Dr. Faye Snyder, Family
Therapist
A Professional Corporation
Parenting Instructor and
Theoretician
Licensed Marriage and Family
Therapist
Child Custody Evaluator
Criminal and Risk Assessment
Quality. Expedience. Reasonable.
28416
Constellation Road
Valencia,
CA 91355 |
520
South Sepulveda, Suite 201
West Los Angeles, CA 90049 |
Faye Snyder, PsyD, is a licensed Marriage and Family
Therapist, who specializes in attachment theory and trauma therapy. She founded
The Institute for Professional Parenting in 1988, and became the clinical
director in 1993, when TIPP went non-profit. She specializes in teaching
parents how to perceive and even heal their children with therapeutic guidance,
especially from early trauma and parenting mistakes. She also teaches new
parents how to raise a “miracle child” from birth. Author of The Miracle
Child Parenting Series, Snyder has a miracle child of her own, Scott
Clifton Snyder (ScottClifton.com). “Raising Scott was the most fun I ever had,”
she says.
Dr. Snyder attended California Graduate Institute in West
Los Angeles, for her masters degree, originally in order to understand how
therapists were trained, questions arising from her theoretical desire to make
sense of systems and her concerns having had a string of bad therapists,
herself, before finding a good one. This very need to understand systems later
sent her off to the Department of Family and Children’s Services after a string
of experiences with DCFS, in which she again developed concerns about their
practices and training.
While at CGI, Snyder formulated The Causal Theory, as a
parenting and diagnostic tool, which seeks to identify the experiences behind
all behaviors, especially criminal and pathological behavior. When she decided
to present this information publically, she returned to school for more
credentials, realizing her theory was controversial and flying in the face of
convention. Favoring small classes, she attended Ryokan College of Psychology,
from where she received her doctorate. Contrary to some mythology, she did not
obtain her degree online, even though she considers this a red herring. To
Snyder quality therapy comes from good theory, good internships, a
comprehensive education, and good therapy. “Healthy people make better
therapists,” she says, and “Ivy League institutions are not necessarily turning
out the best therapists. Some are actually pioneers in bad theory.”
The Causal Theory identifies the origins of personality
disorders in early childhood, as well as the source of acting-out behaviors,
resulting from unrecognized and unresolved childhood trauma.
Snyder has been assessing parenting and children’s behaviors
for nearly two decades and has fine-tuned the ability to assess a patient’s
resilience and drive to heal, as well.
Dr. Faye, as she is also called, is a dedicated therapist
with a thriving practice, who has decided to extend her experience into the
field of forensics. Having assessed and coached parenting for two decades, she
now seeks to work in child custody evaluations, specializing in fast track
evaluations. Further, having worked extensively with children with Reactive
Attachment Disorder, who were prone to violence, Snyder is opting to enter into
criminal assessment, to include profiling, risk assessment, and highlighting
the origins of criminal behavior in the early years of life. To this end, she
is jump-starting her new career in forensics by offering to work at reduced
rates for a period of time.
Dr. Snyder is available by phone at 661-257-1020.
