Healing Balance Therapy Inc. – La Mesa Therapy & Counseling

Healing Balance Therapy Inc. - La Mesa Therapy & Counseling is a mental health counseling practice in La Mesa, California. The practice provides individual, family, couples, and group counseling for adults and teens, and its specialties include trauma, eating disorders, depression, anxiety, and codependency. Its therapists bring more than 20 years of experience to their work with clients.

The practice is led by owner and founder Amber Monroe, a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist with expertise in eating disorders and trauma. A core value of the practice is that all clinicians have done their own healing work; the belief is that therapists personally committed to their own growth and self-awareness are best equipped to offer authentic, empathetic, and informed care. Sessions are culturally competent, and clients are supported in building internal compassion and assertive boundaries. The practice describes its environment as comfortable and supportive, with a personalized approach and a treatment plan tailored to each client.

The therapists work from a range of modalities, including Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, EMDR, Emotionally Focused Therapy, Humanistic, Interpersonal, Mindfulness-Based, Ketamine Assisted Psychotherapy, Motivational Interviewing, Internal Family Systems, Strength-Based, Trauma Focused, Somatic Experiencing, and Eclectic approaches. The practice also addresses how trauma and difficult life events can lead to maladaptive coping mechanisms such as over-exercising, excessive working, perfectionist thinking, dieting, and people pleasing, as well as eating-disordered behaviors including binge eating, purging, restriction, and over-exercising. The goal of treatment is to remove power from those patterns and replace them with a balanced quality of life.

The office is on Wellesley Street, about 0.2 miles from Baltimore Drive, the Mission Valley Freeway, and BrightQuest Treatment Centers - San Diego, and roughly 0.3 miles from Lake Murray Boulevard.

The practice has earned a 5.00 rating from 26 reviews, reflecting a strong local reputation built on consistently high customer ratings.