Joan Bechtel
Marriage & Family Therapist, MA, LMFT
Finances
Fees
- Individual Sessions $160
- Couple Sessions $200
- Sliding scale: apply if you may be eligible
Payment Methods
American Express, Cash, Check, Discover, Health Savings Account, Mastercard, Venmo, VisaInsurance
- Aetna
- BHS | Behavioral Health Systems
- Cigna and Evernorth
- Optum
Qualifications
- Verified by Psychology Today Licensed by State of California / 92806 Joan Bechtel
- In Practice for 14 years
- Attended John F. Kennedy University, Graduated 2012
Education and Years In Practice
Specialties and Expertise
Top Specialties
- Trauma and PTSD
- Anxiety
- Family Conflict
Expertise
- Bipolar Disorder
- Body Image
- Child
- Codependency
- Coping Skills
- Depression
- Domestic Violence
- LGBTQ+
- Marital and Premarital
- Parenting
- Relationship Issues
- Self Esteem
- Sexual Abuse
- Spirituality
Client Focus
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Treatment Approach
Types of Therapy
- Art Therapy
- Attachment-based
- Coaching
- Culturally Sensitive
- Dialectical Behavior (DBT)
- Dream work
- Emotionally Focused
- Existential
- Expressive Arts
- Family / Marital
- Family Systems
- Feminist
- Gestalt
- Gottman Method
- Humanistic
- Hypnotherapy
- Imago
- Integrative
- Interpersonal
- Jungian
- Mindfulness-Based (MBCT)
- Motivational Interviewing
- Narrative
- Play Therapy
- Psychoanalytic
- Psychodynamic
- Relational
- Sandplay
- Solution Focused Brief (SFBT)
- Somatic
- Transpersonal
- Trauma Focused
Groups
Deep FunDreamwork online group
Dreams are invitations to creative discovery. They horrify, stump and delight us. They create solutions and bring up vital questions. They ask us to come out and play! From the vast creative well of the unconscious they deliver just the medicine we need! Their hidden layers of meaning blossom in a supportive group. Our 12-week series of two-hour sessions will be based in Jungian theory and Jeremy Taylor’s approach, incorporating dream education, expressive arts, active imagination and voice dialog work to experience significant dream elements more fully. Please join us online for deep fun.
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Walnut Creek, CA 94597
Befriending Ourselves through Fairy Tales
Are you under the spell of self-abandonment, of overworking, over-caretaking? Have you been crowned Queen of Self Denial? We have been conditioned to fear self-attunement and to embrace self-abandonment. Maybe it’s time to play with mythic symbols like Frankenstein, Dumbling and the Ant and the Grasshopper to challenge the cultural taboo against “selfishness.” By creating our own fairy tales we can listen to what our symptoms are trying to tell us, and break that spell of self-abandonment to reclaim the lost treasures of our true needs. Join us in May 2023 for 6 sessions
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Joan Bechtel, MFT, execuCenter
2920 Camino Diablo
Walnut Creek, CA 94597
Sanctuary Friends
This 6-week PTSD Expressive Arts Group group provides a safe fun place to explore our learning, growing and healing through expressive arts. We are inviting in what has been held in Shadow, through drawing, writing, fairy tales, puppet play, drama and movement and IFS Parts work. Sharing together as we learn more about building secure trust with each other. We are a long term group seeking an additional member who is over 50 and is currently in therapy. Guidelines available.
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Walnut Creek, CA 94597
Location
Primary Location
Deep Fun Therapy Joan Bechtel LMFT
2920 Camino Diablo
Suite 220 B
Walnut Creek, CA 94597
(925) 705-4006Email me
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