Richard Benfante is a San Diego licensed marriage and family therapist in Grantville who holds California LMFT license #52141 and NPI 1114092384. He earned his MA in Marriage and Family Therapy from Bethel University and practices through LifeStance Health at 6386 Alvarado Court, Suite 210, in the 92120 ZIP. Benfante's clinical caseload draws from adolescents ages thirteen and older, adults, and families, with particular depth in crisis intervention, foster youth services, probation-involved clients, and survivors of violence and abuse, and primary care coordination runs through Grantville corridor providers such as Inspire Wellness: Habib Dalhoumi, MD for patients needing integrated medical and behavioral health management. His military and law enforcement therapy track applies trauma-informed frameworks to first responders managing occupational stress, critical incident exposure, and hypervigilance patterns. Benfante's therapeutic modalities include Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, Exposure Therapy, Parent-Child Interaction Therapy, faith-based counseling, and mindfulness-based interventions. Substance use treatment forms a significant part of his practice, covering alcohol dependence, drug use disorders, and the behavioral cycles that sustain addiction in family systems. The LifeStance office on Alvarado Court anchors a behavioral health cluster near the Mission Gorge Road commercial corridor and the SDSU campus community. Sleep disorders and insomnia present frequently alongside anxiety and PTSD in his caseload, and acupuncture-based interventions at We Love Acupuncture in Grantville complement the CBT protocols for clients managing chronic insomnia. Benfante's school-based counseling background informs his treatment of adolescent school avoidance, a presentation that requires simultaneous work with the student, the family system, and the school's administrative structure.