Counseling &
Life Coaching
for Natural Families
Many families have asked me about therapists for post-partum depression, preschool and elementary school age child issues, and marital relationship strains --- looking for counselors who are wide open to parenting practices such as extended breastfeeding and cosleeping. The below I know personally and feel to be special finds.
Mary L. Obata, M.A., MFT, a Marriage and Family Therapist (MFC 44277). She provides individual, couples, and group therapy in Kensington and has over fifteen years of experience counseling clients from diverse backgrounds with a wide range of issues. Her experience as a mother led to a special interest in working with pregnancy and postpartum issues, and she practices attachment parenting herself. Mary currently offers Mothers Support Groups and Pregnant Moms Groups where moms can receive support, tools, and resources for coping.
She also specializes in the areas of self-esteem and empowerment, relationships and intimacy, life transitions/parenthood, depression/anxiety, infertility/loss, women’s issues, and trauma/abuse. She uses cutting-edge techniques to help resolve trauma called
EMDR and EFT, which can help women heal more quickly and completely from losses, disappointments, and traumas that may have occurred during the birth experience or at other times in a woman’s life.Mary has given numerous presentations on topics such as: Emotionally Preparing for Parenthood; Adjusting to Motherhood; Postpartum Depression and the Range of Postpartum Adjustment; and Balancing Act: Nurturing Our Families, Nurturing Ourselves. She currently serves on the Advistory Board of the Postpartum Health Alliance after serving on the Board of Directors for eight years. In addition, she publishes
The Therapist Directory of San Diego. She would be happy to talk with you to see how she may be of help. Mary L. Obata, M.A., MFT, can be reached at 619-220-4680.
Danielle DeLuca-Mendoza
MA in Counseling
Labor Doula
“Birthing from Within” Childbirth Preparation Mentor I truly enjoy working with pregnant and parenting women as I believe childbirth is a truly transformative time. My son was born in September 2007 and this journey has greatly influenced my work. I have my Masters in Counseling and I have worked for years with women and children, and families. I enjoy combining my Counseling background with my “birth work” and have worked with pregnant and parenting women and teens as they empower themselves to find their strength, power, and healing.Counseling Services: As a Counselor, I provide Individual and Group Support. I enjoy working with women, teens, and families; and specialize in working with women and teens through their pregnancy and postpartum. I work in collaboration with the client to provide emotional support by addressing stresses; lifestyle issues such as drug abuse or violence; as well as previous traumas that my affect birth and parenting. I offer Individual Counseling Sessions, Teen Support, Belly2Belly Pregnancy Support Group, Mothering Circle Postpartum Support Group, and Postpartum Counseling Home Visits.
Pediatric Life Coaching
Adelaide L. Zindler, B.S.
"All" interactions impact our most vulnerable little ones, and Pediatric Life Coaching is a strength-based health care service designed to restore optimum well being in childhood. This specialty is tailored to the unique needs of children from preschool to elementary age. Through a family designed alliance, on-site coaching points young clients toward the goal line (of mental health) from home to the classroom.It has been through the foundational work of the late Thomas Joseph Leonard, that Adelaide L. Zindler, B.S. gained her initial exposure to this innovative process. She is the first to consider pediatric emotions and overall health in the context of life coaching. She incorporates family dynamics, nutrition, and the environmental influences that impact early childhood.
Gaze through the PedsPlay.com site and then call or e-mail Ms. Zindler for more information. Once you speak with Adelaide over the phone, you will recognize what a valuable treasure she is.
Need more names? E-mail Dr. Linda Palmer for a referral list collected from comments of San Diego's Natural and Attachment Parenting families.
More San Diego Natural Parenting Resources
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The New Science Beahind What's Really Important When Caring for Your Baby
