Find your Balance
Providing individual, family, couples, and group counseling for adults and teens
Welcome
Welcome to Healing Balance Therapy Inc. We are a group of highly trained and intuitive therapists who take pride in helping individuals on their healing journey to balance. With over 20 years of experience, our therapists have extensive knowledge in teaching clients how to process difficult life events, increase their authentic coping skills, and gain insight around their barriers to growth.
We work with a wide range of emotional and behavioral issues providing services that span from individual therapy for adults and teens, family therapy, couples counseling and group therapy. Our specialties include trauma, eating disorders, depression, anxiety and codependency. We facilitate culturally competent therapy sessions for all clients, where we empower them to increase internal compassion and external assertive boundaries.
Our environment is a comfortable and supportive atmosphere, creating a space for clients to process through their memories and learn more about their inner thoughts, needs, and intuition. We offer a highly personalized approach tailored to each client’s individual needs to help them attain their personal growth goals.
We believe that trauma and difficult life events present in many forms and require various approaches to healing and coping mechanisms. Shame and anxiety over these events cause us to utilize maladaptive coping mechanisms as survival techniques. Many of these mechanisms look harmless from the outside looking in, i.e. over exercising, excessive working, perfectionist thinking, dieting, and people pleasing. However, over time these ways of surviving dull our most authentic selves.
Eating disorder symptoms such as binge eating, purging, restriction, and over-exercising are only some of the many eating-disordered behaviors we use to cope with life. These symptoms become a way to distract us from our fears and unmet needs. Over time we can become lost in the ruminating thoughts of body image, calories, weight, clean eating, and excessive physical movement. We support clients in removing power from their eating disorders and replacing it with a balanced quality of life.
Please allow us to support and honor your life balance.
Only the truth of who you are, if realized will set you free.
- Eckhart Tolle
Meet our Providers
Amber Monroe, LMFT
Christine Capuano, LPCC
Michele Bussell, LMFT, APCC
Treatment Specializations
Adult Counseling
Adolescent Counseling
Couples Counseling
Family Counseling
Group Counseling
Trauma
Eating Disorders
Anxiety
Depression
Codependency
Hear from our clients
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"Amber has demonstrated exceptional understanding and compassion while assisting our family with our daughter's severe eating disorder and subsequent diagnosis of schizophrenia. It was a devastating and frightening time in our lives. We were fortunate to have met Amber. She has unique insight and a fantastic manner of explaining and helping our family work together. Our journey through many difficult years has been rewarded with a happy and close family bond, and seeing our daughter finally physically and mentally healthy. We have referred family and friends to Amber, and they all find her extremely caring and helpful."
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"Amber is an absolutely professional and experienced therapist. Even more she is the most compassionate, caring, loving person I know. When she went into private practice, I actually followed her and paid out of pocket because she made such a difference in my life. She has taught me so much, and I wish everyone could benefit from her beautiful gift."
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"Amber has been a support for me and my family for many years and I feel incredibly grateful for her ability to facilitate my personal growth and the bond within my family. Amber has provided me with deeper insight and helped me connect to myself in a way that is meaningful and highly effective. If you want to improve your quality of life, Amber is the way to go. She is a absolute gift to the mental health community."
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"I'm so grateful I was referred to Amber. From our very first conversation, she got me. At the time I was struggling with my eating disorder as well as my daughters. I have learned so much from her and grown so much as a result of working with her. She is professional, relatable and supportive. I feel like I have tools and a way of being in the world that is much more authentic and brave than when we started. If you are looking to grow or even thinking about growing, I highly recommend working with Amber!"
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"Amber has been a constant support and source of wisdom for the last 6 years. She had aided me in finding balance in my life and feeling empowered to pursue my passions. She has a beautiful gift of leading you to the truth within. I am so grateful to have found her and to continue working toward personal growth and development."
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"I went through about 5 therapists before I found Amber. Her offices are lovely & comforting, just like she is! Amber has completely changed my life for the better. I now peace, acceptance, balance. And she definitely saved my marriage. She is highly ethical. Any one working for or with Amber needs to maintain the same traits. Highly recommend!!"
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"I cannot express how much Amber has done for my life. I have been seeing Amber for several years and we connect in a beautiful way. Amber is a very balanced therapist. She does a great job allowing me to process and grow during our sessions, while at the same time providing much needed feedback and direction. She has helped me through so much in my life…my eating disorder, depression, relationships, childhood traumas, parenting, self-love and a terminal cancer diagnosis. We have worked so hard on so many things and I am a better, healthier and more balanced person today for it. Thank you Amber Monroe!"
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"I cannot express how much Amber has done for my life. I have been seeing Amber for several years and we connect in a beautiful way. Amber is a very balanced therapist. She does a great job allowing me to process and grow during our sessions, while at the same time providing much needed feedback and direction. She has helped me through so much in my life…my eating disorder, depression, relationships, childhood traumas, parenting, self-love and a terminal cancer diagnosis. We have worked so hard on so many things and I am a better, healthier and more balanced person today for it. Thank you Amber Monroe!"
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"I have done a lifetime of talk therapy and while it helps to talk things out, it never felt like I had a resolution to the issues discussed. Doing EMDR therapy with Amber is changing that for me. I feel like I am getting that resolution, and I’m finding clarity to things that have been so clouded and painful and heavy for so long. Finding Amber and starting this journey has begun to lift the weight I have carried with me for so many years. I would (and have) recommend her to anyone who will listen."
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"I feel extremely lucky to be working with Amber. Her ability to create a safe space for examination and growth, coupled with her compassionate guidance, has helped me to tackle issues with every aspect of my life. The impact that our sessions has had on me is immeasurable. I wholeheartedly recommend her and her team to anyone seeking a profound positive change in their lives."
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"Amber literally saved my life! I had a few therapist before her who I felt did not really understand me, but once a met with Amber for the first time I felt we had an amazing connection! She not only saved me from a severe eating disorder and exercise condition, but she still continues to support and understand me in more than anyone else I have ever known!"
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"Amber is UH-MAZING at getting deep into the heart of your struggles. She is a true eating disorders expert through and through. Aside from being a great clinician, she is such a fun, sweet human. She is so compassionate AND she knows how to push and dig when needed. I would highly recommend her!!!"
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"Amber is professional, caring, and effective. You will get better under her care. My life has changed in so many positive ways since she became my counselor."
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"Amber is a very caring and committed therapist. She has excellent clinical skills and will challenge as much as she will hold a loving space for growth and healing."
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"Christine Capuano, LPCC has been transformative in my recovery and healing journey. With a complex history of trauma, dissociation and a chronic eating disorder, Christine has offered me an incredible treatment plan tailored to my individual needs. Her professionalism and expertise is unmatched. I finally have hope for healing, and I have Christine to thank for that."
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Our welcoming, comfortable office is conveniently located in La Mesa, CA.
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