Barbara Ferrari
Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist
Phone: (661) 373-6923
Address: 23550 Lyons Ave #211, Santa Clarita, CA 91321
Background
Before beginning her Alcohol and Drug Studies Program in 1989 at Pacific Oaks College and becoming a certified substance abuse and addiction counselor, Barbara Susan Ferrari obtained work experience in business administration. She has spent extensive time while employed in medical offices, as well as in the health club industry, including personal and group fitness trainers. Ms. Ferrari's work responsibilities related to these settings included accounting, accounts payable and receivable, advertising, appointments, billing, bookkeeping, both front and back office management and assistant, general client care, hiring, inventory, ordering product, payroll, phones, reception, sales, scheduling, and training. Ms. Ferrari's work experience with the chemically addicted population and twelve step recovery includes working in two psychiatric hospital settings with dual diagnosed adult and adolescent inpatient clients. That work included aftercare coordinator, alcohol and drug educational instruction charting notes, group counseling, intakes, making assessments, one on one counseling, placement, and referrals. Ms. Ferrari also had the opportunity to work in a number of residential recovery hospital settings managing individual and group counseling, intake appointments and assessments, as well as family group therapy. Most recently and to date, she continues to work with the chemically dependent population in family therapy maintaining progress notes, group therapy, individual therapy, and reports. Ms. Ferrari is involved in case management and referral along with staff meetings and the supervision of students. Recognizing the need to expand her knowledge to better understand and work at deeper rooted involvements of addiction, she obtained her Master's Degree in Psychology in 2004. Before beginning as a licensed marriage and family therapist, Ms. Ferrari has had a wide variety of clinical experience and treating a diverse population. Her experience includes treating clients with abuse, anger management, anxiety, crisis interventions, depression, grief and loss, parenting issues, post-traumatic stress disorder, and relationship conflicts. She has preoccupied the past twenty-eight years with the addicted and dual diagnosed population, in addition to becoming a certified domestic violence counselor.
Education
2004 | Pasadena, CA: Pacific Oaks College. Graduated with a master of arts in human development on May 23, 2004. Graduate courses completed: early childhood themes and life cycles, social and political contexts of human development, personality theories and clinical intervention, theories of mel-frequencies cepstral coefficients, alcoholism and chemical dependency, communication and counseling skills, professional ethics and the law, critical theories of childhood development, psychopathology of childhood and adolescence, cross-cultural mores and values, psychopathology of adulthood, clinical skills in family therapy, practicum i, practicum ii, therapy with children, human sexuality and sexism, child abuse assessment and treatment, group therapy, thesis development, and thesis master project on the development of body image.
Santa Clarita, CA: College Of The Canyons. 18 transferable bachelor degree units major psychology.
Pasadena, CA: Pasadena City College. 15 transferable associate degree units.
Pasadena, CA: Pacific Oaks College extension division: alcohol and drugs studies program, and certified substance abuse and addiction counselor on July 30, 1991.
Experience
Aug 2004 - Nov 2012 | Monrovia, CA: Staff Therapist And Supervisor. Case management, charting, client intakes, conjoint, couples, and individual counseling, facilitate chemical dependency including dual diagnosed empowerment and multi-family groups, progress reports, referrals, staff meetings, and supervision of interns.
Mar 2003 - Aug 2004 | North Hollywood, CA: Staff Counselor. Couples counseling, family counseling, intake appointments and assessments, individual counseling, phone emergencies and inquiries, progress notes, referrals, and staff and supervision meetings and workshops.
Jun 1996 - Sep 1998 | Monrovia, CA: Alcohol and residential drug counselor and audits. Aftercare coordinating and placement, charting, group facilitating, intake appointments and assessments, one on one counseling, and phone emergencies and inquiries.
May 1994 - May 1996 | Van Nuys, CA: Dual diagnosed and inpatient and outpatient adult and adolescent. Aftercare, crisis, intake appointments and assessments, phone inquiries, and referrals.
May 1994 - May 1996 | Rosemead, CA: Chemical dependency counselor. Aftercare coordinator, alcohol and drug educational instruction, charting, chemical dependency assessments, group facilitating, one one one counseling, and placement and referrals.
Dec 1992 - Apr 1994 | San Gabriel, CA: On call chemical dependency counselor.
1989 - 1992 | California, USA: Chiropractic, dental, and oral surgical offices and health clubs. Accounts payable and receivable, accounting, appointments, billing, bookkeeping, general client care, hiring, inventory, office management, ordering, payroll, phones, reception, sales, scheduling, and training.
Qualifications
Years in practice: 28 years
School: Pacific Oaks College
Year graduated: 2004
License number and state: 53225 California
Specialties
Addiction, dual diagnosis, domestic violence.
Issues
ADHD, adoption, alcohol abuse, Alzheimer's, anger management, anxiety, behavioral issues, bipolar disorder, borderline personality, career counseling, child or adolescent, chronic relapse, codependency, coping skills, depression, developmental disorders, divorce, domestic abuse, drug abuse, eating disorders, emotional disturbance, family conflict, gambling, grief, hoarding, infidelity, internet addiction, life coaching, life transitions, loss/life transitions/dementia, marital and premarital, men's issues, obsessive-compulsive (OCD), oppositional defiance, parenting, relationship issues, self-esteem, self-harming, sexual abuse, sexual addiction, sleep or insomnia, spirituality, stress, substance abuse, suicidal ideation, transgender, trauma and PTSD, video game addiction, and women's issues.
Mental Health
Dissociative disorder, elderly person disorders, impulse control disorders, mood disorders, personality disorders, thinking disorders.
Sexuality
Bisexual, gay, lesbian.
Client Focus
Ethnicity: African-American, Hispanic and Latino
Religious orientation: Christian
Age
Toddlers/preschoolers (0 to 6), children (6 to 10), preteens/tweens (11 to 13), adolescents/teenagers (14 to 19), adults, and elders (65+).
Categories
Aviation professionals, bisexual clients, cancer, gay clients, HIV/AIDS clients, heterosexual clients, lesbian clients, transgender clients, and veterans, etc.
Treatment Approach
Treatment Orientation
Attachment-based, attachment-based family therapy, cognitive behavioral (CBT), cognitive behavioral therapy/REBT, culturally sensitive, eclectic, existential, existential psychotherapy, experimental therapy, family/marital, family systems, family systems therapy, humanistic, humanistic psychology, internal family systems, internal family systems (IFS), interpersonal, interpersonal psychotherapy, intervention, Jungian, Jungian psychotherapy, mindfulness-based (MBCT), mindfulness-based cognitive therapy, multicultural, narrative, narrative therapy, person-centered, person-centered/Rogerian, play therapy, psychoanalysis/modern psychoanalysis, psychoanalytic, psychodynamic, rational emotive behavior therapy (REBT), reality therapy, relational, relational therapy, relational psychotherapy, sand play, sand tray/sand play therapy, satire, solution focused brief (SFBT), solution focused therapy, strength based, structural family therapy, trauma-focused, and trauma-focused cognitive behavioral therapy.
Modality: Individuals, couples, and family.
