Licensed Marriage & Family Therapist
I am Romulus, a California Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist, with doctoral studies in the field.
Since, so far, I have no associates, on this platform, all I can offer is myself. I am Panim. My area of expertise covers pretty much everything that can fit under the umbrella of counseling. While kids seem very comfortable with me, I prefer to work with teenagers, young adults, fully adults and seniors.
I feel at home with any and all psychological and psychiatric diagnoses listed in DSM V, whether they involve medication treatment or not. I am familiar with any and all therapeutic theories, modalities and approaches, not only at the level of applying them, but up to the level of teaching them to graduate students in training.
I am confident to work with individuals of any cultural background, religious preference and/or sexual orientation, with non-marital, pre-marital, marital or post-marital couples and/or with any kind of family system, be it traditional or non-conventional. Because I am keenly aware of the difficult process of crossing cultural or religious barriers, through marriage, migration, or both, I am especially sensitive to first- or second-generation immigrant families and mixed-religions families.
For all of the above categories of counseling services, I usually reserve the once a week or twice a month hourly session. Due to the still uncertain evolution of the Covid-19 pandemic, for now, all my sessions are tele-therapy sessions. Once we establish the first contact, you will have my cell phone number and we will keep in touch by text messages.
However, when a particular individual or a certain type of relationship goes through an acute crisis, I am willing to work in blocks of two-, three-, even four-hour sessions, in order to de-escalate the tension, reach a safe ground of mutual agreement and re-establish a decent level of functionality, maybe, even a sense of normalcy. As expected, this kind of intervention is usually happening, by special arrangement, sometime, during the weekend.
I hope you got the gist of it. Over all, I care about you and your relationships, and I choose to adapt my schedule and my tool box to your needs.