Life Practice Counseling Group

My therapist, Kristyn Towers, is the best. I have tried a few different therapist in my time and she has been the most helpful because she focuses on teaching me skills that apply to me! Most therapist just listen and talk to you for 50 minutes and then kick you out. She does exercises with me and gives me homework.
She is very empathetic and has flexible hours — even nights and weekends — that work around my busy schedule.
They also allow you to pay online which is very convenient and provide services on a sliding scale, which makes therapy affordable for a larger group of people.

I started going to LifePractice nearly three years ago when my husband found them through a Google search. I was desperate to find help dealing with terrible anxiety that hit me shortly after my mother died. At first, I liked the young man I saw there. He seemed in tune with me and what I was going through and I felt he was helping me get past the anxiety I was suffering from. As one year went into two, I felt like he truly knew me and was capable of dealing with my issues. However, as we entered into this last year, he had taken on another job as well as working for LifePractice and suddenly it became very clear that I was no longer as much of a concern for him as I had been before. Weeks would go by where he was just «too busy» to see me and I began to feel as if he couldn’t care less anymore. Several times I called him out on this as I thought he was my therapist only to have him placate me with apologies and promises that he was always there for me. In the end, he completely stopped answering my calls or texts and I was left feeling abandoned and adrift. I would not recommend LifePractice to anyone, especially if you need to address serious issues in your life.

I came to Life Practice because it’s a non-​profit counseling organization that offers visits with their intern counselors on a sliding scale fee basis and ended up seeing two of their interns. They were really nice girls and I saw them each for about 6 months, but I never really got anywhere with them.
Having been to various counselors over the years, I knew I shouldn’t have very high expectations for an intern, but really my visits to Life Practice were more like meeting with a girlfriend to talk about the last weeks events, than actual intensive, solution based therapy. You’d think they’d want to practice «diving in» and really doing some work with their clients, but no. It was like dog paddling instead.
If you’re considering Life Practice because you don’t have insurance, or can’t afford therapy with licensed professionals– do your research. There are other non-​profits all over Sacramento that are much more goal oriented than this organization. Just because you are meeting with an intern, doesn’t mean you can’t accomplish any goals. All in all, Life Practice was a waste of my time & money.