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Effective Solutions for Life's Challenges  
 
 
 
Since 1981, LFC's strives to provide high quality up-to-date services in a caring, comfortable, and supportive environment. Skilled and highly trained clinicians commit themselves to help persons find "effective solutions for life's challenges."



Women of the Life Focus Center team enjoy a Christmas celebration together. (left to right: Dee Angel; Dr. Elaine Kindle; Beatrice Manjarrez; Lynne Richardson; & Donna S. Melinkoff, MFT)
Elaine Kindle, Ph.D., LCSW, Board Certified Diplomat, Director Life Focus Center
focuses on working with adults and adolescents who experience trauma, anxiety, panic attacks, depression, stress, and adoption issues. She works with individuals, couples, families, and groups. Dr. Kindle presents workshops and seminars; she is an EMDR consultant who supervises clinicians working toward certification/consultant status in EMDR. Dr. Kindle is an Adoption Service Provider regarding Independent Adoptions in the State of California.
 
Contact Dr. Kindle: ekindle@lifefocuscenter.com
 
Donna
Donna S. Melinkoff, MA, MFT, Associate Therapist, is a relationship and communications specialist who works with individuals, couples, and families on pre-marital, marital, parent/teen and young adult, separation/divorce, bereavement/grief and time of life concerns. She also is a Clinical Supervisor.
 

Javad Hashtroudian DCH MS
Clinical Hypnotherapist
uses Hypnosis, Neurolinguistic Programing, TimeLine Therapy™ to modify behavior.