Pacific Beach Counseling
Pacific Beach Counseling
Promoting Personal & Professional Development

Our Practice

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We don’t see things the way they are,
we see things the way we are.
 
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Stephanie Nigh, licensed Marriage, Family, Child Therapist has been in full time private practice since 1985. She works from a developmental, depth perspective with high functioning individuals seeking growth in their personal and professional lives. Stephanie's areas of specialty include leadership development, personal empowerment, relationship and intimacy issues, dream work, grief recovery, sexual self esteem, and addressing chronic stress conditions from childhood. Stephanie collaborates with clients in developing the treatment plan best suited to their unique issues and goals. Integrating new patterns for growth is facilitated through her relational approach.

Stephanie also offers psychodynamic psychotherapy groups for therapists, clergy and business professionals. She provides clinical consultation and training for therapists and organizational consultation for business professionals. Stephanie is a graduate of San Diego Psychoanalytic Center's Advanced Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy Program and is a psychotherapy faculty for SDPC’s Psychoanalytic Studies Program.

 

David Hendrick, licensed Marriage, Family, Child Therapist has been in full time private practice since 1985. In addition to treating clients, David has trained and supervised both intern and licensed therapists. David works from a developmental depth perspective with adult individuals seeking continued growth and development in their personal and professional lives. David’s specialties include leadership development, men's intimacy issues, professional athletes, relationship health for high achievers, professional transition and assessment for substance abuse and sexual compulsivity.

David also provides a structured grief recovery process, individualized to target specific as well as cumulative life losses.  His work with high achieving professionals is geared toward building resilience patterns focused on maintaining balance and fulfillment in work and relationships. David provides consultation and conflict resolution for organizations and business leaders.

Both Stephanie and David offer a short term, dynamic Professional Transition Debriefing program for working through unresolved experiences in one position before moving to the next.