MEET OUR STAFF
Lea Roussos, LMFT
Lea is a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist, Clinical Director and Certified Supervisor. Lea is trained in Eye-Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR) and the Trauma Resiliency Model (TRM) to work with all types of stress and trauma. She is also a Certified Yoga Instructor and has completed more than 200 hours of training to incorporate yoga to treat anxiety and trauma.
Lea has extensive experience working with all types of eating disorders and has worked as a therapist/supervisor in several clinical settings and Intensive Outpatient Programs (IOP).
She is a member of the American Association of Couples and Sex Therapists (AACAST) and has completed one-year of training with Dr. Walter Brackelmann at the University of California, Los Angeles. She is trained to work with all types of challenges facing couples.
Lea completed the Mindfulness Based Stress Reduction (MBSR) program under the guidance of Jerome Front, Adjunct Faculty Member at Pepperdine’s Graduate School of Clinical Psychology.
She co-leads a Mindfulness Based Meditation Group for clients struggling with all types of eating disorders. Lea and Pam Siegel, LMFT, have co-led the group for over 9 years.
Lea is a long-term Supervisor at the Southern California Counseling Center in Los Angeles and has volunteered as a supervisor for over 12 years.
Amy McLaughlin-Margolis, LCSW
Amy is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker and proud to be a Supervisor at Santa Monica Counseling Center. She works with individuals, couples and groups and has a background in treating eating disorders, addictions, anxiety, depression, codependency and adoption-related issues.
Amy believes we make decisions about ourselves and life in childhood and this along with karma, DNA, genetics and life experience forms our world view, “Our Story.” Left unexamined, we operate from these antiquated ideas long after they outlive their usefulness and often to our detriment.
Amy treats clients utilizing an integrative approach: psychodynamic in helping clients heal old wounds and identifying their impact on their present lives and cognitive/behavioral techniques in empowering clients to make necessary changes to live with more authenticity, freedom and purpose on their journey.
Spirituality, meditation, and the mind-body connection also inform Amy’s practice.
Jannell Greene Banchik
Jannell provides a safe and stimulating environment based on deep respect and wonder for each individual, couple, family or group. Jannell considers individual experience, thought patterns and emotions, and family structures and social structures in her work with client’s. She creates an atmosphere that encourages sharing, exploration and meeting challenge. Her lens is to incorporate mind, body and spirit in an approach to healing.
Jannell helps her clients process all types of addiction, eating disorders, depression, anxiety, trauma, and challenges in sexuality and gender identity. Her goal is to move her clients from a place of “stuckness” to a more balanced sense of self and acceptance.
Jannell is trained in Narrative Therapy and post modern/ strength based therapy which allows the client to rewrite their story and rediscover their strength. Jannell has received training in EMDR (eye-movement desensitization and reprocessing), TRM (trauma resilience model), MBSR (mindfullness-based stress reduction), DBT (dialectical behavioral therapy), and TF-CBT (trauma focused cognitive behavioral therapy)—all scientifically supported modalities to help the client process trauma.