Through my work for non profit, public and private sectors, I have developed an unrelenting passion for helping children, adolescents, and adults overcome life's many challenges. I consider it a privilege to have treated these populations from a variety of backgrounds with an equally varied mental health conditions. I have worked with juvenile sex offenders, juvenile delinquents, foster children, chronically mentally ill, and criminally insane, couples, to name a few. Although, their problems were different, their goals were the same, to live a life filled with happiness self sufficiency and success.I have been working in an underserved community. Betty has extensive expertise in working with adolescents, adults and families. Her strengths included coordination of care with the county, criminal justice and legal system. She is culturally sensitive and experienced working with diverse groups. Betty Lemos-Arellano has been dual licensed as an LMFT since 2004 and LPCC since 2012. She obtained a MA in Marriage and Family Therapy Counseling from the University of San Francisco in 1998. Betty has been an active member with the California Marriage and Family Therapist chapter. Betty is fluent in English, Portuguese Spanish & French.