Elderly Persons Disorders Therapists in Walnut Creek, CA
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Peter Oppermann
Psychologist, PhD
Verified
Verified
For the past 19 years I have provided evaluations, counseling, and education on managing
dementia
, difficult behaviors, and caregiver burnout in inpatient and outpatient
geriatric
care.
Feeling restless or easily distracted? Lacking energy, motivation, focus, or direction in life? Spinning your wheels in your career or relationships? Prone to pleasing others at all costs, yet feeling unhappy and misunderstood? Always too busy to stop and smell the flowers? I'd like to help you become more empowered, confident, and satisfied through facing and letting go of your fears, irritating beliefs, guilt, and suffering, so you can learn to communicate more effectively and have healthy relationships. For more than twenty-five years I have provided time-limited and in-depth psychotherapy to individuals, couples and groups.
EMDR Psychotherapy and Geriatric Mental Health
Clinical Social Work/Therapist, LCSW
Verified
Verified
I have years of experience helping challenging individuals from middle age to
elderly
.
Are you bothered by an upsetting event (s) that you cannot get out of your mind? Do you know something is holding you back, perhaps from your past, but you can't seem to shake it? Have you tried traditional talk therapy, but your past still has a grip on you? Exciting breakthroughs have been advanced in our understanding of how our brains mange memories. The latest research shows that non-traditional therapies like EMDR, can more quickly & deeply help us heal and recover from traumatic events and live more satisfying lives.
Jenny J Lee
Marriage & Family Therapist, EdD, LMFT
Verified
1 Endorsed
Verified
1 Endorsed
Jenny works with children, life transitions, eating disorders, occupational issues, relationship issues, and working with the
elderly
.
Know Thyself! Jenny believes that everyone carries a powerful tool inside them that makes everything possible! By learning about the resources and positive inner-tools that you already own, you can better understand yourself, your troubles, and the choices that you can make. Jenny helps you to become aware of your options, while helping you understand how to utilize them with your inner-strengths and tools.
Yana Kononovich
Clinical Social Work/Therapist, LCSW
Verified
Verified
My Specialties: Biopsychosocial Assessment, Trauma, Psychoeduction, Life Transitions, Adjustment to Illness, Coping Skills,
Dementia
, Anxiety, Depression, Grief, Loss, Process of Aging, Stress, End of Life, Restoration of a Positive Self-Concept and Self-Esteem, Consultations for Long Term Care Planning, Community Resources Information and Connection.
I am a Licensed Clinical Social Worker. I have a Bachelor and Master of Social Work in addition to Master's Degree in Gerontology. I am passionate about helping adults and their families. I am offering tele-therapy through video and/or phone. Home visits are optional for special circumstances. I will provide person centered counseling with a strength based approach. You will have a safe space to explore whatever you may be facing. You can count on me to stand with you and bring compassion, acceptance and encouragement. I would be honored to support you.
Janet Leese
Clinical Social Work/Therapist, LCSW
Verified
6 Endorsed
Verified
6 Endorsed
I specialize in working with caregivers (for children, spouses,
elderly
parents), older adults, people struggling with medical challenges/chronic illness (cancer,
dementia
, etc), and life changes that come with a diagnosis. I’ve worked with people who are dying and their grieving family and friends. I have experience supporting and educating parents on parenting and special needs. I also have experience helping clients with addiction/sobriety, mental illness (depression/anxiety), domestic violence, and abuse.
Office is near:
Walnut Creek, CA 94596 & Online
Patty Shirley - East Bay Christian Counseling
Marriage & Family Therapist, LMFT, LPCC, CATC, CCTP
Verified
Verified
In-Person, Video / Virtual and Phone Sessions are available for individual, couples and family therapy. Feeling worried, anxious, sad, angry or frustrated? Having relationship and communication issues? I am a LMFT and a Registered Addiction Specialist. Areas of treatment include substance / alcohol /pill abuse, behavioral addictions (sex/porn, love/relationship, exercise, eating disorders, Internet, gambling, shopping, work, etc.), relationship / communication issues (marital, family and teen), stress, grief, depression, anxiety, trauma, abuse (sexual, emotional, spiritual or financial),
dementia
and Alzheimer's. Call today!
Ann Pagliaro
Clinical Social Work/Therapist, LCSW
Verified
Verified
I offer many treatment modalities, and specialize in EMDR (Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing), an information processing approach which integrates elements of many effective psychotherapies: psychodynamic, cognitive behavioral, interpersonal, experiential, and body-centered therapies in a phase structured protocol.
For over three decades,I have been helping adults of all ages deal with emotional difficulties including anxiety, depression, phobias, health concerns, grief, stress, and issues of aging.
Richard Hill
Psychologist, PhD
Verified
Verified
Although most people are depressed or angry at times, they generally find a way to deal with the situation. There are times, however, when a person loses hope or is overwhelmed. They or others decide they might use some help. Sometimes a woman or a man decides that they would like to adjust their life style and emphasize their sense of self. If you work in Silicon Valley, I can use my experience in industry to help you unblock your potential and design effective strategies for greater satisfaction. If you seek spiritual depth, my years as a guide may help unfold meaning.
Remarkable Services
Marriage & Family Therapist, EdD, LMFT
Verified
Verified
At some point, we all struggle to adjust to change and fail to respond to life’s challenges with our best effort. It’s normal to feel stuck. We at Remarkable Services (RS) believe people inherently have what it takes within themselves to adjust, change and heal. No matter if it’s a challenging work situation, a parenting struggle, a tough year of high school or college, we all know what it feels like to struggle. Parents and their children are not immune, in that over the course of the first 18 years of life there are bound to be countless transitions, developments, change and of course, points of contention. RS is here to help!
Theo Kuczek
Marriage & Family Therapist, MA, MFT, CPT
Verified
Verified
Therapy with me will have you leaving my office with tangible ways, for you or you and your loved ones, to facilitate changes in what you want in your life from the very first session. I will challenge you hard but with compassion. I enjoy helping people develop an enthusiasm for the process of self-discovery and healing. I make authentic contact with people help them cultivate a taste for their own Truths while making space to grieve the loss of old ways or relating to people and the world around them. I see starting therapy is a sign of intelligence.
Not accepting new clients
Cristina Freeman
Marriage & Family Therapist, MA, LMFT
Verified
Verified
I offer affordable counseling and consultation for individuals, adolescents, and couples. I am bilingual in Tagalog. My main areas of focus are grief counseling, dating and relationships, adolescents, and late adulthood. In working with clients, I lean towards a humanistic school of thought where a positive therapist-client relationship is emphasized. I also use a supportive, compassionate, accepting, dialogical, increased kindness, challenging, and empathic style of therapy. And, depending on the needs of my clients, I interject appropriate techniques from other counseling theories such as the psychoanalytic and cognitive behavior therapies.
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Linda A Kline
Marriage & Family Therapist, MA, LMFT
Verified
Verified
Psychotherapy works when you're supported by a trained trusted professional. I may be that person for you. Is it time to dig deeper and seek support needed to help you find more joy, more self respect? We all have stress and doubts in our self. Some of us have trouble handling that stress. I will work with you through nonjudgmental support and understanding, to help you better understand who you are, how you got there, and whether a few changes to your thinking and behavior might help you find the joy you are missing, improve your relationships and to better manage your stress, while learning how to show up for yourself.
Daniela (Dani) Pallafacchina
Pre-Licensed Professional, PsyD, MAMFT
Verified
Verified
Hello! I'm a postdoctoral level therapist with experience working with a variety of clients who have different backgrounds, interests, and concerns. I work with individuals, both adults and adolescents, in a safe, understanding, accepting, non-judgmental environment. My intent is to focus on you as an individual, honor your experience, and genuinely hear your truth. I foster an inclusive environment for everyone, honoring your sexuality and gender.
Sheila Ali
Associate Clinical Social Worker, ACSW, MSW
Verified
Verified
Things that may have felt difficult prior to the pandemic carry a very different load now, as we learn to navigate life with Covid. While the idea of therapy may have felt radical before, it can now offer us a roadmap to developing greater internal strength to steer through the uncertainty. It is deep within our unconscious that we meet our true selves and can then begin the profound work of developing mechanisms for the lives we are seeking. I view it as a great privilege to bear witness to the strength that emerges from the courage of confronting the vulnerability of our own psychology.
Waitlist for new clients
Karen Drazen
Marriage & Family Therapist, LMFT
Verified
Verified
My practice focuses on helping adults and children who face challenges that may be hindering their development and compromising their own wellbeing and relationships with others. Within a safe, genuine partnership, we will explore these issues, find new approaches to replace patterns that aren't working, and collaborate in the process of healing and growth.
Vince Paul Brim
Psychologist, PsyD, MBA, CMC
Verified
Verified
Are you finding yourself caught in self defeating patterns? Are you anxious or depressed and don't know why? Maybe you are hard on yourself in ways you aren't to others. Or, do you find yourself overly critical of others? Do you wish you were happier, more at peace? We all try and want to live at our best, but many of us find ourselves pulled back into old patterns before we recognize our actions. We cope in many different ways or develop symptoms that are often self destructive. Why do we do this?
Diana Cheryl Methfessel
Marriage & Family Therapist, MA LMFT
Verified
Verified
Do you work from home, home school your children, care for a homebound relative or are just too busy traveling to work to schedule therapy appointments across town? Are you someone who works late evenings or works a “night shift” schedule and cannot see a therapist under the normal operative hours that most therapists offer? My private practice offers a solution to your dilemma. I only provide secure video therapy from the comfort and convenience of your home. I provide services to adults, couples, and families based in California only.
Katherine Hughes
Psychologist, PhD
Verified
Verified
I am a clinical psychologist based in Walnut Creek, CA. My graduate and postgraduate training included most major approaches to psychotherapy. When I begin psychotherapy with someone, my intent is to work in partnership with you. My style is one of active collaboration. Only with both of us involved, sharing our thoughts and ideas, can a safe and effective working environment develop. Change isn't easy. If it was, you might not be thinking about therapy.
Dr. Keiko Y. Miller
Psychologist, PsyD, MSCP
Verified
2 Endorsed
Verified
2 Endorsed
Dr. Keiko Miller is a neuropsychologist located in Walnut Creek and is the founder of Aspire Neuropsychological Services. She has worked in the field of Autism since 2003 and has worked in the field of neuropsychology since 2009. She conducts a variety of evaluations of adults and children ages 12 months+. She earned her Psy.D. degree in 2011 and Masters of Science in Clinical Psychopharmacology (MSCP) in 2019 from California School of Professional Psychology. She holds an active license in California. Aspire has clinicians from a variety of specialities in an effort to meet our client's needs.
Emily Serkin
Psychologist, PhD
Verified
Verified
Many people come to me wondering why they're unhappy, anxious, or unable to find fulfillment. The problem may seem obvious but a solution impossible. The same painful experiences repeat themselves, but why? And how to change them? If we meet, I will work together to discover how you can come to grips with whatever is troubling you. In doing so, you may discover, as sometimes happens, that there are ways to experience yourself and others that are genuinely different from what you've known thus far.
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Is online therapy cheaper than in-person therapy?
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