Services

Stephen Altbaum MFT offers a safe, confidential and warm environment. Stephen's work in various settings around California has prepared him to provide knowledgeable and effective education. When you feel you would like support and solution focused change, he can be available for:

• Parent education

• Individual counseling

• Couple and Marital communication

• Issues with children and adolescents (ADHD, homework problems, discipline, etc.)

• Decreasing depression

• A safe place to deal with sexual identity and other sexual issues

• Improving self-esteem

• Decreasing anxiety (stress management)

• Child abuse / trauma / loss

• Consultations

• Presentations:

  • “Working With Clients Who Self-Harm”

  • “Child and Adolescent Bipolar Disorder”

  • “Working with Gay/Lesbian/Bisexual Youth”

  • “Parenting the Difficult Child”

  • “Teenage Depression”

  • and more...

Stephen has years of first hand experience clinically and administratively in many cultural settings. He currently works as a clinical supervisor, a therapist for trouble teens, and runs his own private practice. With his experience working in hospital settings, he is well trained in trauma work, child abuse, loss, depression, troubled relationships, communication, and problems related to childhood. Stephen has taught and run groups on Anger Management, Parenting, Communications Skills, Anxiety Reduction, and Sexual Identity Issues.

His professional guidance can offer you:

• Calm communication and peace in the family.

• Better relationships with co-workers, family and friends.

• More effective parenting and answers to difficult parenting questions.

• Highly skilled and knowledgeable experience working with children, adolescents and their families.

• Relief of overwhelming feelings related to loss abuse or trauma.

Group for Bipolar Teens

Stephen Altbaum currently offers a therapy group for Bipolar Youth.  The group meets on Monday afternoons from 3:30 p.m. to 5:00 p.m. and has a minimum commitment of 8 weeks.  The group is psycho-educational in nature, and addresses the challenges of being diagnosed Bipolar, learning about the illness and how to overcome the difficulties, as well as providing an opportunity to meet and socialize with other adolescents also diagnosed with this disorder.  Please inquire for more information. 

A one hour assessment is required before the group to determine if it will fit for both client and group. In addition, a “post-group” parenting session is offered for parents interested in learning what the adolescents learned.  The initial assessment fee is $80.00, and each group costs $45.00 after that.  The “post-group” parenting group is $45.00 per parent (or couple).   Times for the initial assessment are arranged at mutual convenience. Current or previous clients who meet the criteria for group do not  need the initial assessment.

Click here for an informational flyer about this group