Your Mental Health is in Our Safe Hands Now

Welcome to Irvine Family Counseling!

We are a leading group clinicians who know how to respond to,
and genuinely care for, the delicate needs of those struggling with a variety of mental health issues.

Mental illness can hinder our ability to be independent. By handing yourself over to us, we will personally see you through to a capable, confident, and empowered life.

We build independence

The untrained mind can lead us down many dark or anxious paths. We know the cry for help when those places are reached and can provide you with the necessary skills and resources to get out. 

We Grow Minds

Emotions can be complicated. Whether they consume, confuse, overwhelm or other, our methods of interpretation help you respond effectively and feel more in control of your everyday choices.

We Support Hearts

Which symptoms are mental? Which are spiritual? To avoid spiritualizing what is mental and pathologizing what is spiritual, we help you discern the nature of issues in order to give them their appropriate attention.

We Foster Spirits

Our Mission

To change the world one person at a time by improving the mental health of those who come to us. With each therapy appointment, we build towards a world where mental health stops no individual, couple or family from reaching their greatest potential.

When Did We Open our Practice?

Irvine Family Counseling was started in 2017 and has been growing ever since. Truly a lifetime in the making, Irvine Family Counseling is the product, and the epitome, of a great labor of love underneath extensive educational pursuits extending back 10 years.

From one office to multiple, located in the same location where we began, we conduct an average of 500 additional appointments a year.

We attribute our growth to a variety of factors:

  • The immediate support and practical feedback we give.

  • Our reputation, which we work hard to earn through word-of-mouth referrals.

  • Our trustworthiness, demonstrated through our embodiment of Catholic/ Christian ideals

  • Our ability to listen to our clients on multiple levels, both to what is said and not said.

  • Our flexibility with busy schedules, and our comfortably furnished, accessible offices (that helps!)

“We began with a vision to create a world where individuals conquer their mental health, couples form unbreakable bonds, and families live peacefully together.”

- Monica M. Huston

Why Did we Open our Practice?

  • 1 in 5 U.S. adults experience mental illness each year

  • 1 in 20 U.S. adults experience serious mental illness each year

  • 1 in 6 U.S. youth aged 6-17 experience a mental health disorder each year

  • 50% of all lifetime mental illness begins by age 14, and 75% by age 24

  • Suicide is the 2nd leading cause of death among people aged 10-14

We care about the millions of people in the U.S. who are affected by mental illness each year:

“We want to create change now for future generations to come.”

- Olivia R. Carr

How Can We Help You?

  • Our clinicians are trained to ask the right questions regarding the development mental health symptoms, and know how to work towards their resolution.

  • Our clinicians know how to build secure attachment relationships with individuals that appropriately manage the emotional and logistical aspects of the therapeutic relationship.

  • Our clinicians commit themselves to regular self-analysis and live the “examined life” in order to be shaped into instruments for the healing of others.

Driven to make a difference, we research the strongest solutions and bring them to you through our process of individual, couples and family therapy. Through the art of our therapeutic techniques, our services will allow scientific theory to meet your individual circumstances and bring relief.

“We are effective healers primarily because we heal ourselves first, and healed people heal others.”

- Monica M. Huston

Our Ethical Commitment to You

We take great care to ensure our actions are ethical and legal at all times, such that the Ethic Committees (AAMFT/ CAMFT), the Board of Behavioral Sciences (BBS), and other therapists acting in our shoes would approve.

Our relationship will benefit you

We remain in our therapeutic relationship as long as it is reasonably clear that you are benefiting from our relationship.

We respect your autonomy

We respect your choices and work jointly with you to develop and review treatment plans that are consistent with your goals.

We defend you

When appropriate we advocate for your mental health care and will challenge denials of care, or denials of payment for your care, by insurers.

We don’t take advantage of your finances

We offer flat rates regardless of socioeconomic status and may offer financial accommodations based on need.

We do not further our own interests

Our professional relationship with you is not an opportunity to exert our own influence. We monitor our effectiveness and take steps to improve when necessary.

We do not abandon you

We terminate with you using sound clinical judgment and in an appropriate manner by assisting you with making reasonable arrangements for your continued treatment.

We keep our therapy private

Your personal experiences do not belong to us. If we have to share your experiences with a third party, we will inform you of the extent and limits of what is shared.

We consult and refer when necessary

Using non-identifying information to protect our client’s privacy, we do this to improve our skills when it will benefit our work with our clients.

We stay in our lane of competence

We do not assess, test, or diagnose, treat, or advise on problems beyond the level of my competence as determined by our education, training, and experience.

We document responsibly

We record significant and appropriate information and respect your right to access your treatment records

We take our therapy hat off sometimes

Sometimes we disclose personal information honestly and in ways that you can best understand which are not for reasons of our personal interest or gain.

We stay current with the research

We stay abreast of changes within the field, maintain relevant standards of scholarship, and present accurate information.