Therapists in 94901

I invite you to collaborate with me in cultivating inner peace and greater life satisfaction. While stress and anxiety are all too common nowadays, my years of practicing a wide variety of therapeutic approaches allow me to offer you many possibilities for effective change. As a seasoned therapist, I'm skilled at creating a supportive environment for you to explore and transform your responses to life's challenges. I carefully tailor my approach to meet your individual needs, combining strategies that will best address your particular concerns.

Psychotherapy can be a powerful means of finding your ground to live out your potential, which can be triggered by suffering. I offer support in seeking meaning and assistance in growth in the face of challenges. Compassion and understanding can be powerful tools for facing conflicts that are beyond your current understanding. I work with adults using psychodynamic and transpersonal frameworks.

My objective is to listen, be present, connect, provide feedback and reflect on what may help your life become more rewarding, less stressed, anxious or stuck, more empowered, or even reinvented! Every person is unique and together we will explore your strengths and the best options that will enhance your well-being. I am non-judgmental and create a friendly environment that provides an opportunity for us to talk about your difficulties and expectations. While doing so, I will be sure to assess that my way of working is appropriate for you and that you feel comfortable working with me.

I specialize in working with adolescent males who are experiencing externalizing behaviors (e.g. oppositional defiance, aggression, truancy, delinquency, etc.). In addition, I have extensive experience working with families struggling with attachment, attunement, and communication issues. I also work with couples dealing with relational problems and life transitions.

We all need help sometimes. Clients come to me with a variety of problems, depression, anxiety, parenting, relationship issues and substance abuse. I work with my clients, identifying the strengths they already have and teaching new skills to address the problems that are causing them pain.

ARE YOU FEELING ALONE, struggling with limiting core beliefs, wounding or trauma? I can help you utilizing my skillful support, with psychological issues, emotional needs and spiritual unfolding in an atmosphere of safety, warmth, and compassion. Are you currently IN A LIFE TRANSITION be it relationship, health, loss, grief or spiritual emergency I can help you navigate, transform and repair these difficult inner disturbances. HAVING CHALLENGES IN YOUR RELATIONSHIP, we will work together to restore the life-force of love with your partner. Are you on a SPIRITUAL PATH of AWAKENING and need mentoring to unhinge the blocks? Contact me

I offer couples and individuals immediate insights, deeper clarity, and long-term improvement in an accepting and collaborative therapy environment. I'm a very experienced, analytical, and highly-trained psychotherapist (educated at UC Berkeley), yet I am practical, warm, and open. I work with people experiencing marital, parenting, career, spiritual, emotional, sexual, infertility, and addiction concerns; I'm expert at addressing those concerns. I enjoy working with couples and individuals who desire the help of a dedicated partner to more effectively navigate their relationships and lives.

Connecting with the right therapist can be transformative and deeply moving. Are you in emotional pain? Feeling connected to your people? Living/working toward a meaningful life? I want to hear about you...your desires, your worries, your inner world. What's going well? Are there areas of your life you wish were different? I am here to walk alongside you and offer my full commitment to your well being. By deepening your understanding of your emotional experience you'll become better equipped to face life's twists and turns, able to engage more authentically with the people you love, and live in alignment with your values and dreams.

I am both a therapist and an ordained Zen Buddhist priest working with all faiths and beliefs. In our work together I use and am trained in traditional psychodynamic, Gestalt and body oriented modalities and use mindfulness based practices helping clients become grounded in the present moment. My areas of expertise include working with couples in mindfulness and communication, resolving conflicts and differences in ways that lead to a new start. I am able to work with you on a wide variety of psychological and/or spiritual issues, depression, anxiety, grief and loss, separations and other life changes.

What are the qualities that people look for in a therapist? First, they want someone they can easily talk to and connect with. They want someone who makes them feel safe. Someone that can provide an understanding of their problems which can result in practical solutions. A therapist who is willing to listen to their needs and pay attention to their concerns without any judgments. Someone who can make sense of their symptoms and pain, such as depression and anxiety, so that they can find emotional relief.

I assume you're here because you're struggling in some way, and that whatever you've been doing in your life to deal with your pain simply isn't working any longer. So you've hit a kind of impasse, and you're unable to work around the pain, manage it, ignore it. My clients usually find me through some kind of loss--a divorce or relationship upset, an illness or other transitional experience--often accompanied by difficult feelings and behaviors. Taken together, the result is a crisis of meaning and a radical disruption of the status quo of their lives.

Cultivating meaningful-healthy relationships may be especially difficult when our sense of self is overshadowed by traumatic and emotionally painful experiences. My approach to the therapy process focuses on helping foster your innate strengths and resiliency while exploring your vulnerabilities and concerns. Together we help you build a greater understanding of yourself through healing limiting patterns, fears, and beliefs. In this way, you become rooted in a life grounded in meaning, aliveness, and depth. I believe that building a stronger relationship with yourself can help cultivate healthier relationships with others, making them easier to initiate, maintain, and enjoy.

My work focuses on individuals, couples, and families who require intensive support to navigate through serious psychiatric conditions such as severe depression, anxiety, trauma, substance abuse or living in a household with someone who struggles with substance abuse or addiction. I help teens, stuck young adults, and stressed families navigate the perilous journey to find serenity and sanity in their daily lives. Throughout my experiences, I have learned that effective treatment starts with authenticity, directness, and consistency. These factors lay the foundation for the most important aspect of successful therapy: safety.

In my practice, I work with individuals, families and groups who are interested in identifying root causes of the challenges they are experiencing in order to transform, restore and repair relationships. Using a foundation of restorative justice practices, mediation and psychotherapy, I partner with my clients to help them transform their perspectives and beliefs in order to achieve the personal goals they are seeking. I work holistically with my clients, taking into account historical and societal impacts and help you identify behavioral patterns that no longer serve you in order to facilitate new learnings. Feel better, do better.

While your relational style helped you to navigate your childhood, you, like many people, may feel frustrated by painful life-long patterns of relating (to yourself and others) which seem to repeat. I empathize with this frustration and work with you to more deeply understand yourself so that you can enact real and lasting change.

Welcome to my private practice: Are you distressed and need more support? Many seek therapy to end or alleviate often life long or long term painful symptoms or patterns that may be too complex to address on their own that may be very treatable. I provide a safe, nonjudgmental, supportive place and work collaboratively to help develop awareness and skills and through therapeutic modalities to improve or eliminate distressing symptoms or problems to assist you in reaching your full potential. Education: UC Berkeley-psychology and Doctorate at California School of Professional Psychology.

Do you feel overwhelmed with worries, regrets, or negative emotions? Or a feeling you can’t shake that things don’t feel as good as they should? These feelings can hold us back from creating the changes we want in our life. Transitions can feel unsettling, affecting our relationships, our sense of self, our work, and our wellbeing. Facing these moments can be opportunities for healing that create a deeper sense of peace and contentment. Grief and loss, times of increased stress (hello pandemic!), challenges in our relationships with others and ourselves are just some areas in which we can work together to find new perspective.

I believe that human beings have an inner motivating force that moves them toward more health and fulfillment. Life is difficult. We all have our particular, usually life long issues that get in the way of our personal growth. The going is often ridiculously slow and repetitive; this is where therapy can be so helpful. I think and feel it is an honor to be let into someone’s life and be a catalyst for beneficial change. I believe in being happy NOW! So I will not hesitate to be straightforward and directive if I think it will be helpful.

As LGBTQ people we often find ourselves wondering "where do I belong in this world?" and "why can't I just be myself?" It seems like we've tried everything but we don't feel like we belong or we are in a safe place to live & work. We often wonder... when is this going to get better? When can I just live my life fully how I am? Sometimes we feel sad and it can be a very lonely place. We can even forget just how special and unique we are because we are so different and surrounded by those who just don't get it. We really want someone who can connect to us and make our experiences feel validated, reminding us that we are beautiful.

Are you concerned or confused by your child's behavior? Has your child's teacher suggested your child work with a therapist? Are you worried that your child is under stress? Do you feel like you are not a good parent for your child? It is very difficult to parent a child who is struggling with challenging feelings and behaviors. I provide therapeutic support to kids who struggle with ADHD, anxiety, depression, grief and loss, adoption issues, learning disabilities, behavioral challenges, academic or social issues, or major life changes. I offer support for parents.