Janet Kass
Clinical Social Work/Therapist, LCSW
Verified by Psychology Today Verified by Psychology Today
Mill Valley, CA 94941
Let's Connect (510) 362-7008
Early experiences result in our developing defensive structures that are meant to protect our vulnerability, but also create restrictions in our capacity to feel or perceive what is happening in the moment. This patterning shapes our perception of others, and also of ourselves. Although traditional insight-oriented talk therapy allows for an understanding which can harmonize our awareness with our everyday life, we embody early experience in ways that limit the power of insight to undo, and restrict our emotional intelligence. My orientation to psychotherapy is to work through emotional and experiential patterning, without bypassing the power of understanding.
I use psychodynamic, cognitive, and experiential modalities and mindfulness to bring awareness to conditioned beliefs, feelings and ways of perceiving. Integrating understanding with present-moment inquiry illuminates the entanglements, projections, and negative emotions that manifest in our lives. Freedom from these restores our potential for presence.
I am a Licensed Clinical Social Worker in private practice since 1984. I've trained professionally in Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction with Jon Kabat-Zinn, Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, Sensorimotor Psychotherapy, Somatic Experiencing Level I, and Dynamic Attachment Repatterning Experience. I work with adult and older adolescent individuals and with couples.
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Finances
Fees
- Sliding scale: apply if you may be eligible
Payment Methods
Cash, Check, Health Savings Account, PaypalInsurance
- Carelon Behavioral Health
- Cigna and Evernorth
- Health Net
- Kaiser (Out-of-Network)
- Optum
- SHIP
- Teletherapy
- Out of Network
Janet Kass
Clinical Social Work/Therapist, LCSW
Call or Email me for a free 15 minute consultation now - (510) 362-7008
Qualifications
- Verified by Psychology Today Licensed by State of California / 71176 Janet Kass
- In Practice for 39 years
- Attended Syracuse University, MSW, Graduated 1986
Education and Years In Practice
Janet Kass
Clinical Social Work/Therapist, LCSW
Feel free to ask about qualifications and training experience. Email or (510) 362-7008
Specialties and Expertise
Top Specialties
- Mood Disorders
- Relationship Issues
- Life Transitions
Expertise
- Anger Management
- Anxiety
- Codependency
- Depression
- Divorce
- Emotional Disturbance
- Existential and Identity issues
- Family Conflict
- Grief
- Infidelity
- Internet Addiction
- Marital and Premarital
- Peer Relationships
- Spirituality
- Stress
- Trauma and PTSD
Janet Kass
Clinical Social Work/Therapist, LCSW
Do these issues align with your needs? Email or (510) 362-7008
Client Focus
Age
Adults ,
Elders (65+)
Participants
Individuals
Age
Adults ,
Elders (65+)
Participants
Individuals
Treatment Approach
Types of Therapy
- Attachment-based
- Cognitive Behavioral (CBT)
- Emotionally Focused
- Existential
- Family / Marital
- Humanistic
- Inquiry
- Jungian
- Mindfulness-Based (MBCT)
- Object Relations
- Psychodynamic
- Solution Focused Brief (SFBT)
- Somatic
- Transpersonal
Janet Kass
Clinical Social Work/Therapist, LCSW
Ask about what different forms of therapy will be like. Email or (510) 362-7008