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.
(925) 365-6955
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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.
(510) 545-9572
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Walnut Creek, CA 94596
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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.
(925) 386-2156
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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.
(925) 403-4053
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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.
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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!
(925) 212-1018
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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.
(925) 308-5328
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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.
(408) 641-5167
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Gertrudes Aquino Hernandez
Psychologist, PhD
Verified
Verified
With more than 20 years experience as a psychologist in diverse settings, I gained valuable clinical work experience and improved my mastery of psychotherapy. I continue to enhance my skills on a variety of evidence-based therapy techniques. Working with a diverse group of clientele brings me a sense of fulfillment and reward. I believe that active listening, understanding, providing empathy and showing genuine compassion, walking with someone in their path to recovery/healing are ways that one can achieve a sense of awareness and clarity, then eventually find a balance between change and acceptance.
(510) 550-5856
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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.
(415) 234-7791
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Walnut Creek, CA 94596
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Mary Schrey
Marriage & Family Therapist, LMFT
Verified
Verified
I have over 25 years experience helping individuals, couples and families negotiate life's transitions. I offer an ethical, thoughtful, and creative approach to exploring all your options, giving you the choice for action.
(925) 633-7901
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Walnut Creek, CA 94597
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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?
(925) 528-0299
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Walnut Creek, CA 94596
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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.
(925) 232-0438
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Walnut Creek, CA 94596
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Stephen Sardella
Marriage & Family Therapist, MA, MFT
Verified
Verified
Since 1974, my training and experience as a psychotherapist has allowed me to help hundreds of individuals, couples and families with a variety of problems. Each person's problems are unique, and I believe each solution must be unique. My approach is customized, treating every person with respect, genuine concern and unquestionable confidentiality.
(925) 945-0167
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Walnut Creek, CA 94595
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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.
(925) 965-7775
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Walnut Creek, CA 94597
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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.
(925) 406-3262
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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.
(510) 878-3639
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Walnut Creek, CA 94596
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Marley M Middlebrook
Psychologist, PsyD
Verified
Verified
Trained at UC Davis Medical Center to treat young children who have experienced trauma or behavioral difficulties. Additional training from the Renfrew Center in the treatment of eating disorders provides a unique combination for helping young children and their families with eating issues or obesity. A dissertation on binge eating provides an understanding for those who have emotional eating problems. Experience with addiction and dual diagnosis was earned while working with Contra Costa County treatment programs. Other experience includes treating children and adults who have suffered from maltreatment, domestic violence, depression, grief, and or eating disorders.
(925) 352-1038
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Walnut Creek, CA 94596
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Susan K Faron
Psychologist, PhD, MA
Verified
Verified
Analytical psychology emphasizes completeness, not perfection. Because psychological insight and self-knowledge are essential for health and vitality, it's lucky our psyches respond favorably to attention and reflection! Positive, effective, long lasting change is created. Research shows nightly dreams provide a running commentary on everyday life. Dreams anticipate, sometimes warn, and often help in resolving problems. They help you relate to the "rest of you", the part that operates out of awareness, sometimes causing symptoms, or taking over and becoming destructive. These parts appear increasingly frightening when pushed away.
(925) 932-2090
Walnut Creek, CA 94595
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Loren Eliot Pedersen
Psychologist, PhD
Verified
Verified
I enjoy working with clients of all ages and gender to help them learn to cope with their unique psychological, emotional, and physical problems. I am trained in clinical psychology and psychoanalysis as well as in psychosomatics so I am able to treat a wide spectrum of disorders. I tailor my approach to the specific needs of the client rather than trying to make the client fit into a particular theoretical model or to work in a predetermined treatment modality.
(510) 588-7201
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