73-550 Alessandro Drive, Suite 200, Palm Desert CA 92260
Welcome to Beacon Associates
A welcoming place for you
Who We Are
Our Practice
Our Treatment Focus
Our Treatment Focus
Counseling for
- Relationships
- Grief
- Professional Issues
- Rapid Resolution Therapy for post trauma survivors
- SMART Recovery* for persons with addiction, and their family and friends
Our Treatment Focus
Our Treatment Focus
Our Treatment Focus
We utilize a variety of approaches to develop an individualized plan with you. These modalities include traditional therapies, DBT, Cognitive Behavioral Therapy tools, Rapid Resolution Therapy, guided imagery, mindfulness and relaxation techniques. All designed with you for your unique needs. SMART Recovery® meetings for mutual support are free and are self-empowering
Our Patient Promise
Our Treatment Focus
Our Patient Promise
We promise to be there for you every step of your journey. Our goal is to help you grow from your struggles, heal from your pain, and move forward to where you want to be in your life.
Our Therapy
Depression & Anxiety
Depression, fear, and anxiety are some of the most common and uncomfortable emotions that we can experience at some point in our lives. Through counseling and treatment, we are able to help you recover motivation, perspective, and joy that you once had in your life.
Trauma & PTSD
Many individuals can experience symptoms associated with painful and traumatic circumstances. Anxiety, fear, and hopelessness are a few emotions that can linger post traumatic events. We can help you overcome these symptoms and guide you through the process of grief and healing.
Relationships
Relationship counseling can be beneficial to people who are looking to strengthen their emotional connection, in all stages of their relationships. Therapy sessions are held with individuals, couples, and families and are a supportive place to discuss issues and solutions to better strengthen your relationships.
Rapid Resolution Therapy
Rapid Resolution Therapy (RRT) is an innovative method that painlessly eliminates the negative influences from traumatic events. This integrative approach completely resolves the psychological and physiological effects of trauma.
The cutting-edge approach to healing and positive change utilizes precise multilevel hypnotic communication. Unlike other approaches to trauma treatment which require the client to experience painful emotions while reliving the trauma, RRT clears the effects of trauma gently and painlessly.
The exact traumatic event needing resolution is brought to mind even if it has been represses or forgotten. The client realizes fully and through every facet of their mind and body that their experiences are finished and gone. Negative emotions are replaced with energy and peace and self-destructive behavioral patterns disappear.
Traditional counseling
Helping with symptoms of stress, anxiety and depression
- Individual counseling
- Marital counseling
- Cognitive behavioral therapies
- Strategies to improve work and professional relationships
- Talking therapies
- Reeducation
SMART Recovery
Discover the Power of Choice
As a public service, Beacon Associates is proud to provide our community SMART Recovery* meeting each week (Monday, 6pm). Dr. Vines leads this free meeting, Zoom ID 7802373612, in our waiting room. No registration required, just show up. No one is required to participate. SMART Recovery* is a science-based addiction mutual help community where people learn self-empowering skills and support each other in their recovery. No matter what your addiction, SMART Recovery can help you change.
What makes SMART Recovery* different?
SMART Recovery advocates choice so that those seeking recovery can choose what works best for them from a "tool box" of methods and strategies. The goal of SMART Recovery is for you to achieve a healthy, positive, balanced lifestyle and to move on when you feel confident your problematic addictive behavior is behind you, rather than remaining a permanent participant in meetings.
SMART Recovery 4-Point Program*
- Building and maintaining motivation
- Coping with urges
- Managing thoughts, feelings and behaviors
- Living a balanced life
Do you have a loved one with addictive problems? Consider attending SMART Recovery Family & Friends meetings, where SMART Recovery strategies and tools are adapted for the family and friends of persons with problematic addictive behavior.
Diane Vines, RN, PhD, RRT, CNS, PHN, PMH
Partner and Counselor
- PhD Boston University
- MEd in Community Mental Health Nursing, New York University
- BSN Vanderbilt University
- AA in Nursing, St. Petersburg College
Opening her first practice in Boston in 1978, Dr. Vines continued her practice while concurrently serving as a White House Fellow, founder and director of the National Adult Literacy Initiative with Barbara Bush, hospital and nursing director, vice chancellor, vice president, dean and professor. Dr. Vines focuses intensively on the latest advances in the field of mental health and incorporates post trauma therapies and cognitive behavioral techniques along with her training in traditional western medicine. She is a Rapid Resolution Therapist and a SMART Recovery facilitator. She provides counseling to Eisenhower Health for doctors and nurses experiencing PTSD, anger and depression.