Geriatric Therapists in El Cerrito, CA
I work with fellow seniors and have many clients who are therapists themselves.
Psychotherapy is an effective way to make sense of the complexity in life’s journey. I am committed to working in a trusting, creative, dynamic, and caring process that helps you achieve your goals.
As a Californian, I have always deeply valued our varied and wonderful communities. I approach therapy by working together in a collaborative process tailored to meet your needs. The result can be profound understanding about how you make sense of yourself and others in your life, and how to change the ways you impact your world.
My aim is to soften harsh self-judgment, allowing for fuller understanding and meaningful growth.
I work with fellow seniors and have many clients who are therapists themselves.
Psychotherapy is an effective way to make sense of the complexity in life’s journey. I am committed to working in a trusting, creative, dynamic, and caring process that helps you achieve your goals.
As a Californian, I have always deeply valued our varied and wonderful communities. I approach therapy by working together in a collaborative process tailored to meet your needs. The result can be profound understanding about how you make sense of yourself and others in your life, and how to change the ways you impact your world.
My aim is to soften harsh self-judgment, allowing for fuller understanding and meaningful growth.
Sometimes life feels too challenging and we need support to help sift through what is slowing us down from achieving a full, meaningful life. I will offer you a respectful, safe, collaborative environment in which to explore and move through difficult emotions, behaviors and reactions. You are the expert of your own life and my role is to guide you towards remembering and recognizing your innate capacity and offer tools and resources to support your process. My experience of 25 years in working across the lifespan with teens, adults, elders, couples and families informs the care I offer.
Sometimes life feels too challenging and we need support to help sift through what is slowing us down from achieving a full, meaningful life. I will offer you a respectful, safe, collaborative environment in which to explore and move through difficult emotions, behaviors and reactions. You are the expert of your own life and my role is to guide you towards remembering and recognizing your innate capacity and offer tools and resources to support your process. My experience of 25 years in working across the lifespan with teens, adults, elders, couples and families informs the care I offer.
When life feels chaotic and overwhelming, it can be hard to know where to start or how to find a steadier way forward. Many people come to therapy feeling stretched thin—managing anxiety, depression, grief, or relationship challenges while trying to keep the rest of life running. They want relief, but also a clearer understanding of what’s contributing to their stress. Most of all, they want to feel more centered, more confident, and more connected to who they are. My role is to help you find that place, offer new perspectives, and teach more adaptive coping strategies.
When life feels chaotic and overwhelming, it can be hard to know where to start or how to find a steadier way forward. Many people come to therapy feeling stretched thin—managing anxiety, depression, grief, or relationship challenges while trying to keep the rest of life running. They want relief, but also a clearer understanding of what’s contributing to their stress. Most of all, they want to feel more centered, more confident, and more connected to who they are. My role is to help you find that place, offer new perspectives, and teach more adaptive coping strategies.
Everyone's story is unique. What is important that a therapist knows about you? Compassion, being heard, and kindness are imperative to me.
Do you struggle with life transitions, worry, anxiety, stress, depression, late-life depression, fear, anger, trauma, chronic pain, wanting to stop drinking or using, but you can't stay stopped? Are you wanting to feel confidence, happiness, compassion, or hope again?
Everyone's story is unique. What is important that a therapist knows about you? Compassion, being heard, and kindness are imperative to me.
Do you struggle with life transitions, worry, anxiety, stress, depression, late-life depression, fear, anger, trauma, chronic pain, wanting to stop drinking or using, but you can't stay stopped? Are you wanting to feel confidence, happiness, compassion, or hope again?
As a bi-cultural/bi-lingual Latina Therapist with over twenty five years of experience, I have had the pleasure of working with children, teens and adults from diverse cultural backgrounds. I provide psychotherapy to individuals from a holistic approach: psychodynamic, family systems, CBT and mindfulness. I am a warm, compassionate therapist who strives to provide a welcoming place where my patients feel safe and comfortable to address their presenting symptoms and challenges.
As a bi-cultural/bi-lingual Latina Therapist with over twenty five years of experience, I have had the pleasure of working with children, teens and adults from diverse cultural backgrounds. I provide psychotherapy to individuals from a holistic approach: psychodynamic, family systems, CBT and mindfulness. I am a warm, compassionate therapist who strives to provide a welcoming place where my patients feel safe and comfortable to address their presenting symptoms and challenges.
Whether you or your child struggle with depression, anxiety, phobias, trauma, grief, life transitions, addiction or other conditions, I would be honored to accompany you or your loved ones on your healing journey. Our work will focus on creating the safety and acceptance that allows for change. Because our lives are shaped by the culture in which we live, we can also consider the social forces that may have shaped you, including racial, gender, and class biases.
Whether you or your child struggle with depression, anxiety, phobias, trauma, grief, life transitions, addiction or other conditions, I would be honored to accompany you or your loved ones on your healing journey. Our work will focus on creating the safety and acceptance that allows for change. Because our lives are shaped by the culture in which we live, we can also consider the social forces that may have shaped you, including racial, gender, and class biases.
Life can get tough. Let’s figure it out together.
I work with people going through difficult times and big transitions — the kind that leave you wondering how you got here and what comes next? From job transitions to caring for aging parents, feeling “stuck”, to new relationships, or raising neurodiverse kids to planning for retirement.
Life can get tough. Let’s figure it out together.
I work with people going through difficult times and big transitions — the kind that leave you wondering how you got here and what comes next? From job transitions to caring for aging parents, feeling “stuck”, to new relationships, or raising neurodiverse kids to planning for retirement.
Do you find yourself having a difficult time coping with anxiety, depression, and trauma? Do you have a hard time communicating and setting boundaries with others? Life is full of obstacles and hardships that may be difficult to overcome without the right tools, resources, and, guidance leading to the manifestation of these symptoms. I specialize in working with adults, couples, and adolescents using a Psychodynamic approach to explore unconscious thoughts and behaviors. In doing this, we are able to collaboratively recognize old ineffective patterns and process unresolved feelings and trauma.
Do you find yourself having a difficult time coping with anxiety, depression, and trauma? Do you have a hard time communicating and setting boundaries with others? Life is full of obstacles and hardships that may be difficult to overcome without the right tools, resources, and, guidance leading to the manifestation of these symptoms. I specialize in working with adults, couples, and adolescents using a Psychodynamic approach to explore unconscious thoughts and behaviors. In doing this, we are able to collaboratively recognize old ineffective patterns and process unresolved feelings and trauma.
Are you struggling with anxiety or depression, navigating a life transition, feeling stuck in limiting relational patterns, contending with critical inner voices, relying on unhealthy coping strategies, or seeking to heal from difficult family experiences? Do you have the sense that you need to make some changes in order to find more satisfaction in your life, but are unsure how to go about doing so? Reaching out for help can feel like a risk, but it is also an act of bravery...and a necessary first step.
Are you struggling with anxiety or depression, navigating a life transition, feeling stuck in limiting relational patterns, contending with critical inner voices, relying on unhealthy coping strategies, or seeking to heal from difficult family experiences? Do you have the sense that you need to make some changes in order to find more satisfaction in your life, but are unsure how to go about doing so? Reaching out for help can feel like a risk, but it is also an act of bravery...and a necessary first step.
Anxiety and depression often signal that something important is going on . . . just beneath the surface. Making sense of this pain, how it's guided you in the past, and its current role in perceiving the world, your place in it, and how to get what you truly desire is at the core of our work. Meeting weekly, or more frequently, therapy provides an environment to help reflect, understand, and grow. My experience and interest encompasses formal diagnoses (abuse history, serious mental illnesses, and trauma) or that less defined, more pervasive sense that something is just a little off.
Anxiety and depression often signal that something important is going on . . . just beneath the surface. Making sense of this pain, how it's guided you in the past, and its current role in perceiving the world, your place in it, and how to get what you truly desire is at the core of our work. Meeting weekly, or more frequently, therapy provides an environment to help reflect, understand, and grow. My experience and interest encompasses formal diagnoses (abuse history, serious mental illnesses, and trauma) or that less defined, more pervasive sense that something is just a little off.
Welcome! I specialize in relationships, work and parenting. I’m warm, creative, supportive & smart. I like to help people in life transitions. These are hard times. If you’re feeling alone, overwhelmed, upset or worried about the future, let me help. We collaborate to address the hard things in your life, discover your unique abilities & strengths & create a path toward your dreams and goals. I am a licensed psychotherapist with 30 + years’ experience working with people from age 2 to 100. I create space where you can feel comfortable expressing feelings & exploring difficult issues. We transform you’re goals into do-able steps.
Welcome! I specialize in relationships, work and parenting. I’m warm, creative, supportive & smart. I like to help people in life transitions. These are hard times. If you’re feeling alone, overwhelmed, upset or worried about the future, let me help. We collaborate to address the hard things in your life, discover your unique abilities & strengths & create a path toward your dreams and goals. I am a licensed psychotherapist with 30 + years’ experience working with people from age 2 to 100. I create space where you can feel comfortable expressing feelings & exploring difficult issues. We transform you’re goals into do-able steps.
My therapeutic approach mainly focuses on helping my clients identify their strengths to help alleviate anxiety, depression, and trauma. I am a firm believer that our childhood experiences contribute to our beliefs, behavioral patterns, and selecting a romantic partner. Therapy is a process! To allow ourselves to be intimate and vulnerable with someone about our experiences and trauma can be daunting. As a therapist, it is my goal to help validate, create a safe environment and help understand aspects of lived experiences.
My therapeutic approach mainly focuses on helping my clients identify their strengths to help alleviate anxiety, depression, and trauma. I am a firm believer that our childhood experiences contribute to our beliefs, behavioral patterns, and selecting a romantic partner. Therapy is a process! To allow ourselves to be intimate and vulnerable with someone about our experiences and trauma can be daunting. As a therapist, it is my goal to help validate, create a safe environment and help understand aspects of lived experiences.
I aim to hold a reflective space where you don’t have to simplify who you are or what you’ve been through. In therapy, we can form the kind of relationship where you feel safe to look at (and tend to) the parts of yourself that are often overlooked.
I love working with people in all stages and phases of life as they navigate the experience of being a complex human in a complex world. I am honored to hear and hold the stories of my clients and their families and to get to know the rich texture of their lives, longings, fears and dreams.
I aim to hold a reflective space where you don’t have to simplify who you are or what you’ve been through. In therapy, we can form the kind of relationship where you feel safe to look at (and tend to) the parts of yourself that are often overlooked.
I love working with people in all stages and phases of life as they navigate the experience of being a complex human in a complex world. I am honored to hear and hold the stories of my clients and their families and to get to know the rich texture of their lives, longings, fears and dreams.
Of late, it seems, many of my clients are couples; men ; adolescents; and mid-life and elderly of both sexes.
In this day and age of the fast and quick--Long term, client centered, depth oriented, let's take a real good look, psychotherapy seems a creature of the distant past. Yet it is what allows us to better discover ourselves and our relationships.
Of late, it seems, many of my clients are couples; men ; adolescents; and mid-life and elderly of both sexes.
In this day and age of the fast and quick--Long term, client centered, depth oriented, let's take a real good look, psychotherapy seems a creature of the distant past. Yet it is what allows us to better discover ourselves and our relationships.
It's easy to become numb or defeated in a world that is much too painful. Therapy does not make us feel better all the time but it makes us better at feeling. It's worth it. Because when we are responsive to our inner lives, we are able to act on our desires and to live meaningfully with intractable problems.
I welcome your messiness and darkness while being equally curious about your distinctiveness and creativity. The relationship we develop can be a space of self-observation and experimentation. The purpose is to find a greater sense of connection with ourselves, with others and, finally, with aliveness itself.
It's easy to become numb or defeated in a world that is much too painful. Therapy does not make us feel better all the time but it makes us better at feeling. It's worth it. Because when we are responsive to our inner lives, we are able to act on our desires and to live meaningfully with intractable problems.
I welcome your messiness and darkness while being equally curious about your distinctiveness and creativity. The relationship we develop can be a space of self-observation and experimentation. The purpose is to find a greater sense of connection with ourselves, with others and, finally, with aliveness itself.
I enjoy working with people in transition, whether it be students heading off to college, twenty-somethings learning to live as adults in the world, people entering new relationships or professions, separating or divorcing from partners, or those in later stages of life who are letting go of their identities and seek new ways of being.
Areas of specialty: Depression, grief, life transitions, breakups, navigating college, anxiety, addiction, 12-step recovery, codependency, trauma, athletic performance, being a caregiver, and the existential anxieties brought on by living in a time of social, political and environmental crisis.
I enjoy working with people in transition, whether it be students heading off to college, twenty-somethings learning to live as adults in the world, people entering new relationships or professions, separating or divorcing from partners, or those in later stages of life who are letting go of their identities and seek new ways of being.
Areas of specialty: Depression, grief, life transitions, breakups, navigating college, anxiety, addiction, 12-step recovery, codependency, trauma, athletic performance, being a caregiver, and the existential anxieties brought on by living in a time of social, political and environmental crisis.
I am a couple’s therapist here to help you heal relationship stress that prevents you from moving further forward in your partnership. These emotions leave you feeling insecure, shameful, lonely, unworthy and stuck in unhealthy patterns of behavior. Trauma can have negative emotional and physical effects and can lead to family/relationship issues. I specialize in solution-focused brief therapy, motivational interviewing, mindfulness and CBT. These approaches allow me to work with the client to decrease symptoms of anxiety and depression and other health/behavioral issues.
I am a couple’s therapist here to help you heal relationship stress that prevents you from moving further forward in your partnership. These emotions leave you feeling insecure, shameful, lonely, unworthy and stuck in unhealthy patterns of behavior. Trauma can have negative emotional and physical effects and can lead to family/relationship issues. I specialize in solution-focused brief therapy, motivational interviewing, mindfulness and CBT. These approaches allow me to work with the client to decrease symptoms of anxiety and depression and other health/behavioral issues.
I have over 25 years experience working with clients who are experiencing loss as they transition into new phases of their lives. I use an eclectic method to address family of origin issues and how they impact the adult self. I have a straight forward approach that is culturally responsive and focused on problem solving using CBT, ACT, and other modalities.
I custom-tailor the therapeutic process to suit your individual needs. Together, we will set goals for your healing. I will encourage you to draw upon your own strengths and life experience by learning to trust yourself and your intuition.
I have over 25 years experience working with clients who are experiencing loss as they transition into new phases of their lives. I use an eclectic method to address family of origin issues and how they impact the adult self. I have a straight forward approach that is culturally responsive and focused on problem solving using CBT, ACT, and other modalities.
I custom-tailor the therapeutic process to suit your individual needs. Together, we will set goals for your healing. I will encourage you to draw upon your own strengths and life experience by learning to trust yourself and your intuition.
Do you find yourself at a crossroads, with recent events or longstanding issues to sort through and understand? Are you experiencing a challenged relationship, a sadness lingering from Covid isolation, anxieties, a shake up of self esteem, or a desire to re-calibrate life/career goals? What do you want to release and what to retain as learning? I offer compassionate, supportive, resourceful, pragmatic collaboration to help you balance these awarenesses. Together, we will set achievable goals and reclaim your resources within, so that you, and your relationships can move forward in a positive way.
Do you find yourself at a crossroads, with recent events or longstanding issues to sort through and understand? Are you experiencing a challenged relationship, a sadness lingering from Covid isolation, anxieties, a shake up of self esteem, or a desire to re-calibrate life/career goals? What do you want to release and what to retain as learning? I offer compassionate, supportive, resourceful, pragmatic collaboration to help you balance these awarenesses. Together, we will set achievable goals and reclaim your resources within, so that you, and your relationships can move forward in a positive way.
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.
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FAQ - About Geriatric Therapy
What can a geriatric psychologist help with?
Geriatric therapists specialize in the cognitive and neurological challenges that often accompany aging, including dementia, memory loss, and age-related cognitive decline. They also address the psychological conditions that frequently co-occur with these issues, such as depression, anxiety, and grief. Geriatric therapists and psychologists are trained to assess cognitive functioning, identify symptoms that may warrant further evaluation, and conduct or refer for formal neurological assessment when needed. In many cases, geriatric therapists also work closely with medical doctors to manage a client's overall health, and they may support caregivers and family members navigating the demands of caring for an aging loved one.
Why might someone seek a geriatric psychologist?
Someone might seek a geriatric therapist when they or a loved one begins experiencing cognitive or neurological changes and is unsure whether those changes are a normal part of aging or something that requires clinical attention. A geriatric therapist can help connect families with appropriate next steps. They are also commonly sought following a new diagnosis, when clients and families are working to understand what that diagnosis means practically and emotionally, and what to expect as a condition progresses. When seeking a therapist, it can be helpful to consider whether a clinician with a stronger psychotherapy focus or one with more of a social work orientation, who can help connect clients with assisted living or medical resources, would be the better fit.
What type of therapy might a geriatric therapists specialize in?
Geriatric therapist often combine psychotherapy with psychoeducation, helping clients and their families understand cognitive and neurological conditions and what to expect as they progress. For clients experiencing anxiety or depression alongside cognitive decline, therapists may draw on Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) or mindfulness-based approaches. For clients with dementia specifically, therapists may be trained in specialized modalities such as Cognitive Stimulation Therapy (CST), which is designed to preserve cognitive functioning.
Can geriatric psychologists help people who suffer from dementia?
Yes, and this is a core area of geriatric psychology. Therapists specializing in dementia can work directly with clients on memory loss and cognitive functioning, while also addressing conditions that commonly co-occur, such as depression and anxiety. They can provide caregivers with objective assessments of a client's functioning and disease progression, and are typically well-versed in community resources available to dementia patients and their families.