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Your Trusted Partner for Mental Health & Grief Counseling
At Calabasas Counseling & Grief Center, we specialize in guiding individuals through grief, trauma, and emotional challenges with personalized, compassionate care. Our team of licensed therapists brings decades of combined experience in grief-informed and trauma-informed practices, utilizing evidence-based methods like EMDR, narrative therapy, and reflective listening. We offer both in-person sessions in Calabasas and telehealth services to accommodate diverse needs. Our approach prioritizes creating a safe, non-judgmental space where clients can process complex emotions, develop coping strategies, and rebuild meaningful connections.With specialized support for complicated grief, anxiety, depression, and estrangement-related loss, we empower clients to honor their experiences while fostering resilience and personal growth. Our commitment to accessibility includes flexible scheduling and a focus on practical, life-affirming solutions tailored to each individual's journey.
Services
Grief Therapy
Trauma Therapy
EMDR Therapy
Depression Counseling
Anxiety Treatment
Child & Teen Therapy
Telehealth Services
Estrangement Support
Coping Strategies
EMDR Certification
Highlights and features
- We offer trauma-informed therapy with EMDR-certified clinicians
- Our team includes grief specialists with decades of clinical experience
- We provide personalized treatment plans for adults, children, and families
- We combine evidence-based practices with compassionate, client-centered care
- We offer both in-person and telehealth therapy options for accessibility
What people say
Compassionate team
Personalized treatment
Trauma-informed care
Effective EMDR therapy
Supportive environment
Services
Grief Therapy
Our grief therapy provides a safe space to process complex emotions from various types of loss, including death, divorce, and estrangement. We help clients develop coping strategies, create memorial rituals, and navigate complicated grief patterns. With personalized treatment plans, we address how grief impacts daily life while fostering resilience and personal growth through evidence-based techniques.
Trauma Therapy
Specialized trauma therapy addresses PTSD symptoms from physical assault, abuse, accidents, and other traumatic events. Using grounding techniques and EMDR, we help reduce hypervigilance, intrusive memories, and self-medication patterns. Our approach focuses on rebuilding safety, improving relationships, and developing resilience while addressing trauma's physical and emotional impacts through compassionate, evidence-based care.
EMDR Therapy
EMDR therapy uses bilateral stimulation to reprocess traumatic memories, reducing their emotional intensity. This evidence-based approach helps clients find relief from anxiety, depression, and traumatic flashbacks. We combine guided eye movements with cognitive restructuring to help clients reclaim emotional stability and develop healthier coping mechanisms for lasting trauma recovery and mental wellness.
Child & Teen Therapy
Our child and teen therapy uses age-appropriate methods like play and art to help young clients process anxiety, depression, and family changes. We focus on developing emotional regulation skills, improving communication, and building resilience through engaging, developmentally-tailored sessions that create a foundation for lifelong mental wellness and healthy relationship patterns.
Estrangement Support
This specialized program helps clients navigate the complex emotions of family estrangement through guided reflection and boundary setting. We provide tools to process grief, guilt, and relief without pressure to reconcile. The self-paced course offers practical strategies for self-care and communication while honoring each client's unique journey through estrangement-related loss and healing.
People
Debi J. Frankle
LMFT #32961
Licensed Marriage & Family Therapist with 30+ years of experience specializing in grief-informed care. Professor at Pepperdine University Graduate School, offering direct client care and professional training in grief and loss management.
Mark Frankle
LMFT #31617
Licensed Marriage & Family Therapist with expertise in trauma and grief counseling. Combines clinical practice with teaching experience to support clients through complex emotional challenges and life transitions.
Rose Castellanos Cruz
AMFT #138593
Associate Marriage & Family Therapist specializing in cultural approaches to grief and trauma. Provides culturally sensitive care while focusing on community-based healing practices and traditional remembrance rituals.
Todd Kirby
AMFT #137786
Associate Marriage & Family Therapist with training in trauma-informed care. Specializes in helping clients process unresolved grief and develop practical coping strategies for emotional healing.
Katie Byam
AMFT #148829
Associate Marriage & Family Therapist focusing on grief and trauma recovery. Uses evidence-based practices to help clients navigate complex emotions and build resilience through personalized treatment plans.
Questions
What types of therapy do you offer?
We offer grief-informed therapy, trauma-informed therapy, EMDR, depression and anxiety treatment, child/teen therapy, and estrangement support through both in-person and telehealth sessions.
How does EMDR therapy help with trauma?
EMDR uses bilateral stimulation to reprocess traumatic memories, reducing their emotional intensity. This evidence-based approach helps clients find relief from anxiety, depression, and traumatic flashbacks while developing healthier coping mechanisms.
Do you accept insurance?
We do not bill insurance directly but provide documentation for out-of-network reimbursement. Clients should check with their providers about mental health benefits, deductibles, and session coverage.
What is the estrangement support program?
Our self-paced estrangement program offers tools to process complex emotions without pressure to reconcile. It includes boundary setting strategies, self-care practices, and guided reflection to help clients navigate family disconnection at their own pace.
Are telehealth services available?
Yes, we offer secure telehealth therapy sessions for clients who prefer remote access to mental health care while maintaining the same quality of personalized, evidence-based treatment.
