Therapists in 95402

For over 20 years I have been helping men, women and couples when their lives have become painful, deadened, upsetting, or when unexpected events disrupted their lives. I will join with you to help tolerate immediate concerns, to develop effective techniques for you, and if you want, explore further possibilities for more satisfying relationships and life. I'm experienced in both brief, solution-focused therapy, and exploratory deep therapy. I offer clients an empathic, collaborative and individually-focused therapeutic relationship: the surprising paradox of relationship is how we can become more true to ourselves by fully being with someone else.

Whatever is troubling you, anxiety or depression, a personal crisis or loss, difficulties with a partner or concern about a child's behavior - relief is possible. I work with individuals, children, teens, adults, couples and families, and treat a wide range of the human experience, including anxiety, depression, grief, PTSD, panic attacks, borderline personality disorder, bi-polar conditions and anger management. My approach is character analytic which offers an opportunity for clients to experience a wider range of feelings, resulting in more energy and an ability to move through life's difficulties and experience life's pleasures.

I believe that having someone provide you genuine support and guidance can help manage many of life challenges. We have flexible hours for working professionals including late evenings and Saturdays. If not satisficed you will not pay.

Look at birds: they make great sky circles of their freedom. How do they learn to do that? They fall, and in falling, they are given wings. -Rumi

My ideal clients want to resolve the stumbling blocks in a variety of areas. Those include facing or have a family member facing a life altering medical condition and their challenges, dealing with traumas. Clients often come to me with anxiety, depression, self-esteem issues. We explore avenues to overcome or adapt to those conditions. Many clients determine as we work together that they need help with how they communicate - with themselves as well as with others.

Hi, I welcome and look forward to meeting you. I enjoy working with individuals and couples and believe we all have great capacity to heal ourselves and our relationships. As a therapist, I am interactive, compassionate, intuitive and humorous. I offer a safe, supportive and non-judgmental environment and what is important to you is important to me.

Therapy provides the opportunity to address personal concerns while identifying strengths to improve functioning, recovery, and growth. By taking a non-judgemental collaborative stance in therapy, I am able to help support positive and long lasting change. I offer a variety of methods to clients of all ages who are interested in exploring and resolving internal conflicts and overcoming challenges that prevent them from realizing their full potential. I can help you or your child build self-esteem and social skills, improve communication skills, and provide the tools to help cope with emotions.

Life can be so challenging - bills, relationships, health, children. Oftentimes, it is natural to need help, and therapy can be just what you need to get refocused, increase your stamina and well-being, or simply live your life more richly and joyfully. I have been through my share of challenges, and am so thrilled when I am able to help another navigate and feel better! I mix my clinical skills with my compassion, empathy and personal experience to give clients a professional package that is real, rich and therapeutically sound.

Has life dropped an unwanted change in your lap? Or perhaps a change is what you want to achieve. I offer guidance to support you in coping with the realities of life, and in creating new ways of being in life. I bring compassion and commitment to my work. My clients find that I am gentle but also direct and responsive. Your sense of emotional safety - that you feel heard, understood, and accepted - is the foundation of our relationship.

I have been in the field of psychology since 1985. I am licensed as Marriage Family Therapist (1989) and Clinical Psychologist (1992).What guides my work is the belief that everyone, no matter their behavior, is doing the very best they can in that moment. Most often, aberrant behavior is the result of beliefs learned in childhood that are brought forward into adulthood which are no longer appropriate or functional.

Dr. David Sortino holds a Master's degree in Human Development from Harvard University and a Ph.D. in Clinical psychology from Saybrook University. He has spent the last 40 years as a teacher, director (residential/day treatment) to SED/LH children and Adolescents. In addition he holds RSP, LH, and multiple subject teaching credentials. He has taught child/adolescent psy. at the graduate school level. The past 4 years he has seved as the director of the Neurofeedback Institute of Sonoma County. Dr. Sortino writes a blog - See Dr. David Sortino - Santa Rosa Press Democrat and over 50 articles.

I am specialized in the treatment of older persons. A major issue in aging is the Life Review, and working with persons involved in a Life Review is a primary focus of treatment with me. Erik Erikson has identified the need to resolve the crisis between having an awareness of having lived a meaningful life versus the sense of despair that comes with the feeling that one's life has been meaningless.

Is your child struggling with too many worries? Is your son or daughter a different kind of learner? Are evening times filled with stressful homework battles? Do you wish you could better understand your child's challenges, find more time to enjoy family, rediscover the best and most creative part of yourself?

If you are looking for a therapist that sits quietly occasionally asking "how you feel"? Then I'm not for you. I am an interactive, honest and caring person specializing civilian, military, Vets and family issues, PTSD, TRAUMA anxiety, Ocd , hidden wounds, Alcohol and internet addiction, grief & loss to name a few. I Create a partnership together, work through whatever problems you have. I have over 30 years doing what I love; witnessing my clients find self -acceptance & esteem, feel empowered and laugh again! Therapy has ALWAYS been my passion and purpose! Call for a free 15 minute phone consultation.

Whatever circumstances have led you to seek help, I commend you for taking this step. Seeking help can be hard. No one wants to be misunderstood or judged. The truth is that everyone struggles with difficulties in life at one point or another. Though you've probably tried everything you can think of already to figure things out on your own, the changes you want haven't materialized.

In life we all have opportunities for growth and change, and no one person or challenge is the same. Therapy can be a place to gain awareness, insight, and most importantly find the confidence and personal power to make changes. I work to help clients identify and acknowledge what is not working for them as well as find their own path toward solutions.