Therapists in San Anselmo, CA

My integrative approach to therapy is tailored to meet clients' unique and specific needs. This therapeutic style helps one explore core beliefs and facilitates growth towards inner strength and resilience. Through empathy, warmth, and positive self-regard, I create space for clients to believe and trust in themselves.

As a psychologist, it is my goal to empower people to live fulfilled and happy lives. I work with individuals to help them become active participants in meeting their therapeutic goals. My experience includes treating individuals struggling with general psychiatric symptoms, life transitions and trauma.

Bring healing and harmony back into your home. I offer a range of therapy services tailored to meet the needs of children, teens, and families, through various stages of development including individual counseling for children and teens, family therapy, parenting support, school consultation and collaboration, academic support plans for mental health issues, play therapy for younger children, and sandtray therapy for all ages. I welcome children, teens and families from diverse backgrounds.

I am a licensed psychologist in the state of California with over seven years of clinical experience. I've worked with adults, older adults, college students, and engineers. My experience in multiple mental health settings, from community mental health, urban hospital centers, medical offices, and a federal government agency have helped me to gain the knowledge and skills to work with people from diverse backgrounds and needs.

I approach therapy from an integrative standpoint, using evidence-based therapy modalities that best suit the individuals, couples, or groups with whom I am working. I find the exploratory techniques espoused in Psychodynamic models to be core to and underpinning a great deal of my practice. Psychodynamic work, for me, provides a solid foundation of knowledge on which to base my understanding of my client, and it is the basis from which I tailor subsequent interventions, including the use of alternate models.

If you are seeking a deeper understanding of why you or your child struggles with focusing or learning, then I can help clarify what is getting in the way of reaching one's full potential. You may wonder if there is a name for the difficulty (e.g., is it dyslexia? ADHD?) or you may be unsure if having such a name would be helpful. More importantly, you are wanting a better sense of the strengths and weaknesses that you or you child have and what strategies and interventions would be most helpful.

My style is trauma-informed, person-centered, and feedback-informed. I involve the individual from our first appointment in exploring and identifying their goal for therapy, creating a measurable and realistic goal; creating a plan that feels feasible for the individual, and using feedback to measure progress and therapeutic alliance along the way to inform treatment and readiness for graduation. I am a firm believer in "beginning therapy with the end in mind" and keeping the therapeutic space a working space where we work to gain insight and resolve problems all while at the pace and readiness of the individual.

Navigating life can be difficult. Perhaps you find yourself stuck in problematic relational patterns, struggling to find a different way. Maybe you criticize and put limitations on yourself. Perhaps you have endless empathy for everyone but yourself. Maybe you’ve turned to alcohol or substances to avoid the pain. Maybe you don’t feel much of anything at all. Perhaps you are simply in a rut and you don’t know how to get yourself out of it. The good news is, by simply looking for help you are on your way to regaining confidence, agency, and a fuller, more authentic sense of self. A self that CAN navigate the difficulties of life.

I am a client-centered therapist who most often utilizes Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) and Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR) to treat anxiety, depression, and trauma. I have been practicing since 2010 and have been working predominantly with adults with various mental health disorders and varying levels of functioning ranging from mild to severe. You can expect to be an active participant in therapy with me as I believe it takes teamwork between the therapist and the client in order to successfully meet the goals for treatment.

I think therapy is a collaborative process that is unique to each individual. My goal is to support each of my clients in the way that they need me to. Sometimes this means teaching tools and techniques, sometimes this means exploring painful memories. Having honest conversations is foundational to the work we do. Honest doesn't always mean serious. It can involve humor and jokes, as long as it's real and genuine. I believe I work well with those who are willing to identify small steps and move forward despite how uncomfortable it is, in order to find peace.

Welcome! I’m Dr. Julie, an ADHD Specialist with ADHD. I provide ADHD services, including ADHD evaluation, ADHD diagnosis, ADHD therapy, and ADHD coaching for adults. My ‘Therapeutic ADHD Coaching’ Program is based on the latest neuroscience research as we'll as Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT), which is the gold standard for ADHD treatment. In individual and group therapy, I help you develop effective ADHD strategies, habits and systems plus healthy ADHD psychology. Together, we’ll design a personalized ADHD plan to master a life that supports your unique brain. (For therapists: I also offer ADHD professional trainings).

Everyone can have a meaningful life filled with well-being. I am a catalyst for individuals in creating lives of authenticity, wellbeing and meaning. By supporting you in feeling more connected to yourself, we will work together to create an increased sense of wellbeing and satisfaction with life, relationships and work. Through deep connection to your internal process, we will together cultivate ways to open channels that bypass self-limiting behaviors so you can function more effortlessly. Purposefully engaging with yourself and others with intention and clarity, fully integrating all the parts of who you are.

I am passionate about helping clients through their journey. Knowledge is transformative in healing past generational traumas and guiding us through our recovery. It is important to develop positive coping skills that will take the place of negative coping strategies that only elicit new problems. I am bicultural and bilingual in Spanish. Coming from immigrant parents, I am sensitive to multicultural issues. I enjoy working with a variety of issues, however, my specialty areas include anxiety, depression, body image, and generational trauma.

I am a bicultural colored woman. I encourage the exploration of past experiences and cultural/family discussions to better understand ourselves. When we can access/understand our inner thoughts and emotions, we become empowered to make better choices and live a fuller life on our terms. I have expertise working with the following issues: anxiety/depression, bi-cultural, Intimate partner violence/unhealthy relationships, family of origin (childhood abuse, dysfunctional family), low self-esteem/self-worth, relationship problems (dating, marriage, workplace), self-identity (discovering who you are), trauma and work/life balance.

Welcome kindred Souls of the Mystical and Unconventional! I am the unique guide you seek on your quest of self-discovery. If you find solace in the complex weavings of this world, dancing with the moon, and embracing nuance, you have found a fellow traveler in me. In this world of chaos and conformity, I specialize in supporting magical Souls and Empaths who tread the unorthodox paths. Together, we shall unravel the threads of the struggles that may keep you stuck, transforming them into the known, and metabolized.

You and your spouse are not in a good place. One of you is ready to walk away, and one of you is desperately hanging on. You've had tough times in the past, but this feels different. If you've made several attempts to make it work, and find yourself back in a hopeless place, divorce may seem like the next step. If you are the one hanging on, feeling confused about what's happened, you are desperate to keep things together. The idea of divorce is terrifying to you. You both feel misunderstood, your experience of the marriage does not align. You cannot agree about anything.

Personal struggle can be an opportunity. I'm certain you have heard this before. The question is how to find the opportunity in your struggle. Finding answers requires asking the right questions and sometimes those are hard to come up with alone, especially when feeling overwhelmed and unsure of which way to turn. I am committed to creating a welcoming, safe and collaborative environment where we can explore and consider possible solutions. I am dedicated to helping you find your path forward by better understanding your relationship with yourself and with others.

I believe every person and family is unique and there are many ways to raise a healthy child. I want to honor the strengths within you and your family and offer the tools and support to help your child and family thrive. Through a trauma-informed lens, I work extensively with youth, parents, and families on life transitions, healthy communication, and processing/ healing from grief or abuse.

When your child or teen is having a tough time, all you want is for them to feel better. You want them to feel happier, calmer, and able to manage whatever life throws at them. You need a therapist who understands your unique child as well as the challenges you face as a parent, who can teach important skills with humor, patience, and compassion to help your child cope with big emotions now and in the future. If you are concerned that your child has a learning disability or autism, I offer assessment that focuses on their strengths and how to support them in all environments.