Emotional / Irrational. Sorry to differ with the other two reviews but Ms. Steele, after 2…read moresessions with me and my ex wife, went a bit nuts. She was offended deeply at my suggestion that, due to my severe financial strain, (support for my ex, legal costs, etc.), that we discuss day to day schedule changes and such with another counselor, (covered by my insurance), and leave the big issues for meetings with Marilyn. She completely lost it, sided with my ex immediately, (both have Ph.D's in soft sciences), and said to my ex, 'I am so sorry for what you must go through'. Nice objectivity there Dr. Steele. Feel free to contact me re this review. I can give you two or three names of good people to work with if you do so.

Dr Steele made my first experience with therapy feel safe, comfortable, and healing. She worked…read morewith me and my husband for a few months, and I felt like she was balanced, sincere, and very kind to both of us. We learned so much about how to understand each other and communicate better, and now feel a lot closer to each other. I highly recommend her to anyone looking for a compassionate and perceptive couples therapist. I know she works with individuals as well, and may return with my husband or as an individual in the future.

I contacted Jill at a moment when I had been struggling with some issues that were really getting…read moreme down. Ordinarily I am able to pull myself out but this time I just couldn't seem to regain my peace and find my self respect on my own and I thought of Jill. She is by far one of the most encouraging and inspiring teachers I have ever known and she really came through for me. In less than an hour she guided me back to my center. A week later I was so happy that I was still in peace regardless of circumstances that I wrote her an email acknowledging her loving support. This is what I wrote: It's only been a week but I am still living in the peace that conversation with you brought to me. I just want to thank you again, and in writing, for your instant, loving response to my call for help. You really helped me to shift spaces. In particular you were firm in reminding me of my identity as a light worker not the powerless victim I was stuck thinking about. I think about you and what you shared with me every day, several times a day, and it helps me remember how truly blessed I am to have people like you and your family in my life. Go Light Workers! So, once again, thank you, sister. I am not cowering in fear but smiling in the light. Have a really good weekend! If you are in the mood to be kind to yourself I highly recommend applying to Jill for support! Her heart is huge and her understanding broad. She shares herself freely and if you can be at all receptive you will feel transformed! Thank you, Jill! Kathy W.

As much as I resonate with the infinite wisdom of Esther Hicks and her wonderful, uplifting work…read morewith Abraham, I have found it challenging to personally implement their teachings in my human life. That's where Jill Lebeau, spiritual psychotherapist comes in! When I first read her book, Feng Shui Your Mind: Four Easy Steps to Rapidly Transform Your Life, I recognized immediately that it was the "user's guide" needed for the practical application of infinite wisdom to actual real life situations. My personal therapy sessions with Jill have lead to what she likes to call rapid transformation, but I like to call it Powerful Alchemy! She helped me change my thinking around some key challenges in my life that were holding me back from the kind of Soul growth I was longing to experience. I was shocked how easily my vibration shifted as we casually chatted in her office and suddenly I was deeply appreciating something that had felt like a major stumbling block to me. When I attended one of Jill's events, a Sacred Gathering for Awakening Souls, the gathering felt like a great remembering, as if I were waking from amnesia.  When I signed up for the session, I wasn't even sure exactly what was bothering me, but I knew that I didn't feel as happy as I used to, and I knew that Jill's wonderful, uplifting, cheerful energy would provide a boost to my positivity powers.  I was absolutely right! I had been living in darkness and Jill reminded me how to relight the fire in my Soul! She reminded me that self-love is the foundation of happiness, and that at the core of my being, there is Divine love, and light and joy. Thank you Jill, for reminding me how awesome I am! And as wonderful as all of that sounds, I was truly blown away when I discovered Jill's online Feng Shui Your Mind course last month! https://www.udemy.com/feng-shui-your-mind-body-spirit This WONDERFUL, inspiring class takes practical application of Divine wisdom to the next level. Jill, and co-creator Michelle Dwyer, have designed a beautiful gift for awakening souls that enhances our journey and very much fills the role of "midwife" as we labor to give birth to our true selves; fully connected to Divine Spirit. The class breaks down Jill's "Four Easy Steps" into smaller bites that are delicious to savor. The recordings are uplifting and easy to follow. It inspires me when they share examples of overcoming their own challenges. I find it tremendously helpful that Michelle Dwyer is a health coach and nutrition consultant, so lots of the examples throughout the recordings and activities address one of my personal issues; choosing nourishing foods over comfort foods. The "playbook" (not 'workbook') is full of fun and easy "Feng Shui Fixes" that I explore in depth for as long as I like before moving on to the next recording and more fun, easy ways to play myself into higher vibrations! I have rapidly learned how to increase my personal energy instead of depleting it with cluttered, miserable thoughts. I have found new enthusiasm for my personal eating plan simply because I stopped thinking of it as "restricted and deprived and lacking" and decided that it is a sacred commitment to my self-love that I deserve. I was feeling powerless in so many little ways and now I feel empowered and far more confident than I did just two weeks ago. I didn't even realize that my spirit was feeling like a dried up old raisin, and now it feels like a big juicy mango! Jill is an astounding resource for anyone that wants to live life in a more fulfilling way. I highly recommend all of her services with enthusiasm!

Jaclyn is a sensitive, emphatic, kind, and genuine psychotherapist. She creates a comfortable…read moresetting and makes you feel at ease right away. She is also extremely knowledgeable and professional. You are in wonderful hands if you chose her for your healing journey!

My significant other and I were in a relationship bind and our issues were giving us both a great…read moreamount of anxiety that was driving us apart. But we very much didn't want that - we wanted a healthy way to move through them. Zeph patiently navigated our issues and held up a mirror in a direct yet loving manner showing each of us why we approached relationships the way we do, in such a way that we were grateful to walk away with new discoveries about ourselves and behaviors to put in action. The insights and new behaviors we established required practice, holding one another accountable (lovingly of course), vulnerability and more in-the-moment awareness so we could overcome issues that got in the way of us recommitting to a full-on loving relationship. Zeph conveyed an authenticity, a friendly directness, and an intuition that I have not seen in past therapists. We accomplished our goals in a handful of sessions: understanding the issue, forgiveness, and starting to rebuild trust. We also learned a great amount about self-worth, 5:1 communication, understanding the role fear played in our lives. My partner and I often refer back to the therapy insights Zeph shared with us - we continue to commit to becoming the best possible partner and our best possible selves. I'm grateful that Zeph was able to establish a strong enough rapport with us both and provide the amazing insights that led to a huge shift in our dynamic. I'm also impressed that I was able to come to a place of forgiveness and more acceptance about issues that led us to Zeph in the first place - I never thought it'd come so quick! We are so happy we saw Zeph -- we're stronger and more loving than ever before.

Me and my wife have been clients of Zeph for about six months now (in fact we credit our recent…read moremarriage directly to our work with Zeph). And I worked with her individually before that. Therapy for me is difficult, but Zeph makes it seem easy. What I really love is how much knowledge she has and the many times we've tried unconventional techniques to find what could work. She is always able to get to the most relevant causes of our feelings and emotions. Her knowledge of available resources is amazing and she never hesitates to recommend reading and exercises for us to work on during the week - always relevant to our most recent session. She cares, you can tell by the tone of her voice and what she says and what she does. I highly recommend Zeph as both a personal and family therapist.

I highly recommend Dr. Linda Whitman-Flamm. She is a great listener, who uses a variety of…read moretechniques to diagnose and treat a wide range of psychological disorders in children. Whenever I look for an expert on Yelp, it's important to me that they have real experience, with Linda it's evident. She has a 20+ years as a child psychologist, and is a current professor at both USF and the Wright Institute in Berkeley

This guy is great! I went to see him when I was in a terrible way and needed advice. He was so…read morekind, so caring, and yet very professional. He helped me more than I expected anyone could. I would recommend him to anyone who needs help working through a difficult situation.

From the owner: Now Offering FREE Initial Consultation - Let's meet and talk about what your needs are! Together,…read morewe can identify what approaches work best for you and set up a financial arrangement that allows you to get the most out of your therapy sessions. During this meeting, you will have an opportunity to ask about anything that you need to know about therapy or the way that I practice. I specialize working with couples, men's issues, issues with sexuality, and groups. I am open to all sexual orientations and welcome non-traditional relationships. Call right now to arrange an appointment. Energetic Relational Couples Therapy - Dynamic Therapy for couples to increase communication, emotional intimacy and physical intimacy. Men's issues - Men experience their own unique challenges and can benefit from Drew's experience and understanding of these issues. Depression and Anxiety - Drew is experienced helping people work through the weight of anxiety and depression. Feel more free and connected in the world!

Vanessa is an experience and skilled therapist. She's empathetic, intuitive, and insightful. She's…read moreexceptional at making me feel heard, understood and appreciated, which creates a huge foundation of trust. From this place, she's been able to work with me to dig deeper, ask real questions to better understand myself, and look at what choices I have in how to approach my life. Part of what makes working with her so transformative is that she combines cognitive and somatic approaches to therapy, allowing her to really get at what is going on, and all without being new-agey. Vanessa has helped me look at what is deepest and hardest in my life as well as just find ways to better relate to my family and myself. Having seen many therapists, I couldn't recommend her highly enough.

From the owner: Psychotherapy for Individuals, Couples & Families…read more Psychotherapy helps you overcome challenges blocking your ability to live the life you want. Whether it is pushing through painful stuck patterns or rediscovering personal and professional points of inspiration; therapy supports you in taking risks to achieve the life you desire. The behaviors, thoughts and emotions that stand in your way no longer limit you. Therapy helps to re-connect you to your best self and strengthen your connections in partnership, friendship, and professionally. Some areas I specialize in are: Anxiety - Trauma - Depression  Relationship Challenges - Career & Life Transitions   Grief & Loss - Eating Disorders Post Partum & Parenting - Neurofeedback

As a psychiatrist, I worked with Eugenie Hsu for many years at Kaiser Oakland. I was impressed with…read moreher understanding of people, her non-judgmental approach to whomever she was working with, her sense of balance, her empathy and, not least, her quiet sense of humor, something that can help people manage some of the absurdities of life and their own difficulties. She listens with a keen ear and brings her self into the room. I refer to her in her private practice because she has helped a number of my patients get past some quite traumatic experiences. Of course, not everyone is a perfect fit for anyone, but it's worth the time to talk with her and see if she's a fit.

Dr. Hsu helped us with very complex family issues, that, over the course of our counseling, we came…read moreto understand more deeply after each session. I really liked that she asked us to prepare for our sessions by thinking through questions that she felt would be appropriate to probe into. It allowed us to collect our thoughts, hear each other's point of view and find the root causes of what drove us apart. Dr.Hsu (who prefers we call her by her first name, as she is not that formal) is so helpful in that she is so good about acknowledging how that person is feeling, even though they cannot articulate those feelings. She is incredibly empathetic and makes her clients feel she understands their feelings while still posing questions to help the individual come to their own awareness of the problem, and what factors are contributing to that problem. Once it is thoroughly diagnosed, she challenges the individual to express what resolution they would want to see, so they take ownership of the solution and so that they hopefully will be able to come to closure when the resolution takes place. We had the opportunity to include one of our children in a few of these counseling sessions -- something I thought would take a highly skilled person to handle -- and the sessions went as well as I could have expected. Each person was given their forum to be heard and to hear. We are making slow but steady progress and it is due to Eugenie that this has been possible. Thank you Eugenie!

Dana is an extremely skilled, intuitive body worker. This is not the place to go for a relaxing spa…read moremassage, although in my opinion I feel far more relaxed and serene after a session with Dana, which reaches the core of what is going on in my body. I am an avid cyclist and semi-competitive tennis player. This has led to regular back, knee and shoulder issues. Working with Dana, I've learned to sense the mind-body connection to some of my tension and locate and release unconscious holding of bodily tension. I was surprised to experience the psychological connection to our work together, and for lack of a better term, you could call it "spiritual." Dana was very helpful in giving me mfr exercises to do outside of our work together and instrumental in teaching me to tap into and relate with my body in and out of sessions. She is very committed to her work, has a deep understanding of the body anatomically and energetically and is a pleasure to work with.. Highly recommended!!

Dana is the most skilled, compassionate, and committed healthcare provider you'll ever encounter. I…read moresaw her frr a non-specified set of physical ailments and after one (intense!) session the troubles ran through me. I was without pain, I had greater freedom, and I felt great. I cannot recommend her more highly.