About Us
Our Vision
A world where resilience, empathy, authenticity, and love guide every connection – where wounds are met with understanding, challenges become opportunities, and healing flows from the smallest self to the broadest community and planet.
Our Mission
To walk alongside individuals, couples, families, and communities in their journey toward lifelong wellbeing, healing, and fulfilling relationships – meeting each person where they are, honoring their story, and uncovering the solutions that already live within them.
Our Values
Resilience
We adapt, recover, and grow through challenges, turning obstacles into opportunities for strength. We believe in the power of working together with our clients and their support systems to create personalized and effective treatment plans.
Empathy
We listen with compassion, seeking to truly understand and honor each person’s experiences. We honor the unique background of each individual client and foster an environment where all feel valued, respected, and included.
Authenticity
We commit to honesty, integrity, and transparency, staying true to our values and ourselves, and help you do the same. We maintain the highest ethical standards, ensuring confidentiality and building trust in every counseling relationship. We commit to the highest standards of professional practice and continuous learning to effectively support each client’s journey.
Love
We approach every interaction with kindness, care, and a genuine commitment to wellbeing.
Our Team
Lori Anne Steinhauer
President, Clinical Supervisor, Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist
LMFT 40023
Do you have relationships you want to strengthen and/or mend? Do you have life dreams to achieve? Do you have thoughts, feelings, behaviors, memories, and/or past traumas with which you struggle and could use some support navigating? My lifelong interest is helping individuals, couples, and families thrive at every stage of their lifespan, and across generations.
Our therapeutic practice is REAL Therapy. My commitment to you is to provide you with Real Therapy – delivered with Resilience, Empathy, Authenticity, and Love. My gratitude is for the opportunity to help you cultivate those values in your life if you would like. Those are the most foundational values, as I see it, to help work through challenges and to empower your journey to lifelong well-being and fulfilling relationships.
Our communication style is open, caring, and collaborative, and my therapeutic style is focused on helping you achieve the results you want. And if you aren't sure what those are, we will work together so you can achieve clarity for your goals and your path to achieving them.
Rene Nicole Mendoza
Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist
LMFT 156493
Hello, my name is Rene Mendoza. I use an integrative approach to treatment that incorporates my clients’ spiritual practices alongside psychoeducation and integration of coping skills. I work collaboratively alongside you to ensure that your treatment aligns with your perspective on life.
Therapeutic perspective:
My therapeutic perspective includes mindfulness work, strength-based practices, expressive work, depth psychotherapy, and healing through working with dreams as a window into the psyche. I believe that ritual and symbolism work together to deepen the healing process.
Who I treat:
I have worked with individuals, couples, families, children, and veterans. I have experience helping people work through relationship issues, trauma, grief, anxiety, major life transitions, self-esteem, coping skills, and sexual identity. I work with both monogamous and ENM relationships as well as the LGBTQIA community.
Philosophy on Trauma:
Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder is a soul wound. I feel that therapy is both an art and a science, and that it takes both evidence-based practices and deep soul work to process trauma. I am passionate about psychological and spiritual exploration and believe we are all impacted by our environments and the wounds we carry with us.
Leticia Isabel Rodriguez
Associate Professional Clinical Counselor
APCC 9017, Supervised by Lori Anne Steinhauer, LMFT 40023
I am passionate about working with individuals, couples and families overcoming challenges related to depression, anxiety and communication.
As a Veteran and a seasoned professional, I bring a unique blend of life experiences and expertise to my work with individuals, couples and families. Having personally navigated through major life transitions, I offer empathy and understanding to those going through similar challenges.
My journey from soldier to mother, executive leader to retiree, earning a second career, and empty nester, has provided me with valuable insight into the complexities of life transitions and how to overcome them.
Over the past six years, I have worked with neurodivergent youth, adolescents, and teens on issues with social skills, emotional regulation, black and white thinking and rigidity, some interventions utilized have been restructuring to challenge all-or-nothing thinking, introducing gray-area activities, practicing perspective talking, and reinforcing flexibility with role play.
