Janetta Stephen, Counselor

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About

EMDR-trained therapist Janetta Stephen holds California LMFT license #35548 and carries NPI 1932175312, practicing in San Diego's Grantville neighborhood through LifeStance Health at 6386 Alvarado Court, Suite 210, in the 92120 ZIP, with a second office on Fletcher Parkway in La Mesa. She earned her MS in Marriage and Family Therapy from San Diego State University and has held her LMFT credential since 1999, building a clinical career spanning more than twenty-five years across multiple mental health settings. Stephen's clinical specialties include chemical dependency and recovery counseling, domestic violence intervention, conflict resolution for blended families, divorce recovery, and EMDR processing for both simple and complex trauma, and her substance use treatment work requires coordination across the Grantville medical corridor with providers including San Diego Physical Therapy for clients whose recovery involves rebuilding physical function alongside emotional stability. The LifeStance office on Alvarado Court anchors a behavioral health cluster near Alvarado Hospital and the Mission Gorge Road commercial strip, drawing clients from Grantville, Allied Gardens, and the SDSU campus community. Stephen treats clients ages five and older, and her LGBTQ+-affirming practice maintains transgender-safespace designation. She addresses postpartum depression and anxiety through a reproductive mental health lens, coordinating with OB-GYN providers such as Parvin Mani, M.D., F.A.C.O.G. when clients need integrated perinatal psychiatric care. Her EMDR protocol applies adaptive information processing across eight structured phases, using bilateral stimulation to reprocess traumatic memories stored in implicit neural networks.