Susan has worked in the field of counseling since 1990, over 20 years. She has worked with adults, children, and families in the inner city of New York, was a youth specialist for five years at Santa Barbara Juvenile Hall, an intern in psychological services at Foothill College for one year, and a bilingual school counselor in the Santa Barbara School District for 7 years. She has a Professional Clear Personnel Services Credential specialization in School Counseling, School Social Work and School Child Welfare and Attendance. Since 2001, Susan has been working in private practice counseling with couples, single woman, families, and teens.

Susan's area of expertise is assisting her clients to improve connection, communication, and intimacy in their relationships. Susan uses solution focused and cognitive behavioral approaches in therapy to help her clients work through the issues. Clients tend to come to counseling feeling buried under the weight and pain of what is not working in their lives and relationships. Susan assists her clients by showing them how to approach their lives in such a way that it begins to work. Then she helps them implement a plan, and consults them through the new adjustments and changes that lead to healing and restoration.

Susan Martinez Lee, LCSW - (805) 654-1422 Ext 4  or fivelees@roadrunner.com

Marty has worked in drug and alcohol treatment for over 25 years. Beginning as a counselor in 1985, he has helped many people begin and sustain their recovery. He has worked as a counselor at the Saint John's Hospital Chemical Dependency Center in Santa Monica, the New Beginnings program at Ojai Valley Community Hospital and the Vista Del Mar Hospital Addiction Medicine Unit in Ventura. For the past 18 years, Marty has been the Program Director of the Genesis Program, an outpatient treatment facility he co-founded, with locations in Ventura and Thousand Oaks. Marty continues in this role as well as a private counseling practice here at Coastline Christian Counseling.

Marty's areas of specialty are addictions, codependency and relapse prevention. He treats both adults and adolescents. He works with the chemically dependent and their families.

Marty also does chemical dependency assessments for the courts, often as part of divorce proceedings involving child custody. He is credentialed to do assessments for the Department of Transportation, making treatment recommendations and establishing return-to-duty criteria for workers in safety-sensitive positions.

Marty is a recovering person himself. He brings to his counseling not only his professional training, but also the experience of walking out his recovery one day at a time. He helps his clients to gain a complete perspective on their recovery, addressing body, soul and spirit. He emphasizes the development of therapeutic relationships – with God, with self and with others.

Marty Lythgoe, CADC II, NCAC II, ICADC - (805) 377-7116 or mjlcadc@gmail.com or www.martylythgoe.com

Chandra has been working with children and families for more than ten years. In 1998, she earned her Master's Degree in Social Work with children, youth and families from the University of Michigan. Chandra also holds a certification in childhood trauma.

She received specialized training under art therapists, child life specialists, and clinical social workers on how to work specifically with children experiencing loss of a parent and other serious losses. She has led several bereavement groups for young children, school-aged children, and teens.

Chandra was program coordinator for a home-based psychiatric crisis stabilization team on the north shore of Boston, Massachusetts, until 2005. She worked with children and their families who struggled with many difficult issues including past trauma, depression, anxiety, and self-injurious behaviors. Art therapy and play therapy are two of the approaches she uses with children.

Now Chandra is working in private practice here at Coastline. She understands how overwhelming life can feel at times and looks forward to working with your family to achieve balance. She incorporates creative and effective approaches that work with families. She will listen to you and work with you to build on your family's strengths to create joy again in your home.

Chandra Weising, LCSW – (805) 654-1422 ext. 5 cweisingLCSW@gmail.com

Pat started her own recovery in 1982 and began helping others in 1984 following crisis intervention training for the Be Sober Hotline and substance abuse peer helping skills training with John Bradshaw.  During the following years Pat received continuous training for interventions, alcohol and drug issues, relapse prevention, grief recovery, domestic violence, and life and recovery coaching.

Pat has been an educator and speaker for organizations including: Azusa Pacific University , CAPS West, Clergy Network in Los Angeles and Orange Counties , Overcomers Outreach, National Association for Christians in Recovery, and more.  From 1995 to 2002, she was the Director of Rehabilitation at The Salvation Army in Canoga Park where she trained many interns from local junior colleges.

Pat offers Life and Recovery Coaching to those desiring and ready to move forward with their lives. Pat's coaching is also available for family members who need help while a loved one is in treatment or when they return home.

Pat trains and guides families through caring interventions for their loved ones caught in many types of addiction. Her fine reputation has caused families from all areas of the state to call on her services for this very specialized treatment.

Pat Moomey, BRI, CATC, CRC  (805) 276-4605
moomey.pat@gmail.com. or www.patmoomey.com

Karen McIntyre, LMFT
Licensed Marriage Family Therapist and Ministry License

• EMDR Trained

• PTSD, Trauma Recovery

• Couples Counseling

• Depression, Anxiety and related issues

• Drug and Alcohol

• Understanding of disabilities

• Family Relationships

Karen started her work in 1983 with women suffering from trauma and addiction. Eight years of working with this population and experiencing how God restores lives, she decided to become a licensed therapist. She completed her Master of Science degree in Counseling Psychology at California Lutheran University in 2005. During her internships and licensure Karen’s scope of practice broadened to include both men and women of all ages, couples, and family counseling.

For five years Karen worked as an intern in a private practice setting and, during three of those five years, she also interned at Ventura Community College. She treated all ages, from children to elderly, working through serious issues which gave them a new perspective and skills to deal with a wide variety of life and relationship challenges. This work included trauma recovery, couples counseling, and transitional skill building and personality development.

Now in private practice as a Licensed Therapist at Coastline Christian Counseling, Karen integrates psychodynamic, cognitive, other prominent systems, as well as EMDR when appropriate, to relieve clients from a variety of life’s problems. In addition to what has already been mentioned, Karen treats family struggles, domestic violence, rape recovery, adults molested as children, drug and alcohol addiction, and healing deep wounds from the past. As an indirect part of therapy, Willow – Karen’s Black Labrador retriever, a trained guide dog – enthusiastically greets clients and remains quietly present during sessions.

Karen says: “When I was beginning to work as a therapist trainee in college, I had a dream that gave direction to what I would do as a therapist. In my dream I was walking through an old Victorian house peering into the different rooms in amazement at how wonderfully and thoughtfully it was built. I heard the phrase “original intent” spoken. I kept exploring the old house and continued to hear the phrase ”Original Intent” so loudly that I awoke with a startle.. Impressed by the intensity of the dream, I prayed for understanding. I came to realize that God was directing me, as a professional Christian psychotherapist, to aid clients in discovering their “original intent”. God wanted me to assist them discover how wonderfully He had created them to be, before sin and its effects wounded them. God promises are to restore us and to give back what the enemy has taken. My goal as a therapist is to guide clients through healing from the past, to find their true identity in Him, and experience a renewed life.”

If you are interested in working with Karen, please contact her:
Karen McIntyre, LMFT - (805) 312-3421 or (805) 654-1422 ext. 3 or
karen8455@sbcglobal.net

 

In January 2000, Misty Bradley, LCSW, co-founded Coastline Christian Counseling in Ventura, California . She continues as the Clinical Director of Coastline today. She is a professional Christian therapist and was providing therapy services to individuals and couples for 16 years until restricting her practice to premarital couples and short-term therapy with missionaries or cross-cultural workers here and abroad.

In 1998, Misty developed the Christian Premarital Preparation Program for engaged couples used by Coastline and at South Coast Fellowship church. She continues to provide the Premarital Preparation Program for engaged couples.

Misty Bradley, LCSW - (805) 377-0094 or (805) 654-1422 ext 2