VIVIAN HANKIN, PhD, MFT
REDEFINE YOUR RELATIONSHIP    EFFECTIVE COUPLES COUNSELING
License MFC 15203   Berkeley (Kensington) (510) 525-1217
I will help you change the way you relate to and understand one another to improve your relationship and to be individually heard and understood by the other....  Click for Details

TRANSFORMATIONAL TOUCH HYPNOTHERAPY & HYPNOMASSAGE
Cathy Dana, MS, Certified Clinical Hypnotherapist (510) 523-7853
Tired of wracking your brain on nagging problems that you just can't resolve? What if you could relax and let the unconscious mind find solutions for you? If that sounds too easy, you may be in for a nice surprise....  Click for Details

ADDICTION SPECIALIST & HYPNOTHERAPIST
Kiki Gregoriante , CHT    650-346-4657
Are destructive behaviors ruining your life? Are you experiencing problems in relationships at home, at work and with family? In a safe and nurturing environment, you can learn to overcome problematic issues such as drug and alcohol abuse, overeating, smoking, and overspending ....  Click for Details

CENTER FOR PSYCHOTHERAPY, SPIRITUALITY & CREATIVITY
N. Berkeley, San Rafael
Peter H. Coster, PhD, MDiv, MFT    510-548-1713
I provide a safe, non judgmental and supportive space to help you make deep and lasting life changes. A compassionate listener with over 20 years clinical experience, I combine holistic and integral methods to understand the inner world of dreams... Click for Details

RELATIONSHIP THERAPY: COUPLES, FAMILIES & GROUPS
Judye Hess, PhD (PSY5553)    Berkeley    (510) 843-5683
Difficult times in relationships can often be gifts in that they open the door to a deeper exploration of ourselves and those closest to us. Seen in this light, therapy can be a step towards mutual evolution, rather than just a problem-solving endeavor....  Click for Details

SOULFUL PRACTICE OF PSYCHOTHERAPY
Rulik Perla, MFT#43965    510-217-6939
If you want to finally find out what's wrong with you, look for another therapist. I am more interested to find out what's right about you. I want to know what brings a smile to your face as you realize there is life to be lived. There is a part in you, which knows exactly why it came here and what is the task at hand...  
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DEPTH PSYCHOTHERAPY: INDIVIDUALS, COUPLES & GROUPS
Joan A. Monheit, LCSW        (510) 845-1557
Whether you are considering therapy for a current life crisis or for a long-standing concern, depth psychotherapy can help you understand and change old patterns and beliefs that get in your way of living fully....  Click for Details

TRANSPERSONAL PSYCHOTHERAPY WITH A NON-DUAL PERSPECTIVE
Roberta Godbe, PhD (415) 485-5607 (707) 829-8805
There is a deep inner peace always available, in the silence of our being. It is a natural state... an open, awake presence that often evades us when the mind, body and emotions are conflicted. My work focuses on recognizing and healing...  Click for Details

LIVE YOUR BEST LIFE!
Lisa Cooney, MFT  Director of LEAP   (415) 307-5922
Are you ready to awaken to the most phenomenal you? It's time to release those self deprecating and self sabotaging patterns that keep resurfacing time and time again. You can be free of limitations and live the law of attraction in your personal and professional life....  Click for Details

PSYCHOTHERAPY
Zoé Newman, MFT    (510) 527-9061
I offer a compassionate, safe space in which you can explore difficult issues, connect with inner resources, learn to support yourself with self-acceptance, and move forward in your life. I draw on years of experience and a broad background including EMDR, hypnotherapy, dreamwork...  Click for Details

DOORWAYS TO SOULWORK
Anna Billings, LMFT   Licensed Marriage & Family Therapist   510-524-0833
The need for soulwork---therapy that addresses the unique unfoldment of each individual---often accompanies relationship conflicts, separations, loss, job changes, trauma, relocation, mid-life and other life transitions....  Click for Details

INDIVIDUALS, COUPLES, FAMILIES
Deborah L. Blackburn, MA, MFT     (510) 482-8300
Tired of relationships that don't work out? Like to change those self-defeating behaviors that keep you stuck? Need to reduce stress in your life?
We all have times in our lives when we need help resolving difficult problems....  Click for Details

BODY / MIND TRANSFORMATION
Surja Jessup, MS, CHT     510-848-7519
Hypnotherapy, Counseling, Acupressure and "Energy Bodywork" are combined in this empowering process. Hypnotherapy is guided imagery in a deeply relaxed state. The journey includes inner child and past life regression, as well as...  Click for Details

JUNGIAN PSYCHOTHERAPY, ART THERAPY & DREAM WORK
Leena Pullinen, MFT (Lic#31431)   (650) 326-1339
Jungian Psychotherapy - Are you feeling stuck in your life, work, relationships, or spiritual path? Do you struggle with feelings of purposelessness or loneliness? Have you suffered a significant loss or trauma? Learn to understand how your unconscious "shadow" side interferes...  Click for Details

EMOTIONAL RENEWAL    Fluid Wisdom with Christine Waddell
REICHIAN BREATHWORK~Fluid Wisdom
Christine Waddell    510 595-5512
Our feelings dictate what we believe is possible. Our body tissue holds unprocessed emotional experience causing us to repeat reactive patterns learned amidst suffering.... Click for Details

WHAT NOW?
John H. Brownson, MFT   (510) 428-9660   (510) 910-2819
Whether you call it Saturn return, midlife crisis or just sick and tired of the way things are, sooner or later you're likely to reach a point in your life when you want change, but it just seems there are too many things standing in the way. For twenty years I've been helping people discover...  Click for Details

THERAPY FOR PSYCHE & SOUL:
INTUITIVE READINGS, HYPNOTHERAPY, PSYCHOTHERAPY
Matthew Engel, LCSW, CHT    415-377-7533
We all strive to fill our lives with passion, purpose, exhilaration, love, laughter, and peace. With 12 years of experience in the mental health profession and 20 years studying soul evolution...  Click for Details

COUNSELING FOR WOMEN / COUPLES COUNSELING
Kay Goldstein, MA, MFT    (415) 753-6446
I have 27 years licensed experience working with women and couples.
Individual counseling:  • depression    • childhood history of abuse (intermittent/chronic/severe)
 • advanced sexual abuse recovery  • relationship issues/problems....  Click for Details

ARE YOU AN ACMI?
Eva Brown, LCSW    Oakland    (510) 635-5063
"Adult Children of the Mentally Ill" often have patterns of behavior (distrust of emotion; inordinate need for control, structure and security; playing caretaker in relationships) which result from the painful experience of growing up with an emotionally disturbed...  Click for Details

HEALTHY RELATING: ONGOING WOMEN'S GROUPS &
THERAPY BY APPOINTMENT FOR INDIVIDUALS & COUPLES
Cathy Diamond, MFT (Lic#MFC30727)        (510) 287-9370
Are you wondering why relationship patterns come up repeatedly that leave you feeling hurt, angry, alone and confused? Joining a supportive group can help you...  Click for Details

FEEL STUCK?  RELATIONSHIPS & CO-DEPENDENCE ISSUES
NURTURING THE 'LOVING INNER ADULT'     TREATING ATTENTION DEFICIT DISORDER (ADD)
Sue Roberts, MSW, LCSW        (415) 221-1508        (510) 524-2540
Feel stuck? I can offer you professional assistance during difficult times. I'm a good listener. I really care. I've been a therapist 26 years in Berkeley and San Francisco. Let's discuss the roles, dramas, and stories you are carrying around...  Click for Details

HeartMind Integration
Ruth L. Schwartz, PhD, CH    510-472-4542, Oakland
Phone sessions also available. Affordable sliding scale; FIRST SESSION FREE!
HeartMind Integration work helps you access your own essential wholeness, enabling deep healing to take place far more quickly than with traditional psychotherapy. Highly effective with anxiety, addiction, trauma, phobias, sexual and relational issues...  Click for Details

RELATIONSHIPS, DIVERSITY & WORLDWORK SEMINARS, CLASSES & GROUPS  with Bill Say, MA
Empowering Diversity: Community Healing & Leadership Training
September 21-26, 2008    Esalen institute    Big Sur, CA
Community can be your greatest vehicle for transformation. In community there is the support, diversity of people and perspectives, and fire to accelerate your healing and empowerment....  Click for Details

TRANSFORMATIONAL HEALING
Haruko Emoto, PhD, CCHT (510) 841-5639  Berkeley
Your healing journey can be a transformational, joyful, and magical process. In a safe and confidential space, Haruko facilitates: • Spiritual growth unfolding
 • Finding solutions when nothing seems to be working • Trauma release...  Click for Details

LIFEMATREX   Going to the Next Level
Women's Transformation Process Groups
Personal Development Counseling
With Ruth Boerger      415-383-3756 / 415-752-7251
Join a small group of compassionate, engaged, and vibrant women and process issues such as:
 • How do I seem to make things happen over and over when I don't like the result?...  Click for Details

ACTUALIZING HYPNOTHERAPY
Michael C. Pollack, PhD, CCHT   (415) 566-1531    San Francisco
ALLOW Your Dreams to Become Your REALITY!
Break the chains that hold you back! Accelerate your GROWTH and replace your old, negative emotional patterns or "tapes" with new, positive ones....  Click for Details

WE OFFER A POWERFUL NEW TRANSFORMATIONAL TECHNOLOGY
(510) 287-8922
The Quiet Mind utilizes Brain State Conditioning™ for balancing and optimizing the brain. This innovative technology allows you to  • Release old behavior patterns quickly
 • Release stress and become resilient to stress triggers  • Release trauma...  Click for Details

TANTRA, THERAPY & TRANSFORMATION
With Johanina Wikoff, PhD
Body oriented psychotherapy   Relationship counseling   Classical & modern Tantra
Sessions, teachings, & trainings in San Francisco & Petaluma CA    707-766-8502
NEXT GROUP: Kundalini and Transformation  July 12th... Click for Details

DIANA LYNCH, LICENSED CLINICAL SOCIAL WORKER
DOWN TO EARTH COUNSELING       Berkeley     (510) 843-5535
Life transitions, clarifying your direction, the challenge of ageing:
My down-to-earth counseling style is based on a many-faceted professional background as a social worker and psychotherapist over the last 35 years...  Click for Details

BREAK FREE FROM ADDICTIONS
Are You Stuck? Is your life out of control because of your addictions? Are you suffering in silence while feeling stuck in a downward spiral of obsessive thinking and compulsive and addictive behaviors? Unable to tolerate negative feelings? I know it's stressful, painful and often overwhelming! I know, because I've been there! I'm a recovering ACA with 16 years of recovery and a licensed psychotherapist....  
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LOVE, INTIMACY, TRUST, BETRAYAL
John Amodeo, PhD    Individuals / Couples Counseling
San Francisco, San Rafael, Sebastopol   (707) 829-8948.
Has your heart been hurt, trust damaged? Has something you've longed for never happened? Is there some awareness you're missing? You and I will create a safe environment...  Click for Details

JUNGIAN SOULFUL PSYCHOTHERAPY
Jane Allen, MFT   510-237-2210
This therapy for men and women opens pathways to deeper levels that will help you embody a more soulful, creative, and purposeful life. I offer a safe, nurturing and respectful space for you to gain clarity and make transformative changes....  Click for Details

CYBELE LOLLEY, MFT  Holistic Psychotherapy  License MFC 37124  Oakland (510) 207-8496
Painful experiences, those that get our attention, can challenge us to evaluate where we have placed our energy and life focus. These moments, whether physical, emotional or spiritual, are opportunities to go deeper and discover our true selves. Using the Buddhist-based practices of mindfulness and compassion, combined with other humanistic psychologies....  Click for Details

BODY, BREATH & BEING
Reichian Therapy and Focusing with Bret Lyon, PhD
The way you breathe is the way you live. I practice a gentle form of Reichian therapy, influenced by Buddhism, Focusing, Feldenkrais body awareness, the trauma work of Peter Levine and Dr. John Sarno's research on the emotional causes of physical pain...  Click for Details

PSYCHOTHERAPIST / ADDICTION SPECIALIST
Paddy Rose Poupeney, MA, MFT   License #36346   (925) 209-6515
Are you ready to see what is holding you back from manifesting peace and love? Do you want to review old stories that no longer serve who you are today? I work with individuals, children, and couples in many areas: substance abuse, depression, anxiety, grief, relationships, parenting...  Click for Details

WOMEN IN LIFE TRANSITIONS
Anne Uemura, PhD   707-255-7414
Are you challenged by transitions?
 • Transitions created by marriage, divorce, death?
 • Job loss or career dissatisfaction? ...  Click for Details

THERAPY WITH INDIVIDUALS, COUPLES, FAMILIES & TEENAGERS
Carla Perez, MD       (415) 665-7272
Psychiatrist in private practice in San Francisco offers therapy with individuals, couples, families and teenagers and prescribing medication when appropriate.
Dr. Carla Perez is known for her common sense, compassionate approach...  Click for Details

RELEASE & RESOLVE STRESS & TRAUMATIC ANXIETY
Rik Center, SEP, LAMT, MBSR   (415) 771-5456
 • Somatic Therapy: Teaching you to manage your mind, your body, your perceptions and emotions as a team. Gaining the tools in reclaiming the inner-wisdom of the mind/body connection in feeling whole and safe.  • RELEASE... Anxiety – Depression – Panic – Grief – PTSD – Tension...  Click for Details

PSYCHOTHERAPY: INDIVIDUALS, COUPLES & ADOLESCENTS
Ivan Skolnikoff   Marriage & Family Therapist    415-721-4527   Berkeley and Oakland Offices
Rather than just talking to you about your problems, I can help you get right into the problem as a way to gain greater insight into your feelings, thoughts and interactions as they develop in our work. Our work can help you learn to integrate and resolve unconscious or painful past experiences....  Click for Details

IT'S YOUR LIFE: COUNSELING FOR CHANGE
Call for a Complimentary Session
Anne Maiden Brown, PhD      510-549-2130
Has your lifepath become a stony road? Have you stumbled on your journey? You can find innate wisdom within. My place as a guide supports your discovery so that you can connect with the energies of value and purpose, perhaps for the first time....  Click for Details

"I AM" ONENESS HEALING
Integrated Intuitive Counseling/Channeling, Spiritual Hypnotherapy, & Divine Energy Healing
Rod Penalosa, MA, CHT    (415) 531-8890
Let me help you grieve and deal with issues of loss, death, and living with the dying.
Let go of the sadness, anger, guilt, and fear. Heal and balance your mind, body...  Click for Details

RE-MOTHERING UNDERMOTHERED WOMEN
Soonja Nagisa Kim, LCSW   Licensed Psychotherapist #10157   (415) 497-6863
Many of us undermothered women have a deep vision of who we could be, an undeniable longing for the life we are meant to live. Yet we are afraid to act on the dreams and aspirations embedded in our soul's code, for fear of not being loved....  Click for Details

Chuck Fisher, LCSW, Lic.23597
1035 San Pablo Ave Suite 9, Albany, CA 94706   (510) 357-5409
We need to make decisions about who we are, and what we want; or to put it another way, we, at some point in life, need to take a stand. It would be ideal, perhaps, if we could have our proverbial "cake" and eat it too; however, what usually occurs when we make a decision or take a stand...  Click for Details

REICHIAN THERAPY
Michele T. Newmark, MS, DD, ACS    Come alive to your sexuality & joy of life...
Reichian therapy is a non-verbal "breathing" therapy. Whereas "talk" is a great way to avoid what you're feeling, there is no way to avoid your feelings while lying there breathing in a Reichian session. Over time, chronically stiff and hard muscles that are blocking sensation and energy flow will soften...
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THERAPEUTIC WRITING: HEALING FROM GRIEF, ANXIETY, TRAUMA
Phyllis Klein, LCSW (#LCS11342)    415-273-1036
Find the place inside where creativity and meaning come from, and write down what's there.
Writing (any form) can be a healing tool if you are depressed, anxious, grieving, in transition, managing an eating disorder, are struggling with health issues, were abused as a child, or trying to cope with trauma.
Here's how we can work together: I will listen carefully to your story....  Click for Details

INDIVIDUAL & COUPLES COUNSELING
Heather Parrish, PhD #MFC 36455  Marriage & Family Therapist   (510) 845-1790
Healthy, fulfilling relationships are all about the giving and receiving of love. Whether you are single or married, living together or still thinking about it, considering parenthood or coping with an unexpected pregnancy: Learn how to make your relationship work or, if separation is inevitable....  Click for Details

INNER CRITIC WORKSHOPS FOR WOMEN
Does that nagging voice in your head criticize you and put you down?
Do you never get a break from it? The Inner Critic is one of the biggest challenges for a woman.
This tenacious voice can monitor our every thought and action: pushing us, doubting us, and making us feel inadequate and hopeless. Upcoming Workshops...  Click for Details

HEAL YOUR RELATIONSHIP
Center for Stress Reduction     Mindful Psychotherapy & Consultation
L. Rebecca Connell, LCSW    510-594-8224
Wanting to reconnect? Rediscover the spark that brought you together. Deepen your relationship.
I am delighted to offer effective couples therapy to couples of all sexual orientations...  Click for Details