Supervised by Anita Avedian, MFT
Certified Anger Management Facilitator

Farnaz Toutouni received her Bachelor of Arts in Psychology and her minor in Sociology from California State University of Northridge and is currently pursing her Doctorate Degree in clinical psychology. Ms. Toutouni began her internship at the Independent Learning Center (“ILC”), wherein she assisted individuals with mental disabilities to gain the skills necessary to reach new levels of independence. Additionally, Ms. Toutouni would study the patient’s behavioral data and administer tests relating to their emotional functioning, physical demeanor, and behavioral adjustments, and analyzed and interpreted the results. 

Currently, Ms. Toutouni is a certified anger management facilitator and her main focus is to assist the patients in developing and utilizing the tools provided by the program. Ms. Toutouni offers patients the opportunity to achieve success by teaching them how to cope with their problems and live day by day in peace. Her philosophy is that anger is a natural human emotion and is nature's way of empowering individuals to ward off their perception of an attack or threat to their well being. Her belief is that the problem is usually mismanagement of anger. Mismanaged anger and rage can possibly cause conflict in most people’s personal and professional relationships.

Ms. Toutouni provides solutions and support for mismanaged anger that can ultimately lead to significant problems with the law, at work, school and social interactions. Her goal for her clients is to develop awareness and confidence in expressing anger productively while replacing destructive behavior with constructive behavior . Working with her, individuals can learn that you can't get rid of, or avoid, the things or the people that enrage you, nor can you change them, but you can learn to control your reactions.