Herb Kessner, PhD, is a dedicated counselor whose expertise lies in facilitating powerful and transformative career changes for his clients. He provides a wide array of personal testing, action planning, and career counseling in a supportive and comfortable setting. Herb adopts a highly personalized approach tailored to the unique needs of each individual, enabling them to achieve the personal growth and success they aspire to. With extensive business experience, psychological insights, and specialized career counseling, he equips clients with the essential tools needed to uncover their strengths, shape actionable plans, and successfully navigate their next steps. Clients seek Herb's guidance for various reasons, including dissatisfaction with current employment, navigating new career paths, professional and leadership development, managing divorce or significant life changes, and re-entering the workforce. Herb's Testing & Assessment Process employs a comprehensive suite of assessment instruments and detailed reports, providing valuable personal insights and facilitating effective action planning to help clients move confidently in the right direction.

Meredith Kornfeld, MA, MS, MFT, is a compassionate Marriage and Family Therapist who has successfully navigated her own journey through addiction and mental health challenges. This personal experience fuels her unwavering belief in the capacity for change and improvement in others. Meredith works from a strengths-based perspective, specializing in addiction recovery, self-esteem enhancement, and family and couples therapy. She takes pride in her personalized, non-cookie-cutter approach to therapy, ensuring that each individual client receives care tailored specifically to their unique needs and personality. With a profound understanding of the struggles associated with substance abuse, Meredith is committed to supporting clients in their healing journey, providing guidance in overcoming the negative narratives often instilled during childhood that can affect adult relationships and self-perception. Drawing from various therapeutic modalities, including Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT), she uses diverse techniques to foster positive changes in thoughts, emotions, and behaviors. Emphasizing a collaborative process, Meredith empowers clients by actively engaging them in their treatment, working hand in hand to achieve their personal goals.

Dr. Chloe Martin is dedicated to helping adults and elders facing the challenges of living with medical illness, anxiety, and stress. With a PhD and an educational background from Yale University, she emphasizes a holistic approach that prioritizes her clients' definitions of quality of life. In collaboration with their medical teams, she partners with her clients to alleviate suffering and discover inner strengths that lay within. Through techniques rooted in Mindfulness-Based Cognitive Therapy, Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, and Positive Psychology, Dr. Martin equips her clients with resources, skills, and health-promoting practices necessary for a fulfilling life. Her work fosters deeper meaning, joy, and satisfaction, all while keeping her clients’ hopes and goals in focus throughout their journey together.

Dr. Myra Gueco Bernecker is a compassionate psychologist dedicated to supporting children, teens, and adults through life’s challenges. She understands that professionals, students, stay-at-home parents, and single parents each navigate unique experiences and complexities. Dr. Bernecker's therapeutic approach is tailored to each individual, focusing on issues such as anxiety, grief, stress, parenting challenges, and personal relationships. Her expertise spans various modalities, including play therapy, attachment-based therapy, and sandplay therapy, which promote emotional healing and psychological transformation. Through her innovative techniques, including dreamwork and the incorporation of her therapy dog, she creates a safe and nurturing environment. This helps clients alleviate stress and anxiety, improve self-esteem, and develop meaningful coping strategies. Dr. Bernecker is committed to helping her clients gain deeper self-understanding, enhance their relationships, and cultivate a richer, more fulfilling life.

Brooke Jackson, PsyD, is a compassionate psychologist specializing in guiding individuals and couples through life transitions, whether they are consciously chosen or occur unexpectedly. Her focus on threshold work helps clients skillfully navigate the often disorienting experience known as ‘liminal space,’ a time which, although uncomfortable, can lead to profound transformation. Addressing concerns such as depression, anxiety, and the changes related to health and aging, Brooke enables her clients to redefine aspects of self-expression, relationships, work, and spiritual connections during transitions. Her integrative therapy approach, which may encompass cognitive, narrative, somatic, and psychodynamic methods, is tailored to meet the specific needs of each adult individual or couple. With a warm, non-judgmental style, Brooke fosters an environment where clients feel seen and cared for. Her goal is to assist individuals in navigating the complexities of change, collaboratively uncovering and addressing challenges, as well as recognizing strengths, leading to a clearer, more peaceful path in life.

Welcome to Paige Pires De Almeida's practice. Trained at The Wright Institute in Berkeley, her approach emphasizes compassion, collaboration, and evidence-based treatment. Good psychotherapy encourages perspective on life's challenges and can open up new possibilities for clients. In addition to her private practice, Paige serves as an Adjunct Professor at Dominican University. She provides psychodynamic treatment and effective cognitive behavioral approaches for managing symptoms of anxiety and depression. With specialty training in Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR), an empirically validated method for trauma, she understands that there are surprisingly diverse ways to address mental health concerns. There is no one-size-fits-all approach to therapy; therefore, Paige works closely with clients to develop tailored treatment plans that feel right for them.

Avital Schlesinger, a dedicated marriage and family therapist (LMFT), understands that many individuals navigate through challenging life transitions, experience significant stressors, or struggle with overwhelming anxiety. Clients often wonder if these feelings will persist or if it’s truly possible to feel better. Avital fosters a safe and supportive environment for individuals to explore these concerns and many others. With a strong foundation in Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT), she focuses on connecting thoughts, emotions, and behaviors to alleviate immediate discomfort while guiding clients toward long-term healing. It is indeed possible to rediscover oneself, feel understood, and strive for greater happiness. Avital is committed to understanding her clients’ challenges, recognizing their strengths, and collaborating with them to envision the changes they desire in their lives.

Jennifer Spiegel Grellman, MS, LMFT, understands that adolescence can be a challenging time for both teens and their families. While this stage of life is filled with opportunities for exploration and curiosity, it can also bring unexpected difficulties. With her expertise as a Marriage & Family Therapist, she primarily focuses on working with adolescents, often involving parents and families in the treatment process. Her clients present a range of issues including anxiety, depression, substance abuse, and eating disorders, areas in which she holds specialized certifications and training. Jennifer is passionate about creating a safe and empathetic environment, where adolescents can identify and express their feelings in healthy, constructive ways, avoiding the pitfalls of denial that can lead to hurtful behaviors. Her therapeutic approach is influenced by cognitive behavioral, relational, and psychoanalytic psychotherapies. Additionally, Jennifer has advanced training from esteemed institutions such as John F. Kennedy University and Stanford University specifically in the treatment of eating disorders and adolescent substance abuse. As the founder of Being Adept, a non-profit organization dedicated to preventing alcohol and drug abuse among adolescents, she is committed to empowering the younger generation and their families.

Dr. Laura Tabak is a licensed clinical psychologist dedicated to helping adults navigate a variety of challenges, including self-esteem issues, unsatisfying relationships, work-related stress, self-destructive behaviors, trauma, and grief. She has a particular passion for supporting individuals experiencing significant life transitions, such as launching a career after college, reentering the workforce, establishing new relationships, and transitioning to parenthood. Her therapeutic approach remains warm, direct, client-centered, and collaborative, emphasizing the importance of building trust, compassion, and security in the therapeutic relationship. Dr. Tabak is committed to cultivating a unique, safe space for each client, allowing them to explore the complexities that brought them to treatment, including trauma and PTSD, life transitions, and the challenges surrounding pregnancy, prenatal, and postpartum experiences.

Jack Maslow is a dedicated and compassionate therapist with a wealth of experience in Clinical Social Work. With a career that began after graduating from the prestigious University of California, Berkeley in 1968, he has been devoted to helping individuals of all ages— teens, adults, and elders— navigate their emotional landscapes. Specializing in mood disorders, relationship issues, and self-esteem, Jack employs a variety of therapeutic approaches including psychodynamic, interpersonal, and relational therapies. He is skilled in addressing the intricate dynamics of couples and families, offering both individual and group therapy modalities. Jack's warm and empathetic nature creates a safe space for his clients, allowing them to explore their thoughts and feelings as they work toward healing and personal growth.

Agnes Wang, LCSW, brings over 40 years of experience to her practice, adeptly handling a wide array of life transitions including separation, loss, career changes, parenting challenges, and issues surrounding aging and spirituality. As an impartial and supportive facilitator, she assists couples in modifying dysfunctional roles and patterns, enhancing communication skills to effectively address unmet needs while deepening understanding, acceptance, and intimacy. For individuals, Agnes employs an integrative approach that combines psychodynamic, mindfulness training, and cognitive-behavioral techniques, fostering personal change and growth. With a strong foundation in Virginia Satir's family systems and communication theory, Agnes also embraces a mindfulness-based methodology honed through 30 years of Buddhist meditation practice. Her profound insights, gained from ten years of caregiving for a spouse with Parkinson's disease, enrich her understanding of aging, illness, and death. The trust and openness fostered in her sessions create a safe space for growth and transformation. With her compassionate yet direct guidance, clients will be encouraged to explore their patterns and motivations, leading to greater self-awareness and acceptance, ultimately alleviating pain, promoting healing, and expanding life's possibilities.

Diane Hough is a highly experienced Marriage & Family Therapist and life coach with over 27 years of licensure. Specializing in adults and elders, she understands the importance of seeing each client's issues in the context of their unique life journey. Diane offers a personalized approach that caters to the specific needs and interests of her clients, whether they are seeking counseling or coaching, and whether they prefer individual or couples work. She creates a nonjudgmental and safe space for clients to explore their concerns while focusing on tangible results. Diane's supportive yet direct style empowers clients to break free from limiting beliefs, guiding them to live with greater awareness and the choice of new possibilities. With expertise in addressing life transitions, anxiety, and relationship issues, she assists clients in tuning into their inner guidance, promoting balance in their lives. Diane provides both video and phone sessions from the comfort and privacy of her clients' homes, ensuring effective therapy comparable to in-person sessions, fostering growth and healing through various evidence-based modalities.