Welcome!

So you’re considering counseling…

You’ve come to the right place. Counseling is one resource that could help you get through the difficult times that we all experience in life. It’s a place to process your feelings, learn coping tools, and find equilibrium in the storms. Priscilla Khademi Kalantari (PKK) Marriage and Family Counseling’s goal is to help individuals, couples, and families function better individually and as a unit by providing a warm and welcoming environment for each client, in a safe space, free of judgement. Priscilla Khademi Kalantari Marriage and Family Counseling offers virtual counseling throughout California.

About our psychological health

Our psychological, emotional, and social well being is an important aspect of our overall health. In fact, when our mental health is out of balance it could have a negative impact on our physical health and vice versa. Common factors that affect our mental health include loss of a loved one, medical diagnosis, relational and family issues, difficulty finding life and work balance, job loss or work dissatisfaction, life transitions, and past or current traumatic events. These are part of living and being human.

Services and Treatment Modality

Priscilla Khademi Kalantari Marriage and Family Counseling provides Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) and Dialectical Behavioral Therapy (DBT) to help you understand and address the thoughts, emotions, and behaviors which may be impacting your current functioning. Followed, by teaching practical coping skills and tools for managing emotions.

Sometimes current behavioral and emotional challenges can be linked to past traumas (single incident or chronic) such as medical trauma, auto accidents, domestic violence, bullying, childhood abuse and neglect, natural disasters, witnessing a violent crime, experiencing war, etc. In these situations, Priscilla Khademi Kalantari Marriage and Family Counseling offers Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing Therapy (EMDR) which can be used to process those traumatic memories. To learn more about EMDR, please visit EMDRI.ORG. The following introductory video can be viewed here, Introduction to EMDR Therapy, which has been created and posted by EMDRIA.

For couples, Priscilla Khademi Kalantari Marriage and Family Counseling integrates techniques from the Gottman Method and Emotionally Focused Therapy (EFT) to strengthen emotional bonds, improve conflict resolution, and foster shared meaning. As a Certified Prepare/Enrich Facilitator, Priscilla Khademi Kalantari Marriage and Family Counseling also offers premarital counseling and support for married couples looking to enhance their relationship.

Priscilla Khademi Kalantari Marriage and Family Counseling provides individual therapy, adolescent counseling, child counseling, couples therapy, premarital counseling, and family therapy virtually in San Luis Obispo County, Santa Barbara County, Orange County and throughout California.