Education
Receiving my MA from Pacifica Graduate Institute, I trained in a compassionate client-centered approach to therapy, promoting wholeness and self-acceptance. Facilitating personal growth, authenticity, and autonomy through a mindfulness paradigm, I am focused on the development of happier relationships overall. Respecting the body, mind, spirit connection, I utilize a holistic approach to healing and personal growth. The primary goal of the therapy I offer is to reduce suffering and allow room for the emergence of your innate contentment and joy. Good therapy reawakens you.
Experience
I have been working with clients in Orange County since 2001. I have sat with individuals, couples, groups, elementary, middle school, and high school students and their families. I also enjoyed the unique opportunity of serving the special needs of the geriatric community in Orange County. For over five years I provided therapy through a well-known Orange County non-profit agency. There, through the County of Orange Child Abuse contract, I served our most profoundly stressed families around the issues of family reunification, recovery, parenting, decision-making, trauma, and life skills. This work was so rewarding I have chosen to participate with the County as a private practice provider and am able to continue supporting the community in this manner.
Continuing Self-Development
Increasingly, I have found my clients are working with issues of anxiety and limitation. As a result of working with the emerging needs of clients and seeking additional training to meet those needs, a specialty has evolved in my practice in the treatment of anxiety and panic.
Currently, I am receiving training in the elegant and deceptively simple approach of Somatic Experiencing (SE). This invaluable tool allows us to work directly with the body to release anxiety and stored stressors from the past. An important approach when used to address major trauma, Somatic Experiencing is just as valuable when teasing out the unprocessed fear and anxiety from childhood traumas, divorce and loss of family structure, car accidents, medical and dental procedures, violent trauma, and abuse. Very often we are storing some unrecognized trauma in our bodies that is now feeding our feelings of dis-ease and anxiety. Somatic Experiencing is an approach which allows a gentle, safe release of these neurological imprints from the body.
I have been trained in the implementation of the CHAANGE Program, one of the time-tested therapeutic approaches to the treatment of anxiety and panic. This program incorporates the effective approach of Cognitive Behavioral Therapy in a step-by-step program to treat anxiety and panic without medications, in addition to medications, and when medications and other approaches have failed. The CHAANGE Program is designed for adolescents and adults. The Life Skills Program is designed for children. Both programs are powerful tools for learning the skills necessary to master debilitating feelings of anxiety.
Receiving my MA from Pacifica Graduate Institute, I trained in a compassionate client-centered approach to therapy, promoting wholeness and self-acceptance. Facilitating personal growth, authenticity, and autonomy through a mindfulness paradigm, I am focused on the development of happier relationships overall. Respecting the body, mind, spirit connection, I utilize a holistic approach to healing and personal growth. The primary goal of the therapy I offer is to reduce suffering and allow room for the emergence of your innate contentment and joy. Good therapy reawakens you.
Experience
I have been working with clients in Orange County since 2001. I have sat with individuals, couples, groups, elementary, middle school, and high school students and their families. I also enjoyed the unique opportunity of serving the special needs of the geriatric community in Orange County. For over five years I provided therapy through a well-known Orange County non-profit agency. There, through the County of Orange Child Abuse contract, I served our most profoundly stressed families around the issues of family reunification, recovery, parenting, decision-making, trauma, and life skills. This work was so rewarding I have chosen to participate with the County as a private practice provider and am able to continue supporting the community in this manner.
Continuing Self-Development
Increasingly, I have found my clients are working with issues of anxiety and limitation. As a result of working with the emerging needs of clients and seeking additional training to meet those needs, a specialty has evolved in my practice in the treatment of anxiety and panic.
Currently, I am receiving training in the elegant and deceptively simple approach of Somatic Experiencing (SE). This invaluable tool allows us to work directly with the body to release anxiety and stored stressors from the past. An important approach when used to address major trauma, Somatic Experiencing is just as valuable when teasing out the unprocessed fear and anxiety from childhood traumas, divorce and loss of family structure, car accidents, medical and dental procedures, violent trauma, and abuse. Very often we are storing some unrecognized trauma in our bodies that is now feeding our feelings of dis-ease and anxiety. Somatic Experiencing is an approach which allows a gentle, safe release of these neurological imprints from the body.
I have been trained in the implementation of the CHAANGE Program, one of the time-tested therapeutic approaches to the treatment of anxiety and panic. This program incorporates the effective approach of Cognitive Behavioral Therapy in a step-by-step program to treat anxiety and panic without medications, in addition to medications, and when medications and other approaches have failed. The CHAANGE Program is designed for adolescents and adults. The Life Skills Program is designed for children. Both programs are powerful tools for learning the skills necessary to master debilitating feelings of anxiety.
Victoria Wallace Schlicht, MA, LMFT
victoria@transforminghearts.com
714.914.5565
"May you be well.
May you be happy.
May you be free from suffering."
--Tibetan Heart Meditation
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