Dr. Ginger Simonton is a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist (LMFT) in the State of California (#115843). Dr. Simonton received her Masters of Science in Marriage and Family Therapy and her PhD in Systems, Families, and Couples from Loma Linda University. She has worked across multiple levels of care including inpatient, partial hospital, and outpatient therapy being actively engaged with children, adolescents, adults and their families. Employing a family systems approach, Dr. Simonton believes in improving family systems and couple relationships through increased communication, attachment, and overall functioning. Using a compassionate and patient-centered approach to healing, Dr. Simonton works collaboratively with clients to create and meet treatment goals.
Dr. Simonton believes in whole person care and applies a biopsychosocial-spiritual framework in her treatment of individuals, couples, and whole family systems. This framework allows Dr. Simonton to approach wellness through treatment of these essential domains of health in treating individuals with chronic illness, trauma, grief and loss, depression and/or anxiety, conversion disorders, adjustment disorders, and individuals with a history of child abuse. In conjunction with a biopsychosocial framework, Dr. Simonton is also competent in Narrative Therapy, Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, and Structural Family Therapy, as well as demonstrating effectiveness working with veterans, first responders, military personnel and their families.
In addition to psychotherapy, Dr. Simonton has researched issues of child abuse and biopsychosocial health outcomes, lectured in hospitals, presented at national conferences and has also taught various courses within the field of psychology and psychotherapy.