Diana Muncy MA, LMFT
Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist 117350
Adults, Couples Therapist
Insight Wellness Institute Founder and Clinical Psychotherapist
Anxiety
Depression
Mood Disorders
Anger Management
Relationship Issues
Post Traumatic Stress
Depression and Anxiety
EMDR for trauma
Panic Attacks and Phobias
Sexual and Relationship Problems
Military Family Stressors (including deployments)
Stress Management
Adolescent Behavior Issues
Childhood Sexual Abuse
PTSD (Post Traumatic Stress Disorder)
Parenting, Co/Parenting and Family Issues
Grief and Loss
Pre-Marital Counseling
Couples contemplating Divorce
Relationship Infidelity
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I currently only accept cash paying clients and a limited number of underserved clients utilizing MediCaid insurances such as Medi-Cal-Partnership Health Care Plans. Most Credit Cards welcome. We also bill all other insurance providers as out-of-network provider. We can provide you with a superbill for out of network provider services. Check with your insurance carrier to make sure you will be reimbursed for out of network services. Our base rate is $255 per session. We offer a sliding scale to a limited number of patients.
Cancellation Policy
It’s important to remember that when you schedule, we reserve not just the full hour for your session but additional time for clinical notes, invoicing, and time spent managing claims. To minimize the time and financial impacts of clients who have a tendency to cancel, we enforce a late cancellation/no-show policy. Clients can cancel or reschedule provided that 24-hours notice is given. If clients cancel after that time or don’t show, they will be charged the full fee for their scheduled session. Please remember this policy is not a punishment. We understand that life happens. To mitigate charges unrelated to completed counseling sessions, we offer a courtesy appointment reminders via text message, voice message and email.
Get to Know Me: Why I Might Be the Right Therapist for You
“Welcome! I’m glad you stopped by. My name is Diana and I’m here to help. My goal as a therapist is to provide a safe and compassionate place where counseling clients from all over Northern California get encouragement and support as they navigate through the challenges of life. No matter what you’re going through, whether depression, anxiety, or PTSD, there is hope. Please contact me to set up a session today!”
I believe we create symbolic (albeit maladaptive) behaviors and false beliefs that help to make us feel better and keep away the excessive emotional, spiritual, mental and physical pain. When one of these domains is out of balance chaos, inflammation, negative thoughts, intrusive views, opinions, and theories arise from the discord.
I believe this response to unfulfilled need early in life is often an automatic, unconscious, self-protective and intelligent survival strategy. It is essential for survival and is a normal human reaction to stressful and/or traumatic environments. This mechanism is active and automatic even in the womb as an evolutionary adaptation. This is a primal, instinctual need for survival.
It is a way our developing system protects itself from the trauma of being uncared for, unloved, or unwanted and from feeling these unconscious, uncomfortable, unacceptable and/or frightening feelings.
Thus unfulfilled needs before we were born, when we were babies and when we were growing up are at the core of most of our adult dysfunction and pain.
It is these “symbolic behaviors and false beliefs” that act as defenses against excessive pain. This process is self-perpetuating, as the relief achieved from the symbolic compensation cannot fulfill real unmet needs. There is always deep inside us some feeling or sensation of emptiness, un-fulfillment or meaninglessness. What must be acknowledged is that most of the force of adult dysfunction is unconscious, below our level of awareness and it seems, outside our control.
However, allowing ourselves to feel our pain can begin to bring what is in the unconscious into our conscious awareness. As adults, often this early pain is still within our systems and we work hard at least on some level to avoid feeling that pain. As mentioned we avoid our pain by symbolic behaviors that actively repress and suppress awareness of upsetting thoughts and memories or by numbing our feelings with drugs, alcohol and process addictions, or by separating ourselves from our emotional experience by dissociating. For some people, this works just fine and they are able to get through their life. Whilst for others holding down painful feelings from the past is much more difficult and they may find it hard to cope and function.
I am trained in numerous psychotherapy treatment modalities including Eye Movement Desensitization Reprocessing (EMDR), CBT, DBT, Somatic Therapies, Trauma-Informed therapies, Contemplative therapies, and Mindfulness to name a few. It is my belief that the type of therapy used by an individual therapist matters only in part. What really works is the therapeutic relationship that we build as we navigate your complex life concerns and not creating a one size fits all treatment approach.
“Tears are the way the body rids itself of false beliefs.”~Diana (Yep that’s me)