Gayle Bondy, M.FT, CEAP

Marriage and Family Therapist

Lic No. 38360

Certified Employee Assistant Professional (CEAP)

Balanced Living Counseling Center

***** ** **** ** ***** 106

Lake Forest CA 92630

Phone: cell: 949-***-**** or answering service: (none yet)

E-mail: abpdke@r.postjobfree.com

FAX: temp: 949-***-****

Specializing in adult/couple/family/youth:

Solution-focused brief therapy for individuals, couples, families, teens,

youth. Identify goals, barriers and enact solutions.

More intensive cognitive behavioral therapy or DBT training for some

adult and youth victims of severe childhood or adult trauma.

Expertise in: Adult/Couples/Family/Teen/Child: anger management, trauma (PTSD),

sexual abuse, self mutilation, anxiety, panic, depression & other mood disorders, grief,

domestic violence, emotional and physical abuse, sexual identity & relationship issues,

blended family issues, children with a parent who abuses substances, divorce and

custody, elderly and aging. Spiritual issues at request of client.

Experience: Feb 1, 2008 Opened permanent office at 23591 El Toro Rd. Ste 106,

Lake Forest, CA 92630

Counsel individuals, couples, families, teens, and children, bringing

25 years experience working with the most challenging individual

and family situations. My background of working with

traumatized youth who are suicidal, angry, fire setting, drug

abusing, self mutilating, often gang involved and removed from

parents, provided a long term view of successful and

unsuccessful teen treatment modalities. Also developed

successful techniques for working with the parents, most of

whom abused substances and had abusive childhoods. The

experience of helping deeply troubled families reunify provided

the foundation for successful family therapy as I transitioned in

2003 to private practice where I continue to treat troubled

teens as well as adults and younger children.

Ten years running a group of 20 30 convicted sex offenders, on

parole or probation, mandated to participate, provided the

opportunity to utilize treatment plans with outcome studies.

Each participant was tracked, and most were interviewed for the

ways therapy helped them treat their anger, improve adult

relationships, be less controlling, etc. The feedback helped

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evolve the best treatment approaches for people with anger,

control needs, poor self image, and a propensity for violence.

Currently specialize in adult anxiety, depression, anger,

victimization, past childhood trauma which impedes present

functioning in relationships. Utilize the Midwest Center for

Anxiety and Depression format for panic and severe anxiety.

September 5, 2007 to Feb 1, 2008 had temp office at 23276 South Pointe Dr.

Ste 209, Laguna Hills, Ca 92653

July 2003 to Sept 2007: Private practice, Balanced Living Counseling,

1101 Standiford Ste B2, Modesto, CA

September 1984 October 2004: 20 years as Social Worker Supervisor

with Stanislaus County Child Protective Services.

Supervised Emergency Response Investigations and Family

Reunification for 18 years.

Expert in juvenile court law, abuse investigations and

techniques to aid successful reunification of families.

Wrote 300 page legal training manual for family reunification and

provided 20 hours of training in the use of the manual to each

new social worker from 1995 until 2005.

Received 8 to 16 hours annual training in illegal substance

identification, assessment, case planning, and treatment.

Received 20 hours annual training on brain development in

neglected and abused children.

Received 8 to 16 annual hours training in parenting abused and

neglected children and assisting families who are reunifying.

Annual 8 hours training in cultural issues affecting treatment.

Sat on steering committees and planning committees for Healthy

Start (school based), Family To Family, Family Decision Meetings,

and California Child Welfare Redesign.

Trained in restoring family function in homes where domestic

violence and abuse have been substantiated.

2003 to 2005: Helped develop and supervised a pioneer program

called Family To Family and Family Decision Meetings. This unit

of social workers arranged large group meetings which included

extended family members, clergy, law enforcement, counselors

and teachers at the table with the abusive parents and victim

children. Following a specific format, safety plans were made for

children in the home; removal and placement decisions were made

for children unsafe in their homes.

March 1993 to May 2002: EAP Counselor, Memorial Hospital

Association, Modesto, California. Averaged 6 to 9 weekly evening hours

directly counseling individuals, couples, children and families.

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Brief managed care therapy for employee families of 30 local

businesses. Expertise in relationship counseling, anger management,

children s issues, working with families in divorce situations; coaching

adults and children in the counseling setting to achieving new goals

and develop or restore healthy relationships. Substance abuse

assessments and referral. Responded to crises at member

businesses as part of the EAP crisis response team. Assisted

corporate management with employee anxiety when Proctor and

Gamble closed, held groups for employees when Mercy Hospital in

Merced changed management, etc. Extensive experience and training

in treating victims and perpetrators of molest, anger management,

domestic violence.

September 1991 to December 2001. 1 year facilitating a group of

Adults Molested as Children (AMACs) and 9 years facilitating an

Offenders 1 group for convicted perpetrators of molest and other sex

crimes. Loaned to Parents United, a contract agency under the

Stanislaus County Department of Mental Health, as part of the agency s

commitment to partner resources with other county agencies.

Facilitated two hour group of 15 to 30 sex offenders each Monday

night, mostly men required to attend and participate for the duration

of their probation or parole.

The treatment focus: principally cognitive behavioral, including

understanding how the offender s own childhood abuse and

victimization affected adult choices, taking full responsibility for

molesting, identifying and managing anger responses, identifying

feelings that precede behavior, creating new behavioral and cognitive

patterns, developing victim empathy. Fewer than 2% of offenders

who complete the Parents United treatment program in Stanislaus

County remolest. Sex offenders are often perpetrators of domestic

violence and other violent crimes. These issues are part of the group

treatment.

Professional Association Memberships:

CAMFT (California Association of Marriage and Family Therapists,

State and local membership)

AAMFT (American Association of Marriage and Family Therapists)

EAPA (Employee Assistance Professionals Association, Inc)

Education:

M.S. Degree Psychology, CSU Stanislaus May 1992, with

distinction.

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