Celeste Birkhofer
Psychologist, PhD, PsyD
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Most people benefit from having a trusted and trained professional to confide in and collaborate with - to make changes, deal with emotional pain, and search for understanding and meaning. Humans are complex beings and life is full of challenges. We all create "protective measures" to help us cope with difficulties we have encountered. Unconscious relational patterns, expectations, and beliefs about ourselves and others develop. Unfortunately, many of these ways of being interfere with creating satisfying lives and relationships. Our habituated patterns can be constricting, or lead to troubling behaviors or symptoms.
Therapy can help free you from what’s not working. You learn to be more curious, compassionate, and honest with yourself. Embracing the complexity of your mind and emotions expands your choices for how to live your life. It opens up more dimensions of yourself, valuable parts that are needed to create a more authentic and meaningful life.
Seeking professional help with something as vitally important as your mental and emotional well-being is a courageous and worthwhile endeavor. I welcome the opportunity to talk to you, and see if I can help you on your journey of self discovery, healing and personal growth.
Call or Email Celeste Birkhofer now for a free 15 minute consultation - (650) 897-5862
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Celeste Birkhofer
Psychologist, PhD, PsyD
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Qualifications
- Verified by Psychology Today Licensed by State of California / PSY30449 Celeste Birkhofer
- In Practice for 37 years
- Attended Western Graduate School of Psychology, Graduated 1999
- Certificate from Marriage & Famiy Therapist CA Lic #MFT25087 / 1989
- Certificate from Institute of Contemporary Psychoanalysis PsyD, Doctorate Psychoanalysis / 2015
Education and Years In Practice
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Celeste Birkhofer
Psychologist, PhD, PsyD
Feel free to ask about qualifications and training experience. Email or (650) 897-5862
Specialties and Expertise
Top Specialties
- Relationship Issues
- Grief
- Self Esteem
Expertise
- Anxiety
- Bisexual
- Coping Skills
- Depression
- Divorce
- Emotional Disturbance
- Infidelity
- Lesbian
- LGBTQ+
- Life Coaching
- Life Transitions
- Marital and Premarital
- Men's Issues
- Mood Disorders
- Parenting
- Peer Relationships
- Personality Disorders
- Spirituality
- Stress
- Women's Issues
Celeste Birkhofer
Psychologist, PhD, PsyD
Do these issues align with your needs? Email or (650) 897-5862
Client Focus
Age
Teen ,
Adults ,
Elders (65+)
Participants
Individuals ,
Couples
Age
Teen ,
Adults ,
Elders (65+)
Participants
Individuals ,
Couples
Treatment Approach
Types of Therapy
- Dialectical Behavior (DBT)
- Existential
- Family / Marital
- Integrative
- Interpersonal
- Psychoanalytic
- Psychodynamic
- Relational
- Transpersonal
Celeste Birkhofer
Psychologist, PhD, PsyD
Ask about what different forms of therapy will be like. Email or (650) 897-5862