Counseling for Modern Life      Therapist Information and Links
Dee Marx-Kelly, MA    Dale Kay Lillak, MS

  Lori Godin, MA

   Linda Burrough, MA   Eve Solis, MA

Dale Kay Lillak, MS  (408) 260-9995. Co-founder of Counseling for Modern Life, Ms. Lillak has worked in the counseling field since 1986. Ms. Lillak’s experience includes developing and directing programs serving victims of domestic violence, adolescents with substance abuse, and chemically dependent adults. She has facilitated groups for court mandated perpetrators of domestic violence. Currently in private practice, her interests include adults and children facing trauma and grief, the issues women face in mid-life, and the connection between self-identity and money. Ms. Lillak believes that problems are best viewed as challenges, which mask the individuals’ fullest potential--potential for satisfying relationships, for meaningful work, and for broad social interaction. Ms. Lillak presents workshops regarding a variety of topics, and consults with agencies and corporations.   For Dale's Page click here. To e-mail Dale, click here.

Dee Ann Marx-Kelly, MA   (408) 246-3525 or 246-3874 ext. 14.  Since 1988, Dee Marx-Kelly has provided counseling to hundreds of families, as well as couples and individuals (including teens and older adults).  The co-creator of Counseling for Modern Life, Dee's practice emphasizes the achievement of healthy relationships through better interactional skills, such as more neutral communication patterns, understanding stylistic differences, identifying and resolving power struggles, and by building better skills to express and manage conflicts.  She has assisted clients to clarify goals and work toward their achievement; to identify and alleviate patterns of interaction and behaviors that support depression, anxiety, low self-esteem, and ennui; and to improve anger management skills.  Dee believes that we each have an inherent potential for health, and that we naturally strive to reach that potential.  Dee has worked with a wide variety of issues, including the creative handling of life transitions, pre-marital counseling, parenting, couple’s issues (including gay couples), blended families, increasing cooperation in divorced families, co-parenting, women’s issues, substance abuse, and survivors of physical abuse, sexual abuse, and domestic violence.  Dee teaches part-time at the University of San Francisco's South Bay Campus, located in Cupertino. She is also the Webmaster for Modernlife.org, the website of Counseling for Modern Life.  You will find many articles on this website authored by Dee, which will give you a sense of her point of view.  To e-mail Dee, click here.  

Lori Godin, MA   (408) 260-9996  Former Program Director of a Probation-certified domestic violence intervention program, Ms. Godin has worked extensively with issues of domestic violence, both with survivors and their children, and with perpetrators. She has experience working with runaway and homeless teens and their families, as well as doing custody mediations at Santa Clara County Family Court Services. In private practice, she works with a wide range of family issues, which include pre-marital counseling, couple’s issues, parenting, families in crisis, therapy with acting-out adolescents, play therapy with children, divorce counseling, and mediation. In addition, Ms. Godin has developed and provides a 12-week group program for anger management and works individually with a variety of women’s and men’s issues, including anger, trauma, abuse, depression, and life changes. She seeks to assist clients in obtaining skills and knowledge and in creating solutions to enrich their relationships and their lives.   For Lori's Page where you can read more about Lori and her views on life and therapy, click here. To e-mail Lori, click here. 

Linda Burrough, MA   (408) 725-8569   Presently Ms Burrough is focused on filling the need for counseling and group support of individuals who are separating from long-term couples relationships (i.e. divorce, formal or informal). Her counseling endeavors began in 1990 with extensive work treating chemical dependency issues in adolescents and families as well as working with the chronically mentally ill. She coordinated and implemented a program to treat substance abuse for incarcerated teens as well as providing counseling in schools and residential facilities. Ms. Burrough has facilitated groups for court mandated perpetrators of domestic violence plus chemical dependency groups for adults and adolescents that were court ordered.  In her private practice, Ms. Burrough works with people of all ages and from diverse cultural, sexual and socioeconomic backgrounds. She is sensitive and adept at treating couples, clients struggling with marital conflict, separation, depression, domestic violence, PTSD, parent-child conflicts, step-parenting, co-parenting, acting out teens, anger, ADD/ADHD, anxiety, physical, emotional or sexual abuse, and life transitions. Ms. Burrough’s strongest professional passion is working with any client who has the desire to change or grow in order to improve the quality of their relationships and thus their lives.  To e-mail Linda click here.  Click here to see Linda's page.

Evelyn Solis, MA  (408) 380-3040    Eve’s experience includes working with couples, adults, teens and families in crisis; ADD or ADHD; parenting; survivors of domestic violence; rape crisis; grief and loss (including pet bereavement); and depression. Eve has developed a class for parents of ADD/ADHD children, with a focus on the acquisition and application of skills for behavioral and emotional management. She is also an instructor for the Love and Logic parenting approach, developed by the Cline/Fay Institute in Golden, Colorado. She speaks English, Swiss, and German. To e-mail Eve, click here.     

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