Jan Chess
Marriage & Family Therapist, PhD, MFT
Verified by Psychology Today Verified by Psychology Today
166 Santa Clara Avenue, 102, Oakland, CA 94610
Let's Connect (530) 645-3796
Are you struggling with how childhood experiences, losses or trauma continues to influence your life? Are you discouraged at repeating difficult situations or find it hard to get out from under depression or anxiety? I'm glad to see how we can put our minds together to understand your dilemmas and see things differently. Change is possible no matter what your age or your life circumstances when you feel seen, accepted and appreciated for who you are and where you've been.
I have extensive experience treating distress arising from different kinds of disappointments and loss including various kinds of traumas and relational problems. I am experienced in couples therapy and enjoy work with older adults. In addition, I enjoy supervising and consulting for new and experienced clinicians and offer a psychoanalytic perspective.
I specialize in long term psychoanalytic psychotherapy and value empathy, understanding, and reflection in healing previously unmet relational needs. My decades of clinical experience, extended training, and warmth means I offer patience and acceptance of you in a reliable and ongoing way over time to help your accept and love yourself.
Call or Email Jan Chess now for a free 15 minute consultation - (530) 645-3796
Let's Connect (530) 645-3796
Finances
Fees
- Individual Sessions $270
- Couple Sessions $270
- Sliding scale: apply if you may be eligible
Payment Methods
Check, VenmoInsurance
- PPO/ superbill
- Out of Network
Jan Chess
Marriage & Family Therapist, PhD, MFT
Check fees and, if listed, ask to verify your insurance coverage. Email or (530) 645-3796
Qualifications
- Verified by Psychology Today Licensed by State of California / MFC 23874 Jan Chess
- In Practice for 43 years
- Attended California Institute of Integral Studies, PhD, Graduated 1988
- Certificate from San Francisco Center for Psychoanalysis Graduate / 2021
- Certificate from San Francisco Center for Psychoanalysis
Education and Years In Practice
Additional Credentials
Jan Chess
Marriage & Family Therapist, PhD, MFT
Call or Email me for a free 15 minute consultation now - (530) 645-3796
Specialties and Expertise
Top Specialties
- Relationship Issues
- Women's Issues
- Sexual Abuse
Expertise
- ADHD
- Adoption
- Alcohol Use
- Anxiety
- Asperger's Syndrome
- Autism
- Bipolar Disorder
- Bisexual
- Body Positivity
- Borderline Personality (BPD)
- Cancer
- Chronic Illness
- Chronic Pain
- Codependency
- Dementia
- Depression
- Dissociative Disorders (DID)
- Divorce
- Dual Diagnosis
- Eating Disorders
- Family Conflict
- Geriatric and Seniors
- Grief
- Infertility
- Infidelity
- Lesbian
- LGBTQ+
- Life Transitions
- Marital and Premarital
- Men's Issues
- Mood Disorders
- Narcissistic Personality (NPD)
- Obsessive-Compulsive (OCD)
- Parenting
- Peer Relationships
- Personality Disorders
- Pregnancy, Prenatal, Postpartum
- psychoanalysis
- Psychosis
- Racial Identity
- School Issues
- Self Esteem
- Self-Harming
- Sleep or Insomnia
- Spirituality
- Stress
- Substance Use
- Suicidal Ideation
- Thinking Disorders
- Transgender
- Trauma and PTSD
- Veterans
- Weight Loss
Jan Chess
Marriage & Family Therapist, PhD, MFT
Do these issues align with your needs? Email or (530) 645-3796
Client Focus
Age
Teen ,
Adults ,
Elders (65+)
Participants
Individuals
Communities
Bisexual Allied ,
Gay Allied ,
Lesbian Allied ,
Non-Binary Allied ,
Queer Allied ,
Transgender Allied
Age
Teen ,
Adults ,
Elders (65+)
Participants
Individuals
Communities
Bisexual Allied ,
Gay Allied ,
Lesbian Allied ,
Non-Binary Allied ,
Queer Allied ,
Transgender Allied
Treatment Approach
Types of Therapy
- Attachment-based
- Clinical Supervision and Licensed Supervisors
- Emotionally Focused
- Family / Marital
- Integrative
- Psychoanalytic
- Psychodynamic
- Relational
- Somatic
- Transpersonal
- Trauma Focused
Jan Chess
Marriage & Family Therapist, PhD, MFT
Ask about what different forms of therapy will be like. Email or (530) 645-3796