Marriage & Family Therapist
I am a licensed Marriage and Family Therapist in full-time private practice. My experience includes:
Marital and relationship conflicts including intercultural/interracial marriages.
Issues relating to domestic violence.
Grief and loss issues for children, adults and families.
Sexual Assault for teens and adults.
Anxiety and depression.
Attachment issues for adopted and foster children.
Immigrant families who are struggling with acculturation.
Teen depression and anixety
Parenting issues.
EMDR - Help Post Traumatic Stress Disorder victims with reprocessing traumatic memories.
Trained in the Second Model of Gottman Institute for couples counseling
Certified Sex Therapist. Accepting individuals and couples with sexual problmes
Spanish and Arabic speaking clients are welcome.
Who I Am
Nahed Sammani Stefany, LMFT
Masters of Science- Marriage and Family Therapy.
License # MFC47679
A resident of California for the past 20 years, I was born and raised in the Middle East. I obtained my masters degree with honors in Marriage and Family Therapy from California State University, Northridge.
I taught at California Lutheran University for 9 years. I am now focused on speaking publicly about issues related to domestic violence, sexual dysfunction and its effect on marital issues and many other issues that are related to mental health.
I have worked with victims and perpetrators of sexual assault and domestic violence. I have provided grief counseling for children, adolescence and adults and am also available to help adopted children and their adoptive parents with attachment issues. I specialize in intercultural marriages and am dedicated to help the Middle Eastern community with the conflict they face with acculturation issues and teen cultural conflicts between their parent's culture and growing up in the United States.
Because I am an immigrant myself, I am passionate about working with immigrant families and their children.
I am fluent in English, Arabic and Spanish.