Therapists & Counselors
Cheryl Bradshaw, MA, MFT #39675
Cheryl Bradshaw is a licensed Marriage and Family Therapist who works with individuals and couples, and specializes in working with trauma, anxiety, life transitions, relationship concerns and cross-cultural issues. With over 20 years of training and experience in many different methods of therapy, Cheryl’s breadth of experience allows her to tailor her approach to the specific needs of the client. She uses a psychodynamic and integrative approach, which can include the use of the arts in the therapy process, as well as body-centered psychotherapy.
Cheryl enjoys creating an safe and caring environment for her clients, which invites openness to self-exploration and discovery. She nurtures self-awareness by encouraging a quiet sustained focus of attention inward. With an emphasis on self-awareness, exploration, resourcing and experimentation, clients have the opportunity to heal.
Body centered psychotherapy can access unconscious material, gently and efficiently, so that beliefs, memories, habits and emotions can be explored and a clearer understanding of oneself is gained in the process. An opportunity to experiment with new behavior and choices is inherent in BCT.
cbradshaw773@comcast.net
15 Austin Avenue, San Anselmo, CA 94960
415-721-9964
Eileen Cohune Brown, MFT #49457
Eileen is a Licensed Marriage & Family Therapist, and is pleased to be starting her Marin private practice at ICC. Eileen brings Psychodynamic, Jungian and Depth Psychology orientations to her work with adults, couples and adolescents in her private practice in Berkeley. She is a graduate of The Psychotherapy Institute’s (in Berkeley) two-year Post-Graduate Training Program, where she obtained intensive Psychodynamic training in individual adult and couples therapy. She completed her M.A. at Pacifica Graduate Institute, and has ten years of prior experience working as a social worker in Humboldt County with women, children, youth and families. She integrates dream work, movement, art therapy and story into her practice. She works with people struggling with depression and anxiety, gender identity/transgender issues, trauma and recovery from abuse. She also runs groups for pregnant and parenting women and has a special interest in working with mothers around issues related to pregnancy and parenting.
eileen.cb.mft@gmail.com
www.eileencohunebrown.com
15 Austin Avenue, San Anselmo, CA 94960
3120 Telegraph Ave., Suite 8, Berkeley, CA 94705
510-269-7029
Sharon Burch, MDiv, PhD
Sharon volunteers as the administrator for ICC and is a Pastoral Counselor in Training. She was a professor of Systematic Theology and the Philosophy of Religion at Boston University until 2000. She began participating in Buddhist-Christian Dialogue in 1987. She volunteers as a grief counselor with the Community Counseling program in Marin and works with caregivers for people living with dementia. She is an ordained American Baptist pastor and interested in working with congregational practices as theological statements of a church’s mission.
Sharon works out of the San Anselmo office and can be reached through the ICC phone number: 415-256-9701.
Jim Burns, MA, MFT Intern (IMF #55688)
Jim Burns is a Marriage and Family Therapy intern with Holos Institute, a holistic counseling and ecopsychology education center with offices in San Francisco, Oakland, and now in Marin. He works with individuals, couples, and young adults dealing with issues of anxiety, depression, life transitions and relationship. He has a strong background in the field of addiction and recovery as well as facilitating the Voice Dialogue process. He is also interested in working with the particular identity and attachment challenges facing adult children of adoption.
Jim holds ecopsychology as a philosophical approach in which the body, mind and spirit are viewed in relationship to the natural environment and the greater web of life in which we live. He views psychotherapy as a creative collaboration of deep inquiry that can help repair and heal emotional wounds of the past; bring clarity, compassion, and the wisdom of insight to the present; and illuminate the way into the future.
He received a B.A. in Integral Studies from California Institute of Integral Studies, and a M.A. in Transpersonal Counseling Psychology from John F. Kennedy University. He has coordinated and presented numerous personal growth workshops with his wife Shakti Gawain, with whom he co-founded Nataraj Publishing, which publishes books on personal growth and spirituality.
jim@holosinstitute.net
15 Austin Avenue, San Anselmo, CA 94960
415-494-8599
Carey Cloyd, MA, MFT #46162
Compassion and intuition characterize Carey’s style and she considers truth, the present moment, and the body as rich sources of information in therapeutic work. She is comfortable helping with a variety of subjects such as relationship problems, major life transitions, abuse, grief, sexuality and spirituality.
An essential component of her work is the recognition of the interrelationship between mind, body, and spirit. In the context of a supportive and collaborative relationship, she helps you examine your thoughts, feelings, and behaviors. Results of this process may include greater awareness, more confidence and resourcefulness, and an improved sense of vitality.
Nondual awareness infuses her work with clients, a perspective in which the split between self and other is recognized as a mental construct and possibilities for spaciousness and clarity unfold. EMDR, the Hakomi Method, and the inquiry process of Byron Katie are key components that she draws on when meeting with clients. Her work is also informed by a variety of practices, including daily meditation, as well as yoga, movement, and time in nature. Having completed training in bodywork and energywork, these modalities also influence her psychotherapy practice.
www.careycloyd.com
careycloyd@gmail.com
15 Austin Avenue, San Anselmo, CA 94960
417 Spruce Street, San Francisco, CA 94118
415-488-6854
Jennifer Cortright, MFT #35324
Jennifer is a Marriage Family Therapist and has been working with individuals, couples, and teenagers in private practice for 20 years.
Jennifer’s primary emphasis is on facilitating a therapeutic relationship where vulnerable feelings can be safely expressed. She believes that when every part of our experience is welcomed with warmth and curiosity, healing begins.
Emotional pain, when listened to with empathy, interest and acceptance, guides us into places within that are calling for attention and healing.
Jennifer’s professional training combines both psychodynamic and experiential psychotherapies. One emphasis of her work is to help people understand how the past is influencing their present experience. Another is to facilitate awareness of present experience through mindfulness and by listening to the wisdom of the body.
Symptoms of anxiety, depression, addiction... can be understood as invitations from the psyche to explore our internal world with understanding and compassion. Psychotherapy provides a safe place for this internal exploration within a caring and respectful relationship.
jennwc@yahoo.com
15 Austin Avenue, San Anselmo, CA 94960
415-713-1544
Richard Engebrecht, MFT #44793
Richard Engebrecht is a licensed Marriage and Family Therapist who enjoys working with children and their families, as well as individual adults. Richard has ten years experience as a clinician including four years as an elementary school counselor and has been working with children and young adults in school and agency settings for the past 21 years. When working with adult clients, Richard uses many different tools to facilitate change, including Cognitive Behavioral Therapy for symptom relief and the techniques and processes of Hakomi, a body-centered depth psychotherapy, which integrates western psychology, advances in neurobiology, and the mindfulness practices of Buddhist Meditation. He believes that decreasing unhealthy stress, restoring trust in relationships, and changing self-limiting belief systems can lead to transformation. Richard uses a warm, friendly, and engaged style of therapy.
rengebrecht@comcast.net
15 Austin Avenue, San Anselmo, CA 94960
510-521-3500
Richard Flout, MA, MFT #23923
Richard has been a psychotherapist in private practice in Marin for twenty-four years. He has had a lifelong interest in the arts and relating them to personal growth, as well as integrating one’s spirituality with the healing process. His experience includes leadership in church liturgy, retreats, contemplative prayer and meditation groups. Richard currently leads a biweekly Centering Prayer/Contemplative practices group at St. Paul’s Episcopal Church in San Rafael. He has a general practice with a clinical emphasis in depression, anxiety, co-dependency, life transitions, and men’s issues. His approach to therapy is eclectic including Transactional Analysis, Gestalt, Family Systems, body awareness and movement.
rdflout@earthlink.net
www.rdfloutmarincounseling.com
15 Austin Avenue, San Anselmo, CA 94960
111 Sylvia Way, San Rafael, CA 94903
415-453-0532
David Glick, MA, MFT #8332
David is a licensed MFT, a psychotherapist, poet and peace and justice activist who has been in clinical practice since 1976. He has offices in both Marin and Berkeley. In addition to conducting a private practice, he serves as the clinical consultant and supervisor for the Interfaith Counseling Center. He does individual, couple, family and group therapy, as well as pre-marital counseling. He frequently works with people in grief over the loss of a loved one and has a special interest in helping those mourning the loss of their beloved animal companions. He has extensive experience working with those struggling with depression, anxiety, substance abuse and those struggling with spiritual, religious and existential issues as well as issues of personal identity. He can be reached through the ICC office or 415-457-3825.
Renee Masotti, MA, MFT #37835
Renee offers psychotherapy and consultation services, including mental health education: classes, seminars and group facilitation, spiritual development/contemplative practice.
Renee’s work is informed by contemporary psychoanalytic, relational and archetypal psychologies. Her areas of expertise include anxiety, identity, life transitions, grief and psychospiritual integration.
Linked in: Masotti Consulting (on-site programs available in the greater SF Bay Area)
remalar@sbcglobal.net
15 Austin Avenue, San Anselmo, CA 94960
5316 Bryant Avenue, Oakland, CA 94618-1430
510-632-1090
Dean McDonald, MDiv, DMin
Dean is a Presbyterian clergywoman who has served as a pastor, chaplain, pastoral counselor, adjunct professor of pastoral counseling, preaching coach, leader of clergy support groups, and an administrator. Her training is in Family Systems Therapy that is well suited for work with couples, individuals, and in job coaching. She enjoys counseling with partners considering marriage using the Prepare/Enrich inventories. Dean can be reached through ICC (phone: 415-256-9701) or directly at dean.mcdonald@me.com.
Barbara E. Nelson, MA, MFT #33773
Barbara is a licensed Marriage and Family Therapist and Addiction Intervention Specialist. She has a degree in Clinical Psychology Graduate of the Pacifica Graduate School in Carpinteria, CA; is a former family therapist at the Drug Abuse Alternatives Center in Santa Rosa; and founder of the Family Insight Training, an inclusive, conflict-free, private family therapy evolved from her work as an Interventionist.
She offers a general practice, specializing in relationship repair and addiction recovery services including intervention, rehab referral, recovery support and insight. Barbara’s mission is to engage individuals, couples and families in the transformative process of healing to halt the generational progression of problematic behaviors and restore hope and emotional and spiritual well-being.
www.yeshadenough.com
tendingrowth@earthlink.net
15 Austin Avenue, San Anselmo, CA 94960
415-332-4194
Mary O’Mara, MBA
Mary O’Mara became a Financial Recovery® Counselor after working in the social services sector and seeing firsthand how many of the issues that faced people she encountered had to do with their relationship to money. Her approach is to bring her clients and audiences in touch with their values. Through a process of alignment with their core values, they create a spending plan that supports their needs, wants, goals and dreams. Mary is available for one-on-one counseling, couples counseling, group presentations and public speaking.
mary@monetaryvalues.com
15 Austin Avenue, San Anselmo, CA 94960
415-259-8334
Anita Ostrom, MA, MDiv, PhD, MFT #37964
Anita sees primarily adult individuals and couples and specializes in the treatment of depression and anxiety disorders, trauma, post-traumatic stress, and social anxiety. Other areas of treatment include developing a core self and clarifying personal boundaries, life transitions, divorce and co-parenting, self-esteem, grief and loss, domestic violence, verbal and physical abuse and molestation. Certified to offer premarital counseling using the nationally known Prepare/Enrich program, she also enjoys helping couples prepare for a rewarding marriage together. She is trained in Levels I & II of Eye Movement, Desensitization and Reprocessing (www.emdr.com), which is a powerful tool for addressing and bringing to resolution the “big T” and “little t” traumas of life. She is also trained in Lifespan Integration (www.lifespanintegration.com) which enables and supports deep repair for one’s emerging and healing self.
anitarostrom@gmail.com
15 Austin Avenue, San Anselmo, CA 94960
415-462-3242
Cristine Pollock, ADHD Coach, Life Coach
Cristine has a Masters degree in special education and worked in a variety of educational settings and positions prior to coaching. She is a Certified Professional Co-Active Coach and holds an Associate Coaches designation from the International Coaching Federation. She received ADHD coach training from the Optimal Functioning Institute, ADD Resources and Edge Foundation. She teaches classes in Adult ADHD at the College of Marin.
Cristine coaches adults and older teens to help them achieve personal, professional and academic goals, and to live more fulfilling lives.
Cristine@CristinePollockCoaching.com
15 Austin Avenue, San Anselmo, CA 94960
415-461-3318
Carol Saysette, MA, MDiv, DMin
Carol has been a Pastoral Counselor (AAPC #6007) and Spiritual Director at San Francisco Theological Seminary since 1992. Carol has a deep interest in the lifelong spiritual journey, and training in Pastoral Counseling and Spiritual Direction, contemplative prayer, discernment, Jungian psychology, and dream work. She enjoys working with persons of all ages and backgrounds.
Carol works out of both the San Anselmo and Berkeley ofices. You can reach her through either: 415-256-9701 or 510-225-5595.
Ruth Schweitzer-Mordecai, MA, MDiv, MFT #21841
Ruth specializes in interfaith integration of spirituality/religion and psychology. She teaches a new method for individuals and couples to create inner wholeness and improved relationships. This approach is based on bringing your spiritual connection into your daily life and relationships. Ruth is a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist; United Church of Christ minister; Certified Internal Family Systems Therapist and student of the Diamond Approach for 9 years. She is the author or Spiritual Freedom and contributor to Jesus Reconsidered. She has Masters degrees in theology and psychology as well as an MDiv.
livingfromwithin.com
rmord@comcast.net
15 Austin Avenue, San Anselmo, CA 94960
1330 Lincoln Avenue, Suite 310, San Rafael CA 94901
415-258-9382
Mary Spilsbury, MA, MFT #50574
Mary is a Marriage & Family Therapist Intern and has recently joined the ICC. She primarily sees adolescents, young adults and parents with a focus in the areas of anxiety, depression, substance abuse, and parenting. Her work encompasses a wide range of approaches, including Depth Psychology, Psychodynamic, Jungian Psychology and Hakomi Therapy. Mary incorporates both mindfulness and body-oriented awareness to help slow the therapeutic process, so as to identify core beliefs that are presenting obstacles. Mary received her Masters in Counseling Psychology from Pacifica Graduate Institute. She has also completed the Professional Skills Training in Hakomi Therapy and is currently working on a Certificate in Expressive Arts from JFK University. She has been providing therapy for six years to both children and adults.
www.maryspilsbury.com
mary@maryspilsbury.com
15 Austin Avenue, San Anselmo, CA 94960
3093 Sacramento Ave, San Francisco, CA
415-342-9640
Joyce E. Thomson, MFT #37969, RScP Rosen Method Bodywork Practitioner
Joyce specializes in working with childhood abuse, trauma, life transitions, relationship issues, life threatening illnesses, grief and loss and spiritual growth. She works with individuals from a body-centered and family systems approach to reveal, heal and release, wounding experiences and beliefs, which block their fullest expression of life.
Her mission is to support clients to live with purpose, adventure and happiness by discovering, honoring and celebrating their strengths, passions, joys and their unique talents and gifts.
Joyce is a Marriage, Family Therapist, licensed spiritual counselor, certified Rosen Method Bodywork Practitioner and Rosen Method Movement teacher. She received her Masters Degree in Counseling Psychology with an emphasis in Holistic Health from John F. Kennedy University. Joyce has worked with U.S. soldiers and their families as a Family Life Consultant, prior to and after their deployments to Iraq. She has over 25 years experience as a Rosen Method Bodywork practitioner. In this capacity she has worked with Hospice of Marin patients and primary care givers. Joyce has also volunteered with the American Red Cross, providing sessions to cancer patients. Joyce is, since 1984, a breast cancer survivor.
joycethomson@sbcglobal.net
15 Austin Avenue, San Anselmo, CA
415-384-0953
Michael Vurek, MSW, LCSW #12882
Michael has a Masters Degree in Social Work from San Diego State University, and has been in private practice as a Licensed Clinical Social Worker since 1999. Michael provides individual and group psychotherapy, often to people who have been diagnosed with severe or recurrent depression, anxiety, or bipolar disorder. His clinical work primarily utilizes scientifically-based cognitive and behavioral therapies that emphasize liberation rather than control, and acceptance as much as understanding. He appreciates that many mindfulness and acceptance practices arise within spiritual traditions. Michael began his professional career in 1980 as a medical and psychiatric social worker, and also developed and managed services for older adults. He also started outpatient and partial hospital cognitive therapy treatment programs at Ross Hospital. Michael is associated with the DBT Center of Marin and the Cognitive Behavioral Therapy Associates of Marin.
michaelvurek@gmail.com
15 Austin Avenue, San Anselmo, CA 94960
415-451-7455; 415-987-8680
Becky Wright, MS, MFT #30710
Becky has been a Marriage and Family Therapist for 20 years. She works with individuals and couples with issues of anxiety, depression, relationships and transitions using a variety of modalities including psychodynamic, Jungian, cognitive behavioral and family systems therapy. Drawing on their spiritual resources, she co-creates with her clients a safe space of mutual trust where emotional pain can be healed and self-compassion developed. Clients learn to break old patterns and experience more well-being and joy so they can accomplish their goals.
As the clinical supervisor of a large community counseling and addiction recovery center, Becky has supervised interns and led therapy groups for adults and teens. She has provided clinical supervision and taught pastoral counseling skills to seminarians and provided coaching to clergy. With a passion for listening to stories and helping people find wholeness, Becky has led spiritual journey groups and retreats for her church and renewal retreats for psychotherapists.
Becky works primarily in the Berkeley office and can be reached at 510-225-5595.
