Mitch Neuger
Associate Marriage & Family Therapy #143572
Monterey Office
Medi-Cal provider
Greetings! It can take courage and humility to reach out for counseling, whether you’re seeking to cope with a difficulty or loss, address mental health challenges, strengthen a relationship, or explore who you are. I honor these first steps, or latest steps, and welcome your contact.
Therapy can be a deeply personal learning and healing experience—exploring and reflecting, taking risks and trying new strategies, and growing in awareness and skill. My role in this process is collaborative; I offer caring attention, curiosity, and, when appropriate, gentle guidance and respectful challenge.
Aside from my years of supervised counseling with Shine A Light, graduate training and crisis counseling experience, I bring to my traineeship two decades of experience in education, as a teacher, learning specialist, and educational therapist—and over five decades as a human being, well-acquainted with the struggles of growing, managing feelings, coping with challenges, navigating relationships, creating family, making life choices, and finding purpose.
If your therapist is a good fit for you, your connection is more important than their particular therapeutic approach; but it might help you to know that my goal is to integrate the principles and practices of inner “parts” work (getting to know the various, often conflicted, aspects of ourselves) along with self-compassion-based, attachment-informed, and cognitive-behavioral therapies. Each offers a lens and set of tools for understanding and shaping the relationships we have with ourselves and, in turn, one another and our lives.
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.
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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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