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Gale Vergara LaFreniere is a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist who has worked in the mental health field since 1995, offering support, education, and guidance through therapy in private practice, written articles, and educational workshops. With nearly three decades of experience, she brings both depth and practicality to her work, helping clients gain insight while also learning the skills needed to create lasting change in their daily lives.

Gale specializes in couples therapy and is a Certified Relational Life Therapy Practitioner, part of a select group of clinicians in California trained and certified in this specialized approach to couples therapy. Developed by internationally recognized family therapist Terry Real, Relational Life Therapy is an innovative, direct, and deeply effective approach to couples work that helps partners move beyond disconnection, resentment, and repeated conflict toward honesty, accountability, intimacy, and repair.

Her Specialties:

• Relationship conflicts
• Depression
• Anxiety/Panic
• Generalized Anxiety
• Parenting
• Acculturation issues/Assimilation problems
• Trauma/Complex trauma
• Negative impacts of family dynamics
• Life transitions
• Substance use and abuse problems
• Self-esteem issues
• Personal development challenges
• Divorce
• Infidelity
• Premarital counseling
• Academic challenges