Dave S. Wallace

MS, MA, LMFT
Accepting Clients

Excellent choice for men or adolescent boys, successful women or couples. Special experience with veterans, addicts, athletes, and creatives

Licensed Marriage & Family Therapist in 90025, CA

Services
  • Individual
  • Couples
  • Family
  • Adolescent/Teen

About My Clients

Whether under pressure to perform and hiding feelings of unworthiness; beating yourself up over past failures and hurts; unable to overcome and feel secure; or internally conflicted and confused, I can help you find direction and peace. I can help you reconcile your past and replace fears about the future with meaningful growth. I offer psychological safety, curiosity, and honest, nonjudgemental feedback.

My Background and Approach

I offer a place to explore, understand, and organize the thoughts, feelings, and challenges you're facing. I can help you find the courage to examine the things you've kept hidden and put them to rest. I typically approach with motivational interviewing, building narratives or maps of feelings and behavior, goals and desires. We then work psychodynamically, using CBT and existential interventions to examine beliefs that help or hinder our progress. I believe in giving my best to my work. I have Master's degrees in Organizational Psychology and Clinical Psychology, both completed with honors – 4.0 GPAs. I have specialized training in addition, trauma-focused CBT, Gottman relationships, and crisis interventions.

My Personal Beliefs and Interests

I am especially interested in supporting of men, adolescent boys, professional women, and creatives. I feel these groups are commonly misunderstood because most therapists lack real-world experience or have failed to examine their biases and beliefs.

Techniques I Use

Specialties
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) Emotionally Focused Therapy (EFT) Psychodynamic Therapy
Other Techniques
  • Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
  • Addiction Counseling
  • Anger Management Therapy
  • Attachment Theory
  • Exposure Therapy
  • Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
  • Couples Counseling
  • Emotionally Focused Therapy (EFT)
  • Existential Therapy
  • Family Systems
  • Family Therapy
  • Gottman Method Couples Therapy
  • Imago Relationship Therapy
  • Mindfulness-Based Cognitive Therapy (MBCT)
  • Motivational Interviewing
  • Narrative Therapy
  • Nonviolent Communication
  • Play Therapy
  • Relational Therapy
  • Solution Focused Brief Therapy
  • Somatic Therapy: Body-Based Healing for Emotional Trauma
  • Person-Centered (Rogerian)
  • Internal Family Systems
  • Trauma Therapy
  • Sex Therapy
  • Trauma-Focused Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (TF-CBT)
  • Neuro-Linguistic Therapy

Issues I Treat

Specialties
Anxiety Depression Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD)
Other Issues
  • Abuse
  • ADHD Therapists
  • Bipolar
  • Codependency
  • Divorce
  • Domestic Violence or Intimate Partner Violence
  • Family Conflict
  • Historical/ Intergenerational Trauma
  • Marriage Counseling
  • Men's Issues
  • Oppositional Defiant Disorder (ODD)
  • Parenting
  • Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD)
  • Relationship Issues
  • Self-Esteem
  • Sexual Abuse or Assault
  • Sexual Problems
  • Teen Issues
  • Veterans/Military Service
I offer online counseling in the following states:
I have experience with the following
  • Agnosticism
  • Atheism
  • Buddhism
  • Christianity
  • The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints
  • Jehovah's Witnesses
  • Judaism
  • Interfaith
  • Multifaith

At A Glance

  • Experience: 11 years of practice
  • Languages: English
  • Rate: $250/session

Info

Email Dave S.
11022 Santa Monica Blvd
Suite 370
90025, CA 90025

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