Village Counseling Center

Arroyo Grande San Luis Obispo Santa Maria

We at Village Counseling Center are convinced that therapy need not take years to be effective. On the contrary, positive personal change can occur quickly. It just takes courage, some insight and a few new strategies.

Our specialty at VCC is Solution-Focused Brief Therapy, which centers on helping clients clarify their goals, understand and work through roadblocks, and finally break down challenges into incremental tasks. Whether it takes a few weeks or a few months, our clients often discover they actually possessed the resources to solve their problems, they just needed help viewing them from a different perspective. That’s where we come in.

Village Counseling Center offers a network of experienced therapy professionals throughout the California Central Coast, headed by director Clay Watkins, LMFT. We offer a range of therapeutic services for teens, families, couples and individual adults, as well as personal coaching and group training for professionals and businesses. We accept all forms of insurance, and also offer reasonable rates for those without insurance.

Other cities served in the five-cities, north and south SLO county and northern Santa Barbara County include: Pismo Beach, Shell Beach, Grover Beach, Nipomo, Oceano, Los Osos, Lompoc, Vandenberg AFB, Morro Bay, Cambria, Cayucos, Atascadero, Templeton, Rancho Santa Margarita and Paso Robles.

Several kinds of therapy are available in a variety of therapeutic contexts: individual, marital, premarital, family, couples, group, teens, Christian, children, men, blended families, college, EMDR, PTSD, online therapy, solution-focused brief, narrative, LMFT, MFT, MFCC, LCSW, sliding scale, Cal Poly, pre-marital, families, sex, sexual abuse, foster, stepfamilies, violence, anger management, goals, kids, child, teenagers, adolescents, premarital, separation, communication, licensure, hyperactivity, ADD, ADHD, sexual abuse, physical abuse, anxiety, panic attacks, depressed, depression, emotion, habit, change, perfectionism, treatment, skills, survivor, outpatient, recovery, addiction, alcoholism, phobias, prevention, affairs, infidelity, commitment, disorder, parenting training, mental health, dating, engagement, pre-engagement, posttraumatic, post-traumatic, stress, divorce, marital problems, crisis, conflict resolution, relationship, relationships, divorce prevention, trauma, stress, mental illness, remarriage, intimacy, women, eye movement desensitization and reprocessing, on-line therapy.