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COUNSELORS FOCUSED ON PROMOTING HEALTH.


BUSINESS NAME: The Offices of Sara Cote, Wendy K. Hammond and Julie Laraway, LMFTs

BUSINESS ADDRESS: 23560 Lyons Ave. #101, Newhall, CA 91321

PHONE: (661) 799-9905

E-MAIL e-mail: see electronic mail.
e-mail
 in full electronic mail

Messages and other data exchanged between individuals using computers in a network.
: psychotherapy101(at)gmail.com

OWNER: Sara Cote, Wendy K. Hammond and Julie Laraway

ESTABLISHED: July 2006

NUMBER OF EMPLOYEES: Three

DESCRIBE YOUR BUSINESS: We are licensed marriage and family therapists providing services to the community in the form of individual, family and group psychotherapy group psychotherapy, a means of changing behavior and emotional patterns, based on the premise that much of human behavior and feeling involves the individual's adaptation and response to other people. .

IS THIS YOUR FIRST BUSINESS? Yes.

WHY DID YOU START THIS BUSINESS? To bring services to a community that had a need for specialists in the domain of child and family mental health.

WHERE DID YOU GET THE IDEA? A collaboration with colleagues and market research in a couple different locales.

HOW LONG WAS IT FROM CONCEPT TO OPENING? Four months.

WHAT DID YOU DO DURING THAT TIME? Market research, searched for office space, set up insurance, identified advertising sources and obtained LLC (Logical Link Control) See "LANs" under data link protocol.

LLC - Logical Link Control
 status.

WHAT WERE YOUR STARTUP COSTS AND HOW DID YOU FINANCE THE BUSINESS? $10,000 from savings.

WHO DID YOU RELY ON FOR ADVICE? Colleagues who had set up successful private practices, tax specialists and attorneys.

WHAT HADN'T YOU CONSIDERED BEFORE OPENING? The total cost of marketing.

WHAT IS YOUR EXPECTED REVENUE THIS YEAR? $180,000 combined.

WHAT GOALS DO YOU HAVE FOR THE COMPANY? To provide effective mental health services health services Managed care The benefits covered under a health contract  for the members of the Santa Clarita Valley The Santa Clarita Valley is the valley of the Santa Clara River in Southern California. It stretches through Los Angeles County and Ventura County. Its main population center is the city of Santa Clarita. The valley was part of the 48,612-acre (19,672.  community. To further assess need and accommodate to the fullest capacity our experience and scope will allow. To promote healthy families.

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(color) Wendy Hammond, from left, Julie Laraway and Sara Cote started a family and marriage counseling Marriage Counseling Definition

Marriage counseling is a type of psychotherapy for a married couple or established partners that tries to resolve problems in the relationship.
 service in July.

David Crane/Staff Photographer
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Date:Feb 28, 2007
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