Becky is a Licensed Psychologist and Director of the North Coast Church Counseling Center. She received her doctorate from Rosemead School of Psychology at Biola University. Becky comes to us with a wealth of knowledge forged from over 20 years of experience in the field. She works with people who struggle in a variety of areas, specifically: depression, anxiety, addictions, women's issues, grief counseling, and helping people improve relationships. In addition, Becky enjoys coming along side those who desire help in navigating their spiritual journeys.

Rigo is a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist and received his Ph.D. in Clinical Psychology from the University of Freiburg in Germany. He has extensive experience working with individuals, couples, and families who struggle with depression, anxiety, impulse control, anger, post-traumatic stress disorder and relationship issues. Rigo has a strong concern for veterans and their families dealing with the fall-out of combat deployment. He spent many years researching and treating addictions involving substances (alcohol, pills, cocaine, etc.) and behaviors (gambling, internet, shopping, etc.), and focuses especially on working with families and loved ones of individuals suffering from addiction but refusing to seek help.

Pam Clark is a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist.  She has been part of the North Coast Church Counseling Center for over 13 years, helping people with many different concerns, including family of origin, marital, divorce, parenting, co-parenting, and blended family challenges. Some of the specific skills she helps people improve are: conflict resolution, communication, decision making, coping, and stress reduction.  Pam works with couples, individuals and children as well as leading various recovery/relational groups and seminars.

Pam also is on the staff of North Coast Church’s Single Adult Ministry, as the Director of the Single Women’s Ministry, overseeing opportunities for single women to grow, heal, strengthen their relationship with God and have healthy, meaningful relationships with others.

Jennifer is a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist. She specializes in helping people improve relationships and communication skills. She enjoys working with women, men, adolescents, couples and families. She brings a great deal of experience in helping people with depression, anxiety, substance abuse, grief issues, parenting, and women's issues.

Graciela is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker.  She received her Masters of Social Work degree at the University of Michigan.  She is a bi-cultural, bi-lingual (English and Spanish) therapist.  Graciela has over 17 years of experience working with children, adolescents, adults, couples, families, elderly and groups.  She has extensive experience working in outpatient and inpatient counseling settings, adolescent residential services, hospice, medical social work and clinical supervision.  Graciela works with people struggling in a variety of areas including depression, anxiety, impulse control, psychosis, addictions and grief and loss.  In addition, she specializes in working with troubled teenagers, individuals and their families with learning and emotional disabilities, women’s issues, and helping people improve their relationships.       

Karen is a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist with over 13 years of counseling experience.  She specializes in working with teens, families, and substance abuse.  She is passionate about providing a safe and supportive environment to help her clients heal from emotional, social, educational, relational, and spiritual issues.  Karen also especially enjoys helping those struggling with life transitions.  She approaches her work by meeting clients where they are at and working collaboratively with clients to achieve their goals.  She has experience working with mood disorders, anxiety, ADHD, anger management, OCD, substance abuse, etc. in a variety of settings.  Karen most recently is working toward completing Imago Certification and is excited in sharing this approach in her work with couples.  She is especially committed to assisting clients in improving communication and connection in all their relationships.

Debbie is a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist and an RN. She received her BSN from Biola University and her MS in Counseling from Cal Baptist University. Debbie spent 6 years working in an inpatient facility where she gained experience working with all kinds of women's issues, including depression, codependency, abuse, grief and loss and anxiety. Her specialties include pre-marital and marital counseling, divorce recovery, parenting issues and group therapy.

Kathy Mattox is a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist who received her MFT Masters degree from the University of San Diego. In addition to having been a credentialed public school teacher, a pre-school director and a YMCA program director, she has provided therapy for children and their families at the Rady Children’s Hospital out-patient psychiatric clinic.  Kathy has a passion for working with children and their families.  Using a Solution Focused approach, along with attention to the family system, she provides a safe and supportive environment that promotes healing of emotional, social, educational and relational issues. Additionally, Kathy enjoys counseling individual men and women who are struggling with any of life's difficult challenges.  Finally, Kathy especially looks forward to working with senior citizens who are facing significant life transitions which may include grief, illness, broken relationships, and depression.

Vicki has been working as a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist for over 25 years in private practice. Her primary specialty is marital work, particularly coming alongside those couples whose marriages and immediate family members have been negatively impacted by extra-marital relationships, addictions, family violence, substance abuse or childhood trauma. Her ongoing training and experience includes treating individuals for post-traumatic stress disorders.

Susan is a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist and doctoral student at Alliant International University. Her clinical approach is experiential, which means that she incorporates spirituality, authenticity and congruent communication in helping clients realize their uniqueness in becoming the person that God destines each to be. She works with couples experiencing relational difficulties in communication and intimacy; provides grief counseling in group, family and individual settings; and works with alcoholic/drug addict families in recovery.  Her underlying emphasis is that through our commitment and love for God, we are able to work through issues that God is using for testing, growing and refining each of us.

Laural is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker who has worked with North Coast Church families since 2002.  She enjoys using Biblical principles combined with relevant therapeutic treatments to support individual and family growth and recovery.  Laural's work experience has allowed her to see success with clients facing the following conditions:  depression/anxiety, phobias, disturbances related to traumatic memories, survivors of abuse, body dysmorphia, gender identification/sexual orientation issues, and performance anxiety.  She also is an EMDR specialist (see emdrnetwork.com).  Additionally, working with entire families on relational issues is a particular passion of hers.  She is married and has two children.

Tony is a Marriage and Family Therapist who has been with North Coast Church since 2005. He counsels couples, families, and individuals in order to promote healthy relationships and spiritual growth. Tony works from a biblical orientation and has experience helping people with marital issues, communication skills, boundaries, anger management, depression, mental illness, personality disorders, and addiction.