Child & Teen Counseling is elated to have the brilliant Veronica Torres as part of our latest cohort of therapist trainees. Veronica has been seeing clients since September and we wanted to find out how it ‘s going.

In this short video she pontificates on impediments to personality establishment in teens, and how kids are a lot more self aware than people give them credit for. Watch the video and enjoy some of her insight!

Veronica also co-facilitates our High School Girls Group with Jennifer Koerner.

Sipan Nazaryan is a trainee here at Child & Teen Counseling. He’s currently working on his Masters Degree at Pepperdine. Around here, we think of him as our local renaissance man. At once intellectual, yet obsessed with UFC fighting, he’s a unique and fascinating blend! Sipan has been seeing clients for about three months now, so how is he settling in? He reveals all the answers, including what makes him such an interesting paradox, in this short and amusing video

Ralph Huang has lived in seven different countries. How has this international experience shaped him and what he brings to the table as a therapist trainee? And of crucial importance, what are his favorite sports teams?

Child & Teen Counseling’s International Man of Intrigue nimbly answers all these questions in this hard hitting interview with Ralph.

Francesco Onorati is getting his Masters in Counseling at CSUN. He joined the Child & Teen Counseling Team in August of this year. In this brief interview, CTC Office Manager and Marketing Coordinator Brian Frith-Smith finds out what makes him tick by asking those lighthearted yet soul-piercing questions that reveal a person’s inner workings. Want to get to know Francesco a little better? Check out the video.

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Girls Who Glow is Child & Teen Counseling’s therapy group for teenage girls which launched in March 2021. So how’s it going one month in? In this Therapycast, Child & Teen Counseling Marketing Coordinator Brian Frith-Smith checks in with Marriage and Family Therapist Trainee Adriana Navarro Gonzalez.

Alek is a new Therapist Trainee at our sister organization Child & Teen Counseling in Woodland Hills. He’s been seeing clients since February and we wanted to check in with him and see how it was going. What’s the work environment like at CTC, and can you get anything by those clever kids?

What is the first session with a therapist like for a kid? Does a therapist in a corduroy blazer make you talk about your deepest darkest fears?