Stanford Home's Counseling Center provides individual, couples, family, and group therapy to existing Stanford Home clients, as well as the public.
Did You Know?
- The Stanford Home Counseling Center provides individual, couples, family and group therapy services driven by the strengths and needs of clients and their families. We combine creative therapeutic techniques, parenting education and evidenced based practices to help clients overcome challenges.
- For clients unable to pay our full fee, we offer a sliding scale fee depending on each family's ability to pay.
- The Stanford Home Counseling Center recognizes the immediacy of crisis situations and will schedule those appointments within 24 hours of the request.
- At the Stanford Home Counseling Center, our therapists recognize clients and their families as knowing themselves better than anyone and will make home visits as necessary.
- Stanford Home has been serving Sacramento families for more than a century and our Counseling Center therapists have extensive experience working with clients with severe and complex needs.
Our Philosophy
The Stanford Home Counseling Center helps adults, adolescents and children build on their individual strenghths to overcome challenges that impact family relationships.We know that when faced with unexpected trauma, life changing events or even daily stressors, extra support may be needed. During these times, the Counseling Center is here to help.
For every client the connection with family is vital. Clients and their families are recognized as knowing themselves better than anyone. Input and participation from family members is encouraged. Families can take on many forms and are big, small, extended, nuclear, blended, multi-generational, with one parent, two parents, grandparents, and/or supportive community members.Our Services
Individualized... Our therapists approach each individual and their unique situation with the clinical approach to match the needs of that client.Innovative... We combine creative therapeutic techniques, parenting education and evidenced based practices to help clients overcome challenges and live happier, more productive lives.
Reputable... Stanford Home has been serving Sacramento families for more than a century and is pleased to offer the public affordable individual, couples, family and group therapy services. Therapy is driven by the strengths and needs of clients and their families, not by their problems or diagnoses.Our Staff Experience
Our clinical staff is comprised of Licensed Marriage and Family Therapists, Licensed Clinical Social Workers and supervised post–Master level interns and trainees. Our therapists have extensive experience working with both traditional and non–traditional families from a wide variety of economic and ethnic backgrounds. We are highly accomplished in helping clients develop the skills needed to cope with a variety of concerns, including:- relationship problems
- managing family conflict
- improving communication
- developing healthy social skills
- adolescent behavioral problems
- substance abuse
- child abuse
- sexual abuse
- domestic violence
- mental health issues
- anxiety and depression
- family transitions, including:
- divorce
- foster care
- stabilization
- family reunification
- adoption
- kinship care
- chedule Service
- Edye Swidler, LMFT
- Counseling Center Director
- (916) 344–0199 ext. 209
- eswidler@stanfordhome.org
- Counseling Center Hours
- Monday–Friday
- 9:00 A.M.–7:00 P.M.
- Saturdays at client's request
- We accept the following forms of payment:
- Private Pay*
- Some insurances
- Victim Witness
- Sac County Children's Medi-Cal
- (clients must contact Sac County Children's Access Team)
- CPS Short Term Counseling Funds Program (Social Worker Referral)
- *For clients unable to pay our full fee, we offer a sliding scale fee depending on each family's ability to pay.
We'd love to hear from you...
Stanford Home's Counseling Center offers a variety of therapy groups for young people and their families. Groups focus on a number of issues. Please call to learn about current featured groups or to suggest ideas for new groups.