About me

I have been professionally working in the area of couple counseling for over 30 years. From 1990 to 2000, I taught and led the Making Marriage Work Seminars in Los Angeles, CA. Throughout those years, I personally worked with close to 1,000 couples in pre-marital and marital counseling. Pre-marital counseling is a most important endeavor and unfortunately is rarely done in America. Few families understand or are aware of the value that pre-marital counseling can bring to a couple. Pre-marital counseling issues can include exploring personal issues and couple issues and how they can integrate or disintegrate a relationship. Communication conflicts and breakdowns or lack of essential communication skills often are the root cause of pre-marital and martial conflicts. Learning and developing skills in effective conflict resolution techniques and styles is considered an essential topic to master in order to develop a sustainable relationship. Financial values and sexual values often come into conflict as well as family, work and child-rearing approaches. Open and contemplative counseling discussions and guided real life couple interactions can often open up the difficult topics which couples confront in their relationship developments. Couple counseling ideally is a process to allow both members of the couple relationship to learn about themselves and their partner's approaches to life and to advance understandings and methods to work together to build successful harmony that will sustain and enhance the couple or marital relationship. As a couple counselor, I aim to untangle knotted relationships and to help to achieve new and valuable paths for creating nuturing couple relationships. The couple's counseling process that I strive to achieve is meant to foster and promote emotional and spiritual health as well as to advance
and highly improve the couple's communication skills.


Specialties

  • Stress, Anxiety
  • Relationships
  • Family conflicts
  • Intimacy
  • Self esteem, Motivation
Also experienced in:
Addictions , LGBT , Trauma and abuse , Grief , Eating disorders , Sleeping disorders , Parenting issues , Anger management , Career difficulties , Bipolar disorder , Depression , Coping with life changes , Coaching , ADHD , Abandonment , Read more...

Clinical approaches:
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT), Attachment-Based Therapy, Client-Centered Therapy, Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT), Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT), Existential Therapy, Gottman Method, Imago Relationship Therapy, Solution-Focused Therapy, Trauma-Focused Therapy, Internal Family Systems

Years of Experience: 33

Services offered


  • Messaging

  • Phone

  • Video

Licensing

CA LMFT 25889


Reviews

These quotes represent just a few of the many positive reviews that we have received for Dr. Daryl Temkin. We don't pay anyone to provide their review and they are all made voluntarily. Some people's experience receiving therapy with Regain might be different.

Written on Dec 11, 2022 after therapy with Daryl for 1 year and 5 months on issues concerning relationship

I have worked with Dr. Temkin for several years and find him to be very knowledgeable and helpful in extremely complicated relational difficulties. This therapist gives 110% in time and effort to bring about health, wholeness and peace to his clients. Highly recommend!
E. Longmire

Written on Mar 11, 2022 after therapy with Daryl for 4 months on issues concerning relationship

Dr. Temkin is very astute and provides excellent guidance, including bringing a different perspective to how I can approach situations.

His calmness and approach to assist me with difficult conversations helps to defuse a situation before it occurs.

He also has been instrumental in providing me with best practices that help me with every day life-situations and my relationship.



Written on Feb 05, 2022 after therapy with Daryl for 2 months on issues concerning relationship

Authenticity, wise speech and healing,
He offers us methods for dealing
With abuse, hopelessness, disrespect,
Insults, betrayal, neglect:
Dr. D: he supports self-annealing.

Written on Jan 04, 2022 after therapy with Daryl for 1 month on issues concerning relationship

It was most important to us to find an experienced therapist who we both felt comfortable with, and could trust to help us mend our issues.
We both find him skillful, engaged and easy to work with, and we both have confidence in his abilities.

Written on Dec 20, 2021 after therapy with Daryl for 1 year and 4 months on issues concerning relationship

Dr. Temkin is amazing!

Written on Nov 30, 2021 after therapy with Daryl for 2 weeks on issues concerning relationship

Dr. Temkin, in only a couple sessions, has helped my husband and I feel hopeful in our marriage again.

Written on Jul 06, 2021 after therapy with Daryl for 3 months on issues concerning relationship

Dr. Temkin has been a great help so far and has provided us a safe space to communicate with one another. We feel that we’ve made great progress in our relationship and that Dr. Temkin provides us great insight and tools.

Written on Apr 24, 2021 after therapy with Daryl for 3 weeks on issues concerning relationship

Dr.D was great. Insightful and understanding. Meets you where you are without making you feel judged. Validates your experience and guides you well.

Written on Apr 01, 2021 after therapy with Daryl for 2 weeks on issues concerning relationship

I find DR.Temkin a professional counselor. I feel very safe and confident in talking to him in regards to the help I need. I find he has great empathy and I appreciate a good sense of humor. His professionalism and guidance will only serve to help me talk and heal.

Written on Jun 09, 2020 after therapy with Daryl for 5 months on issues concerning relationship

Dr. D is a great counselor. He listens and provides us with tools to solve many of our problems. His insight was incredible and helped us see things in a useful way.

Written on Jan 16, 2020 after therapy with Daryl for 3 weeks on issues concerning relationship

We have only had a few sessions with Dr. Temkin but have felt so good after each session and feel very pleased so far!

Written on Jan 06, 2019 after therapy with Daryl for 1 month on issues concerning relationship

Dr. Temkin is a thoughtful and honest provider. He has very helpful ideas and exercises for getting through some difficult personal issues. He is also quick to respond to messages and accommodating for busy schedules and conflicts. I highly recommend Dr. Temkin!

Written on Dec 20, 2018 after therapy with Daryl for 2 weeks on issues concerning relationship

Dr. Temkin is a wise and caring professional. Has been awesome working with him.

Written on Nov 09, 2018 after therapy with Daryl for 1 week on issues concerning relationship

Dr. Temkin is awesome. He is patient and very approachable and compassionate. He offers great couples therapy. Thanks for your service, Dr. Temkin.

Written on Apr 15, 2018 after therapy with Daryl for 10 months on issues concerning relationship

So happy that Regain assigned me to a fantastic therapist - Dr. Daryl Temkin! He is a marvelous counselor, a great communicator and possesses a very caring nature. I've learned so much from Dr. Temkin, and have made tremendous progress in dealing with social anxiety and stressful family relationships. His excellent listening skills and endless patience make sessions a real pleasure. I'm amazed how seriously committed Dr. Temkin is to his clients.

Written on Apr 15, 2018 after therapy with Daryl for 2 months on issues concerning relationship

Counseling with Dr. Daryl Temkin has been a highly beneficial and wonderful experience. His guidance and sound advice have helped me so much in greatly improving several of my longstanding problems. Dr. Temkin is a gifted therapist and a delight to talk with. His excellent education, years of experience and genuine empathy make him the ideal counselor for just about anyone needing help. I couldn't have asked for a better counselor, and outstanding human being. Many thanks Dr. Temkin and Regain!

Written on Mar 18, 2018 after therapy with Daryl for 2 weeks on issues concerning relationship

Amazing, just starting out and I feel my marriage improving.

Work with me!