Our team
The team you'll actually work with.
A practice is only as good as the people in the room with you. Ours is a small, hand-picked counseling team in Laguna Beach that Kay personally trains and supervises, so the care feels the same whoever you see. Every one of us trained as a marriage and family therapist, so couples counseling is common ground across the whole team, and each therapist builds their own particular focus on top of it. Not sure who you'd click with? That's exactly what the free call is for. We listen first, then point you toward the right fit.
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Kathleen “Kay” Wenger
Founder & Clinical Supervisor
LMFT #38183, LPCC #1450
Focus Couples, families, and individuals
Kay founded Laguna Beach Counseling in 2001 and has spent more than 30 years with individuals, couples, and families. She co-founded the National Registry of Marriage Friendly Therapists and personally supervises everyone on this team.
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Christy Hill
Associate Therapist
AMFT #139486, APCC #13876
Supervised by Kay Wenger, LMFT #38183, LPCC #1450Focus Anxiety and personal growth
Christy works with people navigating anxiety and the kind of personal growth that looks quiet from the outside and feels enormous from the inside. She sees clients under Kay's supervision.
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Natasha Gaffaney
Associate Therapist
AMFT #147477, APCC #16896
Supervised by Kay Wenger, LMFT #38183, LPCC #1450Focus Chronic illness and healthcare-worker burnout
Natasha is a registered nurse as well as a therapist, and spent years as a healthcare director, so she understands what chronic illness, medical trauma, and healthcare-worker burnout ask of a person. Her work is humanistic and existential.
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Austin Whitman
Associate Therapist
AMFT #145401
Supervised by Kay Wenger, LMFT #38183, LPCC #1450Focus Teens and young adults
Austin works with teens and young adults and leads the practice's Men's Support Group. He draws on person-centered, CBT, DBT, and ACT approaches, and he's easy to talk to, which teenagers tend to notice first.
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Rozy Pishvaiy
Associate Therapist
AMFT #151380
Supervised by Kay Wenger, LMFT #38183, LPCC #1450Focus Life transitions and children
Rozy helps people through growth and the life transitions that reshuffle everything, and she has a real gift for working with children. She holds an M.A. in Marital and Family Therapy from Alliant International University.
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Not sure who's the right fit?
That's exactly what the free call is for. Tell us what's going on, and we'll match you with the therapist who fits, whether that's Kay or one of the associates she supervises.
Free 15 to 20 minutes. Be seen within 24 hours.
Navigating Life's Waves Together