About Carole Roth M.A. LMFT
Thank you for visiting my website. Whether you have been in therapy before or this is your first time, I relate to everyone with care and respect, a genuine openness to learning who you are, what your life experience has been and what your needs are at this time. I work with adults, ages 18 and older and have been in licensed private practice since 1994.
I listen carefully, ask questions to clarify my understanding and am always open to hearing your thoughts, feelings and perspective. While some therapies take a longer time, some require only a few sessions to experience emotional relief, clarity of mind and a restored sense of direction.
Many of the people I work with have been referred to me by their physicians for treatment of anxiety, depression or for help dealing with challenging life transitions. While I am an experienced individual and couples therapist and do much of my work within traditional clinical parameters, I am also trained as a transpersonal (east/west spiritually oriented) psychotherapist and some choose to work with me for that reason.
Transpersonal psychology considers all levels of the human experience including such subtle matters as consciousness, mindfulness, east/west religious and non-religious spirituality, ego transcendence and the positive direction of the life force energy also known as prana or chi/qi. It accepts intuition, synchronicity and wise inner guidance as valuable sources of information, inspiration and perception. Transpersonal therapy includes elements ranging from the clinical and psychological to the spiritual and mystical. It is linear and abstract, rational and intuitive, ancient and modern, worldly and otherworldly, personal and universal.
I received my M.A. in Counseling Psychology in 1990 from Ryokan College in Los Angeles, one of the few graduate schools at that time that believed in training therapists to consider spiritual growth as a positive, powerful and transformational aspect of human development. Today many colleges and universities offer degrees in transpersonal psychology and spirituality has become a fully integrated concept in western mental health. All of the Twelve Step addiction recovery programs have spirituality at the core of their philosophy and they are the treatment of choice at most hospitals and outpatient rehab facilities.
I am grateful for the education, training and support that I received from my therapist instructors and, most especially, from my internship supervisor and mentor at Glendale Family Counseling and Descanso Counseling, Edward Spangler M.A. LMFT. They saw strengths in me that I could not see in myself and planted seeds which were to blossom later.
After 25 years of private practice in the Burbank Media District, I became affiliated with respected naturopathic physicians Dr. David Richard ND LAc and Dr. Stacey Meisel ND at Integrative Natural Health, serving a culturally diverse population from Claremont, Pomona, La Verne, San Dimas, Glendora, Montclair, Upland, Ontario, Chino, Alta Loma, Rancho Cucamonga and the greater Inland Empire. I feel very privileged to work with these two experienced, committed and compassionate physicians who provide their patients with the best in integrative natural health care.
At this point in human development, traditional and integrative medicine, counseling psychology and spirituality are joining hands. The ancient mystic sciences of yoga and meditation are being taught for stress management and many forms of energy medicine have become mainstream. We have come a long way in a short time and I don't believe this is an accident.
Now more than ever, we are aware of our interconnectedness. Our responsibility to each other is urgent and it is no secret that our world is desperately in need of kindness, humility and accountability. It is a blessing of our time that these diverse multidimensional elements can work together to facilitate healing, not just for ourselves but for each other and the world.
Peace and blessings to all
Carole Roth M.A. LMFT