Beverly C. Taylor, MA LMFT is an experiential/depth psychotherapist and licensed marriage and family therapist specializing in individual, couples and family therapy.  With focus on the treatment of trauma, addiction, codependency, depression and disordered overeating, Beverly’s innate compassion and creativity lend to the development of a highly personalized approach tailored to each individual client. 

After 20 years of treating trauma and addiction and while maintaining a private practice in the Santa Ynez and Solvang, California, Beverly recognized a lack of holistic mental health services available to her clients and founded the Family Counseling & Trauma Healing Center in the beautiful Santa Ynez Valley. Uplifting her community by offering integrative holistic healing services is Beverly’s most impassioned mission and is the culmination of many years of treating a wide variety of clients.

Special Interest & Services:

Beverly taught the Master’s Psychology program at Brandman University where she received the Adjunct Faculty of the Year Award.

Beverly presents and facilitates intensive weekend workshops for
healing past trauma.

Beverly offers yearly intensive retreats and workshops on professional burnout to a variety of healing professions.

Beverly is a disaster mental health volunteer for the American Red Cross. She began volunteering her services during Hurricane Katrina and has remained committed to serving her West Coast community in other capacities, primarily providing Red Cross disaster mental health services during wildfires and mudslides.

Education:

MA in Psychology with concentration in Depth Psychology from Pacifica Graduate Institute, California (2002)

BA – Liberal Arts with Social Work Concentration from Salisbury State University, Maryland (year)

AA - Chemical Dependency Counseling from Worcester-Wicomico Community College (year)

Board of Behavioral Sciences – LMFT #41786 from The California Association of Marriage and Family Therapists

EMDR Certified through EMDR International Association (EMDRIA)

I am an Associate Marriage Family Therapist with a Master’s Degree in Clinical Psychology from Antioch University, Los Angeles. I completed a two year clinical training program at Airport Marina Counseling Service, where I worked with adults, children and families, and facilitated therapy groups including “Navigating Your 20’s” and “10 Steps to Self Esteem.” I believe in providing a warm and compassionate environment for my clients, working collaboratively to appropriately address each individual’s specific needs. It is a privilege for me to be present with my clients, without judgment or distractions, allowing them to work at making their life better. I have extensive training in psychodynamic therapy, family systems therapy, and cognitive behavioral therapy and I am very passionate about mental health and wellbeing!

Kim is passionate about helping people reach, or navigate through, a turning point in their search for greater freedom and joy. Having experienced the power of coaching herself, both professionally and personally, she knows it works!

Kim spent 9 years in the Air Force and another couple of decades as a defense contractor. In her personal life, she is intimately familiar with grief, chronic illness, addictions, co-addictions, challenges in career progression, mental health, and relationships, aging, divorce, single parenting, and family-of-origin issues. More importantly, she is also intimately familiar with the recovery process.

As a life coach, Kim fearlessly leans into difficulties and challenges with her clients. Collaborating with the client, they discover what is possible, and move into change. With support, encouragement, and the power of being held accountable, clients step into a new life chapter with greater freedom and joy.

Kim is a Certified Professional Co-Active Coach and holds an International Coaching Federation certification. Additionally, she specializes in the Positive Intelligence Quotient (PQ) mental fitness program.

Please visit www.turningpointcoaching.com or give Kim a call at (805) 714-6908 if you’d like to learn more

Alisa Taylor is the founder of Taylor’d Touch: Customized Creative Wellness, a body-work practice designed to help anyone looking to explore a deeper connection with their body. Taylor’d Touch is an LA-based business, with a heightened focus on a creative exploration through body-work and movement therapy. Alisa grew up in a household of healers and later sought a professional education in the performing arts. Through rigorous performance training, Alisa began to feel and identify the many ways in which our bodies keep track of trauma and old wounding. Taylor’d Touch was built to focus on tending to those somatic memories, allowing personal experience to enhance performance, rather than hinder it. Alisa regularly partners with licensed therapists to facilitate healing through workshops, intensives, and retreats. In addition, she has worked for nearly a decade as a Talent Manager and Acting Coach in Los Angeles. She uses body-work techniques to help guide professional performers toward achieving the highest level of relaxation and authenticity on stage or on camera. These techniques have led actors to career-launching opportunities in television, film, and on Broadway. Taylor’d Touch has co-facilitated multiple retreat weekends, as well as providing the hands-on portion of intensive trauma therapy workshops. For more information or to schedule an initial session, please reach out to Alisa directly via TAYLOR’D TOUCH on Facebook, or simply call/text (805) 757-7784. To hire Taylor’d Touch for a retreat or group event, please contact The Family Counseling and Trauma Healing Center at (805) 757-7783.

Stacey Thompson is a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist, Registered Art Therapist, and Mother. She has worked with individuals, families, and groups in a variety of settings over the last 10 years, utilizing art as a therapeutic modality to help clients feel better about themselves and the lives they are living. Stacey thrives on sharing art experiences with people and sees art as a language that is unique to each person. Stacey is a longtime resident of the Santa Ynez Valley and is thrilled to join the team at FCTHC where she offers Art Therapy in support of holistic healing from trauma and addiction. Her person-centered approach focuses on creating authentic relationships with clients, and creating a safe space in the group by honoring where individuals are in their healing process. As the process of art-making can be intimidating, and she strives to create a culture within the group that embraces a “no wrong art” stance, a non-judgemental and compassionate approach to art-making.

Brian Delshad is an Associate Marriage and Family Therapist (AMFT) and Associate Professional Clinical Counselor (APCC) with a Master’s Degree in Counseling Psychology from Pacifica Graduate Institute in Santa Barbara. He is trained in attachment focused EMDR therapy and the Hakomi method, which is mindfulness and somatic based approach to healing. Before working with the Family Counseling and Trauma Healing Center, Brian worked as a counselor with New Beginnings Counseling Center, a 501(c)3 nonprofit where he sees individuals, couples, and families in underserved populations. He also worked as a group facilitator for AHA!, an organization that promotes social-emotional learning, peace building and connections with teenagers across Santa Barbara County.  Prior to moving to California in 2017, Brian lived in New York City where he volunteered supporting LGBTQ in a homeless youth shelter.

Laurie Burnaby has studied yoga for over 40 years delving into various styles and modes of teaching. Her background as a dancer, teacher and massage therapist inform an understanding of how yoga can be a tool for transformation and healing. Yoga therapy has become her focus for the past 10 years. Laurie’s vision is to create an atmosphere that allows people to befriend their bodies and reject the misplaced cultural denial of cultivating their innate inner wisdom. The process is unique to each person and their particular circumstances. Yoga therapy works in conjunction with other healing modalities to bring about balance and well-being while empowering individuals to feel and be their best.

I am an adamant believer in the body’s ability to heal and balance itself with the correct support and nourishment. At the heart of every modality is a study of stagnation and flow. My approach is integrative through a cross cultural perspective, which allows me to tailor my sessions specifically to what the clients need in the moment - mind, body & spirit.

My journey officially began as a yoga instructor - and it was really more because I loved the studio and wanted to deepen my practice! I started with a 200hr Yoga Teacher Training at Laughing Lotus when I lived in New York, this continued into a second Yoga Teacher Training at Core Power when I moved to San Francisco and as I taught and gained more experience I found I loved the body and energy! I soon found myself in Thailand studying Thai Massage at the International School of Thai Massage. While there I also delved into Reflexology, Cupping, Reiki, Tok Sen and Gua Sha.

Rachael Morehouse is a passionate force for the well being of the human heart, body, and soul. She is imaginative, creative and thrives on a challenge but is most fulfilled when helping others. Rachael is motivated by her strong will to help create a world with better health, joy, resilience and personal connections. Empowering others to live their best life is the motivator behind Rachael’s loving heart and often humorous personality. She possesses a strong sense of right and wrong with little patience for any gray area in-between. She is a ‘take action’ personality and is unlikely to take “can’t” for an answer. She loves to experience life through travel, movies, books, volunteer work and most of all her cherished husband and daughter. Rachael works behind the scenes coordinating, communicating & planning the day to day running of our program. 

Healing requires us to remember our experiences, to suffer the emotions associated with them, and finally, to integrate these experiences into a larger life narrative. It is a process of deconstruction – expressing and validating our feelings, embracing all our parts, and breaking down and expelling what isn’t serving us. Healing our trauma wounds is a path back to self.

Diana Greenwood, M.A., M.F.T, is a psychotherapist specializing in trauma healing and works with youth, adults and families in Santa Barbara and Santa Ynez, CA. She is a writer and filmmaker and holds a B.F.A. from California Institute of the Arts and a M.A. from Pacifica Graduate Institute.

https://www.dgreenwoodmft.com/

Julie Samuels-Metheany is a psychotherapist who has worked and lived in the Santa Ynez Valley for 20+ years. Julie has worked with a broad spectrum of clients, families and couples and has specialized in Eating Disorders, Compulsive and Addictive Eating and clients who are on the Weight Gain/Diet Cycle. She started her career as a Dietician and quickly realized that most people with food issues had some sort of Pyschological Dis-ordered eating pattern. Julie was inspired to get additional training in counseling and received her Master's Degree in Clinical Psychology from Antioch University. Through Somatic therapy, education and interactive experiential practices that help clients decrease the amount of trauma that is keeping their nervous systems hijacked people begin to feel less reactive and thus more in control of themselves, their thoughts and eventually of their lives. Helping clients to move into feeling more powerful, to reconnect to their inner strength and to make changes to feel fully alive is Julie's priority when working her clients.

Samantha Eddy is a Yoga Therapist under supervision, 200-hr Yoga Teacher, and holds a Master's degree in Somatic Psychology from Pacifica Graduate Institute. She offers somatic Yoga Therapy to guide clients into a more compassionate understanding of the wisdom their bodies hold, and to translate that wisdom into healing and growth. Yoga Therapy sessions are one-on-one sessions that incorporate movement, Yoga postures, and dialogue. Samantha specializes in working with trauma, anxiety, panic, active duty service members and veterans. 

Samantha believes in community support as a path to healing, and has taken part in collective community-based healing at Vandenberg Air Force Base, Veterans Treatment Court, inner city Baltimore...and now at the Family Counseling and Trauma Healing Center. 

Samantha is currently in the final practicum of her Yoga Therapy training, and therefore remains under supervision as a Yoga Therapist.

www.SamanthaKitaEddy.com

Kristi Hundt MA, LAc is a Nationally Board Certified Diplomate of Acupuncture and a Licensed Acupuncturist with a Master’s Degree in Traditional Chinese Medicine from the Oregon College of Oriental Medicine. She is licensed by the State of California and certified by the National Certification Commission for Acupuncture and Oriental Medicine.Kristi established her clinic for Traditional Chinese Medicine in the Santa Ynez Valley in 2004 and began treating people in recovery during her clinical internship at the Portland Addiction Clinic in 2000. She specializes in detoxification acupuncture and offers group sessions at the Family Counseling and Trauma Healing Center Inc. Kristi is also available for individual treatments by appointment at her clinic in Solvang.