Attachment-based Therapists in Oakland, CA
As a Psychological Associate and ICF Certified Integration Coach, I believe transformation isn't about fixing or changing, but about integrating the parts of ourselves that we might be ashamed of or annoyed by. We can't transform unless we first respect the system that was built to protect us.
I work well with people who feel anxious, emotionally overwhelmed, disconnected from themselves, or stuck in painful relational patterns despite trying everything.
Many clients struggle with overthinking, people-pleasing, burnout, identity shifts, grief, ADHD, or the impact of addiction and emotional volatility in relationships.
As a Psychological Associate and ICF Certified Integration Coach, I believe transformation isn't about fixing or changing, but about integrating the parts of ourselves that we might be ashamed of or annoyed by. We can't transform unless we first respect the system that was built to protect us.
I work well with people who feel anxious, emotionally overwhelmed, disconnected from themselves, or stuck in painful relational patterns despite trying everything.
Many clients struggle with overthinking, people-pleasing, burnout, identity shifts, grief, ADHD, or the impact of addiction and emotional volatility in relationships.
Many clients come to work with me at a time in their lives when they feel disconnected from themselves, stuck in their relationships, or when they are experiencing a major life transition. During these times, people often believe something is wrong with them and fear that others will judge them if they open up about their true feelings. As a result, many people stay quiet about their pain and feel lonely. Being a therapist has taught me that the struggles we encounter in life are far more common than we realize and your healing can be possible with my support.
Many clients come to work with me at a time in their lives when they feel disconnected from themselves, stuck in their relationships, or when they are experiencing a major life transition. During these times, people often believe something is wrong with them and fear that others will judge them if they open up about their true feelings. As a result, many people stay quiet about their pain and feel lonely. Being a therapist has taught me that the struggles we encounter in life are far more common than we realize and your healing can be possible with my support.
Are you struggling to process depression, anxiety, relationship/family issues, and trauma? These emotional ruptures can cause major disruptions in our lives. The work to process these types of life events is multifaceted, and I can help you identify your feelings and potential relational patterns, build tolerance and acceptance around challenging ones, and set meaningful goals. In order to do so, I utilize various therapeutic approaches consisting of ACT, CBT, IFS, and Problem Solving Therapy and somatic interventions.
Are you struggling to process depression, anxiety, relationship/family issues, and trauma? These emotional ruptures can cause major disruptions in our lives. The work to process these types of life events is multifaceted, and I can help you identify your feelings and potential relational patterns, build tolerance and acceptance around challenging ones, and set meaningful goals. In order to do so, I utilize various therapeutic approaches consisting of ACT, CBT, IFS, and Problem Solving Therapy and somatic interventions.
You might want to work with me if you have a hard time identifying your own needs, frequently over-give, easily absorb other people's emotions and energies, make yourself small, and struggle to assert yourself. Our work together can help you feel more grounded, whole, and in alignment with yourself, with better boundaries, more self-confidence, and healthier, more secure relationships. And as a queer, South Asian therapist, I have a nuanced understanding of identity and the impact of systems on our lived realities.
You might want to work with me if you have a hard time identifying your own needs, frequently over-give, easily absorb other people's emotions and energies, make yourself small, and struggle to assert yourself. Our work together can help you feel more grounded, whole, and in alignment with yourself, with better boundaries, more self-confidence, and healthier, more secure relationships. And as a queer, South Asian therapist, I have a nuanced understanding of identity and the impact of systems on our lived realities.
Welcome! I’m a child, adolescent, young adult, and family psychotherapist. I am dedicated to supporting children, young adults, and families navigate life’s many challenges.
Welcome! I’m a child, adolescent, young adult, and family psychotherapist. I am dedicated to supporting children, young adults, and families navigate life’s many challenges.
I provide identity-affirming therapy to support clients to manage mental health and life transitions, improve relationships, increase capacity, recover from burnout, and live more congruent and meaningful lives. I offer an inclusive space that supports clients with marginalized identities navigate systemic stress from a neuro-affirming and anti-oppressive framework. Healing is personal, relational, and shaped by systemic and political realities.
I provide identity-affirming therapy to support clients to manage mental health and life transitions, improve relationships, increase capacity, recover from burnout, and live more congruent and meaningful lives. I offer an inclusive space that supports clients with marginalized identities navigate systemic stress from a neuro-affirming and anti-oppressive framework. Healing is personal, relational, and shaped by systemic and political realities.
I am an attachment-based therapist.
I work with people experiencing infertility and new parents, post-partum mood and anxiety disorders, adults and couples who are dealing with trauma, grief, and life transitions and are struggling with depression and anxiety. I have 20 years experience working with trauma, anxiety, depression, and grief and additional training through PSI in post-partum mood anxiety disorders, loss, and lived experience with infertility. I provide individual therapy, family therapy, parenting consultations, and immigration evaluations for u visas, t visas, asylum, and VAWA. N-648 waiver evaluations with a licensed psychologist. Spanish spoken.
I am an attachment-based therapist.
I work with people experiencing infertility and new parents, post-partum mood and anxiety disorders, adults and couples who are dealing with trauma, grief, and life transitions and are struggling with depression and anxiety. I have 20 years experience working with trauma, anxiety, depression, and grief and additional training through PSI in post-partum mood anxiety disorders, loss, and lived experience with infertility. I provide individual therapy, family therapy, parenting consultations, and immigration evaluations for u visas, t visas, asylum, and VAWA. N-648 waiver evaluations with a licensed psychologist. Spanish spoken.
As your therapist, using mindfulness and a caring presence, I will accompany you on the road to personal growth, supporting you in understanding how you can become appreciative of your behaviors: they helped you come this far! We will explore how you can see your life through different, enriching perspectives to include multiple ways of being in relationship and acting in the world in a more satisfying way for you. It's about empowering you with the ability to choose what you want to live. It is about giving you choices.
As your therapist, using mindfulness and a caring presence, I will accompany you on the road to personal growth, supporting you in understanding how you can become appreciative of your behaviors: they helped you come this far! We will explore how you can see your life through different, enriching perspectives to include multiple ways of being in relationship and acting in the world in a more satisfying way for you. It's about empowering you with the ability to choose what you want to live. It is about giving you choices.
Our therapists use a variety of therapeutic approaches, including CBT, ACT, EMDR, trauma-focused, psychodynamic, attachment-based, somatic, mindfulness-based, and more.
We welcome clients from all backgrounds who are navigating life’s challenges, seeking personal growth, or looking for support through periods of change. Clients come to us for concerns including anxiety, depression, relationships, grief, trauma, stress, and questions about identity or life direction. Our diverse team provides affirming, individualized care, helping each client feel seen, understood, and supported as they move toward meaningful change. Our intake professionals will help connect you with the right therapist for your needs.
Our therapists use a variety of therapeutic approaches, including CBT, ACT, EMDR, trauma-focused, psychodynamic, attachment-based, somatic, mindfulness-based, and more.
We welcome clients from all backgrounds who are navigating life’s challenges, seeking personal growth, or looking for support through periods of change. Clients come to us for concerns including anxiety, depression, relationships, grief, trauma, stress, and questions about identity or life direction. Our diverse team provides affirming, individualized care, helping each client feel seen, understood, and supported as they move toward meaningful change. Our intake professionals will help connect you with the right therapist for your needs.
Through counseling, I support individuals, couples and families to identify patterns in behavior and communication. Our work together will be collaborative and strengths-based. It will encourage shifts in the family to promote healthy expression of emotions and communication to improve relationships. I use a directive style of communication and an active and integrative approach. I encourage parents, caregivers and other family members to be involved in the therapeutic process.
Through counseling, I support individuals, couples and families to identify patterns in behavior and communication. Our work together will be collaborative and strengths-based. It will encourage shifts in the family to promote healthy expression of emotions and communication to improve relationships. I use a directive style of communication and an active and integrative approach. I encourage parents, caregivers and other family members to be involved in the therapeutic process.
I integrate ACT, CBT, DBT, and attachment-based approaches to building emotional awareness, strengthening coping skills, and cultivating secure and fulfilling relationships.
I work with individuals and couples navigating eating disorders, anxiety, depression, trauma, and relationship challenges. If you’re experiencing overwhelm, intrusive thoughts, low mood, body image distress, or feeling stuck in unhealthy patterns with food or others, you’re not alone. Together, we use practical tools such as grounding exercises, mindful awareness, emotion regulation skills, and gentle behavior shifts to help you regain stability and clarity. My trauma-informed, relational approach offers a safe, supportive space to understand and transform patterns rooted in past experiences.
I integrate ACT, CBT, DBT, and attachment-based approaches to building emotional awareness, strengthening coping skills, and cultivating secure and fulfilling relationships.
I work with individuals and couples navigating eating disorders, anxiety, depression, trauma, and relationship challenges. If you’re experiencing overwhelm, intrusive thoughts, low mood, body image distress, or feeling stuck in unhealthy patterns with food or others, you’re not alone. Together, we use practical tools such as grounding exercises, mindful awareness, emotion regulation skills, and gentle behavior shifts to help you regain stability and clarity. My trauma-informed, relational approach offers a safe, supportive space to understand and transform patterns rooted in past experiences.
Alisa is a bilingual (English/Spanish)/bi-cultural licensed clinical social worker with experience working with adolescents and their families, as well as adults. Alisa centers her work on building a strong therapeutic relationship; providing a safe, non-judgmental space for clients to explore themselves, past experiences, and their relationships with others. Her approach is open, warm and integrates talk therapy with body-based approaches such as mindfulness, EMDR, and parts work.
Alisa is a bilingual (English/Spanish)/bi-cultural licensed clinical social worker with experience working with adolescents and their families, as well as adults. Alisa centers her work on building a strong therapeutic relationship; providing a safe, non-judgmental space for clients to explore themselves, past experiences, and their relationships with others. Her approach is open, warm and integrates talk therapy with body-based approaches such as mindfulness, EMDR, and parts work.
I’m Delsondra Allen, a Licensed Independent Clinical Social Worker with over 21 years of experience helping individuals and couples navigate life transitions, relationships, and emotional stress. I offer supportive, strengths-based care to help you build clarity, resilience, and well-being. My approach is compassionate, collaborative, and strengths-based. I use evidence-informed methods like CBT, solution-focused, and empowerment therapies to help clients identify strengths, overcome obstacles, and create practical strategies for lasting growth and thriving.
I’m Delsondra Allen, a Licensed Independent Clinical Social Worker with over 21 years of experience helping individuals and couples navigate life transitions, relationships, and emotional stress. I offer supportive, strengths-based care to help you build clarity, resilience, and well-being. My approach is compassionate, collaborative, and strengths-based. I use evidence-informed methods like CBT, solution-focused, and empowerment therapies to help clients identify strengths, overcome obstacles, and create practical strategies for lasting growth and thriving.
If you're a thoughtful adult or couple running on overdrive, you might recognize yourself here: an exhausted parent who's lost themselves in the daily grind, a partner who's lost the spark or been rocked by betrayal or crisis, or someone caught in a compulsive pattern that feels bigger than your willpower. You might come to me feeling disconnected, unseen, misunderstood, or ashamed, wanting to feel like yourself again or feel safe with your partner. Using attachment based therapies and mindfulness, we work to understand what's really driving your pain in order to rebuild safe and lasting connection with yourself and each other,.
If you're a thoughtful adult or couple running on overdrive, you might recognize yourself here: an exhausted parent who's lost themselves in the daily grind, a partner who's lost the spark or been rocked by betrayal or crisis, or someone caught in a compulsive pattern that feels bigger than your willpower. You might come to me feeling disconnected, unseen, misunderstood, or ashamed, wanting to feel like yourself again or feel safe with your partner. Using attachment based therapies and mindfulness, we work to understand what's really driving your pain in order to rebuild safe and lasting connection with yourself and each other,.
As a Sex & Relationship Therapist, I come from a person-centered, open-minded, sex-positive, trauma-informed, attachment-oriented, and multi-cultural perspective, to support my clients in creating a healthy, satisfying, and empowered sexuality and relationship with oneself and others. I enjoy working with individuals, couples, and partners struggling with relationship & attachment issues, communication challenges, low libido/sex drive, differing/mismatched desires, and erectile/orgasm issues. I work with diverse populations from various races, cultures, identities and lifestyle choices.
As a Sex & Relationship Therapist, I come from a person-centered, open-minded, sex-positive, trauma-informed, attachment-oriented, and multi-cultural perspective, to support my clients in creating a healthy, satisfying, and empowered sexuality and relationship with oneself and others. I enjoy working with individuals, couples, and partners struggling with relationship & attachment issues, communication challenges, low libido/sex drive, differing/mismatched desires, and erectile/orgasm issues. I work with diverse populations from various races, cultures, identities and lifestyle choices.
Lately there's a gap between the life you've created and how you feel inside it. Outwardly, you might be functioning fine while quietly struggling. You might be hitting a wall you can't think your way through or in a relationship or career that's not working. Previous therapy felt directionless, too shallow, or like the therapist didn't quite get you. You want someone who understands you and can help you get to the root of the issue, not just focus on symptoms.
Lately there's a gap between the life you've created and how you feel inside it. Outwardly, you might be functioning fine while quietly struggling. You might be hitting a wall you can't think your way through or in a relationship or career that's not working. Previous therapy felt directionless, too shallow, or like the therapist didn't quite get you. You want someone who understands you and can help you get to the root of the issue, not just focus on symptoms.
I have In person and online openings! I stay up to date on the most cutting edge therapies to achieve RAPID and long lasting effects. As a Certified Brainspotting Therapist, I focus on neuroscience - YOUR brain can HEAL from trauma, grief, and anxiety. Release the shame and inner critic that is no longer serving you. I help empaths and highly sensitive people who are struggling with overwhelm. Performers and artists have benefited from Expansion Brainspotting to overcome creative blocks! I’m trained in play therapy and drama therapy and work well with children and adolescents.
I have In person and online openings! I stay up to date on the most cutting edge therapies to achieve RAPID and long lasting effects. As a Certified Brainspotting Therapist, I focus on neuroscience - YOUR brain can HEAL from trauma, grief, and anxiety. Release the shame and inner critic that is no longer serving you. I help empaths and highly sensitive people who are struggling with overwhelm. Performers and artists have benefited from Expansion Brainspotting to overcome creative blocks! I’m trained in play therapy and drama therapy and work well with children and adolescents.
Welcome - I'm Donna. I'm informal, caring, real, and nonjudgmental. I offer a type of psychotherapy widely considered to be THE most effective psychotherapy that is gentle: Internal Family Systems, or IFS. With IFS, we'll heal your childhood trauma - both the "big T" and "little T" kind. We'll heal the painful emotions, beliefs and behaviors born of misattunment, neglect, emotional or physical abuse, and/or any other childhood trauma. We'll get to know the young parts that still hold childhood pain - with deep compassion and respect. We'll let them know we see them and that they're no longer alone. And then we'll heal them.
Welcome - I'm Donna. I'm informal, caring, real, and nonjudgmental. I offer a type of psychotherapy widely considered to be THE most effective psychotherapy that is gentle: Internal Family Systems, or IFS. With IFS, we'll heal your childhood trauma - both the "big T" and "little T" kind. We'll heal the painful emotions, beliefs and behaviors born of misattunment, neglect, emotional or physical abuse, and/or any other childhood trauma. We'll get to know the young parts that still hold childhood pain - with deep compassion and respect. We'll let them know we see them and that they're no longer alone. And then we'll heal them.
I work with people who have experienced trauma and are seeking relief through an integrative, relational, and somatic approach. Drawing on somatic techniques such as EMDR and Somatic Experiencing, I support my clients in connecting to the felt sense of their bodies as a source of information. I believe that a gentle inquiry into the body’s felt sense allows us to safely integrate the past into the present and clarify what’s true for us in any given moment.
I work with people who have experienced trauma and are seeking relief through an integrative, relational, and somatic approach. Drawing on somatic techniques such as EMDR and Somatic Experiencing, I support my clients in connecting to the felt sense of their bodies as a source of information. I believe that a gentle inquiry into the body’s felt sense allows us to safely integrate the past into the present and clarify what’s true for us in any given moment.
Do you struggle with anxiety, self-esteem, self-judgment or being a sensitive, deeply feeling person in an intense world? Are you a parent whose child struggles with big feelings, anxiety or behavioral challenges and you want to seek help for them (and you)? I work with individual adults, as well as with children (and their parents) who are struggling with these challenges. I can help you develop deeper self-awareness and self-acceptance, cultivate increased emotional regulation, learn new skills and build healthier relationships with yourself and others.
Do you struggle with anxiety, self-esteem, self-judgment or being a sensitive, deeply feeling person in an intense world? Are you a parent whose child struggles with big feelings, anxiety or behavioral challenges and you want to seek help for them (and you)? I work with individual adults, as well as with children (and their parents) who are struggling with these challenges. I can help you develop deeper self-awareness and self-acceptance, cultivate increased emotional regulation, learn new skills and build healthier relationships with yourself and others.
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Attachment-based Therapists
Is attachment-based therapy the same as attachment therapy?
Attachment-based therapy may be confused with what is called “attachment therapy” (sometimes called “holding therapy”), a discredited and dangerous approach to treating children with attachment disorders, autism, or other mental health concerns. Attachment therapy—not attachment-based therapy—may involve restraining a child, forcing eye contact, and other coercive or abusive techniques. None of these practices are used in attachment-based therapy and the two modalities are in no way related.
What should I expect from attachment-based therapy?
Attachment-based therapy is based on attachment theory, which posits that children’s early relationships with their caregivers strongly influence their ability to navigate the world later in life. Thus, adults who seek attachment-based therapy should expect to deeply explore their childhood, identifying the dynamics or experiences that disrupted their attachment and the steps necessary to overcome challenges that arose as a result. Parents and children should expect to explore the possible factors that disrupted the parent-child relationship and work toward restoring trust and connection.
How long does attachment-based therapy last?
Certain forms of attachment-based therapy, especially those designed for parents and children, last for a set number of sessions; for example, Attachment and Biobehavioral Catch-Up, a specific attachment-based approach for young children who have undergone early adversity, unfolds over 10 one-hour sessions. When attachment-based therapy is practiced on adults or combined with other modalities, it may not last a specific length of time; clients may wish to ask prospective therapists how long they expect treatment to take.
Does attachment-based therapy work?
Most of the research on attachment-based therapy focuses on children and adolescents. Some of this research shows a positive effect, especially for attachment-based family therapy (ABFT). Other studies, however, have found that attachment-based therapy is no more effective than other approaches to childhood depression, anxiety, or suicidality. Less is known about the therapy’s efficacy on adult populations.