Mindfulness-Based (MBCT) Therapists in Orinda, CA
If you are seeking deep personal change or going through a life transition, it may feel difficult to make choices. If you are experiencing conflict or suffering and know that something needs to change, psychotherapy will provide a structure where you can identify patterns that have previously led to unhappiness or frustration. I will help you develop new ways of understanding yourself and relating to others in your life. I am a warm, experienced and compassionate psychotherapist that will help guide you through this process of change so that you can be your most authentic self and live your life with increased comfort and meaning.
If you are seeking deep personal change or going through a life transition, it may feel difficult to make choices. If you are experiencing conflict or suffering and know that something needs to change, psychotherapy will provide a structure where you can identify patterns that have previously led to unhappiness or frustration. I will help you develop new ways of understanding yourself and relating to others in your life. I am a warm, experienced and compassionate psychotherapist that will help guide you through this process of change so that you can be your most authentic self and live your life with increased comfort and meaning.
You will learn strategies based in cognitive behavioral therapy, dialectical behavioral therapy and mindfulness to help you better manage your symptoms.
Are you someone looking for an experienced and calm presence to guide you and your family or partner through a life transition? I combine years of experience with individual and relationship counseling for people of all ages. If you are someone who has been thinking of trying therapy, my approach is practical and caring. I provide my clients with practical strategies to manage stress as well as a safe space to process their thoughts and feelings.
You will learn strategies based in cognitive behavioral therapy, dialectical behavioral therapy and mindfulness to help you better manage your symptoms.
Are you someone looking for an experienced and calm presence to guide you and your family or partner through a life transition? I combine years of experience with individual and relationship counseling for people of all ages. If you are someone who has been thinking of trying therapy, my approach is practical and caring. I provide my clients with practical strategies to manage stress as well as a safe space to process their thoughts and feelings.
People who need personal engagement and direct feedback about their life dynamics and challenges are a good fit for my style. Whether one is managing a mental health diagnosis, personal growth or dealing with a particular life circumstance.
People who need personal engagement and direct feedback about their life dynamics and challenges are a good fit for my style. Whether one is managing a mental health diagnosis, personal growth or dealing with a particular life circumstance.
I am an LMFT based in Rancho Cucamonga, California and working with clients statewide via telehealth. I work with adolescents and adults, and specialize in Anxiety, Depressive, Attention Deficit Hyperactivity, Autism Spectrum Disorders, using CBT, and Solution Focused Therapy to help my clients make progress and start feeling better. My approach to therapy varies based on the needs of each client I work with. I most frequently use CBT, Solution Focused and Behavioral Therapies, as these modalities use a collaborative therapeutic approach, goal-oriented approach, and promote self-awareness and self-reflection.
I am an LMFT based in Rancho Cucamonga, California and working with clients statewide via telehealth. I work with adolescents and adults, and specialize in Anxiety, Depressive, Attention Deficit Hyperactivity, Autism Spectrum Disorders, using CBT, and Solution Focused Therapy to help my clients make progress and start feeling better. My approach to therapy varies based on the needs of each client I work with. I most frequently use CBT, Solution Focused and Behavioral Therapies, as these modalities use a collaborative therapeutic approach, goal-oriented approach, and promote self-awareness and self-reflection.
I believe in the healing power of bearing witness to and participating in my clients' self-exploration. Whether we are exploring feelings, systems of oppression and their effects on us, patterns in relationships, or family of origin issues, the strength and compassion of an empathic partner in this journey can lead to a deeper understanding of oneself and a relief in symptoms. I bring empathy and mindful curiosity to our work together.
I believe in the healing power of bearing witness to and participating in my clients' self-exploration. Whether we are exploring feelings, systems of oppression and their effects on us, patterns in relationships, or family of origin issues, the strength and compassion of an empathic partner in this journey can lead to a deeper understanding of oneself and a relief in symptoms. I bring empathy and mindful curiosity to our work together.
Are you struggling with depression, low self-confidence, or anxiety? Are you having difficulties in your relationships or at work? Are you finding it hard to cope with a loss, life transition, or illness? I have brought warmth, knowledge, and compassion to my work with individuals & couples for over 30 years as a Psychologist. My approach to psychotherapy is to create a safe environment through listening and empathy that will enable you to talk about patterns in your life that are causing you distress. My goal is to help you achieve greater life satisfaction, healthier relationships & new sources of self worth.
Are you struggling with depression, low self-confidence, or anxiety? Are you having difficulties in your relationships or at work? Are you finding it hard to cope with a loss, life transition, or illness? I have brought warmth, knowledge, and compassion to my work with individuals & couples for over 30 years as a Psychologist. My approach to psychotherapy is to create a safe environment through listening and empathy that will enable you to talk about patterns in your life that are causing you distress. My goal is to help you achieve greater life satisfaction, healthier relationships & new sources of self worth.
Make therapy a gift to yourself and the journey of a lifetime. Experience the therapeutic process as an exploration into a landscape full of your own creative capacities, strengths, and dreams that already exist. Replace out-dated belief systems with new ones that better reflect your current, authentic self. Continue the process of growing into the person you believe yourself to be. Move from the victim to the empowered. I work in collaborative ways with you, helping to identifying assumptions, thoughts, and beliefs that are keeping you from the experiences, relationships, and life that you want.
Make therapy a gift to yourself and the journey of a lifetime. Experience the therapeutic process as an exploration into a landscape full of your own creative capacities, strengths, and dreams that already exist. Replace out-dated belief systems with new ones that better reflect your current, authentic self. Continue the process of growing into the person you believe yourself to be. Move from the victim to the empowered. I work in collaborative ways with you, helping to identifying assumptions, thoughts, and beliefs that are keeping you from the experiences, relationships, and life that you want.
For eleven years I have had hands-on experience working with individuals, children, couples and families, and have helped my clients deal with the various challenges life brought them. Diversity and inclusion are core beliefs of mine. I feel that every person has value that can be enriched and strengthened.
For eleven years I have had hands-on experience working with individuals, children, couples and families, and have helped my clients deal with the various challenges life brought them. Diversity and inclusion are core beliefs of mine. I feel that every person has value that can be enriched and strengthened.
Learn how to feel more connected to yourself, others, and the world around you. Therapy provides all the elements of intimacy: honest communication, vulnerability, and trust. Good therapy is challenging yet warm, providing both structure and empathy for your unique experience.
Learn how to feel more connected to yourself, others, and the world around you. Therapy provides all the elements of intimacy: honest communication, vulnerability, and trust. Good therapy is challenging yet warm, providing both structure and empathy for your unique experience.
I work primarily with relationships; your relationship to yourself, to others, to your future, and to your past. With over 30 years in practice, I use a collaborative style with my clients. Self esteem, depression, anxiety, parenting issues, infertility, life transitions, adult children of alcoholics, addiction, trauma, and couples therapy are my expertise. I specialize in helping couples improve communication and intimacy while creating more secure relationships. I see adults and adolescents and supervise psychologists in training. I often see people who are stuck in negative patterns and struggling to change.
I work primarily with relationships; your relationship to yourself, to others, to your future, and to your past. With over 30 years in practice, I use a collaborative style with my clients. Self esteem, depression, anxiety, parenting issues, infertility, life transitions, adult children of alcoholics, addiction, trauma, and couples therapy are my expertise. I specialize in helping couples improve communication and intimacy while creating more secure relationships. I see adults and adolescents and supervise psychologists in training. I often see people who are stuck in negative patterns and struggling to change.
We all need support because at times life can be difficult. It may be enough to talk with friends or other people you trust but sometimes not. Maybe you are feeling alone or not connected with yourself and people around you. Therapy can be a way to help you reconnect. I offer a genuine environment in which we look together how you can get back on track. I believe that connection is a basic human need: being connected with yourself and with the people around you. This is a core value in all of my work.
We all need support because at times life can be difficult. It may be enough to talk with friends or other people you trust but sometimes not. Maybe you are feeling alone or not connected with yourself and people around you. Therapy can be a way to help you reconnect. I offer a genuine environment in which we look together how you can get back on track. I believe that connection is a basic human need: being connected with yourself and with the people around you. This is a core value in all of my work.
As a Marriage and Family Therapist with over 20 years of experience, I bring the best of evidenced-based clinical interventions along with the creativity of drama and expressive arts therapy. Together we will find ways to bring more joy, ease, and connection into your life. I am proud to be authentic and real with my clients as we form a team to address the challenges you face. I am also happy to just talk, draw, or utilize many other interventions that utilize your strengths, brain research, and studies about how we thrive in relationships.
As a Marriage and Family Therapist with over 20 years of experience, I bring the best of evidenced-based clinical interventions along with the creativity of drama and expressive arts therapy. Together we will find ways to bring more joy, ease, and connection into your life. I am proud to be authentic and real with my clients as we form a team to address the challenges you face. I am also happy to just talk, draw, or utilize many other interventions that utilize your strengths, brain research, and studies about how we thrive in relationships.
Are you feeling overwhelmed by life stressors or struggling with confusing emotions? Has stress or anxiety started to affect the way you think, feel, or interact with the people around you? Maybe you’re facing ongoing pressure from family or relationship conflicts and need support coping.
Hello, my name is Kia Harris. I specialize in supporting adolescents, adults, and families navigating the impact of stress, anxiety, adjustment challenges, communication difficulties, and relationship conflicts. I also support individuals experiencing burnout, depression, substance use, or the effects of trauma.
Are you feeling overwhelmed by life stressors or struggling with confusing emotions? Has stress or anxiety started to affect the way you think, feel, or interact with the people around you? Maybe you’re facing ongoing pressure from family or relationship conflicts and need support coping.
Hello, my name is Kia Harris. I specialize in supporting adolescents, adults, and families navigating the impact of stress, anxiety, adjustment challenges, communication difficulties, and relationship conflicts. I also support individuals experiencing burnout, depression, substance use, or the effects of trauma.
I am a "self and relationship-based therapist" with an eclectic and integrative approach that draws on mindfulness-based principles and practices, cognitive behavioral and systems therapy; existential and experiential psychology and communication skills building.
In individual therapy, I work with people in the context of their relationships teaching, training, guiding them back to their Selves in a way that is new and becomes life and relationship changing experience. I guide and enable them to begin talking about their experience and become better communicators. Relationships are as good as the conversations had.
In couples therapy, I specialize in repairing disconnection caused by the backlog of unexpressed feelings and unresolved issues. I facilitate the essential “pink elephant” conversations—vital dialogues that dissolve the wedge keeping you disconnected.
I am a "self and relationship-based therapist" with an eclectic and integrative approach that draws on mindfulness-based principles and practices, cognitive behavioral and systems therapy; existential and experiential psychology and communication skills building.
In individual therapy, I work with people in the context of their relationships teaching, training, guiding them back to their Selves in a way that is new and becomes life and relationship changing experience. I guide and enable them to begin talking about their experience and become better communicators. Relationships are as good as the conversations had.
In couples therapy, I specialize in repairing disconnection caused by the backlog of unexpressed feelings and unresolved issues. I facilitate the essential “pink elephant” conversations—vital dialogues that dissolve the wedge keeping you disconnected.
I use CBT and mindfulness-based techniques with clients struggling with anxiety and/ or depression, and have extensive experience and training in these areas.
I work with students and their parents, and young adults to understand an individual's strengths and weaknesses and how best to support them. Students and young adults that I work with may be experiencing challenges related to learning disabilities, such as dyslexia, or struggling to manage their attention, concentration, and impulsivity due to Attention Deficit/ Hyperactivity Disorder. I have a particular interest in supporting individuals with Autism Spectrum Disorder to address anxiety, depression, social skills, and the transition to young adulthood, and helping their parents learn how to best support their child.
I use CBT and mindfulness-based techniques with clients struggling with anxiety and/ or depression, and have extensive experience and training in these areas.
I work with students and their parents, and young adults to understand an individual's strengths and weaknesses and how best to support them. Students and young adults that I work with may be experiencing challenges related to learning disabilities, such as dyslexia, or struggling to manage their attention, concentration, and impulsivity due to Attention Deficit/ Hyperactivity Disorder. I have a particular interest in supporting individuals with Autism Spectrum Disorder to address anxiety, depression, social skills, and the transition to young adulthood, and helping their parents learn how to best support their child.
I specialize in working with queer identified people, ADHD, HSP, OCD, and Autism. Being in our bodies, and being in our world can be very difficult. This is especially true when you're a highly sensitive person.
My typical client often hears they’re “being too much" while also dreading the feeling of “not being enough".
I'm here to take a deep dive into what's making you feel like you’re "too much". I’m here to support you in connecting with your inherent worth.
Typically, my client's goals are to improve emotional regulation, improve relationships, and feel more in control of their neurodivergence.
I specialize in working with queer identified people, ADHD, HSP, OCD, and Autism. Being in our bodies, and being in our world can be very difficult. This is especially true when you're a highly sensitive person.
My typical client often hears they’re “being too much" while also dreading the feeling of “not being enough".
I'm here to take a deep dive into what's making you feel like you’re "too much". I’m here to support you in connecting with your inherent worth.
Typically, my client's goals are to improve emotional regulation, improve relationships, and feel more in control of their neurodivergence.
Navigating life challenges can be overwhelming at times. Loss, too little nuturing, and unresolved wounds can leave us feeling depressed, anxious and searching for answers. Therapy can help us make sense of these and bring us back to our authentic self. By providing a nuturing and collaborative environment we can create change together!
Navigating life challenges can be overwhelming at times. Loss, too little nuturing, and unresolved wounds can leave us feeling depressed, anxious and searching for answers. Therapy can help us make sense of these and bring us back to our authentic self. By providing a nuturing and collaborative environment we can create change together!
Life can be hard. Things that may feel easy at one time, feel impossible at another. Sometimes, there are issues that feel like they'll never go away. I work to create an environment where we can think together about what is troubling you and get to the root of the issues, so lasting change can be possible.
Life can be hard. Things that may feel easy at one time, feel impossible at another. Sometimes, there are issues that feel like they'll never go away. I work to create an environment where we can think together about what is troubling you and get to the root of the issues, so lasting change can be possible.
My name is Carolee Van Strien and I am a Licensed Clinical Social Worker (LCSW). I am licensed in both California and Hawaii. I have over 20 years of experience working with adults to help them live their best lives. I approach my clients with compassion and empathy. We will work together to determine the best approach to your therapy based on your needs. I specialize in Trauma Informed Care, depression, acute stress disorder, Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD), anxiety, adoption issues, substance use disorders, and physical illnesses and impairments.
My name is Carolee Van Strien and I am a Licensed Clinical Social Worker (LCSW). I am licensed in both California and Hawaii. I have over 20 years of experience working with adults to help them live their best lives. I approach my clients with compassion and empathy. We will work together to determine the best approach to your therapy based on your needs. I specialize in Trauma Informed Care, depression, acute stress disorder, Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD), anxiety, adoption issues, substance use disorders, and physical illnesses and impairments.
Logotherapy, Humanistic, Rogerian, Post Modern, Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, Dialectical Behavioral Therapy, Narrative Therapy, Solution Focused Therapy, Psychodynamic, Mindfulness-Based Stress-Reduction.
My goal is to increase self compassion and compassion for others as individual women and girls navigate their personal, academic and professional lives via telephone sessions. Due to a back injury which prevents me from sitting for long periods of time, I am only taking individual female clients over the age of 18 for telephone sessions throughout the state of California. If you are in the SF Bay Area, I am available for in person walk and talk sessions at a quiet, safe, tranquil, peaceful, tree lined, flat, paved nature trail at a nearby gorgeous, well maintained local park .
Logotherapy, Humanistic, Rogerian, Post Modern, Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, Dialectical Behavioral Therapy, Narrative Therapy, Solution Focused Therapy, Psychodynamic, Mindfulness-Based Stress-Reduction.
My goal is to increase self compassion and compassion for others as individual women and girls navigate their personal, academic and professional lives via telephone sessions. Due to a back injury which prevents me from sitting for long periods of time, I am only taking individual female clients over the age of 18 for telephone sessions throughout the state of California. If you are in the SF Bay Area, I am available for in person walk and talk sessions at a quiet, safe, tranquil, peaceful, tree lined, flat, paved nature trail at a nearby gorgeous, well maintained local park .
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