts
the trauma of having witnessed domestic violence in the home
as a younger child. After several sessions, some including
his mother, this youngster is much less fearful, has stopped
acting out at school and is liked by classmates.
A forty-eight-year-old
bus driver suffers bouts of extreme anxiety - enough to keep
him from work. In counseling, he learns to use breathing and
centering techniques which helps him better manage the stress
in his life.
A woman
is addicted to speed. She's lost her job and is facing homelessness.
Lomi grants her ten sessions of counseling at no charge from
our Legacy Fund for Mental Health. After counseling to help
her find her way back into recovery, she's able to find a
new job and housing.
A thirteen-
year-old is referred by a probation officer after getting
caught drinking and smoking at school. After twelve sessions,
the relationship between client and mother is much improved,
the student has transferred to a new school, is getting good
grades and has made friends with non-troublemakers.
A forty-four-year-old
man who has lived with paranoid schizophrenia his entire adult
life comes to counseling because he feels he needs extra support
beyond his medical treatment. Therapy addresses his behavioral
problems and limited life-management skills. After nine sessions,
the director at the board-and-care housing where he lives
reports that his level of functioning is greatly increased,
making life for him and those around him smoother and more
satisfying.
A thirty-five-year-old
client was having a difficult time in recovery after years
of addiction to alcohol and drugs. In long-term body-centered
therapy at the Lomi Psychotherapy Clinic, this client is able to
confront severe physical and emotional abuse in the past and
begin the deep healing process. Client now continues in recovery,
has a stable job and is attending graduate school to become
a psychotherapist.
A teacher
goes on medical leave after the onset of agoraphobia and panic
attacks in the classroom. This individual was helped by medication
but still unable to work. After several months of therapy,
the client gained sufficient self-esteem, stress management
and self-care skills to return to classroom teaching.
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