Online Experiential therapists in Oakland, California CA
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Experiential
Jacqlyn Wax Creviston
Psychologist, M.A. Sports Pysychology; Psy.D Clinical Psychology
The therapeutic alliance is essential for effective and successful therapy. The therapist and client collaborate to build and strengthen a cohesive relationship. I believe in the importance of providing a compassionate and safe environment where the client can explore and enhance internal dialogue, intrinsic motivation, and self-efficacy.
6 Years Experience
Online in Oakland, CA (Online Only)
Experiential
Emily Echeverria
Marriage and Family Therapist, Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist, MS
I currently have immediate openings for individuals seeking therapy services. Online therapy services are done through video. I work with adolescents and adults struggling with anxiety, depression, stress, life transitions, family conflict, relationship issues, low self-esteem, shame, unresolved trauma, and feelings of being stuck or disconnected to help them discover their inner strengths, improve relationships, and cultivate self-compassion. My approach is compassionate, empathetic, and challenging so clients feel seen, heard, and understood while also raising their self-awareness to facilitate healing and growth.
6 Years Experience
Online in Oakland, CA
Experiential
Jamie Fortin
Marriage and Family Therapist, Licensed Marriage & Family Therapist
I also offer HIPAA compliant online therapy sessions.
8 Years Experience
Online in Oakland, CA
Experiential
Daniela Bumann
Life Coach, Trauma-Informed Life & Career Coach | Mindfulness-Based Coaching
Feeling overwhelmed, emotionally exhausted, stuck in self-doubt, struggling in relationships, or uncertain about your next step?
You don’t have to navigate it alone.
I offer compassionate, trauma-informed life and career coaching for individuals moving through life transitions, emotional stress, burnout, relationship challenges, and personal or professional uncertainty.
Using a mindfulness-based and integrative approach, I help clients gain clarity, strengthen emotional resilience, rebuild confidence, improve self-awareness, and create meaningful change from the inside out.
Sessions are supportive, grounded, insightful, and forward-moving, helping you reconnect with yourself and move through life with greater balance, clarity, and self-trust.
Free consultation available.
32 Years Experience
Online in Oakland, CA
Experiential
Erika Shershun
Marriage and Family Therapist, MA, LMFT
I specialize in helping trauma survivors, including childhood and/or adult sexual trauma survivors, reclaim the life they were meant to live. Despite the technological divide, I have a felt sense of being in resonance with my clients, sensing when they can use support, or a life vest, and when they feel resourced enough to delve into some deeper waters. I draw on somatic psychotherapy, EMDR, neuroscience, energy psychology, and parts work along with the more traditional psychodynamic approach. Feel free to contact me for a free 15 min phone consultation to learn more.
13 Years Experience
Online in Oakland, CA (Online Only)
Experiential
Stuart Kaplowitz / Serene Pathways Counseling
Counselor/Therapist, MFT
In person and on-line sessions to help with things like sadness, lack of motivation, anxiety, anger, depression, couples therapy, child therapy, teen therapy, etc. We have 30 staff to help you and offer counseling in areas such as CBT, EMDR, and other languages to best help
33 Years Experience
Online in Oakland, CA
Experiential
Dr. Vicki D. Coleman (Dr. Vicki), The Coleman Group PLLC & The Anger Doctor
Licensed Professional Counselor, LCPC, LPCC, LPC, LMFT, LCSW, CCMHC, QMHP, MAC, DAC, SAP, CAMF, BCC, HS-BCP
Telehealth and Online Therapy are offered to provide maximum access to the therapeutic process for individuals throughout the world.
36 Years Experience
Online in Oakland, CA
Experiential
Margaret Graham
Licensed Professional Counselor, LPC, LCPC, LPCC
About My Practice
I provide specialized online therapy for adults (18+) navigating anxiety, trauma, and complex life challenges. Through evidence-based therapeutic techniques delivered in a secure virtual environment, I create a supportive space for healing and personal transformation from wherever you are. My approach focuses on getting to the root of what's creating your struggles rather than just managing surface symptoms.
My Approach
My practice centers on what I call "updating your operating system"—we explore the roots of your patterns, understand how you got where you are, and consciously choose where you want to go next. This isn't about dwelling in the past; it's about understanding yourself more deeply so you can move forward with clarity and confidence. I bring together evidence-based techniques like CBT, ACT, Coherence Therapy, and clinical hypnosis with mindfulness practices, creating sessions that are collaborative and organic rather than rigid or prescribed.
Here's what might surprise you: one of the most powerful dimensions of real change is acceptance. Not the passive, resigned kind, but the courageous turning toward where you are with care and curiosity. This approach allows you to look squarely at reality and move forward from a place of truth rather than resistance.
Areas of Specialization
I specialize in supporting clients with:
Anxiety: Managing generalized worry, social anxiety, perfectionism-driven anxiety, decision paralysis, and the anxiety that stems from unprocessed trauma
Trauma Processing: Working through childhood trauma, parentification, relational wounds, and past experiences that continue to shape how you move through the world today
Complex Family Dynamics: Navigating challenging relationships with adult children, aging parents, partners, and other family members where boundaries feel blurred
Grief and Loss: Processing loss in its many forms—of people, relationships, the life you thought you'd be living, or your sense of purpose and identity
Patterns That No Longer Serve: Breaking cycles of people-pleasing, over-functioning, perfectionism, and abandoning your own needs to care for others
Benefits of Online Therapy
My virtual practice offers several advantages:
- Access specialized trauma-informed therapy from the comfort of your own space
- Greater scheduling flexibility across multiple time zones
- Elimination of travel time and transportation barriers
- A familiar environment that may enhance feelings of safety during vulnerable work
Getting Started
I work best with people who are managing to keep their heads above water but know something needs to shift—those experiencing mild to moderate concerns rather than acute crises. I welcome clients who are curious, open to looking at their lives holistically, and interested in a partnership approach. If you're willing to do the sometimes uncomfortable work of growth and want genuine understanding rather than therapy-speak, we'll likely be a good match.
My style is warm, direct, and refreshingly real. Research shows the most important factor in successful therapy is whether you feel genuinely understood and emotionally safe with your therapist—building that authentic connection is central to how I work.
Licensed in Colorado, California, and Maryland. Specialized training in Coherence Therapy, ACT, CBT, and clinical hypnosis.
15 Years Experience
Online in Oakland, CA (Online Only)
Experiential
KIM RICHARDSON LINDLEY
Marriage and Family Therapist, LMFT, LPCC, I CADC II
Therapy can be a leap of faith, a hopeful search for relief from uncomfortable or unmanageable states, or a reach for deeper insight and meaning. Whether temporary, or longer term those first steps can at times be the most tentative, however quite rewarding once taken. My foundational training in the Psychodynamic, Depth and Humanistic traditions merged with innovative and evidence based advancements in attachment theory, neuroscience and the body’s stress response, have led me to a strengths based, integrative and client centered approach whereby each treatment plan is tailored appropriately to the unique needs of each client. With experience in Residential Inpatient, Intensive Outpatient and private practice, I view my work as a collaboration with the client that honors the person and their process working towards healthy relationships – with Self, others and their environment. My style has been described as calm, insightful and reflective. Areas of focus include EMDR, which has been deeply rewarding work for clients seeking support with trauma and addiction, and neuroscience based strategies aimed at regulating the nervous system to deal with the presence of anxiety and depression. I work in telehealth with teens and adults, and have experience with the unique challenges faced by clients who work in the motion picture industry.
17 Years Experience
Online in Oakland, CA
Experiential
Erin Gienger
Marriage and Family Therapist, Pre-licensed AMFT
I provide a safe space for clients to process whatever emotions or responses they may be experiencing. I have over 3,500 hours of experience doing therapy with various types of clients. I recently graduated from an MFT program and have enjoyed interacting with a new set of clients. I am particularly interested in working with clients who have had trauma, abuse, or difficulty with life transitions. I make myself available to give clients the ability to process their lives in a new way. If you believe I could be a good fit for you as your therapist, please get in touch with me.
7 Years Experience
Online in Oakland, CA
Experiential
Josie Valderrama
Psychologist, PsyD
We open the session with a few minutes of meditation, then dive into what's resonant for you in the moment. Multi-faceted therapeutic explorations underpinned by mindfulness-based cognitive behavioral therapy, Ericksonian trance work, somatics, attachment theory and parts work. Compassionate, discerning and collaborative care.
11 Years Experience
Online in Oakland, CA
Experiential
Anat Sideman
Marriage and Family Therapist, JD, MA, LMFT
Anat Sideman-Schneider, JD, MA, LMFT
Anat is a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist and Divorce Mediator. Her clinical practice is relational and collaborative, empowering clients to achieve greater joy and intimacy by increasing clarity, self-acceptance and healing. Her areas of focus are depression, anxiety, relationship issues, family dynamics, parenting, adulting, overcoming infidelity, divorce, trauma and grief. Her theoretical orientation includes Emotionally Focused Therapy, family systems, psychodynamic theory, Gestalt, bioenergetics and integrated mind-body therapy. Anat grew up in Israel and offers therapy in English or Hebrew. She accepts new online and in person clients.
11 Years Experience
Online in Oakland, CA
Experiential
Dr. Sari Shepphird
Psychologist, Ph.D.
Secure online sessions available to many parts of the globe.
30 Years Experience
Online in Oakland, CA
Experiential
Charis Khoury
Marriage and Family Therapist, MA, LMFT
I offer sessions in person as well as by video (telehealth).
16 Years Experience
Online in Oakland, CA
Experiential
Judith Nitchie
Counselor/Therapist, LMFT36770
Since the advent of the Covid pandemic all sessions have been through teletherapy - either video or phone. While the initial motivator is protection of our physical health, the practice provides increased accessibility and convenience for clients. Studies (and practice) have shown that teletherapy can be equally effective as in-person therapy.
32 Years Experience
Online in Oakland, CA (Online Only)
Experiential
Nes Pinar Psychotherapy
Marriage and Family Therapist, LMFT
I offer online therapy for adults who want a thoughtful, grounded space to come home to themselves. My work is relational, warm, and deeply attuned—I’m interested in the stories you’ve carried, the identities that shape you, and the parts of you that are ready for more ease, expression, or alignment. Together, we slow down, get curious, and make room for the truths that have been waiting beneath the surface.
15 Years Experience
Online in Oakland, CA
Experiential
Emma Esper
Marriage and Family Therapist, LMFT, LPCC
Telehealth services provided through secure and confidential video meetings.
7 Years Experience
Online in Oakland, CA
Experiential
Dr. Trevor Alleman
Psychologist, PsyD, MA
I offer online therapy services to California residents who are unable to meet at my Santa Barbara office.
13 Years Experience
Online in Oakland, CA
Experiential
Kim Christine Stevens
Marriage and Family Therapist, LMFT, MA
I am accepting new Telehealth clients- video call or phone call
11 Years Experience
Online in Oakland, CA
Experiential
Hiroko Saeki, MA, LMFT, RDT
Marriage and Family Therapist, Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist, Registered Drama Therapist
Psychotherapist with specialized training in Drama Therapy.
11 Years Experience
Online in Oakland, CA
Oakland has a politically engaged, social-justice-oriented community where many therapists approach their work through an anti-oppression lens, specializing in racial trauma, activist burnout, and healing within BIPOC communities. The city's proximity to San Francisco means therapists here frequently work with the compounding stresses of the Bay Area housing crisis, economic displacement, and the grief of gentrification. Oakland has strong LGBTQ+ and creative communities, with demand for affirming therapists who work at the intersection of identity, community belonging, and personal wellbeing. Highland Hospital and UCSF Benioff Children's Hospital Oakland provide institutional anchors alongside a network of independent practitioners.
Experiential Therapy therapists in Oakland, California Statistics
Experiential Therapy therapists in Oakland, California average 16 years of experience and charge around $221 per session. 100% offer online sessions. The most commonly treated issues are Anxiety or Fears (77%), Depression (73%), and Trauma and PTSD (66%).
Average years in practice
16 Years Experience
Average cost per session
$221
Gender ID
| 73% |
Female |
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| 22% |
Male |
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| 3% |
Gender Fluid |
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| 2% |
Non-Binary |
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Session Type
| 71% |
In Person and Online |
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| 29% |
Online Only |
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Top Specialties
| 77% | Anxiety or Fears |
| 73% | Depression |
| 66% | Trauma and PTSD |
| 55% | Stress |
| 50% | Self Esteem |
| 48% | Relationship and Marriage Counseling |
| 43% | Loss or Grief |