Mesha Ellis
Dr. Mesha Ellis is a Licensed Clinical and Forensic Psychologist. In addition to being a Certified Gottman Method Therapist and Consultant, she is an AASECT Certified Sex Therapist and Sex Therapy Supervisor. She is the founder of The Institute for Relationship Wellness & Sexual Health with practice locations in Torrance, California; Atlanta, Georgia; and Las Vegas, Nevada. She additionally provides services to residents of Tennessee. Dr. Ellis has over 15 years experience specializing in therapy with couples. She also provides court referred therapy services for children/adolescents, parents, and families.
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Dr. Ellis specializes in and has a passion for assessing and treating sexual, mental health, and relational concerns across the lifespan (childhood through adulthood). Specifically, she works with individuals and couples surrounding issues of relationship wellness, sexual health, and intimacy. Dr. Ellis regularly hosts couples workshops and retreats. She additionally gives mental health and relationship enhancing presentations to churches and religious organizations in the Los Angeles, California area. She currently serves on the faculty of the Institute for Sex Education & Enlightenment (ISEE) where she teaches courses on child and adolescent sexual development, out of control sexual behavior, and common issues in couples and partner sex therapy.
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*Accepting New Certification Candidates*
Mesha is a clinical and forensic psychologist who specializes in working with individuals, couples, and families. She has been in private practice for nearly 20 years. Her years of experience in teaching and serving clients across the lifespan has provided her with a deep knowledge of individual, developmental, cultural, familial, and societal processes that influence the therapeutic process and outcomes.
Mesha has extensive experience working with clients presenting with relationship issues. Whether it is a child/adolescent struggling with peer relationship or romantic partner difficulties, parents struggling to relate to their child(ren), or adults struggling in their intimate relationships. She enjoys helping consultees tease apart presenting and clinical issues, developing effective treatment plans, becoming comfortable with sharing and reviewing videos, and confidently implementing Gottman Method interventions. Her consultative style is characterized by warmth, empathy, humor, and a caring yet direct approach.
You can contact Mesha directly to learn about her consultation pricing and more through her Gottman Referral Network profile here.
Elizabeth Neal
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Elizabeth (Liz) is the Director of The Relationship Therapy Centre in an holds registration as an Australian Psychologist. Elizabeth is also the author and creator of Parenting as a Team which is a program for couples to unite and help each other during parenting stress (launch in 2024). Elizabeth integrates contemporary attachment theory and the application of reflective function into her clinical and teaching work. Liz provides Marathon Therapy for couples in her private practice in Sydney.
You can contact Liz directly here.
Kim Lampson
Dr. Lampson really enjoys working with clients and loves teaching people how to do therapy so has spent her whole career doing a combination of these two things. She is a licensed psychologist, Certified Gottman Therapist, and full professor of psychology. In her private practice, she sees mostly couples with particular interest in helping couples experiencing life transitions (new baby, empty nesting, retirement), those struggling with eating disorder or related issues, and those characterized by high conflict. In her faculty role at Northwest University, she teaches and supervises doctoral students, educating them about basic counseling skills and Gottman Method couples therapy. Supervision includes video review, case consultation, and feedback.
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Kim has a relaxed, yet professional style, weaving humor and experiential exercises into her workshops and presentations whenever possible. Very comfortable in the teacher role, she has enjoyed presenting Level 1, 2, & 3 workshops and is excited to be an Advanced Trainer and Consultant for the Gottman Institute. She recently authored the book, Therapy for Relationships with Eating Disorders: A Clinician’s Guide to Gottman-RED Couples Therapy, with foreword by John Gottman and Julie Schwartz Gottman.
Kim is available to present about the Gottman Method, the Gottman-RED (Relationships with Eating Disorders) couples therapy, clinical supervision, or basic counseling skills. In addition, she is available to talk to university training clinic directors/student therapists about integrating couples therapy into the training process and providing couples therapy supervision to graduate students. Kim has developed a one-day workshop for couples and is in the process of developing trainings for clinicians working with couples with food, exercise, weight, or body image issues. She enjoys presenting to clinicians as well as the public about any of these topics.
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*Accepting New Certification Candidates*
Kim has vivid memories of working with her consultant in the certification process. They worked well together, and she still has a strong connection with this amazing clinician. Even thought she had been in practice for over 20 years, Kim realized that she had more to learn. The feedback she received was invaluable and helped her become a better couples therapist. She still remembers the things she did “wrong” when showing her videos to her consultant and passes this advice forward when helping others learn about the Gottman Method.
This is the kind of consultation relationship Kim hopes to develop with her consultees and is looking for people who also believe that being a good therapist requires openness to learning forever!
She believes that the opportunity to learn from other group members is very helpful. Ideally, consultees would meet once per month individually and once per month in group consultation. She is very comfortable in the consultant role due to many years of experience as a clinical supervisor, reviewing videos and providing kind, helpful feedback to students.
Kim is available for individual consultation and open to group consultation inquiries. You can contact Kim directly to learn about her consultation pricing and more through her Gottman Referral Network profile here.
Patricia Worthey
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Patricia helps couples to connect deeply, manage conflict, and honor dreams. She believes that each partner within the couple has a story that needs to be heard and honored. She helps couples build trust and security in each other, and help them to fight less and realize dreams– both their own dreams and that of their partner’s. Intense fighting, affairs, separations, gridlocked problems, deep hurts, parenting struggles, financial difficulties, and feeling disconnected are common referral issues. Patricia draws treatment strategies from the two most effective couple therapies, the Gottman Method and Emotionally Focused Couples Therapy. Couples work together with her to design their own custom-tailored treatment plan. She also conducts Marathon Couples Therapy sessions, assisting couples to resolve intense conflict in a multisession or one or two day format.
“Dr. Worthey was an incredible mentor and I feel privileged to have worked with her. I am grateful that I had the opportunity to be her consultee.”
You can contact Patricia directly to learn about her consultation pricing and more through her Gottman Referral Network profile here.