Therapy Services

 

Marina Skegin-Sipes, MFT, provides psychotherapy services to individuals, couples, children, and adolescents in the Woodland Hills area of the San Fernando Valley, California. Marina has more than fifteen years of experience and provides a confidential, caring and safe environment for clients dealing with a wide range of life challenges.

 

Example Therapy Services Provided by Marina:

 

Individual Therapy

 

• Understand more about your current life and relationships
• Explore how you deal with problems
• Connect with your feelings and deepen your sense of identity
• Know more about your strengths and vulnerabilities
• Face your fears
• Improve your self-esteem
• Discover self-defeating patterns of thought and behavior that get in your way
• Develop more effective ways of dealing with others
• Use what you learn about yourself to be more successful, comfortable, and happy

 

 

Marriage Counseling and Couples Therapy

 

• Commit to improve their relationship
• Rebuild trust in a damaged relationship
• Deal with past disappointments
• Improve communication skills
• Become more understanding and accepting of each other
• Make a smoother transition from being a couple to being parents
• Improve how to relate to each other
• Deal with money problems
• Parent more effectively
• Negotiate household chores
• Accept one another’s extended family
• Relate assertively without criticizing one another
• Build intimacy
• Enjoy their time together more

 

 

Relationship Issues

 

• Develop richer more satisfying relationships with family, friends, and lovers
• Overcome the impact of a dysfunctional family history
• Strengthen social skills
• Become more skilled dealing with difficult people
• Find a mate who is right for you

 

 

Dealing with Loss

 

Loss, catastrophic or minimal, can produce feelings of sadness, helplessness and confusion. You will be guided through painful periods so that you can regain feelings of joy and momentum in your life.

 

 

Divorce Recovery

 

• Life-altering changes
• Crises in identity and self-esteem
• Managing stress, anxiety, grief and anger
• Problems with children and family members

 

 

Life Transitions

 

Psychotherapy is an effective way to make the most of life transitions.

 

• Move from high school to college, to graduate school, or the workplace
• Marry
• Have children
• Deal with the empty nest when children have left
• Accept your adult child’s lifestyle choices

 

 

Anxiety and Stress Management

 

• Manage panic attacks, sometimes in conjunction with medication
• Examine, confront and resolve fears
• Relieve phobias
• Diffuse feelings of worry
• Plan constructively and develop positive expectations
• Find productive ways to solve problems and increase your effectiveness

 

 

Parenting Issues

 

• Learn realistic and practical approaches to dealing with your children
• Set appropriate limits
• Develop methods of discipline that foster responsibility
• Encourage open and respectful communication
• Build your child’s confidence and feelings of self worth