WE HAVE RELAXATION TAPES FOR:

Anxiety, Depression, Fears, Stress, Healing and Relaxation and Self Esteem, Restore Serenity, relax tapes for Pain, Grief, Easing Pain, Fibromyalgia & Chronic Fatigue, General Wellness, healing your Back, Relieve headache, irritable Bowel. 

Either before your therapy appointment, after your therapy appointment or just walking in and listening to our relax tapes, even w/o an appointment,– you will have a sense of inner peace and harmony after listening to our relaxation tapes.
Please see our referral source links if you would like to buy your own relaxation tapes. We also have a radio show talking about how Meditation Guided Imagery can help you relax, and the therapeutic benefits of such relaxation techniques.

MEDITATION

Mental tensions, frustrations, insecurity, aimlessness are among the most damaging stressors, and psychosomatic studies have shown how often they cause migraine headache, peptic ulcers, heart attacks, hypertension, mental disease, suicide, or just hopelessness.
unhappiness – Hans Selye

A great deal of psychological stress comes from the rush and hurry of a turbulent mind, which jumps recklessly to unwarranted conclusion, rushes to judgments, and often is going too fast to see events and people from true perspective.  Such a mind keeps the body under continual tension.  It is constantly on the move – desiring, worrying, hoping, fearing, planning, defending, rehearsing, criticizing.  It cannot stop or rest except in deep sleep, when the whole body, particularly the nervous system, heaves a sigh of relief and tries to repair the damage of the day.

Simply by slowing down the mind – the first purpose of meditation – much of this tension can be removed.  Then we are free to respond to life’s difficulties not as sources of stress, but as challenges, which will draw out of us deeper resources than we ever suspected we had.  A one-pointed mind is slow and sound, which gives it immense resilience under stress. With a mind like this, we always have a choice in how we respond to life around us.

GUIDED IMAGERY:  THROUGH VOICE AND VISUALIZATION

Guided Imagery is a process of deliberately using your imagination to help your mind and body heal, stay well, or perform well.  It’s kind of like a directed, deliberate daydream, a purposeful creation of positive sensory images, sights, sounds, and smells, tastes, and touch. – Belle ruth Naparstek.

INTERNET THERAPY

All you need is high speed/Broadband Internet Connection, a microphone and a web cam, and we are here for you.  It’s the best way to get the most quality therapy if you live too far to drive to therapy, if you just want the added privacy from your own home or if you are a shut-in.

All you need to do is to call (805)934-5088 to arrange an appointment with any of our therapists, and our secretary, Diana, will be happy to arrange a time for you.

*Insurance companies do not yet pay for Internet therapy so you will need to be able to pay our fees up front by credit card.  Our Licensed therapists are $110. an hour, and our Marriage & Family Therapist Interns are $95.00 an hour.

OUR EDUCATIONAL DEPARTMENT

Includes an audio/Video library, as well as an up-to-date book library, with all the latest research from the most renowned therapists in the United States today.

Come to The Central Coast Counseling Center to view the following videos/DVD’s:

PARENT & CHILD VIDEOS

1) Compassionate Child rearing – Presented by the Glen don Association
2) Raising An Emotionally Intelligent Child by John Gottman
3) Understanding the Defiant Child by Russell A. Barkley
4) Managing the Defiant Child by Russell A. Barkley
5) Asperger’s Syndrome by Dr. Tony Attwood
6) ADHD/ADD in Children & Adults by Russell A. Barkley
7) Mothers & Sons (adult or child) by Olga Silverstein of the Ackerman Institute for The Family
8) The Secret Life Of The Brain – a PBS special presentation
9) Gender Differences in Depression by Peggy Papp – a famous family therapist
10) Understanding Postpartum Depression and other Mood Disorders – This Video highlights: a) Postpartum Deprsesion and/or Anxiety, Panic Disorder, b) Postpartum Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder, c) Posttraumatic Stress Disorder and Postpartum Psychosis

SUBSTANCE ABUSE VIDEOS

1) The Voice Of Addiction – Cunning, Baffling, and Powerful - Hazeldon
2) Relationships In Recovery – How The Healing Happens - Hazeldon
3) Addiction In The Family – by Claudia Black
4) The Enablers – from Hazeldon

FAMILY & INDIVIDUAL VIDEOS

1) The Art & Science of Love by John Gottman Some of the information includes relaxing and soothing one another & processing a fight – but there is much, much more to view.
2) Living Well With Bipolar Disorder – for those suffering from Bipolar Disorder and for those whose loved one suffers from Bipolar Disorder
3) Adults With ADD/ADHD – by Dr. Russell A. Barkleyt
4) Overcoming Social Phobia – by Dr. Ronald M. Rapee
5) Overcoming Panic & Agoraphobia by Dr. Ronald M. Rapee
6) Management of the symptoms of Borderline Personality Disorder by Marsha Linehan, Ph.D., including topics like: a) From Suffering To Freedom b) Distracting &I Self Soothing c) Skills For Everyday Mindfulness d) Improving the Moment
7) Gender Differences in Depression by the infamous Peggy Papp, family therapist.
8) Mothers & Sons – by Olga Silverstein of the Ackerman Institute on The Family.
9) The Secret Life of the Brain – a PBS special presentation

PLEASE NOTE: If you would like to come in to view any of the above videos/DVD's, please call us in advance to let us know when you or any of your family members will be coming in to C.C.C.C. Please call our secretary, Diana, at (805) 934-5088 to set up a time to make sure our Conference Room will be available.

*There is absolutely no charge to view the videos/DVD's or to use our relaxation tapes. We hope you enjoy being in our peaceful atmosphere, get some education, see who our therapists are, and if you think you would like to speak to a therapist – ask Diana when a therapist will be available for any question you may have.

COMMUNITY RESOURCE

*We also have Community Resource Books for both Santa Barbara and San Luis Obispo Counties should you need any kind of referrals.

*We are told on a daily basis how different our counseling center is from all the rest – how when you walk through our doors you immediately love the peaceful, loving atmosphere. Our secretary offers you a cup of herbal tea, you can read centering books called “Story Paintings From The Heart” by one of our local artists in Santa Maria – Michael Corob. Be sure to click on his web link for more info about his books and artworks.

Michael is available to give presentations and workshops to parents and commuity groups, as well as  art classes to children. For information on his serivices, books, or  paintings, please contact him at (805) 934-5835,  by e-mail at Youani@aol.com, or on the web at www.youani.org

There are also other books in our waiting room like: “Guided Imagery for Self Healing” and “30 Scripts for Relaxation Imagery & Inner Healing”. You are always welcome to put on some headphones and listen to our “Tranquility Tapes”.