Art Therapy in El Cerrito, CA
My clients are often sensitive, intelligent, and creative people who face life transitions, self-doubt, anxiety, depression, and the challenges of liberating passion and creating meaning in life. Many struggle with the legacy of significant trauma.
Through acceptance, loving encouragement, and providing a container for self-exploration, I help clients to find a more encompassing love for self and other, develop strength and firmness of character, and tap into the well of their vitality, creativity, and joy.
My clients are often sensitive, intelligent, and creative people who face life transitions, self-doubt, anxiety, depression, and the challenges of liberating passion and creating meaning in life. Many struggle with the legacy of significant trauma.
Through acceptance, loving encouragement, and providing a container for self-exploration, I help clients to find a more encompassing love for self and other, develop strength and firmness of character, and tap into the well of their vitality, creativity, and joy.
While I address many personal and situational challenges, my approach is especially suited for Dementia and forgetfulness, ADHD, procrastination, work-related lack of clarity, relationship dissatisfaction and existential anxiety. Rooted in contemplative psychology and meditation, my work includes 1. virtual sessions focused on creative self-observation, and 2. Somatic manual work for bodily relaxation and awareness when appropriate. I work with people who want to learn what it means to be one with their experience. I sometimes pick up where other psychotherapists may have left off: focussing on the FlOW of the everyday life.
While I address many personal and situational challenges, my approach is especially suited for Dementia and forgetfulness, ADHD, procrastination, work-related lack of clarity, relationship dissatisfaction and existential anxiety. Rooted in contemplative psychology and meditation, my work includes 1. virtual sessions focused on creative self-observation, and 2. Somatic manual work for bodily relaxation and awareness when appropriate. I work with people who want to learn what it means to be one with their experience. I sometimes pick up where other psychotherapists may have left off: focussing on the FlOW of the everyday life.
Rachel Eisenstat
Marriage & Family Therapist Associate, MA, APCC, AMFT
1 Endorsed
El Cerrito, CA 94530
I work with clients experiencing anxiety and low self-esteem who are ready to build a more secure, authentic relationship with themselves and the world around them. Through a trauma-informed, somatic approach, I support your innate capacity to heal by centering your strengths and cultivating an internal sense of safety and belonging.
Using body-based and relational practices to support self-regulation, we can work together to build resilience in the face of overwhelm, deepen connection, and foster more compassionate, secure relationships- with yourself, your past, and others.
I work with clients experiencing anxiety and low self-esteem who are ready to build a more secure, authentic relationship with themselves and the world around them. Through a trauma-informed, somatic approach, I support your innate capacity to heal by centering your strengths and cultivating an internal sense of safety and belonging.
Using body-based and relational practices to support self-regulation, we can work together to build resilience in the face of overwhelm, deepen connection, and foster more compassionate, secure relationships- with yourself, your past, and others.
We are an incorporated psychotherapy group practice established in 1985. We specialize in working with children, adults, families who are dealing with issues of sexual abuse and/or other forms of trauma. We also provide co-parenting, custody evaluation, forensic evaluation, family reunification, and general psychotherapy services, including couples counseling.
We are an incorporated psychotherapy group practice established in 1985. We specialize in working with children, adults, families who are dealing with issues of sexual abuse and/or other forms of trauma. We also provide co-parenting, custody evaluation, forensic evaluation, family reunification, and general psychotherapy services, including couples counseling.
Welcome! If you are a parent, or an adult struggling with depression, anxiety or memories of painful events, I can help you. I can help you with difficult child behaviors. If your child is angry, if they are fighting in school, or has learning difficulties, I can help you. For many years, I have been investing all my professional skills and my heart into helping wonderful children and families to heal. Please, tell me about your relationship with yourself, and with the world. Please, tell me how I can support and nurture you.
Welcome! If you are a parent, or an adult struggling with depression, anxiety or memories of painful events, I can help you. I can help you with difficult child behaviors. If your child is angry, if they are fighting in school, or has learning difficulties, I can help you. For many years, I have been investing all my professional skills and my heart into helping wonderful children and families to heal. Please, tell me about your relationship with yourself, and with the world. Please, tell me how I can support and nurture you.
Feeling overwhelmed? Is anxiety, grief, or stress taking over? I'm here to help. I offer therapy for adults, kids, and families that's strengths-based, collaborative, and solution-focused. We'll create positive momentum from our first meeting. Building on the strengths you or your child already have, I’ll offer tools and strategies to use when challenging situations arise. You'll gain a new perspective, a sense of hope, and practical strategies to use during the week.
Feeling overwhelmed? Is anxiety, grief, or stress taking over? I'm here to help. I offer therapy for adults, kids, and families that's strengths-based, collaborative, and solution-focused. We'll create positive momentum from our first meeting. Building on the strengths you or your child already have, I’ll offer tools and strategies to use when challenging situations arise. You'll gain a new perspective, a sense of hope, and practical strategies to use during the week.
Healing is not a solo journey—it’s rooted in connection, culture, and courage. I honor the strength it takes to seek support, and I welcome you into a space where your story matters. As a bilingual, trauma-informed therapist and clinical leader, I specialize in supporting individuals navigating life transitions, anxiety, depression, and the impact of trauma. My approach is collaborative and client-centered, shaped by your lived experience, cultural identity, and personal goals.
Healing is not a solo journey—it’s rooted in connection, culture, and courage. I honor the strength it takes to seek support, and I welcome you into a space where your story matters. As a bilingual, trauma-informed therapist and clinical leader, I specialize in supporting individuals navigating life transitions, anxiety, depression, and the impact of trauma. My approach is collaborative and client-centered, shaped by your lived experience, cultural identity, and personal goals.
I view psychotherapy as a special blend of art and science, and have background and experience in both.
You may be suffering from inexplicable sadness or anxiety, or problems focusing. You might feel blocked in achieving your creative or work goals and want to figure out what is getting in your way. You might be having health problems and need help sorting out how what is truly out of your control or what might be stress related. I have specialized training in psychodynamic psychotherapy which allows me to listen with special attention to unconscious processes. I am also a graduate of the Psychoanalytic Couples Psychotherapy Group and help many couples navigate difficult patches in their relationships.
I view psychotherapy as a special blend of art and science, and have background and experience in both.
You may be suffering from inexplicable sadness or anxiety, or problems focusing. You might feel blocked in achieving your creative or work goals and want to figure out what is getting in your way. You might be having health problems and need help sorting out how what is truly out of your control or what might be stress related. I have specialized training in psychodynamic psychotherapy which allows me to listen with special attention to unconscious processes. I am also a graduate of the Psychoanalytic Couples Psychotherapy Group and help many couples navigate difficult patches in their relationships.
You’re not alone in this. Change is possible, and you don’t have to figure it out by yourself. I’m a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist who believes everyone deserves happiness, health, and tranquility in their lives. My role is to support and guide you in reconnecting with your strengths while helping you build tools for meaningful, lasting change. I take an integrative, collaborative, and evidence-based approach, tailoring therapy to your unique needs. I incorporate trauma-informed care and mind-body awareness to help you better understand how your experiences may be impacting you today.
You’re not alone in this. Change is possible, and you don’t have to figure it out by yourself. I’m a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist who believes everyone deserves happiness, health, and tranquility in their lives. My role is to support and guide you in reconnecting with your strengths while helping you build tools for meaningful, lasting change. I take an integrative, collaborative, and evidence-based approach, tailoring therapy to your unique needs. I incorporate trauma-informed care and mind-body awareness to help you better understand how your experiences may be impacting you today.
I take a real-world, client-centered approach to therapy, combining elements of relational attachment theory, CBT, solution-focused therapy, and art therapy to create a truly unique and transformative experience.
With a focus on empathy, self-exploration, and authenticity, we'll create a warm and supportive space where you can feel seen, heard, and truly understood. Let's work together to tackle life's challenges and find lasting solutions to create real change and impact on your life.
I take a real-world, client-centered approach to therapy, combining elements of relational attachment theory, CBT, solution-focused therapy, and art therapy to create a truly unique and transformative experience.
With a focus on empathy, self-exploration, and authenticity, we'll create a warm and supportive space where you can feel seen, heard, and truly understood. Let's work together to tackle life's challenges and find lasting solutions to create real change and impact on your life.
Sometimes, the stress of daily life can exhaust our ability to cope. A child struggling in school, family conflicts, traumatic events, major life transitions, the loss of a loved one, friend, or pet, financial and/or medical issues, pregnancy and the birth of a child—all of these experiences can leave us feeling overwhelmed, helpless, and defeated. From experience and research, we know that stressful experiences--sudden or chronic--can lead to feelings of disconnection, sadness, anxiety, low self-esteem, and conflict within ourselves and with our friends and loved ones.
Sometimes, the stress of daily life can exhaust our ability to cope. A child struggling in school, family conflicts, traumatic events, major life transitions, the loss of a loved one, friend, or pet, financial and/or medical issues, pregnancy and the birth of a child—all of these experiences can leave us feeling overwhelmed, helpless, and defeated. From experience and research, we know that stressful experiences--sudden or chronic--can lead to feelings of disconnection, sadness, anxiety, low self-esteem, and conflict within ourselves and with our friends and loved ones.
I see folx who navigate intersectional identities (Latinx/BIPOC, immigrants, queer, trans, non-binary). I work with any number of issues including: depression, anxiety, ADHD, neurodivergence, learning disabilities, chronic pain, financial trauma, adoption, aging, self-esteem, body image, creativity, life transitions, and life purpose. I see people 14 years of age and up.
I see folx who navigate intersectional identities (Latinx/BIPOC, immigrants, queer, trans, non-binary). I work with any number of issues including: depression, anxiety, ADHD, neurodivergence, learning disabilities, chronic pain, financial trauma, adoption, aging, self-esteem, body image, creativity, life transitions, and life purpose. I see people 14 years of age and up.
As a therapist for over thirty years, the focus of my work is helping people to create and sustain healthy relationships, and to learn how to thrive in their lives. I listen carefully to the nuances of what you say and don't say, and help you to become more aware of your unconscious beliefs and the energy that you hold in your body that may be an obstacle to your creating the life and relationships that you yearn for. Together, we take the journey of understanding and resolving what is in your way, so that you can discover new pathways to live your life with more joy, ease and connection.
As a therapist for over thirty years, the focus of my work is helping people to create and sustain healthy relationships, and to learn how to thrive in their lives. I listen carefully to the nuances of what you say and don't say, and help you to become more aware of your unconscious beliefs and the energy that you hold in your body that may be an obstacle to your creating the life and relationships that you yearn for. Together, we take the journey of understanding and resolving what is in your way, so that you can discover new pathways to live your life with more joy, ease and connection.
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For 35 + years I have worked with children, teens and adults dealing with grief and loss, their relationship to themselves and others. We get curious about your objectives and focus on your values and goals as you move from pain to new possibilities. Everyone has strengths on which to build, grow, heal and choose the life they long for. Together we explore your unique gifts and deepen your sense of self-worth. I support you in creating a happy, healthy connection to your journey and the world we live in.
For 35 + years I have worked with children, teens and adults dealing with grief and loss, their relationship to themselves and others. We get curious about your objectives and focus on your values and goals as you move from pain to new possibilities. Everyone has strengths on which to build, grow, heal and choose the life they long for. Together we explore your unique gifts and deepen your sense of self-worth. I support you in creating a happy, healthy connection to your journey and the world we live in.
Welcome! I'm so glad you've found your way here!
I'm a somatic psychotherapist offering virtual sessions in California and both in-person and virtual sessions in Oregon. My work centers on helping clients deepen their connection to themselves through present-moment awareness and embodied experience.
In our sessions, you'll have the opportunity to explore not only through conversation, but also through experiential practices that support insight, integration, and healing. My hope is that each time we meet, you feel supported, grounded, and genuinely accompanied on your journey.
Welcome! I'm so glad you've found your way here!
I'm a somatic psychotherapist offering virtual sessions in California and both in-person and virtual sessions in Oregon. My work centers on helping clients deepen their connection to themselves through present-moment awareness and embodied experience.
In our sessions, you'll have the opportunity to explore not only through conversation, but also through experiential practices that support insight, integration, and healing. My hope is that each time we meet, you feel supported, grounded, and genuinely accompanied on your journey.
I'm trained in trauma processing modalities like Deep Brain Reorienting and The Comprehensive Resource Model, but I also may weave in art therapy and mindfulness meditation.
I work with adults seeking to process what's underneath. Are you feeling anxious and frustrated as you notice the same challenging patterns repeat? I want to help you thoroughly understand and process what is driving those behaviors so you can start to feel liberation from them. I often work with folks struggling with anxiety, anger, relationship problems, ADHD, dissociation, sensory sensitivities, and creative blocks. I'm here to help you find out how to step into underlying pain in a manageable way. Because it's possible to process this and actually feel relief.
I'm trained in trauma processing modalities like Deep Brain Reorienting and The Comprehensive Resource Model, but I also may weave in art therapy and mindfulness meditation.
I work with adults seeking to process what's underneath. Are you feeling anxious and frustrated as you notice the same challenging patterns repeat? I want to help you thoroughly understand and process what is driving those behaviors so you can start to feel liberation from them. I often work with folks struggling with anxiety, anger, relationship problems, ADHD, dissociation, sensory sensitivities, and creative blocks. I'm here to help you find out how to step into underlying pain in a manageable way. Because it's possible to process this and actually feel relief.
If you are someone struggling in life right now, I would love to help you. I love what I do and I work hard for my clients to help them become the best versions of themselves. I offer individual, family and couples counseling. From my experience as a stay at home Dad of 5 years, I gained a special interest in working with parents and families.
If you are someone struggling in life right now, I would love to help you. I love what I do and I work hard for my clients to help them become the best versions of themselves. I offer individual, family and couples counseling. From my experience as a stay at home Dad of 5 years, I gained a special interest in working with parents and families.
I am a licensed art therapist and completed my doctorate in Art Therapy Psychology.
My clinical approach is relationally based; I believe in working in a collaborative non-judgmental space to meet your needs and treatment goals. I'm experienced working with individuals with anxiety, depression, substance-use disorders, ADHD, trauma/PTSD, and other challenges related to life transitions across the lifespan. I primarily utilize a neurobiologically-informed Dialetical Behavioral Therapy or Acceptance and Commitment Therapy approach with a culturally humble lens and have significant experience implementing this approach with resilient adolescents and young adults.
I am a licensed art therapist and completed my doctorate in Art Therapy Psychology.
My clinical approach is relationally based; I believe in working in a collaborative non-judgmental space to meet your needs and treatment goals. I'm experienced working with individuals with anxiety, depression, substance-use disorders, ADHD, trauma/PTSD, and other challenges related to life transitions across the lifespan. I primarily utilize a neurobiologically-informed Dialetical Behavioral Therapy or Acceptance and Commitment Therapy approach with a culturally humble lens and have significant experience implementing this approach with resilient adolescents and young adults.
I work with individuals who feel overwhelmed by intense emotions, mood struggles, and the long shadows of trauma. If you’ve experienced anxiety, depression, or traits of borderline personality that make everyday life feel heavy or confusing, you’re not alone, and this work is for you. Many of my clients want to feel steady, understood, and genuinely safe inside themselves and in connection with others. In therapy with me, you’ll find a warm, attuned space where your inner experience is welcomed and respected. Together, we gently explore old wounds, heal patterns that keep you stuck, and build the skills.
I work with individuals who feel overwhelmed by intense emotions, mood struggles, and the long shadows of trauma. If you’ve experienced anxiety, depression, or traits of borderline personality that make everyday life feel heavy or confusing, you’re not alone, and this work is for you. Many of my clients want to feel steady, understood, and genuinely safe inside themselves and in connection with others. In therapy with me, you’ll find a warm, attuned space where your inner experience is welcomed and respected. Together, we gently explore old wounds, heal patterns that keep you stuck, and build the skills.
Let's ride the wave of life together! What's up! My name is David and I am a Licensed Clinical Social Worker from Los Angeles, CA. I am a therapist passionate about helping adults navigate life without the stigma around mental health.I am a therapist who comes to the space with a strengths based and solution focused approach, the motivation to help you understand the connection between your thoughts, feelings, & behaviors, and the empathy to meet you where you are at to better understand your perspective .
Let's ride the wave of life together! What's up! My name is David and I am a Licensed Clinical Social Worker from Los Angeles, CA. I am a therapist passionate about helping adults navigate life without the stigma around mental health.I am a therapist who comes to the space with a strengths based and solution focused approach, the motivation to help you understand the connection between your thoughts, feelings, & behaviors, and the empathy to meet you where you are at to better understand your perspective .
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Art Therapy
How does art therapy work?
The process of making art allows people to express themselves. Art-making can take many forms, such as painting, collage, or sculpting. The therapist asks questions that the work elicits, such as how the person felt while creating their piece, or if any memories surfaced that they can discuss. The therapist will then work with the patient to process their experience, understand themselves better, and work toward change.
Does art therapy help with trauma?
Art therapy can be a valuable treatment option for those suffering from trauma. Traumatic experiences such as combat, rape, or childhood abuse can be so painful that articulating them can be too scary or painful; creating art allows people to express themselves without words, and tell their story in a different way. The physical nature of creating art can also help people feel rooted in the body, which may benefit those who feel disconnected from their body in the aftermath of trauma.
How long does art therapy last?
The duration of art therapy varies, but a common length for treatment is 10 to 15 weekly sessions. Some people may see improvement in just a few weeks, while others may choose to remain in therapy longer term. Patients should periodically discuss their goals with their therapist to make sure the two are aligned on process and progress.
What are the limitations of art therapy?
Art therapy is helpful for many people, but a limitation is that it doesn’t have as robust an evidence base as other forms of therapy, such as cognitive behavioral therapy or acceptance and commitment therapy. The evidence on art therapy is mixed; some research demonstrates its benefits, while other research suggests that it has little impact on patients.