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Karen Chow
Marriage & Family Therapist, LMFT
Verified Verified
Pleasant Hill, CA 94523
Are you feeling overwhelmed with trying to keep your family together, your relationships, job demands and daily responsibilities? Are your children struggling with peer relationships and/or school functioning? Reaching out to get support takes courage. This is an unimaginable time. If you find yourself struggling with anxiety and depression or feeling isolated, you deserve to take care of your mental health and emotional well being. Your adolescent or teen can benefit from getting support with a trusted ally who will listen and help improve functioning.
Are you feeling overwhelmed with trying to keep your family together, your relationships, job demands and daily responsibilities? Are your children struggling with peer relationships and/or school functioning? Reaching out to get support takes courage. This is an unimaginable time. If you find yourself struggling with anxiety and depression or feeling isolated, you deserve to take care of your mental health and emotional well being. Your adolescent or teen can benefit from getting support with a trusted ally who will listen and help improve functioning.
(925) 306-1483 View (925) 306-1483
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Yin Chun Siu
Marriage & Family Therapist, MS, LMFT
Verified Verified
1 Endorsed
Pleasant Hill, CA 94523  (Online Only)
Do you feel unheard, undervalued or stuck in life? When things are troubling you and you're feeling depressed and/or stressed, yet talking with friends or families only goes so far. In their desire to help, they shower you with advice, try to cheer you up and distract you. But when distraction is no longer an option, and you want or need to face what it is, that is troubling you. Then I am here for you. I am a bilingual (English/Cantonese) licensed Marriage Family Therapist. I have over 20 years of clinical experience in mental health including my current position at Berkeley Mental Health as a Senior Behavioral Health Clinician.
Do you feel unheard, undervalued or stuck in life? When things are troubling you and you're feeling depressed and/or stressed, yet talking with friends or families only goes so far. In their desire to help, they shower you with advice, try to cheer you up and distract you. But when distraction is no longer an option, and you want or need to face what it is, that is troubling you. Then I am here for you. I am a bilingual (English/Cantonese) licensed Marriage Family Therapist. I have over 20 years of clinical experience in mental health including my current position at Berkeley Mental Health as a Senior Behavioral Health Clinician.
(925) 722-6734 View (925) 722-6734
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Exposure Therapy Designs
Counselor
Verified Verified
2 Endorsed
Pleasant Hill, CA 94523  (Online Only)
Our approach is all about you. You are the expert on you. We aim to facilitate and support your awareness, helping you implement changes to overcome unhelpful thinking and decision-making patterns. LMFT in CA, HI, MA, and VA. Telehealth provider for FL, SC, VT. EMDR and ERP for individuals motivated to upgrade their quality of life. EFT for Couples and Family in CA with our Associate Clinician Melinda Andres (AMFT 118899). We strive to resolve the reason you sought help in the first place. Clinically appropriate methods and ethical standards are followed rigorously. Client safety and well-being is the only priority.
Our approach is all about you. You are the expert on you. We aim to facilitate and support your awareness, helping you implement changes to overcome unhelpful thinking and decision-making patterns. LMFT in CA, HI, MA, and VA. Telehealth provider for FL, SC, VT. EMDR and ERP for individuals motivated to upgrade their quality of life. EFT for Couples and Family in CA with our Associate Clinician Melinda Andres (AMFT 118899). We strive to resolve the reason you sought help in the first place. Clinically appropriate methods and ethical standards are followed rigorously. Client safety and well-being is the only priority.
(530) 292-7445 View (530) 292-7445
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Jane Kwok-Yee Leung
Marriage & Family Therapist, LMFT, SEP
Verified Verified
Pleasant Hill, CA 94523  (Online Only)
Helping clients live a more full life by understanding themselves is at the core of my practice. Trauma is the cause of a significant amount of mental health issues. Sometimes it can be a shock trauma like a car accident. Sometimes it can be a developmental trauma from difficult relationships from childhood. I have spent my professional career helping people with trauma understand how trauma affects their lives and develop tools and skills to manage that trauma. My passion is bringing healing to people who have been through a traumatic/stressful experience.
Helping clients live a more full life by understanding themselves is at the core of my practice. Trauma is the cause of a significant amount of mental health issues. Sometimes it can be a shock trauma like a car accident. Sometimes it can be a developmental trauma from difficult relationships from childhood. I have spent my professional career helping people with trauma understand how trauma affects their lives and develop tools and skills to manage that trauma. My passion is bringing healing to people who have been through a traumatic/stressful experience.
(925) 267-6304 View (925) 267-6304
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Sora Yoon
Marriage & Family Therapist, MFT, ATR
Verified Verified
Pleasant Hill, CA 94523
Are you seeking to dive deeper into finding awareness & meaning in life? I work with both children & adults in the areas of developmental trauma, PTSD, child-parent relationship issues & disordered eating issues. I have a background working in both patient & outpatient settings. I bring ability to work with more complicated If you are looking to find someone to help process these difficulties through holistic healing please give a call to see if we are a good fit.
Are you seeking to dive deeper into finding awareness & meaning in life? I work with both children & adults in the areas of developmental trauma, PTSD, child-parent relationship issues & disordered eating issues. I have a background working in both patient & outpatient settings. I bring ability to work with more complicated If you are looking to find someone to help process these difficulties through holistic healing please give a call to see if we are a good fit.
(925) 297-4815 View (925) 297-4815
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Gertrudes Aquino Hernandez
Psychologist, PhD
Verified Verified
Pleasant Hill, CA 94523
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.
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 View (510) 550-5856
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Anna Shigeta
Marriage & Family Therapist, MEd, MA, LMFT
Verified Verified
1 Endorsed
Pleasant Hill, CA 94523  (Online Only)
Do you feel overwhelmed and frustrated with your highly sensitive, smart, very intense teenager? Feeling worn out with your teenager's ongoing worries, difficulty managing emotions? Does your teen suffer from perfectionism, self-doubt, and social issues? Do you also suffer from challenges? You don't have to manage this alone. I specialize in helping teens and adults to understand themselves, to discover their path, and how to thrive. My goal is to help them improve their relationships, manage and channel their feelings, and realize their true potential.
Do you feel overwhelmed and frustrated with your highly sensitive, smart, very intense teenager? Feeling worn out with your teenager's ongoing worries, difficulty managing emotions? Does your teen suffer from perfectionism, self-doubt, and social issues? Do you also suffer from challenges? You don't have to manage this alone. I specialize in helping teens and adults to understand themselves, to discover their path, and how to thrive. My goal is to help them improve their relationships, manage and channel their feelings, and realize their true potential.
(925) 231-4799 View (925) 231-4799
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Colette M. Bischer-Choate
Marriage & Family Therapist, MA, MFT
Verified Verified
1 Endorsed
Pleasant Hill, CA 94523
It takes courage and awareness to seek therapy. If you are experiencing depression or anxiety, difficult relationships (past or present) or going through a life transition I may be able to help. Together we will work to determine whether this will be short-term solution focused treatment or more long-term, deeper work. We will build a safe place for you to experience yourself and help you to identify your strengths as well as areas of challenge. A place that is yours to receive the care you need.
It takes courage and awareness to seek therapy. If you are experiencing depression or anxiety, difficult relationships (past or present) or going through a life transition I may be able to help. Together we will work to determine whether this will be short-term solution focused treatment or more long-term, deeper work. We will build a safe place for you to experience yourself and help you to identify your strengths as well as areas of challenge. A place that is yours to receive the care you need.
(925) 204-3981 View (925) 204-3981
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Connie Hwang
Marriage & Family Therapist, MA, LMFT
Verified Verified
3 Endorsed
Pleasant Hill, CA 94523
Do you take care of everyone and everything around you and still feel empty inside? Are you always striving for perfection but never feel good enough? Does your perception of yourself negatively impact your work or your relationships? I can help break unhealthy patterns and we will work collaboratively to discover the best version of yourself.
Do you take care of everyone and everything around you and still feel empty inside? Are you always striving for perfection but never feel good enough? Does your perception of yourself negatively impact your work or your relationships? I can help break unhealthy patterns and we will work collaboratively to discover the best version of yourself.
(415) 634-9611 View (415) 634-9611

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Rae C Hipolito
Marriage & Family Therapist, MS, MFT
Verified Verified
2 Endorsed
Walnut Creek, CA 94596  (Online Only)
Create joy and inner calm in your life. My role is to guide you in coming back to your wholeness. I am passionate about helping you heal your wounded parts. This wounding may show up as depression, anxiety, or PTSD in adulthood. My approach is heart-based; it is a fusion of experiential, somatic/body-oriented (releasing emotional pain which is stored in our bodies), gestalt, cognitive behavioral, EMDR, hypnosis, and internal family systems approaches. I don't focus on analyzing nor intellectualizing your past. We visit the past to let go of any pain or heal trauma.
Create joy and inner calm in your life. My role is to guide you in coming back to your wholeness. I am passionate about helping you heal your wounded parts. This wounding may show up as depression, anxiety, or PTSD in adulthood. My approach is heart-based; it is a fusion of experiential, somatic/body-oriented (releasing emotional pain which is stored in our bodies), gestalt, cognitive behavioral, EMDR, hypnosis, and internal family systems approaches. I don't focus on analyzing nor intellectualizing your past. We visit the past to let go of any pain or heal trauma.
(949) 537-2883 View (949) 537-2883
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Ashley Cruz
Marriage & Family Therapist, LMFT
Verified Verified
Walnut Creek, CA 94597  (Online Only)
Personally speaking, I enjoy self-care strategies of spending time with my family and surrounding myself with my dogs and cats.
I'm so glad to meet you, and looking forward to getting to know more about you! My therapeutic approach comes from a place of safety and wellness. I empower those I work with in developing their own goals in their wellness journey while I scaffold and guide them in strategies that would be helpful in meeting their personalized plan. I appreciate the first steps you're taking in prioritizing your mental health and look forward to learning more about how therapy can best help support you.
Personally speaking, I enjoy self-care strategies of spending time with my family and surrounding myself with my dogs and cats.
I'm so glad to meet you, and looking forward to getting to know more about you! My therapeutic approach comes from a place of safety and wellness. I empower those I work with in developing their own goals in their wellness journey while I scaffold and guide them in strategies that would be helpful in meeting their personalized plan. I appreciate the first steps you're taking in prioritizing your mental health and look forward to learning more about how therapy can best help support you.
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Grace Parker-Guerrero
Marriage & Family Therapist Associate, MA, AMFT
Verified Verified
3 Endorsed
Walnut Creek, CA 94596
As a practitioner, I am passionate about helping individuals cultivate greater awareness of their emotional, physical, and spiritual experiences. My work helps people understand the ways in which the unconscious shapes their present day reality. Sometimes, this involves a compassionate inquiry into a a person’s family of origin, relational dynamics, trauma, and habituated beliefs. I am committed to helping my clients live purposefully, joyfully, and with greater awareness and self-acceptance.
As a practitioner, I am passionate about helping individuals cultivate greater awareness of their emotional, physical, and spiritual experiences. My work helps people understand the ways in which the unconscious shapes their present day reality. Sometimes, this involves a compassionate inquiry into a a person’s family of origin, relational dynamics, trauma, and habituated beliefs. I am committed to helping my clients live purposefully, joyfully, and with greater awareness and self-acceptance.
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Michael Keesey
Marriage & Family Therapist, MA, MFT
Verified Verified
20 Endorsed
Walnut Creek, CA 94596
Feeling stuck, immobilized and unable to change your life? What's holding you back from being your best self? Through a behavioral lens we work together to identify the behaviors and patterns that are holding you back from your goals and systematically relearn healthy patterns and coping mechanisms that will empower you to make the best decisions for yourself, your relationships or your family. I work from a person centered approach creating a safe space where we work together to help determine your needs and goals.
Feeling stuck, immobilized and unable to change your life? What's holding you back from being your best self? Through a behavioral lens we work together to identify the behaviors and patterns that are holding you back from your goals and systematically relearn healthy patterns and coping mechanisms that will empower you to make the best decisions for yourself, your relationships or your family. I work from a person centered approach creating a safe space where we work together to help determine your needs and goals.
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Michelle Ikeda
Marriage & Family Therapist, LMFT
Verified Verified
Concord, CA 94520
I am a licensed Marriage and Family Therapist in California with diverse experience in social services and healthcare fields. My expertise is in helping individuals/couples cope with depression, anxieties, differences in priorities, improve communication, and facilitate better understanding of each other. I have a variety of experiences working with children and families with issues related to child welfare system, court or non-court custody related issues, legal guardianship related issues and parenting issues.
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Teresa Trias
Marriage & Family Therapist, LMFT
Verified Verified
Concord, CA 94523
My name is Teresa Trias, and I am a Licensed Marriage & Family Therapist. I offer an integrated approach in order to tailor my interventions to each unique person and circumstance. I also have specialized training in helping people make health behavior changes, learn the tools and skills needed to increase stress management, and recover from difficult and traumatic past experiences.
My name is Teresa Trias, and I am a Licensed Marriage & Family Therapist. I offer an integrated approach in order to tailor my interventions to each unique person and circumstance. I also have specialized training in helping people make health behavior changes, learn the tools and skills needed to increase stress management, and recover from difficult and traumatic past experiences.
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Shannon Geenty
Marriage & Family Therapist, LMFT
Verified Verified
Walnut Creek, CA 94596
Hello and welcome. I am a Licensed Marriage & Family Therapist experienced in supporting adolescents, adults, and families move through challenging circumstances. I specialize in working with clients in individual and group settings to treat anxiety, depression, low self esteem, gender identity, neurodivergence, and life transitions. I'm passionate about helping people improve their self-worth and coping skills to live healthier, happier lives, as well as assisting families strengthen relationships through better communication and understanding.
Hello and welcome. I am a Licensed Marriage & Family Therapist experienced in supporting adolescents, adults, and families move through challenging circumstances. I specialize in working with clients in individual and group settings to treat anxiety, depression, low self esteem, gender identity, neurodivergence, and life transitions. I'm passionate about helping people improve their self-worth and coping skills to live healthier, happier lives, as well as assisting families strengthen relationships through better communication and understanding.
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Brian Needleman
Marriage & Family Therapist, LMFT
Verified Verified
Concord, CA 94518  (Online Only)
I am a licensed Marriage Family Therapist with 25+ years experience working with adults, adolescents, children and couples in several clinical settings. I use respectful, straightforward and practical approaches when working with clients. I draw on my experience, intuition, sense of humor, and imagination when working with clients to help create a supportive and empowering environment for clients to get help for many of life's challenges. Albert Schweitzer said, "Truth has no special time of its own. Its time is now...always." Now is the time to develop your potential for strength and growth. Take the first step and call.
I am a licensed Marriage Family Therapist with 25+ years experience working with adults, adolescents, children and couples in several clinical settings. I use respectful, straightforward and practical approaches when working with clients. I draw on my experience, intuition, sense of humor, and imagination when working with clients to help create a supportive and empowering environment for clients to get help for many of life's challenges. Albert Schweitzer said, "Truth has no special time of its own. Its time is now...always." Now is the time to develop your potential for strength and growth. Take the first step and call.
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Jenny J Lee
Marriage & Family Therapist, EdD, LMFT, BCBA
Verified Verified
1 Endorsed
Concord, CA 94518  (Online Only)
" She provides individual, couples, and family therapy to children and adults.
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.
" She provides individual, couples, and family therapy to children and adults.
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.
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Elisa (Lisie) Rosenberg Clark
Marriage & Family Therapist Associate, MA
Verified Verified
8 Endorsed
Walnut Creek, CA 94596
If you are seeking an empathic, direct, grounded and intuitive clinician to help you or your family, feel free to reach out to schedule a consultation.
I'm a direct and empathic therapist. I practice from a neurodiversity affirming, LGBTQ+ celebrating, trauma-informed and intersectional lens to help others feel validated in their unique experiences of the world while also providing them the tools to navigate modern society and relationships with an increased sense of self-compassion and empowerment and decreased sense of shame. I specialize in helping adult women navigate challenges with self esteem and neurodivergence and couples/families of all iterations. I have a collaborative, solution-focused, intuitive therapy style and prioritize building a deep bond with each client.
If you are seeking an empathic, direct, grounded and intuitive clinician to help you or your family, feel free to reach out to schedule a consultation.
I'm a direct and empathic therapist. I practice from a neurodiversity affirming, LGBTQ+ celebrating, trauma-informed and intersectional lens to help others feel validated in their unique experiences of the world while also providing them the tools to navigate modern society and relationships with an increased sense of self-compassion and empowerment and decreased sense of shame. I specialize in helping adult women navigate challenges with self esteem and neurodivergence and couples/families of all iterations. I have a collaborative, solution-focused, intuitive therapy style and prioritize building a deep bond with each client.
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TheraThrive Counseling & Assessment
Counselor, PhD, LPCC, BC-TMH
Verified Verified
11 Endorsed
Walnut Creek, CA 94596
If you feel overwhelmed by anxiety, emotional intensity, high sensitivity, loneliness, insomnia, or relationship problems, or if your child or teen struggles with excessive worry, moodiness or sadness, you don't need to manage alone. We are a group of authentic and interactive therapists who are strengths-based in our approach. Let us help you (or your child, teen, family member) gain insight and understanding, learn emotional regulation, improve your relationships, alleviate stress and anxiety, improve satisfaction at work/school, and experience well-being and empowerment. www.TheraThrive.com
If you feel overwhelmed by anxiety, emotional intensity, high sensitivity, loneliness, insomnia, or relationship problems, or if your child or teen struggles with excessive worry, moodiness or sadness, you don't need to manage alone. We are a group of authentic and interactive therapists who are strengths-based in our approach. Let us help you (or your child, teen, family member) gain insight and understanding, learn emotional regulation, improve your relationships, alleviate stress and anxiety, improve satisfaction at work/school, and experience well-being and empowerment. www.TheraThrive.com
(925) 350-8130 View (925) 350-8130

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Family Therapy

What do family therapists do?

A family therapist facilitates the process of understanding and improving how a family functions. The therapist will help family members develop empathy for one another. They’ll seek to understand existing patterns, misunderstandings, and conflicts that arise, in order to help the family arrive at a realistic, unified understanding and develop the coping skills they need to build stronger relationships.

How long does therapy for families take to work?

Therapy manifests differently in every family; a common time frame is 12 weekly sessions, but some families may see improvement after just a few weeks. Families should discuss their goals with the therapist at the beginning of the process and periodically revisit those goals to assess their progress together.

How can you encourage a family member to attend family therapy?

You can encourage family members to attend therapy by expressing with both love and concern the challenges you see and explaining how a therapist could help the family navigate those challenges together. An outside perspective can help everyone feel heard, get on the same page, and develop new skills. If family members are still hesitant, it may be helpful to emphasize that family therapy is short-term—it won’t last forever.

Is therapy for families effective?

Family therapy can significantly improve family dynamics and relationships. Research suggests that family therapy can help individuals understand their role in the family, communicate and solve problems together, reduce conflict and draw boundaries when necessary, and develop coping skills for stressors, major life changes, and mental or physical illnesses within the family.