Elizabeth Harden, LMFT, practices at the Family Therapy Institute on Alvarado Road in La Mesa, providing marriage counseling, family therapy, and individual psychotherapy with specialization in geriatric populations and chronic mental illness. The geriatric focus connects to the continuum of elder care in the Grossmont area, coordinating treatment plans with residential communities like Westmont of La Mesa when cognitive decline or behavioral changes require facility-level support alongside outpatient therapy. Harden earned her Master of Arts in Family Therapy from Phillips Graduate Institute after completing a Bachelor of Arts in Psychology at California State University, Fresno, and holds California license LMFT51329. Family systems work addressing caregiver burnout and elder-care transitions often parallels the in-home support provided by agencies such as Senior Helpers, where coordinated communication between therapist and caregiver improves outcomes for aging clients. Highest-complexity cases involve multi-generational family therapy addressing simultaneous caregiver strain, spousal grief anticipation, and behavioral management of dementia-related agitation within a single treatment framework.