Erica Feinberg
Associate Marriage & Family Therapist #151222
Santa Cruz & Watsonville Insurance Provider
Therapy is an opportunity to rediscover your wholeness. Our struggles and stories we tell about ourselves can be entry points to where our patterns, thoughts, values, actions, attitudes, reactions, and emotions originate. Our struggles can stem from: our families, our childhood, our communities, our cultures, and many more. My role is to help my clients explore the stories and struggles that continue to make them feel stuck, and that prevent them from living the lives that they are seeking. By learning about ourselves, we can strengthen our capacity for agency and choice. We can discover new ways to relate to ourselves and others.
I work with clients on a variety of different issues. Some of my specialities are working with clients that have experienced weight-related trauma or bullying, and/or disordered eating. My approach to therapy is through the lens of Internal Family Systems (IFS) and Health At Every Size (HAES). I am IFS Level 1 trained, and engage in ongoing IFS education.
I approach therapy with warmth, spaciousness, and compassion for the breadth of the human experience. I like to make space for humor because healing and working on oneself can be hard, but it does not mean we cannot experience joy along the way!
Request an Appointment
To Request an Appointment at Shine a Light or NPCC, please fill out this form. We respond to inquiries Monday through Friday. All inquiries we receive on the weekends or holidays will be processed the next business day. Thank you for your patience. If you need immediate services, please call 911.
New Office in San Francisco!
Shine a Light Counseling Center is please to merge with New Perspectives Center for Counseling. NPCC has been serving the San Francisco community for thirty years. Now NPCC is transitioning to become the San Francisco site for Shine a Light. NPCC will retain its name, character and history. For information about NPCC or counseling in San Francisco:
New Perspectives Center for Counseling (link)
Emergency Contact
Shine a Light does not provide crisis services. If you have a mental health emergency, call 988 or 911. Or click here for more Crisis Resources
Telephone Contact
You can call Shine a Light at 831-996-1222, but we encourage you to use the email forms to the left. If you call, please leave the following:
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- Issue you want help with
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FAX us at: 831-417-0443
Good Faith Estimate
You have the right to receive a “Good Faith Estimate” explaining how much your therapy sessions will cost. Your fee will be set according to a sliding scale, in collaboration with your therapist, prior to your first counseling session. Total costs depend upon the number of sessions you choose to utilize.
If you have private health insurance and we are not in-network with your plan, please be aware that your costs for therapy may be less by using an in-network provider. This will depend upon your plan's deductible amounts and co-payments. In some cases, counseling at Shine a Light is less costly than using private insurance.
If you hope to use "out of network" benefits through your private insurance, please be aware that many plans will not reimburse for services provided by trainees. Please request an Associate level therapists for out-of-network billing.
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