Mark Zalona

Mark Zalona

Clinical Supervisor, LMFT 16121

Santa Cruz Office

Mark has been a licensed marriage and family therapist since 1981 and a clinical supervisor since 1986. Although Mark has maintained a part-time private practice on and off for 30 years, his primary experience has been in working for non-profit mental health and social service agencies as a supervisor and program director. For the first decade of his career, Mark worked primarily in residential and outpatient substance abuse.

He loves mentoring new clinicians at the beginning of their journey into clinical practice. Most recently, Mark has been taken with Internal Family Systems (IFS) as a very effective way of working with individuals and couples. Many years prior to that, Narrative Therapy was the modality he most favored. He encourages all therapists to find the manner of working with clients which best fits them and who they have in front of them in the consulting room.

Personally, Mark enjoys singing, beach volleyball, writing fiction for the first time and spending time
with his new granddaughter.

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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

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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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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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