Omid Roustaei, MA LMHC​

RECOMMENDed READING

​Hold Me Tight: Seven Conversations for a Lifetime of Love , Sue Johnson
Attached. The new science of adult attachment and how it can help you find and keep love , Amir Levine
Nonviolent Communication: A Language of Life: Create Your Life, Your Relationships, and Your World in Harmony with Your Values, Marshall B. Rosenberg
Extraordinary Relationships:  A new way of thinking about human interactions, Roberta M. Gilbe
The seven principles for making marriage work, John Gottman

​​INDIVIDUAL COUNSELING​

Life transitions and adjustments:

• Depression, anxiety, anger, loneliness, stress, grief and loss
  
• Develop effective coping skills to address challenging life issues
  
• Self esteem, self worth, existential issues
• Ease emotional stress and pain
  

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Family of origin influence:

• Improve interactions with family members
  
• Recognize triggers and emotional hooks
• Improve communication
• ​Identify negative attributes and qualities you learned from family interactions and expectations
  
• Identify and break unhealthy patterns
  

LGBTQ community

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• Sexual orientation and identify
• Coming out
  
• Self acceptance
  
• Community related challenges

​​couples COUNSELING

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• ​​​​Address relationship challenges and issues and feelings of being stuck
  
• Explore conflicts and address the barriers to emotional connections
  
• Identify the existing behavioral patterns and challenges
  
• Create new and positive behavioral patterns to deepen emotional bonds
  
• Soften power struggles and re-establish felt connections
  
• Improve communication skills
  
• Deepen emotional intimacy
  
• Create healthy and functioning relationships
  
• Reconnect, repair and rebuild
  

I am an EFT trained therapist (Emotionally Focused Couples Therapy).​​​​