Rachel Falbo

Having addiction throughout my own family. I know the unique challenges that addiction presents. It truly is a family disease. I've worked in both inpatient and outpatient facilities specializing in addiction and started my career at Cliffside Malibu in Malibu, California.

Anger is a secondary emotion. This means that the underlying feeling in an anger outburst is often something else entirely; fear, embarrassment, etc. First we will develop healthy coping mechanisms to utilize when feeling angry. Then, we will dive deep into the underlying feeling and work through it!

CBT is a fancy term saying that we will focus on your thoughts! Events happen all day everyday. We have a thought about every event in our life. We have a feeling based on our thoughts. Then we behave based off of what we're feeling. We can't always change the event, in fact, very rarely can we change it. So, we focus on the next best thing, our thoughts! It won't be rainbows, daisies, and unicorns, but our thoughts can make a difference!

Living with a chronic illness myself for the past 15 years, I know the unique challenges that come with this each and everyday. We will work together to navigate the anxiety, depression, etc. that comes with living with chronic pain/illness.

Having worked with teens for most of my career, I've worked a great deal with self-harm. It doesn't have to become a staple in one's life. One can learn a new way to cope with negative feelings that doesn't involve self-harm.

Teens are so much fun! I approach working with teens like one approaches working out in the wild. Don't approach too quickly or you'll get bit! This means I slowly build rapport with the teens I work with and then we dive deep. We start by discussing their likes/dislikes, what they do for fun, and what makes them tick. Then after we establish a good rapport then we discuss things that are a struggle. Don't approach too quickly!