Enrollment is now open for CCC 67 – Our next cohort begins July 2025. Click here to learn more.

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SCCC provides comprehensive counseling services at rates based on your ability to pay. We believe everyone should get the care they need, at rates they can afford, for as long as they need counseling.

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Join our counselors and complete your clinical requirements with a team dedicated to bringing affordable mental health care to the people of Los Angeles.

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Our independent model helping provide comprehensive counseling services to those who need it, relies on you. Help us ensure the sustainability of our programs by donating today! Everyone should get the care they need!

Who We Are

SCCC believes that mental health care is a right, not a privilege. Anyone who needs counseling should have it. It is a belief we have lived for more than 50 years by providing affordable, sliding-scale counseling to people in need for as long as they need care.

Changing Lives & Strengthening Communities since 1966

 

In 1966, Hans Hoffman, a psychologist, and Ben Weininger, a psychiatrist, founded the Southern California Counseling Center with a belief that no one should be denied mental health counseling because of limited financial means. Since that time, SCCC has evolved to provide an array of programs and services designed to address the diverse mental health needs of the communities we serve. Our mission has remained the same and we continue to believe that mental health care is a right, not a privilege.