Paul Hodgdon

I am a thoughtful and compassionate psychotherapist and clinical social worker with more than 30 years of experience practicing in San Francisco, New York City, and Los Angeles. I work primarily from a psychodynamic and interpersonal perspective as research supports my experience that therapy is more successful as a creative partnership, and a collaborative insight-oriented process leads to deeper and lasting growth and change. I have helped many clients to recover from the impacts of trauma and loss, and to reduce the accompanying symptoms of anxiety, depression, and addiction. This process can be challenging, but also leads to renewed life purpose, connection, and empowerment. My understanding of trauma comes from working with multiple stressed populations, including veterans, children and families in the foster care system, immigrants from war-torn countries, and survivors of sexual abuse. Also from training and supervising therapists who work with these populations, including in th