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I am Lisa Sonin Larsen, PsyD, a licensed psychologist in the East Bay who works with a wide range of mental health
and emotional problems. My areas of specialization are substance abuse recovery, self-esteem enhancement, and trauma recovery.
I use a variety of techniques to help adults, children and adolescents reach their mental health goals. These include talk
therapy, sandplay, art therapy, Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing, and Dialectical Behavior Therapy skills training.
I customize my treatment approach to each individual client who comes in, so I have an ecclectic approach. Some people benefit
from looking at how their past affects their current problems, and so we use primarily talk therapy. Other people have shorter-term
problems that I use brief therapy with. I also use bibliotherapy, or book therapy, wherein I might copy some pages from a
book or recommend a book for people to read that relates to their problem. All these techniques and approaches make me a flexible
and dedicated healer in our quest to form a healing partnership, and to bring resolution to what is troubling you.
I have worked with a wide range of people from various ethnic, cultural, and socioeconomic backgrounds, and have learned
that my perspective is one of many valid points of view. This helps to keep me open and humble. I consider myself privileged
to have worked with such a wide variety of clients. I also have helped people with a variety of mental health problems,
from stress and co-dependency (a form of taking too much responsibility for others and not enough responsibility for the self),
to depression, anxiety disorders, and more severe mental health problems. I have also worked with dually diagnosed clients
(those who abuse substances and have a mental health problem like depression or schizophrenia). I do not treat bipolar illness.
I am also an affordable psychotherapist, which is harder to find these days but so necessary given the current economic
situation for many people. I work on a sliding scale and accept some insurance, including Contra Costa Medi-Cal, Cigna,
Magellan, Managed Health Network, and sometimes Medicare. Please call 510-258-4431 for individual
or couple therapy. Day and evening appointments are available. Let's start working on what's bothering you now!
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What's New?
If you are a client of mine already and you refer a person to me who shows up at least twice, you will receive a
discount of 50% off one visit (or, if you have insurance, one copayment waived).
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