About Toni
Toni Wellen, a practicing and state licensed Marriage Family Therapist, is a resident of Carpinteria, Santa Barbara County, and a specialist in hypnotherapy. She has also worked with an Employee Assistance Program for 10 years, sponsored by The National Council on Alcoholism, with a focus on abuse. Prior to that, for 15 years she was an elementary school teacher in the Long Beach and Los Angeles School Systems.
Ms. Wellen, a mother of four and grandmother of seven, has been married for 33 years. Additionally, she is very active in community organizations which focus on nonviolence and education with parents and civic groups.
| 1983-85 | M.A., Counseling Psychology Chapman (College) University, Orange, CA |
| 1981-83 | B.A., Social Ecology University of California at Irvine |
| 1953-57 | B.A., Music, College of Letters and Science University of California at Los Angeles |
I have been a practicing psychotherapist specializing in hypnotherapy for over 20 years and have found success treating many conditions, including:
- Relationship counseling
- Parenting issues
- Change of life circumstances
- Pain management
- Insomnia and sleep disorders
- Self-esteem and identity issues
- Anxiety
- Abuse (physical, emotional, sexual and substance)
- Stress management
- Depression and grief
- Anger
- Memory
- Eating disorders
- Birthing and postpartum depression
- Pre-surgery preparation
- Post surgical promotion of healing
- Performance enhancement (educational, sports)
- Gay and Lesbian support for relationship and life concerns

