Our practice
Conceiving Victory, Inc.
A private therapy practice for children, adults, couples, and families facing any and all of life's difficulties. It is also a sacred place for psychotherapists to consult and to receive clinical supervision — to help them create and stay in abundance within their space of most potential for their honored role in the lives of their own therapy clients.
Before we heal, it helps to believe we can — to conceive of having victory over the present day's challenges. Gaining mastery over obstacles starts with hope, and the thing about hope, it is a noun and a verb. All you have to do is reach for hope to have hope.
Essential to our role, here, is to consistently be re-creating it, to hold it out to you, to believe in better for you, until you are completely ready to take the gift of it into your own hands.
People are born hopeful, with everything they need within, and often — sometimes quite early — people lose their hope. One day something happens that leads us to ask: is what I'm experiencing normal? would therapy be a good thing for me? It is a gift if we seek it, then, because it is finally time to repair past hurts and to grow beyond them.
At Conceiving Victory, we believe everyone with the courage to seek help has the ability to succeed in improving their quality of life. We use evidence-based tools and custom design our work to each and every individual client, couple, or family.
"A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step."
Welcome to yours…
About us
Meet Marcene Marcus, LCSW
Conceiving Victory is a private psychotherapy practice owned and operated by Marcene Marcus, LCSW who is a psychotherapist, a licensed clinical social worker, and a clinical supervisor in the state of California.
Marcene was originally academically trained at Columbia University, USC's Leonard Davis School, and University of California, at Santa Barbara. Her warm and empowering approach combines humor with evidence-based therapeutic tools to create meaningful, lasting change. She specializes in anxiety, depression, grief and loss, maternal mental health, and infertility. We meet you where you are, from the comfort of your home.
22
Years since founding
LCSW
Licensed credentials
100%
Personal care
What we do
We serve psychotherapists, children, adolescents, adults, families, couples, and groups with the following services:
- For clients: On-line therapy sessions
- For therapists: On-line clinical consultations and on-line clinical supervision
- For everyone: In-person workshops-to-go
Most online appointments are booked below. No subscriptions — you only pay for what you book.
Workshops-to-go
Got a group, a date, and a time? Pick a topic and order it to go:
- Conflict Resolution
- Getting unstuck
- Nurturing healthy connections
- Communication
- Stress management
- Time Management
- Boundary Setting
- Assertiveness
- Other life skills: budgeting, credit, healthy lifestyle
Custom requests? Tell us what your group needs when you reach out.
How it works
Therapy, clinical consultations, workshops and supervision made simple.
All sessions are held online with a licensed counselor - with the exception of workshops and some family or couples sessions.
No subscriptions - you only pay for what you book.
Meet a licensed counselor over a private video call - from your couch, your kitchen, anywhere you feel safe.
22 years in practice · 2,400+ sessions held with care since 2004
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