Avis Cole Attaway is a Licensed Marriage & Family Therapist (MFC #34493) in private practice in Riverside, California since 1997. She founded Life Source Solutions, Inc. in 2007 to provide expanded services to the community and as a way for clients to find a therapist to match their personality and their needs.

Graduating from Loma Linda University in 1994, she earned her Masters of Science in Marriage & Family Therapy Studies. Her earliest succeses were in Marriage Counseling with couples experiencing difficulties with anger, financial stress, parenting differences and emotional distance.      

Avis began working with adolescents in residential treatment, focusing on the severely emotionally disturbed.

This lead to specializing in trauma and PTSD (Post Traumatic Stress Disorder).  Working with traumatized clients, she realized the need for another form of therapy besides traditional-style talk therapy. So in 1998 she became certified in EMDR (Eye Movement Desensitization & Reprocessing) - a mind-body approach to therapy.

Working with Adoptive families, Avis began to see children who were having extreme difficulty adjusting to their new families. These children had been traumatized by multiple placements and prior neglect and/or abuse.  Because of this, they were unable to respond appropriately or  attach to their new parents. This condition, known as RAD (Reactive Attachment Disorder), involves extensive family treatment, time and great commitment -especially from the parents.

Avis has been a lifelong student of psychology, philosophy and spirituality. In 1999, Avis became interested in the clinical use of Hypnosis. She studied Hypnotherapy and was certified by Dr. Eleanor Field to help clients with a variety of issues.

Her continuing interest in the mind-body-spirit connection lead to her introduction to Psych-K in 2004. This technique works with an individual's self-limiting beliefs that cause limitation or distress in their life. It involves kinesiology or muscle-testing combined with affirmations and short, simple exercises. She began using it with clients to produce remarkable results with anxiety, phobias, and depression. It also enhanced goal achievement in such areas as weight loss and making money.

In 2007, with the global phenomena of the hit dvd The Secret, Avis became a student of the Law of Attraction. She studied with the featured host of the film, Bob Proctor, and became licensed as a LifeSuccess Consultant.  

As a Life Coach, teaching clients how the mind works and what the exact principles are for creating the life one desires is her greatest passion and mission.

Avis is currently accepting new Therapy and Coaching clients on an Individual or Group basis (Family or Corporate). 

Avis is also available for Keynotes, Seminars and Workshops. There is still space available at this time for her weekly teleconference Coaching calls - specifically designed for convenience and affordability.

My name is Dr. Guy Balice and I received my PhD  in Counseling Psychology from UCLA in 1997, and am a Licensed Psychologist (PSY #22638).  I have a Bachelor’s degree in Psychology from University of California, Irvine, and a Master’s in Counseling from UCLA. My clinical experience spans a period of 17 years; in that time I have worked with adults, children, and families, including: children and families in a child guidance clinic, adults and couples in a community mental health center, adult inpatient and partial hospitalization patients and their families, foster children, and college students in a liberal arts college.

While I have worked with a variety of emotional concerns ranging from marital problems to individuals experiencing acute emotional crises, my specialties are in treating panic and anxiety disorders, child and adult depression, performance anxiety in high school and college students, family relationships, and troubled adolescents. I also have worked with foster children for 3 years, and am very familiar with the social service system and foster family agencies.

My clinical theoretical orientation is psychodynamic psychotherapy, specializing in object relations and self-psychology. What this means is that I believe that it is the client’s relationship with a caring and competent psychotherapist that brings about emotional recovery and growth. I help clients identify their needs and maximize the chance that they will meet these needs to strive and achieve their goals. I focus on the “here and now” in helping clients develop strategies to solve problems, whether these problems are internal (e.g. anxiety) or external (e.g. need for more training or education to develop a career). I also encourage clients to develop insight into how they can create strategies that they can make a part of who they are in their day-to-day lives. Some clients come into counseling, not so much because they are in an emotional crisis, but because they want to make significant and long-lasting changes in their lives; they want to change patterns of behavior that have not met their needs well in the past. I work to help these clients identify difficulties in how they cope with and solve problems and to develop new coping skills that can have life-changing effects.

In addition to my clinical experience I have taught undergraduate and graduate students in marriage and family therapy, psychology, education, and social ecology for the last 13 years. Although I have mainly taught courses in research methods and statistics, in recent years I have expanded my teaching repertoire to include courses in career counseling, psychological assessment, biological psychology, and have been recently enjoying teaching courses in psychopathology.

Overall, I enjoy working with people to help them identify, work to, and achieve their goals and to find ways to overcome the obstacles that interfere with living their lives to their fullest potential.

Danielle Ulian - Psychologist Assistant to Guy Balice, PhD. Psychologist Intern