Long Beach
Valetta Kirchner
LMFT
LIC NO. 99603
My professional practice of 15 years provides an extensive and varied experiential base that informs my pragmatic and eclectic approach to treatment. I choose from a variety of psychological schools tailoring the therapeutic process to each individual’s specific challenges and needs while nurturing awareness and self-compassion. I believe each person deserves a holistic approach that integrates psychological factors with overall health, social environment as well as economic and physical circumstances. I view presenting symptoms as coping strategies and the therapist’s role as facilitating the fine tuning of some strategies and the exploration of more effective solutions for others. I aspire to provide dynamic therapeutic services that reflect professional best-practices in a comfortable and non-judgmental setting while striving to be welcoming, genuine, transparent and empathetic. Most people find they connect with me easily. I invite you to see for yourself.
Specialties
- Anxiety Disorders
- Bipolar
- Depression
- LGBTQ
- Personal Growth
- Relationship Issues
- Spirituality
- Suicidal Ideation
- Transgender
- Health Care Professionals
- Abortion
- Pregnancy Loss
- and Miscarriage
- Abuse
- Addiction
- Attention Deficit Disorders (ADD/ADHD)
- Adjustment Disorder
- Adolescent Issues
- Adoption
- Aging Concerns
- Alcohol Use
- Alzheimer's
- Anger Management
- Asperger's Syndrome
- Attachment
- Autism
- Behavioral Issues
- Bisexual
- Body-focused repetitive
- Body Image Issues
- Borderline Personality
- Burnout
- Cancer
- Career Counseling
- Child or Adolescent
- Chronic Illness
- Chronic Impusivity
- Chronic Pain
- Codependency
- Compassion Fatigue
- Coparenting
- Coping Skills
- Dependency
- Developmental Disorders
- Divorce
- Dissociative Disorders
- Domestic Abuse
- Domestic Violence
- Drug Abuse
- Dual Diagnosis
- Eating Disorders
- Elderly Persons Disorders
- Emotional Disturbance
- Family Caregiving Stress
- Family Conflict / Family Issues
- Foster Care Issues
- Gambling
- Gay
- Gender Identity
- Grief / Loss
- Highly Sensitive Person
- Historical/Intergenerational Trauma
- Hoarding
- Impulse Control Disorders
- Impulsivity
- Infertility
- Infidelity
- Insomnia
- Intellectual Disability
- Internet Addiction
- Immigration
- Job Stress
- Learning Disabilities
- Lesbian
- Life Coaching
- Life Transitions
- Marital and Premarital
- Men's Issues
- Mood Disorders
- Narcissistic Personality
- Nutrition
- Obesity
- Obsessive-Compulsive (OCD)
- Oppositional Defiance
- Panic Disorders
- Parenting
- Peer Relationships
- Personality Disorders
- Physical Disability
- Pregnancy
- Prenatal
- Postpartum
- Political Climate
- Polyamorous and Open Relationships
- Psychosis
- Racial Identity
- Relationships
- Schizophrenia
- School Issues
- Social Issues
- Social Phobia
- Self-Harming
- Self Esteem
- Sexual Abuse
- Sexual Addiction
- Sexual Identity
- Sexual Problems
- Sleep or Insomnia
- Sports Performance
- Stress
- Substance Use
- Teen Violence
- Thinking Disorders
- Tourette Syndrome
- Trauma
- Weight Loss
- Women's Issues
- Adolescent Psychology
- Adoption Issues
- Affective Disorders
- Crisis Intervention
- Health Disability
- Life Management Counseling
- Life Problems
- Parenting Issues
- Physical Abuse
- Stress Management
- Family Systems
- AIDS / HIV
- Interpersonal Relationships
- Dating
- Existential Concerns
- Phobias
- Social Anxiety
- Behavior Modification
- Comorbidity
- Conduct Disorders
- Developmentally Disabled
- Ethnic Groups
- Neurotic Disorders
- Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD)
- Sexual Offenders
- Sexual Dysfunctions
- Somatoform Disorders
- Chronic Disability
- Crisis Intevention
- Fertility Issues
- Occupational Issues
- Coaching
- Child Abuse
- Chronic Mental Disorder
- Pain Management
- Fibromyalgia
- Chronic Fatigue