Find therapists and counselors in Oakland

Abigail Thompson

Do you have a sense that something is not quite fitting for you- or that you could be accomplishing more or enjoying more? This therapy is right for you if you're ready to try something new, get a little uncomfortable, and explore what's true for you.

Michael MacLafferty

My clients want to understand themselves and their habits better. Do you have a darker side of yourself that you don't share with many others, for fear of judgment? Want to do things better, but might have some doubts about whether you can? Feel like you were not taught how to be an adult, and are just making it up as you go? I can help you get a clearer picture of yourself, without so many pesky self-judgments.

Amy Ratkovich

I find that I connect as a guide in the work most with young female identifying people who want to feel empowered to step into their strengths who might need to over come anxiety, societal oppression and relationship struggles in order to truly believe they are enough.

Diane Hoang

I am passionate about working with adults and older adults to understand brain-behavior and emotional relationships. It is fulfilling for me when I can bring an empathic and pragmatic understanding to these often esoteric concepts. My heavy background in adult neuropsychology allows me to assess the cognitive effects of neurological and psychological disorders across the adult lifespan.

Luisa Lancaster

To accomplish meaningful change, I take a collaborative approach with the intention to discover strengths and instill hope. I work with clients to support them during difficult times and in accomplishing the change they want to see in their lives. While therapy can be a lifelong journey for some, it can also mean, inviting someone into your life. I have worked with individuals from diverse cultural religious backgrounds, and I am bilingual.

Yi Martins

I have a passion of working with children, their caregivers, and adults in order to assist them in developing and utilizing the necessary coping skills to manage and thrive during difficult times and life transitions, and through needed change.

Laura Friedeberg

Laura R. Friedeberg is a culturally competent licensed marriage family therapist with 25+ years experience providing in-person and telehealth psychotherapy to adults, teens, families, and groups. She specializes in working with marginalized populations including LGBTQIA+, BIPOC, immigrant, and forensic.

Jessica Mendoza-Miranda

If you are reading this, I imagine that you are having a hard time or maybe you are looking to make some changes in your life. I love working with young adults to find their passion in life, remove blocks that are keeping them from being their most awesome self and learn to live a life they have always dreamed. off. I work with children, teenagers and young adults to help them overcome feelings of depression, anxiety, and trauma.

Mark Stelzner

I work from a humanistic approach utilizing techniques from gestalt and mindfulness practices, believing that much of our healing comes from experiencing what's happening for us in the present moment.

Lara Taylor Kester

She specializes in working with LGBTQ+ individuals, adolescents and young adults, and trauma survivors. Lara believes that the best way to learn about ourselves and communicate with others is through the media and fandoms we enjoy.

Martine Barbier

I can help you celebrate your unique experience and explore how you have navigated your life journey of multiculturalism, Queer identity, race based stress, micro aggressions, or other matters that affect your mental wellness. My expertise includes addressing anxiety, depression, school/workplace burnout, perfectionism. My client base includes working with LGBTQQIA+, non- binary communities, bi-cultural identities, tech community, first and second generation immigrants, and survivors of abuse.

Barbara Hooks

Life can be challenging, and at times, despite our best efforts we can feel stuck or lost. My clients are looking to make specific changes in their lives and want an interactive therapist to help provide specific tools and strategies to guide this process. I help clients reduce stress, and shift their relationship to painful emotions. I frequently work with people around boundaries, relationship concerns, life transitions, and issues related to gender identity.

Anna Lindberg Cedar

Clients are drawn to my specialty in burnout prevention because they know that I interpret 'burnout' across professional life, romantic relationships, sense of self, and this thing we call "the meaning of life." I am most known for my willingness to sit with painful moments to help you find underlying motivation and joy. My specialties are not limited to: overcoming past hurts, building practical self-care rituals, making meaning in a chaotic world, and crafting a fully embodied life.

Evelynn Hernandez-Brown

Are you someone who is looking for an environment to better understand their identity and roles within the world, community and family? Walking through life feeling uprooted and lost is difficult. Whether that is due to microaggressions, hostile political climate, “ism’s” or difficult family beliefs and expectations. Having a warm environment where you can freely express and explore your world can help you to build resiliency and empower yourself to make more fulfilling choices.

Emily Chandler

I get it. You feel anxious more often than not. Maybe you're wondering how you could ever connect with your partner in a warm and engaging way again. I've been there, too: heart pounding, armpits sweating, racing thoughts. It can be an endless cycle and I don't want you to suffer anymore. I look forward to working with you and teaching you tools so you can work, be present with your loved ones, and have a good night's sleep without anxiety ruining it day after day.

Theo Kuczek

You're looking for someone who will be straight with you. You like to be educated about psychological concepts to understand and support your growth and healing inside and outside of sessions. You want someone who sees your uniqueness and helps you dissipate the shame with ways you may feel insecure or inadequate. You want your therapist to be a real person with you in session, someone who shares stories about their own experience in life if it helps you grow.

Elana Story

I love working with activists, artists, queer youth, dreamers, spiritual leaders, helping professionals, children, families and parents. I provide both in-depth and short-term, focused psychotherapy. Areas of expertise include: LGBTQ issues, including coming out and LGBTQ children/teens Fertility and pregnancy, including struggles with infertility Trauma, including sexual trauma, rape and incest Spirituality and religion Parenting and family stressors Children and families, including parenting/

Dr. Hannah Alia Joharchi

We at Soft Heart Psychology honor your intersecting sexuality, ethnicity, and gender. We believe trauma comes up in a number of different ways including through inner criticism and the body. We can work with and heal different forms of inner criticism such as imposter syndrome, people pleasing, and perfectionism in order for you to be authentically you. We reconnect folx with the ways emotions show up in their bodies and release some of this tension.

Eileen Van Tyne

Relationships can bring us the greatest joy and support, and the biggest challenges. We are wired to connect, but we sometimes need support around how we connect with others. I work with clients who are looking to heal within themselves, their relationships with their partners, or experience new ways of being in the world. I work with teens, individuals and couples experiencing loneliness, shame, anxiety, communication issues, self-criticism, depression, burnout and complex trauma.

Lesleigh Franklin