About My Practice

I have helped clients find solutions -- an individual process -- to life’s stressful and complicated problems since 1987.

Working one-on-one, with couples, and groups, I provide both short- and long-term psychotherapy and counseling.  In addition, I facilitate groups, teach assertiveness skills, and lead workshops for psychotherapists.


Individual or One-on-One Psychotherapy

My own experience and training prepare me to help you gain a better and deeper understanding of your self-defined issues.  I also want to give you the opportunity to experiment in the therapy with different ways of being as we work toward some of your self-defined goals.


Couples Counseling or Therapy

Forty percent of my practice is working with couples, including same- and mixed-gendered relationships.  My specialized training, my long experience and interest in relationships as a place to be healed and enriched, and my five-year consultation group focusing only on work with couples have prepared me to work with you wherever you find your relationship these days.

I do not flinch at disruptive levels of conflict, infidelity, loss of sexual desire, differences in child rearing, religious or class differences. Neither am I discouraged by that sense of drifting apart that can affect long-term relationships.


Assertiveness Workshops and Training

As part of my wish to provide helpful ways to feel psychologically and emotionally stronger in the world, I regularly offer introductory and four-hour workshops on Finding the Assertive You. The basic concepts are easy but there can be many roadblocks to putting them into practice in your life.

In the training, I help you find your unique voice, grow in tolerance for your own feelings, and respond effectively to others' reactions to the expression of that voice.  Please visit www.assertiveyou.com for more information and the current schedule.


Group Facilitator

No More Secrets is a monthly support group for people abused by clergy and is sponsored by the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Oakland. Call me for details or for more information about the program visit www.oakdiocese.org/survivors/support.htm


Workshop Leader for Professionals

I lead workshops for other psychotherapists on Money and Psychotherapy, Couples Therapy, and Social Class and Psychotherapy.


Sessions

I typically schedule sessions for 50 minutes.  I'm able to accept insurance under limited conditions, and a need-based sliding scale fee option is available.

I’d be happy to talk with you or set up an initial consultation to see if how I work and what you need is compatible.

-- Claire Jeannette, Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist