HELP & GUIDANCE
By the time people come to see me, they have suffered long enough and feel sick and tired of being stuck and hopeless.  With my help, you will be able to resolve your painful conflicts.

I work closely with you, either as an individual or as a couple, to turn problems into solutions.  Meeting frequently and consistently, we will work together to find the answers. We will quickly locate lasting and meaningful ways to reach your goals and to help you feel more in control of your life.

Specializing in curing the root cause of your problems instead of looking to temporary fixes, I believe in helping you find long-term answers and real relief. Finally, life can be lived instead of dreaded or avoided.  Let’s start today.

Choice, Clarity, and Change

When working with you in individual counseling and couples therapy, I utilize my 30 years of experience with effective and research based therapy for improving your mental well being. My psychotherapy and counseling approach, whether for you as an individual or as a couple, provides an effective way to learn about the unconscious, deeper aspects of yourself so that you can find out the source of your distress. This new self knowledge creates an opportunity to effectively work through the core issues that hold you back in life. In doing so, you not only can step away from these problems, but grow and expand your abilities to love, learn, and engage with others and feel confident and no longer so anxious, depressed, or otherwise impaired.

The counseling and psychotherapy I offer allows the individual or couple to gradually understand the real source of their breakdown in successful living, their sudden unhappiness, or their ongoing patterns of distress. As you gradually learn the underlying emotional causes for your problems and conflicts, then you can gradually face, challenge, and change those obstacles. Once you can name the problem, you can claim it as your own emotional issue, not something strange, overwhelming, or painful that has power over your life. Once you can claim the emotional problem, you can tame that problem.

As the psychological issues are addressed, the unhealthy relational patterns, negative behaviors, and painful emotional cycles can all improve.With the back and forth, interactive method of my psychodynamic counseling and psychotherapy services for individuals and couples, your sense of helplessness, loneliness and frustration can gradually shift to more of a feeling of knowing yourself, being in charge, and making new choices. I assist you in working through difficulties with depression, anxiety, grief, drugs or alcohol, family of origin issues, trauma, work conflicts, panic, phobias, anger and loss. In addition, I help individuals and couples explore, understand, and master their conflicts and confusing patterns in sex, love, dating, relationships, parenting, and marriage. As a result, you can truly move beyond these problems and find a greater sense of self and a deeper meaning in life. This inner transformation translates to greater external success and happiness in your day to day living.

Please visit my other websites at www.drwaska.com, www.drwaskaanxiety.com www.drwaskadepression.com and www.drwaskarelationships.com or simply call me to talk about your concerns and needs. #415-883-4235

 

Education

• BS in Psychology
  
• Masters in Counseling
  
• PhD in Clinical Psychology
  
• Certified in Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy and Psychoanalysis
  

Professional Affiliations

• California Association for Marriage and Family Therapists
  
• Staff Member of W. Kahn Institute of Theoritical Psychiatry and Neuroscience
  
• San Francisco Center for Psychoanalysis
  
• Professional Advisory Council, International Academy of Behavioral Medicine
  

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