Beitner Marvin S Ph. D.

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California Psychology License: PSY 1036
Los Angeles County Office: 5199 E. Pacific Coast Hwy, Suite 304N Orange County Office: 11770 Warner Ave., Suite 127 Long Beach, CA 90804 (562) 498-0777 Fountain Valley, CA 92708 (714) 966-6634 or (949) 644-4641 Directions to Office Locations
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See the left hand column of this page for direct links to all information on my website, including a summary of different types of psychotherapy, advice about how to find appropriate psychotherapeutic treatment for various symptoms of personal and emotional problems and how to select a qualified therapist. You can also hear my comments about various common psychological issues by clicking on the following link: Listen to Audio Information
This link will give you for information about my practice: Marvin S. Beitner, Ph.D.
Which type of therapist is best for you?
For information about choosing between a psychologist, marriage counselor, psychiatrist, psychotherapist, hypnotist, hypnotherapist, or clinical social worker, see Types of psychotherapists. Also see Orange County Psych Assn for helpful information about choosing a psychotherapist and about the different training and expertise psychologists, marriage counselors and psychiatrists.

This link provides information about the difference between a psychologist and a psychiatrist, as well as information about what a clinical psychologist is, about the importance of making sure you see a licensed psychologist and about the differences in education, training and skills between an M.D. and a Ph.D. degree.
Marriage Counselor This link provides information about marriage counseling, couples therapy, about getting help with relationship problems and how to enhance and improve communication, empathy and emotional satisfaction in personal relationships.

This link provides information about the difference between hypnosis and hypnotherapy and the uses of these procedures. It answers common questions about how hypnosis works and addresses misconceptions and fears about hypnotherapy. An experienced and well qualified psychologist may be able to use hypnotherapy to help you control symptoms of panic attacks, fears or phobias. Hypnosis may also be useful to help a person to stop smoking, to lose weight or to control chronic pain. "Test anxiety," fears of flying or driving, improved motivation for academic, sports and work performance are other possible applications of hypnosis.
Counseling online and psychotherapy onlineThese are exciting new possibilities as methods of providing psychotherapy, marriage counseling, family counseling and relationship counseling. Is it safe? Is it effective? Is your privacy protected? Who is the counselor or psychologist? How do I know if the online counselor is competent, ethical, well trained or a licensed professional? Here you will find some answers to these questions

Types of symptoms
Here you will get information about how to identify various symptoms of emotional distress, including panic attacks, anxiety, fears, phobias, depression, and obsessive compulsive disorders (OCD). You will also find information about tranquilizers, medications for anxiety, for ADHD and other problems here.
Panic Attacks & Anxiety This link provides more specific information about common symptoms of anxiety and panic attacks, including shortness of breath, heart palpitations, agoraphobia, feelings of faintness, other physical symptoms, and fears of flying or driving and feeling as if you are about to die.
Eating disorders This link provides information about anorexia and bulimia. Anorexia is the opposite of compulsive over-eating. It occurs most commonly in teenaged girls, but can affect other age groups and males as well. Anorexics "look fat" to themselves no matter how much weight they lose. They go on perpetual starvation diets and sometimes exercise excessively. Bulimics overeat and then secretly vomit or use laxatives in attempt to lose weight. Both of these conditions represent serious health threats and can be life-threatening.
Children and Teenagers This link provides information about dealing with problems of childhood and adolescence. Excessive fears in social situations, low self-esteem, depression, problems with authority figures, rebelliousness, poor academic performance, school phobias, alcohol and drug abuse problems are issues that may be involved.
Self-improvement This link will give you information about enhancement of healthy psychological function, improving self esteem and strengthening motivation and confidence. Improving work performance, social skills, academic performance and competitive sports performance are issues that psychologists can address.
Self-Help Books This link will give you information about educational reading material that may help you with various psychological issues and problems.

Multiple Personality This link provides interesting information about the differences between multiple personality and schizophrenia and for information about the recovery of repressed memories of sexual abuse.
Sexual ProblemsThis linkinformation about reduced sexual desire, impotence, premature ejaculation, sexual compulsions, addictions to pornography, confusion in sexual identification, childhood sexual abuse and other types of sexual dysfunctions.
Stop Smoking This link provides information about designing a hypnotic procedure the use of hypnosis, a stop smoking procedure using two office visits and a recording of a personalized hypnotic procedure that you can use at home to stop smoking.

Here you find out about how I provide a structured, four office visit form of psychological intervention using hypnosis and behavior modification to help you lose weight. I make a recording of a hypnotic procedure designed to fit your motivation and personality. The hypnosis is done during an office visit and recorded for your continued use at home. It provides information about the "yo-yo" effect that causes people to typically regain all the weight that they have lost on a seemingly successful diet program.
Pain Control This link gives you information about the use of hypnotherapy and cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) for relief of chronic pain.
Intelligence & Memory Testing and Learning Disabilities This link provides information about how you can find out about your intelligence quotient, (IQ or I.Q.) This page also provides information about testing for memory impairment, age related memory loss, short term and long term memory loss and concerns about Alzheimer's disease. It also provides information about Learning disabilities. Tests discussed include the Wechsler Adult Intelligence Scale (WAIS), the Wechsler Intelligence Scale for Children, (WISC), the Wechsler Memory Scale (WMS), and the Woodcock-Johnson Tests of Achievement.
Executive & Life Coaching This linkprovides information about maximizing your level of functioning, achieving your full potential and making positive changes in professional, career, or work related areas or in personal and life-style areas. Executive coaching, career coaching and life coaching involve a process related to, but not the same as mentoring. It is a method of enhancing optimal functioning in an achievement oriented, well functioning person, not a method of treatment of emotional problems.
Gay, Lesbian and Transgender IssuesThis link provides information about Gay, Lesbian and Transgender, Transvestite and Transsexuals. It clarifies the distinctions between these terms and discusses some general and special issues involved in psychotherapeutic treatment and counseling in these populations.

Do you have questions about selecting a psychologist? This page gives information about how to check the qualifications of a psychologist, psychiatrist, marriage counselor or psychotherapist:

Psychology NewsHere you can find some information about events that have been in the news and publications in psychology. Is the HBO series In Treatment a good representation of how psychotherapy really works? What about the issue of attraction to a patient and how it is handled in this series? See Psychology News about this. There is also information there about the Dr. Phil - Britney Spears controversy.
Managed Care,See this page for information about maximizing access to psychotherapeutic treatment under managed care programs.

Locations: If you live in Long Beach, Lakewood, Los Alamitos, Cerritos, Cypress, Signal Hill, Rolling Hills or Palos Verdes, you are within a 20 minute drive of my Los Angeles County Office at 5199 E. Pacific Coast Hwy, Long Beach, California (562) 498-0777. If you live in Huntington Beach, Newport Beach, Newport Coast, Anaheim, Villa Park, Garden Grove, Santa Ana, Westminster, Costa Mesa or Fountain Valley you are within a 20 minute drive of my Orange County office at 11770 Warner Ave, Fountain Valley, California, (714) 966-6634 or (949) 644-4641.