California Provider List (Organized by Location)
Skype/Video Only
(Please note that most providers listed below are also willing to work by video)
Name & Business: Will Hall
Contact Email: willhallconsulting[at]gmail.com
Contact Phone: Not provided
Website: www.willhall.net
Licensed in the State of CA (Y/N/NA)? N/A
Clinical Licenses or Certificates: MA, DiplPW
Willing to Work by Skype or Videoconference? Yes
Able to provide support with minimal use of medications, including tapering or discontinuation (Y/N)? Yes
Familiarity with the Hearing Voices Movement (Y/N)? Yes
Experience working with children 14 and younger (Y/N)? Yes
Background or Prior Training in Psychosis: See website.
Current Approach to Psychosis: See website.
Insurance and Fee Structure: My private pay practice sometimes qualifies for insurance reimbursement; I also accommodate
economic limitations.
East Bay
Name & Business: Guy Albert, Ph.D.
Contact Email: info[at]guyalbert.com
Contact Phone: 510-496-3447
Website: http://guyalbert.com
Licensed in the State of CA (Y/N/NA)? Yes
Clinical Licenses or Certificates: Licensed Psychologist, Advanced Candidate in Analytic Training at CG Jung Institute of San Francisco
Willing to Work by Skype or Videoconference? Yes
Able to provide support with minimal use of medications, including tapering or discontinuation (Y/N)? Yes
Familiarity with the Hearing Voices Movement (Y/N)? Yes
Experience working with children 14 and younger (Y/N)? Yes
Background or Prior Training in Psychosis: I have worked with people with psychotic and similar processes for many years. I am familiar with shamanic crises, spiritual emergencies, psychedelic drug induced psychosis, psychotic breaks due to intensive psychospiritual practices (meditation, kundalini yoga), depersonalization/derealization, and other breaks and altered states of consciousness. My training has led me to work with children, adolescents, and adults. My dissertation was on the spiritually positive resolution of mental health crises; I completed research with over 23 people whose experiences were misunderstood and who felt ostracized from their experiences. I also learned from this research what has helped people find healing within their experiences. I completed training in dealing with spiritual emergencies as part of my graduate studies.
Current Approach to Psychosis:
I understand the challenges of finding someone who is willing to go to these difficult places with you. I provide every person with the understanding and validation they deserve. I also understand the great challenge of negotiating positive and negative voices inside. I will hold space for you to have your experience and help you find strength and resilience to negotiate the challenges of your condition and find opportunities for healing. I find that people experiencing psychotic processes can be flooded by archetypal forces, forces that are beyond their ability to negotiate because they are beyond the personal. It is important to understand these archetypal forces and to find healthy ways of working with them in order to feel more present and grounded in the world.
Insurance and Fee Structure: I am out-of-network with insurance; I am happy to provide an invoice that you can submit to insurance for reimbursement.
Name & Business: Tim Dreby, MFT
Contact Email: [email protected]
Contact Phone :510-778-9194
Website: www.timdreby.com
Licensed in the State of CA (Y/N/NA)? Yes
Clinical Licenses or Certificates: LMFT #45563
Willing to Work Via Videoconference? Yes, on the secure doxy.me platform
Able to provide support with minimal use of medications, including tapering or discontinuation (Y/N)? Yes
Familiarity with the Hearing Voices Movement (Y/N)? Yes
Experience working with children 14 and younger (Y/N)? SomeBackground or Prior Training in Psychosis:
I have 25 years experience working in community mental health and two years of lived experience living with psychosis. For the last twelve years I have been running professional groups that involve exploring psychosis across diagnostic categories in a collaborative manner. From these experiences I have developed a six-hour training for professional to help teach them to accept and explore psychosis. Moreover, I am the award-winning author of a memoir detailing my own experience.
Current Approach to Psychosis:
I have formulated my own system to address those in emergency. This is based on redefining psychosis into eight solvable components. While I have learned that people who endure what I like to call a special message emergency are extremely culturally diverse, I also have identified eight constructs to which I find most message receivers can relate.. I like to think these constructs form the basis of what might be considered our own inclusive culture. They encourage explorations and detail skills that can be gained to lead the kind of lives we choose. I don't believe in dividing up message receivers and excluding some. I believe we have enough collective experiences with being excluded already. In fact I find many people who experience trauma and other marginalizing circumstances often relate and learn from message receiving experiences.
Insurance and Fee Structure: Beacan, Magellan, Medi-Cal, and Optum. I keep my fee low to be accessible to those with limited resources.
Contact Email: info[at]guyalbert.com
Contact Phone: 510-496-3447
Website: http://guyalbert.com
Licensed in the State of CA (Y/N/NA)? Yes
Clinical Licenses or Certificates: Licensed Psychologist, Advanced Candidate in Analytic Training at CG Jung Institute of San Francisco
Willing to Work by Skype or Videoconference? Yes
Able to provide support with minimal use of medications, including tapering or discontinuation (Y/N)? Yes
Familiarity with the Hearing Voices Movement (Y/N)? Yes
Experience working with children 14 and younger (Y/N)? Yes
Background or Prior Training in Psychosis: I have worked with people with psychotic and similar processes for many years. I am familiar with shamanic crises, spiritual emergencies, psychedelic drug induced psychosis, psychotic breaks due to intensive psychospiritual practices (meditation, kundalini yoga), depersonalization/derealization, and other breaks and altered states of consciousness. My training has led me to work with children, adolescents, and adults. My dissertation was on the spiritually positive resolution of mental health crises; I completed research with over 23 people whose experiences were misunderstood and who felt ostracized from their experiences. I also learned from this research what has helped people find healing within their experiences. I completed training in dealing with spiritual emergencies as part of my graduate studies.
Current Approach to Psychosis:
I understand the challenges of finding someone who is willing to go to these difficult places with you. I provide every person with the understanding and validation they deserve. I also understand the great challenge of negotiating positive and negative voices inside. I will hold space for you to have your experience and help you find strength and resilience to negotiate the challenges of your condition and find opportunities for healing. I find that people experiencing psychotic processes can be flooded by archetypal forces, forces that are beyond their ability to negotiate because they are beyond the personal. It is important to understand these archetypal forces and to find healthy ways of working with them in order to feel more present and grounded in the world.
Insurance and Fee Structure: I am out-of-network with insurance; I am happy to provide an invoice that you can submit to insurance for reimbursement.
Name & Business: Tim Dreby, MFT
Contact Email: [email protected]
Contact Phone :510-778-9194
Website: www.timdreby.com
Licensed in the State of CA (Y/N/NA)? Yes
Clinical Licenses or Certificates: LMFT #45563
Willing to Work Via Videoconference? Yes, on the secure doxy.me platform
Able to provide support with minimal use of medications, including tapering or discontinuation (Y/N)? Yes
Familiarity with the Hearing Voices Movement (Y/N)? Yes
Experience working with children 14 and younger (Y/N)? SomeBackground or Prior Training in Psychosis:
I have 25 years experience working in community mental health and two years of lived experience living with psychosis. For the last twelve years I have been running professional groups that involve exploring psychosis across diagnostic categories in a collaborative manner. From these experiences I have developed a six-hour training for professional to help teach them to accept and explore psychosis. Moreover, I am the award-winning author of a memoir detailing my own experience.
Current Approach to Psychosis:
I have formulated my own system to address those in emergency. This is based on redefining psychosis into eight solvable components. While I have learned that people who endure what I like to call a special message emergency are extremely culturally diverse, I also have identified eight constructs to which I find most message receivers can relate.. I like to think these constructs form the basis of what might be considered our own inclusive culture. They encourage explorations and detail skills that can be gained to lead the kind of lives we choose. I don't believe in dividing up message receivers and excluding some. I believe we have enough collective experiences with being excluded already. In fact I find many people who experience trauma and other marginalizing circumstances often relate and learn from message receiving experiences.
Insurance and Fee Structure: Beacan, Magellan, Medi-Cal, and Optum. I keep my fee low to be accessible to those with limited resources.
Sacramento
Name & Business: Eric Buck MFT
Contact Email: Ebuck311[at]gmail.com
Contact Phone: 530-400-3275
Website: www.holistictherapyonline.com
Licensed in the State of CA (Y/N/NA)? Yes
Clinical Licenses or Certificates: MFT
Willing to Work by Skype or Videoconference? Yes
Able to provide support with minimal use of medications, including tapering or discontinuation (Y/N)? Yes
Familiarity with the Hearing Voices Movement (Y/N)? Yes
Experience working with children 14 and younger (Y/N)? Yes
Background or Prior Training in Psychosis: Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy, DBT, CBT, Mentalization Based, symbolic metaphoric interpretation, DID - ego strength based, self state interpretation, somatic focused-CMT, inner family system , ISPS, Dan Dorman, Ira Steinman, Bryce Boyer
Current Approach to Psychosis: Developmental ego state approaches mixed with above
Insurance and Fee Structure: PPO patients can send in my statement for reimbursement and or sliding scale.
Contact Email: Ebuck311[at]gmail.com
Contact Phone: 530-400-3275
Website: www.holistictherapyonline.com
Licensed in the State of CA (Y/N/NA)? Yes
Clinical Licenses or Certificates: MFT
Willing to Work by Skype or Videoconference? Yes
Able to provide support with minimal use of medications, including tapering or discontinuation (Y/N)? Yes
Familiarity with the Hearing Voices Movement (Y/N)? Yes
Experience working with children 14 and younger (Y/N)? Yes
Background or Prior Training in Psychosis: Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy, DBT, CBT, Mentalization Based, symbolic metaphoric interpretation, DID - ego strength based, self state interpretation, somatic focused-CMT, inner family system , ISPS, Dan Dorman, Ira Steinman, Bryce Boyer
Current Approach to Psychosis: Developmental ego state approaches mixed with above
Insurance and Fee Structure: PPO patients can send in my statement for reimbursement and or sliding scale.
San Francisco
Name & Business: Ira Steinman MD
Contact Email: irasteinman[at]gmail.com
Contact Phone: 415-221-1377
Website: www.treatingtheuntreatable.com
Licensed in the State of CA (Y/N/NA)? Yes
Clinical Licenses or Certificates: MD
Willing to Work by Skype or Videoconference? Yes
Able to provide support with minimal use of medications, including tapering or discontinuation (Y/N)? Yes
Familiarity with the Hearing Voices Movement (Y/N)? Yes
Experience working with children 14 and younger (Y/N)? No
Background or Prior Training in Psychosis: 50 years of understanding psychsis and the origin of delusions and voices within the context of a person's life, from a psychodynamic perspective.
Current Approach to Psychosis: Trying to understand the meaning to the person of voices and delusions. This is best described in my books TREATING the 'UNTREATABLE': Healing in the Realms of Madness and in my recent SELF PSYCHOLOGY and PSYCHOSIS: The Development of the Self during the Intensive Psychotherapy of Schizophrenia and the other Psychoses
Insurance and Fee Structure: No insurance accepted; if someone has insurance, I'll be glad to provide the appropriate codes and a bill that works for the insurance company.
Contact Email: irasteinman[at]gmail.com
Contact Phone: 415-221-1377
Website: www.treatingtheuntreatable.com
Licensed in the State of CA (Y/N/NA)? Yes
Clinical Licenses or Certificates: MD
Willing to Work by Skype or Videoconference? Yes
Able to provide support with minimal use of medications, including tapering or discontinuation (Y/N)? Yes
Familiarity with the Hearing Voices Movement (Y/N)? Yes
Experience working with children 14 and younger (Y/N)? No
Background or Prior Training in Psychosis: 50 years of understanding psychsis and the origin of delusions and voices within the context of a person's life, from a psychodynamic perspective.
Current Approach to Psychosis: Trying to understand the meaning to the person of voices and delusions. This is best described in my books TREATING the 'UNTREATABLE': Healing in the Realms of Madness and in my recent SELF PSYCHOLOGY and PSYCHOSIS: The Development of the Self during the Intensive Psychotherapy of Schizophrenia and the other Psychoses
Insurance and Fee Structure: No insurance accepted; if someone has insurance, I'll be glad to provide the appropriate codes and a bill that works for the insurance company.
San Rafael
Name & Business: Philip Alex PhD
Contact Email: [email protected]
Contact Phone: 415-457-6234
Website: www.psyris.com/drphilipalex
Licensed in the State of CA (Y/N/NA)? Yes
Clinical Licenses or Certificates: PhD (Clinical Psychology)
Willing to Work by Skype or Videoconference? No
Able to provide support with minimal use of medications, including tapering or discontinuation (Y/N)? Yes
Familiarity with the Hearing Voices Movement (Y/N)? Yes
Experience working with children 14 and younger (Y/N)? No
Background or Prior Training in Psychosis: Extensive formal and experiential training in working psychologically in-depth with people with various psychotic states. Hadassah Hospital Psychiatric Unit and Clinic, Jerusalem, Israel; Veterans Administration Hospital Inpatient and Outpatient Services, Palo Alto and Menlo Park, California; 15 years staff psychologist at the Boyer House Foundation, San Rafael, CA (psychoanalytically informed depth therapy for people with severe psychiatric conditions). Jungian, Psychoanalytic, Humanistic approaches.
Current Approach to Psychosis: I have a profound respect for the power and influence of the deep layers of our psyches, their potential to harbor wounds, to disrupt us, as well as to inspire and inform us about how we might heal. I maintain that emotional suffering points us toward the landscape of our private struggles, emotional injuries and vulnerabilities, but vitally also toward intrinsic pathways toward self-restoration. I invite my clients to listen with me to these communications from within, to take courage from them, and discover ways to translate them into guideposts for change toward alternative and restorative understandings, greater resilience, balance, authenticity and confidence in encountering the ever-challenging ebbs and flows of life. I emphasize self-reflective exploration, intrapsychic and interpersonal process, thoughtfulness, emotional depth, and a search for meaning beyond problem-solving alone. I listen keenly to what my clients' symptoms of emotional and related physical suffering are trying to communicate -- often through analogy, metaphor or symbol. I attend closely to the therapeutic relationship that forms between my clients and myself as an important source of understanding and guidance along the way, and I encourage the integration of dreamwork where appropriate. I tend to be comparatively active in therapeutic style and highly flexible in adapting to my clients' psychological needs and interpersonal rhythms. I feel strongly that trust, respect, safety, and integrity are fundamental elements of a successful psychotherapy, and, crucially, that in the heart of psychic pain lie the seeds of restoration.
Insurance and Fee Structure: No insurance accepted. Fee-for-service practice only. Insurance documents (superbills) provided for out-of-network reimbursement, if that benefit is available to the client.
Contact Email: [email protected]
Contact Phone: 415-457-6234
Website: www.psyris.com/drphilipalex
Licensed in the State of CA (Y/N/NA)? Yes
Clinical Licenses or Certificates: PhD (Clinical Psychology)
Willing to Work by Skype or Videoconference? No
Able to provide support with minimal use of medications, including tapering or discontinuation (Y/N)? Yes
Familiarity with the Hearing Voices Movement (Y/N)? Yes
Experience working with children 14 and younger (Y/N)? No
Background or Prior Training in Psychosis: Extensive formal and experiential training in working psychologically in-depth with people with various psychotic states. Hadassah Hospital Psychiatric Unit and Clinic, Jerusalem, Israel; Veterans Administration Hospital Inpatient and Outpatient Services, Palo Alto and Menlo Park, California; 15 years staff psychologist at the Boyer House Foundation, San Rafael, CA (psychoanalytically informed depth therapy for people with severe psychiatric conditions). Jungian, Psychoanalytic, Humanistic approaches.
Current Approach to Psychosis: I have a profound respect for the power and influence of the deep layers of our psyches, their potential to harbor wounds, to disrupt us, as well as to inspire and inform us about how we might heal. I maintain that emotional suffering points us toward the landscape of our private struggles, emotional injuries and vulnerabilities, but vitally also toward intrinsic pathways toward self-restoration. I invite my clients to listen with me to these communications from within, to take courage from them, and discover ways to translate them into guideposts for change toward alternative and restorative understandings, greater resilience, balance, authenticity and confidence in encountering the ever-challenging ebbs and flows of life. I emphasize self-reflective exploration, intrapsychic and interpersonal process, thoughtfulness, emotional depth, and a search for meaning beyond problem-solving alone. I listen keenly to what my clients' symptoms of emotional and related physical suffering are trying to communicate -- often through analogy, metaphor or symbol. I attend closely to the therapeutic relationship that forms between my clients and myself as an important source of understanding and guidance along the way, and I encourage the integration of dreamwork where appropriate. I tend to be comparatively active in therapeutic style and highly flexible in adapting to my clients' psychological needs and interpersonal rhythms. I feel strongly that trust, respect, safety, and integrity are fundamental elements of a successful psychotherapy, and, crucially, that in the heart of psychic pain lie the seeds of restoration.
Insurance and Fee Structure: No insurance accepted. Fee-for-service practice only. Insurance documents (superbills) provided for out-of-network reimbursement, if that benefit is available to the client.
Sonoma
Name & Business: Sara Brashear MFT
Contact Email: sara[at]brashear.net
Contact Phone: 707-721-4149
Website: www.sarabrashearmft.com
Licensed in the State of CA (Y/N/NA)? Yes
Clinical Licenses or Certificates: MFT, EMDR Approved Consultant
Willing to Work by Skype or Videoconference? Yes
Able to provide support with minimal use of medications, including tapering or discontinuation (Y/N)? Yes
Familiarity with the Hearing Voices Movement (Y/N)? Yes
Experience working with children 14 and younger (Y/N)? Yes
Background or Prior Training in Psychosis: I have worked with people experiencing psychosis since I was a trainee. I received supervision throughout my internship from a therapist experienced in working with psychotic experiences. All together, I have over seven years experience using psychotherapy to treat people who experience psychotic states.
Current Approach to Psychosis:
My approach involves finding out what is troublesome to the client about hearing voices, seeing things and having delusional states. Once the problem is identified, then we work out a plan to solve the problem. For instance, if it is difficult to discern whether a voice is an inside voice or someone else actually talking, we might work on strategies to be able to determine whether a voice is "real" or not. Once having dealt with the biggest obstacles to everyday functioning, we then look at the content of the voices, visions, and beliefs to make sense of them. Often they are rooted in a trauma and in some ways represent a flashback to an earlier state, with the brain's marvelous capacity to fill in details creates a reality in which the information in the flashback makes sense. Reframing hallucinations as waking dreams is helpful to some clients. I also use EMDR to reduce the fear of psychotic states. While, as a non-MD, there are limits to the recommendations I can make with regard to medications, I am completely supportive of clients who wish to reduce or eliminate medications.
Insurance and Fee Structure: Health Net, MHN, Victims of Crime. I also bill OON insurance and work with clients who cannot afford their deductables. My pro bono spaces are full and I cannot take very low fee clients right now, but do try to find moderate fee solutions.
Contact Email: sara[at]brashear.net
Contact Phone: 707-721-4149
Website: www.sarabrashearmft.com
Licensed in the State of CA (Y/N/NA)? Yes
Clinical Licenses or Certificates: MFT, EMDR Approved Consultant
Willing to Work by Skype or Videoconference? Yes
Able to provide support with minimal use of medications, including tapering or discontinuation (Y/N)? Yes
Familiarity with the Hearing Voices Movement (Y/N)? Yes
Experience working with children 14 and younger (Y/N)? Yes
Background or Prior Training in Psychosis: I have worked with people experiencing psychosis since I was a trainee. I received supervision throughout my internship from a therapist experienced in working with psychotic experiences. All together, I have over seven years experience using psychotherapy to treat people who experience psychotic states.
Current Approach to Psychosis:
My approach involves finding out what is troublesome to the client about hearing voices, seeing things and having delusional states. Once the problem is identified, then we work out a plan to solve the problem. For instance, if it is difficult to discern whether a voice is an inside voice or someone else actually talking, we might work on strategies to be able to determine whether a voice is "real" or not. Once having dealt with the biggest obstacles to everyday functioning, we then look at the content of the voices, visions, and beliefs to make sense of them. Often they are rooted in a trauma and in some ways represent a flashback to an earlier state, with the brain's marvelous capacity to fill in details creates a reality in which the information in the flashback makes sense. Reframing hallucinations as waking dreams is helpful to some clients. I also use EMDR to reduce the fear of psychotic states. While, as a non-MD, there are limits to the recommendations I can make with regard to medications, I am completely supportive of clients who wish to reduce or eliminate medications.
Insurance and Fee Structure: Health Net, MHN, Victims of Crime. I also bill OON insurance and work with clients who cannot afford their deductables. My pro bono spaces are full and I cannot take very low fee clients right now, but do try to find moderate fee solutions.