Counseling & Therapy
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This category is the Bay Area's most in depth directory of licensed mental health professionals, referral agencies, and counseling hotlines. Also see the Hypnotherapy, Personal Growth, Sexuality, Singles, Women's Issues, and Weight Issues categories for related therapies and group instruction.

GETTING OUT OF SHAME & BLAME INTO RESILIENCE
Phebe Fletcher, Marriage & Family Therapy Intern
Psychotherapy office in Lafayette, Somatic Therapy in Albany, ADD coaching by phone

Do you feel unworthy and inadequate, or disconnected and unmotivated? Are you self-attacking, other-attacking, withdrawn, or avoidant? If some of this fits, you may be prone to shame....  Click for Details

TRANSPERSONAL THERAPY
Roberta Godbe-Tipp, PhD, LCSW   (415) 485-5607
What is most important to you, right now? What do you dream about, and what stops you? I'm interested. Beyond the familiar daily struggle, you sense a stillness, a presence, that lives as the essence of you.
For 31 years, my professional approach has been Transpersonal in fostering...  Click for Details

WEEKLY MEN'S GROUPS
Dan Quinn, PsyD (Clinical Psychologist, PSY 23350)   (510) 290-8297
Our groups focus on creating a warm and inspiring environment of fellowship, and work on the skills that build closer relationships and a happier life. Often members are grappling with problems in their marriage or navigating a divorce, and often we work on conflicts in the workplace...   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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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. Because our wounds, our vulnerabilities, are shaped by early relationships...  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 and Acupressure are combined in this empowering journey. Hypnotherapy changes limiting beliefs, habits and past trauma into empowered thought and action in alignment with personal goals. Acupressure clears blockages and pain, and deepens...  Click for Details

ACTUALIZING HYPNOTHERAPY
"Assisting You to Re-Create Your Life" - Current & Past Life Regression Therapy
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

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

VISIONARY RE- MOTHERING: AMAE THERAPY FOR UNDERMOTHERED WOMEN
Soonja Kim, LCSW, Licensed Psychotherapist #10157   (510) 558-0410
What is it like to have a loving mothering figure on your side? My re-mothering therapy helps you to connect with both the outer and inner resources of mothering energy, that of unconditional love, personalized for you. You don't have to feel alone in your growth journey....  Click for Details

ZEN COUNSELING
Jeffrey Tipp, MA, CHT   (206) 463-5808
I'm interested in what you hope for, what you dream of and what gets in the way. I'll ask, "How is this problem inviting you to change?" How might we find this leading from insight into actions that liberate? You may have familiarity with meditation and have intuited...  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/Inner child work • Dream work - Hypnotherapy...  Click for Details

MASTERING DREAM INTERPRETATION
Barry Friedman, PhD, MFT, Lic. # MFC 29838   510-287-9140

Dreams are the soul's spontaneous and infinitely creative invitation to wholeness, ushering us into the inner precincts of the Self. In various spiritual traditions as well as in clinical practice, dreams are living visions of who we are and of who we can become, of our relationship to ourselves...   Click for Details

BUDDHIST-FRIENDLY APPROACH TO RELATIONSHIP COUNSELING
John Amodeo, PhD, MFT (#MFC14453)  Individuals/Couples
San Francisco, San Rafael, Sebastopol   (415) 482-9702; (707) 829-8948

Collaboratively, we address relationship concerns and issues close to your heart. Bringing gentle mindfulness to your feelings and body allows compassion for yourself and others to flourish. With warmth and sometimes gentle humor, we'll explore: repairing damaged trust...  Click for Details

COMPASSIONATE PSYCHOTHERAPY for Adults & Couples
Louis Bernstein, MA, MFT   (925) 708-0997

I offer you a space of respect, appreciation and acceptance so that you may feel safe, seen and understood; a space in which your healing, growth and fulfillment may take root and flourish.
Working together collaboratively and intuitively, we can address issues in the areas of... Click for Details

LIFEMATREX
Women's Transformation Process Groups
Monday Evenings in San Francisco - Wednesday Evenings in Mill Valley
Personal Development Counseling With Ruth Boerger   415-752-7251
Join a small group of compassionate, engaged, and vibrant women and process life issues in a safe and creative environment: • Discover and work on what's really important to you...  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 parent...  Click for Details

COUNSELING FOR CAREGIVERS, WITH A BUDDHIST PERSPECTIVE
Diana Lynch, LCSW   (510) 843-5535

Are you caring for a loved one and wondering how to balance that with having a life of your own? Do you sometimes feel tired and burned out and unable to show the love you feel as much as you would like? Perhaps you need a chance to share your feelings, the frustrations and the fears...   Click for Details

THE SOUL OF EATING
A Path to True Nourishment   415-258-9066.
Premsiri Lewin, MFT, SEP   Individuals, Couples & Groups - Offices in San Rafael & Berkeley
The Soul of Eating is an inner journey from the trance of eating as a means to deal with life's ups and downs to transforming your emotional eating and emotional life patterns...   Click for Details

FLUID WISDOM
Christine Marie Waddell
510 655-3828
Breath is the one thing we can't live without! Breath revitalizes life force and assists release of toxicity, both physically and emotionally. As children we learn to hold our breath when we're too afraid, or told not to cry, scowl or yell. Expressivity quiets with our stifled breath, and eventually...   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

FULL SPECTRUM THERAPY™ FOR TRANSFORMATIONAL HEALING & LASTING CHANGE
Barbara Lynn Allen, MS, CCHT, DCEP   510-528-4976

Even if you have been disappointed with other methods, Full Spectrum Therapy™ will take you that extra step into real, lasting change. By combining many leading edge modalities in one place, you can rapidly remove limiting beliefs and patterns, heal emotional pain and enrich your relationships...  Click for Details

HEAL YOUR SPIRIT   CHANGE YOUR LIFE
Kathleen Downey   415.536.9403
Kathleen Downey, Shamanic Counselor/Past-Life Therapist, has seventeen years of experience and is well known and respected nationally and internationally for her profound life changing therapy developed after seven years of training and healing herself of cancer, Lyme disease and a herniated spine.
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PSYCHOTHERAPY & THE WORK OF BYRON KATIE
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 twenty years experience and a broad background including EMDR...  Click for Details

LONG TERM SURVIVOR? Me too! And proud of it!
STEVE FOSTER,LMFT   (415) 412-0397

As a long- term survivor of a life-threatening illness, I know what it's like to re-assess one's life. As a survivor, have your priorities changed? Are you reassessing your goals and expectations? How have your relationships been affected, including the one with yourself? ...   Click for Details

FEEL STUCK?  RELATIONSHIPS & CO-DEPENDENCE ISSUES
CULTURAL & RACIAL SENSITIVITY/EXPERIENCE • NURTURING YOUR REAL SELF
TREATING ATTENTION DEFICIT DISORDER
Sue Roberts, MSW, LCSW   (510) 524-2540   SF & Berkeley Offices

Feel stuck? I can offer you professional assistance during difficult times. I'm a good listener. I really care. I've been a therapist 30 years in Berkeley and San Francisco....  Click for Details

HO'OPONOPONO (forgiveness)
RECONNECTIVE HEALING® & THE RECONNECTION®
Belinda Farrell, CHT, BA   Phone Sessions Available.  415-250-8094  Now In Santa Cruz!
Known as "the heal er's healer," Belinda Farrell has been transforming lives by moving Her clients to higher vibrations for over 15 years. Along with you, I have also experienced huge transitions in my life forcing me out of my comfort zone. Through these changes, the Hawaiian forgiveness...  Click for Details

FREE THE LIGHT WITHIN
Ana Maria Sanchez, MS   Licensed Heal Your Life Teacher & Workshop Facilitator  (650) 804-9816
As a Spiritual Guidance Counselor and Reiki Master, it is my desire and commitment to help others release the energy blockages within their psychological, physical and spiritual being. I use a heart-centered approach to assist individuals to awaken to their highest potential...  Click for Details

Searching for your life purpose? Find The Clearest Path
Jeff Ennor   510-457-1385

Life Purpose Coaching - Feel stuck? With hypnotherapy and EFT I help you resolve obstacles, find your personal authority, and make clear decisions about what you truly want in your relationships, career, and personal life. Communication for Men – Ask for what you really want without scaring people away. I work with men who want fulfilling relationships...   Click for Details