If a person is experiencing difficulty in their spirituality, they may benefit from counseling. Some therapists and counselors specialize in religious denominations and beliefs. Depending on what the person is experiencing, they may seek therapy from a person who more fully understands their religious or spiritual beliefs.
Available Treatment Options
Counseling interventions include offering a safe, validating space for people to question their beliefs, mindfulness interventions for self-discovery, or existential interventions for assisting folks in grappling with life’s “big questions.”
Therapists Who Specialize in Helping Those Who Struggle With Spirituality
Making the decision to seek therapy is a powerful first step in your journey. My goal is to help you find your path to your ideal self. Often in life we are wounded in relationships but the therapeutic process and relationship can transform and heal by helping us identify and rediscover our wisdom, strength, humor and resiliency. I specialize in Trauma, Grief/Loss, Anxiety, Family of...
Are you ready to start living your life to its fullest potential? At UPC, you will find caring and genuine support for you and your family. Our hope is that you'll find a fresh perspective and learn more effective and efficient ways of coping with what life brings your way. Many of our clients discover renewed self-confidence, serenity, balance, and wellness. Relationships and work performance...
Through many years of practice, I have honed my skills and identified what types of issues I feel most competent to treat and "speak" to me as a clinician and as a person. I feel called to work with individuals and families dealing with the daily struggles of life, whether these struggles are biochemical/genetic (depression, anxiety, mood disorders, etc.), resulting from painful life experience...
I specialize in helping individuals overcome past painful learning experiences, so they can flourish without fear or regret. If you have found yourself feeling hopeless. Experiencing years of repeated disappointment and relationship failures. Confused because no matter how good your intentions are or how hard you work, life just is not working out the way you thought it would. Then we need to...
Hello! My name is Annu, and I am a therapist in San Francisco (and online). I work with immigrants and adult-children of immigrants....also known as Third Culture Kids (TCK) or First Generation Americans. I work with multi-cultural and multi-racial couples. I work with people of color. And I work with successful, career-driven achievers. I belong to each of these demographics - my parents...
I enjoy working with clients in a variety of formats,including individually,couples,families and children. I am trained in EMDR and play therapy. Most recently I have been trained in Accelerated Resolution Therapy (ART). ART uses imagery rescripting and memory reconsolidation to alter negative emotions and sensations associated with pain or trauma,in as few as 1-5 sessions. I have experience...
I am passionate about therapy that produces lasting, inner healing! I use a combination of several psychological theories, depending on what will best meet my client's needs, including ImTT and EMDR, to help clients experience healing and change in the places where their pain originated. This not only creates symptom reduction and/or extinction but also produces an outcome of inner peace, joy a...
Congratulations on taking the first step to building a better life. As a Licensed Therapist, I compassionately counsel adults, teens, children and families and help them lead a more engaged and meaningful life. I work with clients struggling with depression, anxiety, relationship issues, behavioral concerns, life transitions and academic issues. Utilizing a very collaborative and interactive...
I believe every person has the ability to grow in body, mind, emotion and spirit throughout life. My work helps you maximize your unique potential and have a balanced life. I am here to help you understand your own healing process and will provide a safe space for you to do so. In my experience, once you begin to make internal connections and changes, your outer world is also transformed. I loo...
You might be experiencing what can often be described as the Dark Night of the Soul. Your world and your beliefs have been shaken so much, you are not quite sure what is true for you anymore. In the Dark Night there is a call from the Soul to change what is no longer working and to give light to what might be possible. We’ll work together to help you dig deeper, to access your authentic self an...
You, your pain and the challenges that brought you here matter. I offer a warm, nonjudgmental, and supportive environment that allows you to discover the meaning and growth-potential in life's difficult situations. Most clients tell me the work we do is different from work with therapists in their past. I take an active and direct approach by giving you research-based methods to achieve the...
When you are in a struggle with yourself, it may affect everything else. Talking can help. Voicing your truth is healing. I offer a comfortable, supportive environment where it is safe to be yourself. Together we will identify and explore that which has been troubling you. This will help you release haunting feelings, make peace with your history, and gain clarity about your current situations....
I believe in the human spirit's ability to heal. Working in the field for over 30 years, my approach to working with clients is humanistic, authentic, empathic, interactive and practical. Focusing on the present moment, I help clients work through unresolved feelings and assist them in developing practical strategies for everyday living. Teaching empowerment, coping strategies/tools,...
In life we all experience stressors, hardships, and sometimes trauma. These experiences shape our perception and the lens in which we see the world and ourselves. Using an integrative approach of cognitive-behavioral, rational emotive behavior, and dialectical-behavioral therapies, I assist my clients to become whole and healed by learning a new way of responding. In addition, using comprehensi...
"I have over 30 years of experience, and have been in private practice since 2001, providing counseling for individuals, couples and groups." I enjoy working with older teens and adults providing counseling for issues related to depression, anxiety, abuse, bulimia, COE, trauma and relationship issues." I received my certification as a Sexual Addictions Treatment Provider. I work with addicts,...
