Anger Management & Domestic Violence Groups Class in Los Angeles.

       I have 22 years as an anger management and domestic violence group therapist experience and doing marriage therapy & couples treatment. Trained by the creators of PREP® representing the PREP™ method in Time Mazine and personally familiar with the alcohol recovery work of Bill Wilson for 27 years.  I work with Alyce LaViolette, MFT and her agency, Alternatives To Violence, based in Long Beach co-facilitating the West Los Angeles domestic violence court approved group on Thursday nights.

EMDR & PTSD Treatment in Los Angeles

     For nightmares, intrusive thoughts & images from humiliating, sexual or violent past experiences. Psychotherapy, couples or family and marriage therapy, stress, anger & violence therapy in Los Angeles. Memories can be desensitized so they no longer make you feel bad, scared or ashamed. Addictions and obsessive compulsive behaviors.

     I was trained in 1991 by Francine Shapiro Ph.D. in using EMDR (Eye Movement Desensitization & Reprocessing) for the treatment of PTSD (posttraumatic stess disorder) stress symptoms such as insomnia, bad dreams, intrusive unwanted thoughts, hypervigilance, thinking all the time about your life, nightmares intimacy problems and being irritable. This therapy helps eliminate bad thoughts, images, feelings or behaviors.

     Absolutely confidential therapy and treatment for any types of bad thoughts, fantasies or imagery. If you want to stop being so affected by those images, nightmares or intrusive bad memories, EMDR is a brief and effective treatment.

      Stop feeling so bad when you can't stop remembering: Violent acts...as victim or perpetrator... sexual incidents... humiliating experiences...near death accidents ...physical trauma & violence, losses, grief, experiences you regret or are ashamed of.

Examples: Memories from Viet Nam or other wars, rape victim, sexual molestation or incest, pet or animal abuse, bad memories from school or childhood, victim of childhood teasing, shame as a result of your behavior, excessive thoughts or feelings about abandonment, spiritual estrangement, can't get over lost love relationship or just plain feeling bad when you think of certain memories. Emdr often works when other treatments fail to desensitize the bad feelings, thoughts and images.

Work or business related consultation services can be viewed HERE.

Victims or perpetrators of violence who want to stop thinking of what happened and MOVE ON can start now by calling
310 444-1951.

Private Individual & Couples Therapy
In West Los Angeles

     I have 20years post graduate experience as a therapist treating a variety of clients for anxiety, stress, panic, depression, suicidal thoughts and addictions. Learn to control angry outbursts. Or learn to handle yourself when others get angry in a hostile way.  

Forensic Psychological Expert Witness for victims of violence in Los Angeles INS courts. I am a psychological expert witness for Federal Immigration Court forensic psychological reports for immigrants seeking asylum due to torture, domestic violence, discrimination based on sexual orientation or gender and/or hardship waivers of deportation. I was a consultant for the Program For Torture Victims, Los Angeles for several years and remain a consultant with the agency.

     My background makes his seminars relevent to everyday couple's problems of communicating better. Besides training and experience in doing my 'Coming Together For Life' couples workshops, I provide effective and practical communication skills & psychotherapy privately for clients in Los Angeles.

      Phone Coaching Of Relationships In Conflict

        Your particular relationship problem may be a simple matter of some brief instruction, or brief summary of agreements to make with your partner.  Half hour and one hour phone consultations are available with Marc Sadoff, MSW, BCD.   The session will be scheduled for the first available time available.  You should be speaking with Marc within 24 hours.

Drug & Alcohol Family & Work Interventions

       To get someone you care about to seek treatment. I also conduct alcohol/drug and behavioral family interventions or work related interventions. These are loving but firm interventions for behaviors that range from alcoholic or drug addicted husbands, wives, employess and children to other behaviors such as gambling, non compliance with medical instructions or work related control problems. I use the methods of my friend Ed Storti. HIs principles of preparation and attention to details are inspiring. And, the attitude of being a last chance cheerleading session for getting someone to get into treatment for their problem is effective. Remember the real work is done in getting the people doing the intervention to get into the proper attitude about confronting the person with the problem. That's why I'll spend 4-6 hours with the family or supervisors before we meet with the person.

I also do some consultation for the Program for Torture Victims in Los Angeles (if interested go here) where we do psychological evaluations for refugees seeking asylum in the U.S. based on having developed Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) as a result of being tortured for political reasons in their country of origin. I have developed a specialty in forensic psychological evaluations of PTSD and depression, which occurs often in battered women and survivors of childhood abuse as well.  I've conducted about 16 psychological expert witness reports for VAWA (Violence Against Women Act) cases of immigrants seeking asylum.  Two of those cases were for men.

Extensive academic, professional and personal experience has gone into developing and testing my methods and techniques of both training and psychotherapy.

I do not sit calmly, nodding my head saying "Uh-huh, tell me more... Sorry, time's up." Especially with couples! I will be directive. You will know who I am. You will know what I think.

If I think that a man or woman has contempt,aggression or hostility while speaking with their partner, it quickly gets explained as unacceptable and becomes the focus in that session. Contempt, aggression, blame and hostility stops communication and it is poison to repairing the relationship.  I've developed methods and techniques for moving through these things in a compassionate yet firm style.

I will tell you exactly how I think I can help you find relief; and I'll tell you when I don't know.