Marriage and Family
Licensed Psychotherapy
Couples, individuals, families, and workshops.
Therapy Specialties & Services
Each of us is the sum of our experiences in life. The secret is discovering how those experiences interrelate. I offer professional counseling in the areas described below.
Codependency & Love Addiction
Counseling
Both Love addiction and Codependency is also known as relationship addiction. Trying to get identity and self worth from a person. This could also include to a child or adult child, friendship, coworkers,sibling and not necessary only in romantic relationships.
Love & Relationship Counseling
Healthy relationships require more than communication skills. They require an understanding of the deeper emotional patterns that shape how we attach, protect ourselves, and respond to conflict. Many of the struggles couples face are rooted in attachment patterns developed early in life.
Parenting & Family Counseling
Dysfunctional caregivers do not respond appropriately to children’s five natural attributes of value, vulnerability, imperfection, dependency, and immaturity. Instead these caregivers either ignore or attack children for the very essence of who they are, creating an intense experience of shame in the children.
About Robyn
Robyn's Professional Development
San Diego Psychotherapist Robyn Firtel is a Licensed Marriage and Family therapist and is also a certified Parenting Expert. Robyn continued her education being trained by world renowned codependency pioneer Pia Mellody. She specializes in Post Induction Therapy, which treats codependency, addiction, trauma, and relationships. She is specialized in helping clients heal from generational trauma, mindsets, and unhealthy patterns and cycles of Love Addiction and Love Avoidance. She has worked extensively with family generations including weekend intensives and workshops.
She has also worked in the prison system with inmates as a Correctional
Marriage and Family Therapist.