Vincent Staraci, MA, MFT, is a licensed marriage and family therapist with a broad base of professional involvements and interest. He is a ministry leader, educator, consultant and clinical supervisor.

In his private practice, Mr. Staraci specializes in working with people who are recovering from trauma, abuse, abandonment and addiction in a framework of spiritual growth and development. His work naturally extends to individuals and couples across a wide range of relational and clinical issues including intimacy, communication, depression, anxiety, professional development, spiritual direction, mentoring and dream work.

Along with his private psychotherapy practice, Mr. Staraci serves as the Executive Director of Hosanna Counseling Ministries. Hosanna is a non-profit Christian counseling organization that delivers a full range of psychological services to individuals, couples, families and children. Additionally, the ministry offers pertinent, Biblically-based adult education in seminar format to the surrounding community; support services for the parents of children with special needs; and it is a training facility for interning Christian therapists. Hosanna has offices in Santa Monica and Malibu.

Mr. Staraci lectures and conducts seminars on topics ranging from “Sexuality, Authenticity and Grace” to “The Gift of Anger”.Additionally, he is a certified parenting educator and has lectured at the Pepperdine Graduate School of Education and Psychology, where he did his graduate training.

Susan Staraci, MA, MFT, is a wife, mother, and licensed therapist. Susan has been in clinical practice in Santa Monica for 15 years, and has worked extensively with individuals and groups, mothers and fathers, husbands and wives…and children of all ages.

For the past eight years, Susan’s personal experience and professional expertise have been shaped by her compassion for moms. As a mom herself (having gone through the adventures of pregnancy induced insomnia, two premature deliveries, mastering breast feeding, adapting to the changes in her marriage, and the countless, sleepless nights) she has vital hands-on experience doing “the hardest job you’ll ever love.” Susan has a heart for the full experience of motherhood-from the most touching moments to the most overwhelming of demands. She enjoys counseling parents through this process, both through individual therapy and support groups.

Susan is very active in the “special needs” community; serving on the Special Needs District Advisory Committee for the Santa Monica-Malibu Unified School District, advocating for parents who have children with special needs, and counseling them through their child’s Individualized Education Process (IEP).  Susan founded “The Parent Connection” at TWISPP/Therapy West, an early intervention program for toddlers and children in Culver City, California.  She coordinated groups, activities, and resources for those parents faced with the emotional challenges of raising children with a varying degree of “special needs.” Having a special needs child of her own, she is intimately acquainted with the physical and emotional challenges required on a daily basis.

Susan acts as psychological consultant to a Christian elementary school, in West Los Angeles. She works with the administrative staff and teachers providing them training and clinical expertise in the areas of the social, emotional, cognitive and physical development of their students. Susan also provides counseling and support to students (ages five though twelve) as needed.

As a graduate of U.C.L.A. Susan later trained at the Pepperdine Graduate School of Education and Psychology where she received her MA.

Carol McCallister, a graduate of Fuller Theological Seminary, joins Hosanna as an MFT Intern. Married for 25 years and a mother of four children, Carol is active in the Christian community and seeks to support individuals at all stages of life and faith. With both personal and professional experience, Carol brings a unique wisdom and compassion to her work with individuals, couples and families. Using cognitive behavioral and psychodynamic theories within a framework of the Christian faith Carol empathically directs the course of the therapeutic process in an effort to be as helpful as she can be.