del mar family therapy

Del Mar Family Therapy

Debra Jedeikin is a Licensed Marriage, Family and Child Therapist with 15 years experience. She is also an Early Childhood and Parenting Consultant.

Debra works using family therapy processes with individual members, parents and children and/or siblings within the family.

Debra is particularly interested in healing relationships within the family through offering an understanding of each individual's perspective. In this context compassionate communication is able to develop.

Adult Individual Psychotherapy

I believe that the individual's psychotherapeutic journey is as unique as the individual. I work collaboratively with my clients to make sense of their suffering. We work towards liberating them from pain into a state of emotional well -being, a reunion with the Self and a fulfilling future.

Debra uses a psychodynamic orientation to work with the individual's family of origin story and uses practical solution focused therapy to help the individual move forward.

Children/Play Therapy

"Children need to be emotionally met at their own level using a developmentally appropriate approach".

Psychotherapy helps children in a variety of ways. They receive emotional support, learn how to resolve conflicts with people, learn to understand their feelings and why they behave in certain ways. They can also find solutions to problems they are experiencing. Goals for therapy may be specific (changes in behavior, improved relations with friends or family, improved study habits and organizational skills), or more general (less anxiety, improved confidence and self-esteem). The length of psychotherapy depends on the complexity and severity of problems.

Play Therapy

Geared toward young children, this technique uses a variety of activities such as artwork, play and puppets, story telling, board games and more in order to establish communication with the therapist and then resolve problems. Play allows the child to express and work through emotions and problems that may be too difficult to process elsewhere. Debra uses sand tray therapy in which children are able to create a story and work through their feelings using miniature figures in a tray of sand.

Older children utilize the sand tray, story telling, drawing as well as talking with the therapist.

Pre- Marital, Marriage and Couples Counseling"I work with couples to enhance and heal the relationship through the development of conflict resolution skills, mutual respectful communication and physical and emotional intimacy".