East Bay Counseling

East Bay Counseling in Walnut Creek offers experienced and caring counseling and psychotherapy for individuals and couples. My approach is caring and active. I listen intently, care deeply, and use everything from my training, experience, and personality to help clients develop skills, understand themselves, and find realistic solutions to their concerns. I am active in offering suggestions and possible solutions, and I encourage clients to become better skilled in managing their thoughts, emotions, and behaviors. "I'm very grateful that I discovered Fran. I especially appreciate his sensitivity, presence, authenticity, humor, and ability to understand a situation in an empathic way. Without a doubt he has been instrumental in my journey of healing." "Excellent. Better focused, more constructive than any of my other experiences..." "I learned to be an active listener with my spouse, and put myself in her shoes." "He helped me bring out emotions from bad past experiences, deal with them, and move on." Individuals seek counseling for a wide variety of circumstances such as Depression, Anxiety, Divorce, Stress, Addiction, Grief and Loss. A therapist can help a person get to the heart of their concerns more quickly and objectively than what may be possible by talking with friends or family members. I work with clients concerned with Depression, Relationships, Stress, Anxiety, Mental Health, Addiction, Affairs, Panic, Grief, Loss, Alcoholism, Addiction, Divorce, Substance Abuse, and Chronic Pain and Disability. I help clients actively address their problems and develop mastery in their lives. I use a variety of traditional and innovative approaches, including Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT), Emotional Freedom Technique (EFT) and Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR) for rapid treatment of a variety of issues, and Mindfulness-Based Cognitive Therapy that involves the use of traditional Buddhist practices of mindfulness and equanimity. From the days of dating and courtship, through early marriage and the stresses of living together, to childrearing, and to the middle-age crises and beyond, couples face challenges! Poor communication skills, low self-esteem, sexual problems, affairs, and difficulty expressing and asserting feelings can distort a couples original love and friendship and make it difficult for them to function healthfully. Even the normal stresses of family and career can push an otherwise healthy relationship into a spiral of misunderstanding and hurt feelings. Couples therapy provides needed communication skills and problem solving to help partners get back on track, and even to heal deeper hurts and mistrust that block their capacity to love. And even when a couple decides that they are committed to ending the relationship, counseling can help make the difference between adversarial divorce and respectful cooperation.

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