Staff
David Welch, Ph.D.
Clinical Psychologist
David Welch Ph.D., Clinical Psychologist. Dr. Welch has been licensed since 2001 and has been working with domestic violence and substance abuse populations for 15+ years. Dr. Welch has an extensive background in helping people deal with marital, couples’ issues, end-of-life, grief and loss issues, and childhood trauma and abuse issues. Dr. Welch is currently seeing individuals and couples in private practice and facilitating male Batterers’ Intervention Program groups. In addition, Dr. Welch is the direct supervisor for all substance abuse programs at Wel-Mor Psychology Group, Inc. He has more than 20 years experience in various forms of substance abuse treatment, including inpatient, dual diagnosis, residential treatment program, outpatient treatment and individual therapy.
t 714.540.9070 x102
Fran Cutshaw
Fran has been working in the field of Domestic Violence for the last 18 years. She began as a Victim Advocate for women and children before becoming a case-manager and then a supervisor. In 2006, she switched over to working with offenders and has done so for the last 10 years. She facilitates both men’s and women’s Batterers’ Intervention Program groups where she helps her clients make positive changes in their lives. She is Probation-approved and also works with clients struggling with chemical dependency. She went to Cypress College and received her Drug and Alcohol certification in 2002. She is also certified as a Sexual Assault Victim counselor as well as receiving certification in Suicide Prevention. She volunteered on the Suicide Hotline for 1 year. In 2013, she became a certified Life Coach, working with individuals as well as couples. She is very persistent and tenaciously strives to achieve what she wants to accomplish, both personally and professionally. She is dedicated to work the same way in order to guide you in achieving your goals.
t 714.540.9070 x310
Lanae Farlin CADCI
Office Manager
Lanae Farlin is a Certified Addictions Counselor (CADCI) and has been working in the field of recovery since 2002. Lanae understands the disease of addiction and the negative consequences it can have on an addict and their loved ones. She has worked in many treatment modalities including Residential Treatment, Intensive Outpatient and Detox. Lanae has experience working with Co-occurring Disorders, Criminal Justice population, Gender Specific treatment, TAY (Transitional Age Youth) and At Risk Youth both in and out of the school system. Lanae has 14 years of experience expanding from admissions to case management, group facilitation, and individual counseling as well as discharge planning to assist with reintegration back into life after treatment.
t 714.540.9070 x100
Joan Wise M.A., ECE., C.L.C.
Joan has worked in the fields of education and psychology since 1979. She is an International Coaching Federation (ICF) Certified Relationship Coach and an Emotional Connection (EmC) Coach and Trainer helping individuals to repair relationships and increase emotional connection. She has developed a Families ‘R Forever Program designed to help families going through separation and divorce learn the skills they need to become the healthy parent their children deserve because relationships may end but families are forever.
She is certified through Orange county Probations Department to facilitate Batterer’s Interventions groups (BIP) and to lead Parenting groups since 2005.
Joan works with individuals seeking help in the following areas
- Anger Management
- Probation approved Domestic Violence Group (BIP)
- Relationship Issues
t 714.540.9070 x311
Janie Montiel, MFTi
Janie M. Montiel graduated with a Master’s in Clinical Counseling with an emphasis in Marriage and Family Therapy from Pepperdine University. Janie has spent over 2000 hours working with traumatized children, adolescents, adults, and families in a clinical setting. Janie has facilitated group therapy for the batterers’ intervention programs, child abuse treatment program, anger management and outpatient substance abuse treatment. Janie is EMDR trained and experienced in utilizing this unique tool to aid the natural healing ability of the brain and body post-trauma. Janie is passionate about understanding the impact of early childhood adversity and the effect upon the developing brain and the implications for adult health and well-being.
What happens when you are traumatized and how can EMDR help?
Most of the time your body routinely manages new information and experiences without you being aware of it. However, when something out of the ordinary occurs and you are traumatized by an overwhelming event (e.g. a car accident) or by being repeatedly subjected to distress (e.g. childhood neglect), your natural coping mechanism can become overloaded. This overloading can result in disturbing experiences remaining frozen in your brain or being “unprocessed.” Such unprocessed memories and feelings are stored in the limbic system of your brain in a “raw” and emotional form rather than in a verbal “story” mode. This limbic system maintains traumatic memories in an isolated memory network that is associated with emotions and physical sensations, and which are disconnected from the brain’s cortex where we use language to store memories. The limbic system’s traumatic memories can be continually triggered where you experience new events similar to the difficult experiences you have been through. Often the memory itself is long forgotten, but the painful feelings such as anxiety, panic, anger or despair are continually triggered in the present. Your ability to live in the present and learn from new experiences can therefore become inhibited, EMDR helps create the connections between your brain’s memory networks, enabling your brain to process the traumatic memory in a very natural way.
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