Therapists in 94708
Mariya Croshal
Clinical Social Work/Therapist, LCSW
Verified Verified
Berkeley, CA 94708 (Online Only)
Life is chaotic enough when it's going well, so when you throw in life stressors, trauma triggers, and dating anxiety, it can be incredibly overwhelming. I help my clients work through overcoming trauma and difficult childhood upbringing, navigating dating issues, and understanding and managing their anxiety. I sprinkle in some humor into my work when appropriate because I believe it's important to be able to laugh in trying times. I ask my clients for permission before offering new viewpoints or challenging their unhelpful personal beliefs because I want them to feel in control of where our sessions may go.
Life is chaotic enough when it's going well, so when you throw in life stressors, trauma triggers, and dating anxiety, it can be incredibly overwhelming. I help my clients work through overcoming trauma and difficult childhood upbringing, navigating dating issues, and understanding and managing their anxiety. I sprinkle in some humor into my work when appropriate because I believe it's important to be able to laugh in trying times. I ask my clients for permission before offering new viewpoints or challenging their unhelpful personal beliefs because I want them to feel in control of where our sessions may go.
I specialize in assessment and intervention planning for a range of disorders that affect learning and behavior. I provide School Psychoeducational assessments, Independent Educational Evaluations (IEEs), Behavior Intervention Plans, and consultation around educational and behavior issues at school or at home.
I specialize in assessment and intervention planning for a range of disorders that affect learning and behavior. I provide School Psychoeducational assessments, Independent Educational Evaluations (IEEs), Behavior Intervention Plans, and consultation around educational and behavior issues at school or at home.
Learn how to feel more connected to yourself, others and the world around you. Therapy provides all the elements of intimacy: honest communication, vulnerability and trust. Good therapy is challenging yet warm, providing both structure and empathy for your unique experience. We are a collective of therapists with a wide range of specialties. Our intake professionals will help connect you with the right therapist for your needs. We make appointments easy, offering evenings and weekends and flexibility for creative professionals who can't make the same time each week.
Learn how to feel more connected to yourself, others and the world around you. Therapy provides all the elements of intimacy: honest communication, vulnerability and trust. Good therapy is challenging yet warm, providing both structure and empathy for your unique experience. We are a collective of therapists with a wide range of specialties. Our intake professionals will help connect you with the right therapist for your needs. We make appointments easy, offering evenings and weekends and flexibility for creative professionals who can't make the same time each week.
Adulting is hard! So is being a kid! My therapy offers a safe space to strengthen you and/or your child’s resiliency and find the ease you’ve been seeking. Together, let’s deepen your self-understanding with therapy in a collaborative journey of compassion, healing, and skill building. We all need support at times to develop our strengths, gain guidance towards healing, and create space for positive change.
Adulting is hard! So is being a kid! My therapy offers a safe space to strengthen you and/or your child’s resiliency and find the ease you’ve been seeking. Together, let’s deepen your self-understanding with therapy in a collaborative journey of compassion, healing, and skill building. We all need support at times to develop our strengths, gain guidance towards healing, and create space for positive change.
While it can be intimidating to think about beginning therapy, it’s my hope that my warm and collaborative style of engaging with you will offer some ease in initiating our work together. Having dedicated space for understanding and learning about you by speaking can feel relieving, and starts with a good amount of courage in your initial reaching out. In our work together, I will carefully listen to you while building a collaborative relationship based in warm curiosity, offering you my thoughts and connections related to the barriers that may be holding you back from moving towards your known and yet-to-be-known goals.
While it can be intimidating to think about beginning therapy, it’s my hope that my warm and collaborative style of engaging with you will offer some ease in initiating our work together. Having dedicated space for understanding and learning about you by speaking can feel relieving, and starts with a good amount of courage in your initial reaching out. In our work together, I will carefully listen to you while building a collaborative relationship based in warm curiosity, offering you my thoughts and connections related to the barriers that may be holding you back from moving towards your known and yet-to-be-known goals.
In my practice, I see children, adolescents and adults who are seeking help for a variety of reasons. Common areas of need include depression, anxiety, trauma, grief and relationship difficulties. With children, these concerns may express themselves through externalizing behaviors at school and/or at home. I offer an open, non-judgmental, and safe therapeutic relationship. My approach is adapted carefully to individual needs and is inclusive in regard to gender identity, ethnicity, sexual orientation, culture, class, and religious/spiritual orientation. I work with many LGBTQ+ individuals in my practice.
In my practice, I see children, adolescents and adults who are seeking help for a variety of reasons. Common areas of need include depression, anxiety, trauma, grief and relationship difficulties. With children, these concerns may express themselves through externalizing behaviors at school and/or at home. I offer an open, non-judgmental, and safe therapeutic relationship. My approach is adapted carefully to individual needs and is inclusive in regard to gender identity, ethnicity, sexual orientation, culture, class, and religious/spiritual orientation. I work with many LGBTQ+ individuals in my practice.
I work with people who find themselves putting everyone else first. People who struggle to enact healthy boundaries in relationships. People navigating multiple roles and responsibilities in life, while weathering the impacts of oppression. If this sounds like you, I offer a space of refuge where you can reconnect with yourself and build insight that moves you towards a more meaningful life. I will sit with you in the mud while we wait patiently for the lotus.
I work with people who find themselves putting everyone else first. People who struggle to enact healthy boundaries in relationships. People navigating multiple roles and responsibilities in life, while weathering the impacts of oppression. If this sounds like you, I offer a space of refuge where you can reconnect with yourself and build insight that moves you towards a more meaningful life. I will sit with you in the mud while we wait patiently for the lotus.
Gina Polesetsky
Marriage & Family Therapist, MA, LMFT
Verified Verified
4 Endorsed
Berkeley, CA 94708
I am passionate about the resiliency of the human spirit in healing from trauma, forming and healing relationships, & finding our way through life’s transitions. I view therapy as a tool to create a safe space to show up authentically and work toward living the life you seek. I work with children (8 & up), teens, adults, & couples who are addressing trauma, issues of identity or self-esteem, anxiety, recovering from narcissistic, sexual, or intimate partner abuse, having difficulty with dating/relationships, & working through divorce, separation, co-parenting, & blending families. Otis, my office dog, usually joins me for sessions.
I am passionate about the resiliency of the human spirit in healing from trauma, forming and healing relationships, & finding our way through life’s transitions. I view therapy as a tool to create a safe space to show up authentically and work toward living the life you seek. I work with children (8 & up), teens, adults, & couples who are addressing trauma, issues of identity or self-esteem, anxiety, recovering from narcissistic, sexual, or intimate partner abuse, having difficulty with dating/relationships, & working through divorce, separation, co-parenting, & blending families. Otis, my office dog, usually joins me for sessions.
Leah Platoni
Marriage & Family Therapist, LMFT
Verified Verified
Berkeley, CA 94708
Not accepting new clients
I am glad you found your way here! From our first contact, I focus on creating safety and trust in a therapeutic relationship. We need non-judgmental space to build insight into ourselves- our habits and patterns- and make desirable changes. The goals are honorable- to improve our relationships (with ourselves and with others) and to flourish more in our lives, finding more fulfillment on our journeys. I will be there, with compassion and curiosity, helping uncover how deeper memories, beliefs, and feelings shape your current relationship dynamics, way of moving through life, and perceptions of the world.
I am glad you found your way here! From our first contact, I focus on creating safety and trust in a therapeutic relationship. We need non-judgmental space to build insight into ourselves- our habits and patterns- and make desirable changes. The goals are honorable- to improve our relationships (with ourselves and with others) and to flourish more in our lives, finding more fulfillment on our journeys. I will be there, with compassion and curiosity, helping uncover how deeper memories, beliefs, and feelings shape your current relationship dynamics, way of moving through life, and perceptions of the world.
I see individual adults struggling with relationships and unprocessed interpersonal struggles who want to realize their potential. I help clients to deepen their self-awareness, improve their mental health, and refine interpersonal dynamics. Clients often report feeling safe and connected when we meet and notice changes in their lives over time. Relationships are powerful - both the cause of much suffering and a necessary ingredient for growth and joy. Wounds from past relationships require new corrective relational experiences to be healed, making therapy essentially helpful.
I see individual adults struggling with relationships and unprocessed interpersonal struggles who want to realize their potential. I help clients to deepen their self-awareness, improve their mental health, and refine interpersonal dynamics. Clients often report feeling safe and connected when we meet and notice changes in their lives over time. Relationships are powerful - both the cause of much suffering and a necessary ingredient for growth and joy. Wounds from past relationships require new corrective relational experiences to be healed, making therapy essentially helpful.
We are wired to connect, but sometimes our ways of connecting feel counterproductive, even painful. I specialize in couples therapy, relationship therapy and trauma therapy. I support clients who are looking to heal their relationships, past or present. This can be healing themselves from trauma, finding ease and satisfaction in current relationships, or to explore new ways of being in relationship. I offer a trauma-informed approach to work with individuals, families and couples, to help them explore patterns that don't work, to process loss and grief, and to find authentic connection.
We are wired to connect, but sometimes our ways of connecting feel counterproductive, even painful. I specialize in couples therapy, relationship therapy and trauma therapy. I support clients who are looking to heal their relationships, past or present. This can be healing themselves from trauma, finding ease and satisfaction in current relationships, or to explore new ways of being in relationship. I offer a trauma-informed approach to work with individuals, families and couples, to help them explore patterns that don't work, to process loss and grief, and to find authentic connection.
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Marriage & Family Therapist Associate, MA
Verified Verified
1 Endorsed
Berkeley, CA 94708
Therapy offers us the opportunity to turn towards parts of ourselves that have been disavowed and neglected with compassionate curiosity and care, rather than criticism or judgement. When we nurture our process of self-inquiry, we often find ourselves showing up for all relationships in new and unexpected ways. The internal shifts we experience, no matter how subtle, undoubtedly ripple outwards. Whether you are facing personal challenges, struggling with relational dynamics, or navigating organizational issues, I'm here to offer a supportive environment where you can feel empowered to explore thoughts and emotions without judgement.
Therapy offers us the opportunity to turn towards parts of ourselves that have been disavowed and neglected with compassionate curiosity and care, rather than criticism or judgement. When we nurture our process of self-inquiry, we often find ourselves showing up for all relationships in new and unexpected ways. The internal shifts we experience, no matter how subtle, undoubtedly ripple outwards. Whether you are facing personal challenges, struggling with relational dynamics, or navigating organizational issues, I'm here to offer a supportive environment where you can feel empowered to explore thoughts and emotions without judgement.
I am committed to guiding my clients toward a deeper experience and understanding of themselves and their lives. I assist with the unfolding of their own natural processes of change and growth and work to foster a sense of self-acceptance and curiosity as they begin to open up to themselves more and more. In this process of opening up, great distress and pain often accompany possibilities for connection and joy. Therefore, I find it crucial to help clients befriend the difficult places inside of themselves in the service of developing a sense of wholeness and integration.
I am committed to guiding my clients toward a deeper experience and understanding of themselves and their lives. I assist with the unfolding of their own natural processes of change and growth and work to foster a sense of self-acceptance and curiosity as they begin to open up to themselves more and more. In this process of opening up, great distress and pain often accompany possibilities for connection and joy. Therefore, I find it crucial to help clients befriend the difficult places inside of themselves in the service of developing a sense of wholeness and integration.
Jacob Kajiwara - Anxiety & Relationships
Marriage & Family Therapist Associate, MA, AMFT
Verified Verified
4 Endorsed
Berkeley, CA 94708 (Online Only)
I am passionate about helping my clients explore the intersections of adoption, racial/ethnic identity, childhood trauma, confidence, and major life transitions. Throughout life, we continually revisit and re-negotiate our understanding of the experiences that have shaped us. It’s especially hard if you’ve been impacted by unique circumstances such as international/domestic adoption, multi-cultural family, or intergenerational experiences. I provide a warm and safe space that allows clients to explore their authentic self and build greater self awareness.
I am passionate about helping my clients explore the intersections of adoption, racial/ethnic identity, childhood trauma, confidence, and major life transitions. Throughout life, we continually revisit and re-negotiate our understanding of the experiences that have shaped us. It’s especially hard if you’ve been impacted by unique circumstances such as international/domestic adoption, multi-cultural family, or intergenerational experiences. I provide a warm and safe space that allows clients to explore their authentic self and build greater self awareness.
Nicole Marie Lemaster
Marriage & Family Therapist, LMFT, SEP
Verified Verified
12 Endorsed
Berkeley, CA 94708 (Online Only)
Is stress and overwhelm making living a joyful life feel unobtainable? Are you feeling hopeless? Exhausted, stressed out, and overwhelmed - feeling like you've lost connection with yourself? I am a nervous system specialist. I can help you reconnect with your body, yourself, and live the life you deserve. I can support your nervous system reset to its regulation point. If you’re ready to feel comfortable in your body and step into your power - let’s talk! My clients report feeling a shift and relief in the first session. If you’re ready for things to change, I am here to support!
Is stress and overwhelm making living a joyful life feel unobtainable? Are you feeling hopeless? Exhausted, stressed out, and overwhelmed - feeling like you've lost connection with yourself? I am a nervous system specialist. I can help you reconnect with your body, yourself, and live the life you deserve. I can support your nervous system reset to its regulation point. If you’re ready to feel comfortable in your body and step into your power - let’s talk! My clients report feeling a shift and relief in the first session. If you’re ready for things to change, I am here to support!
Alison Papion
Marriage & Family Therapist, MA, LMFT, CRMP
Verified Verified
3 Endorsed
Berkeley, CA 94708 (Online Only)
I hold a belief that every individual I come across holds within him/herself the power to heal. My role is to help those individuals access their power when they feel they have none. I specialize in the treatment of trauma and anxiety disorders and I am passionate about bringing a sense of hope and empowerment to the individuals I serve. My hope is that individuals will learn to embrace their power, learn to be at ease in their own skin and find loving and fulfilling connection to others; bringing them closer to their personal healing and, ultimately, to the life they dream of living.
I hold a belief that every individual I come across holds within him/herself the power to heal. My role is to help those individuals access their power when they feel they have none. I specialize in the treatment of trauma and anxiety disorders and I am passionate about bringing a sense of hope and empowerment to the individuals I serve. My hope is that individuals will learn to embrace their power, learn to be at ease in their own skin and find loving and fulfilling connection to others; bringing them closer to their personal healing and, ultimately, to the life they dream of living.
My ideal client is someone facing challenges in co-parenting, divorce, or building healthy relationships. They seek a supportive and confidential space to share experiences, gain insights, and connect with others. Their goals are to heal from trauma, mend relationships, and establish healthy dynamics. They desire expert-led guidance and practical strategies to empower their personal growth and navigate life transitions with confidence. They want compassionate support to align their values, manage co-parenting effectively, and ensure their children's well-being during and after divorce.
My ideal client is someone facing challenges in co-parenting, divorce, or building healthy relationships. They seek a supportive and confidential space to share experiences, gain insights, and connect with others. Their goals are to heal from trauma, mend relationships, and establish healthy dynamics. They desire expert-led guidance and practical strategies to empower their personal growth and navigate life transitions with confidence. They want compassionate support to align their values, manage co-parenting effectively, and ensure their children's well-being during and after divorce.
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Number of Therapists in 94708
70+
Average cost per session
$200
Therapists in 94708 who prioritize treating:
| 90% | Anxiety |
| 86% | Relationship Issues |
| 82% | Depression |
| 75% | Trauma and PTSD |
| 70% | Self Esteem |
| 66% | Stress |
| 66% | Life Transitions |
Average years in practice
13 Years
Top 3 insurances accepted
| 52% | Aetna |
| 39% | Cigna and Evernorth |
| 39% | Other |
How Therapists in 94708 see their clients
| 64% | In Person and Online | |
| 36% | Online Only |
Gender breakdown
| 80% | Female | |
| 20% | Male |