Anders Greenwood, Psychologist in Palo Alto, 94301

Anders Greenwood, Psy.D, Ph.D.

Profession(s):
Psychology
License Status:
I'm a licensed professional.
Primary License:
PSY - 22009

My Approach to Helping

Are you facing changes or challenges that you want to work through in safety and confidence? Troubled by work, school, relationships, or parenting? Fighting depression, anxiety or life-limiting patterns or rules? Ready for a new beginning?

For better and worse, our experience is shaped by expectations and habits that are maintained by loyalty to important relationships, and by cycles of confirming experience. They affect our relationships, happiness, and success.

Therapy can help. Hurtful expectations and habits can be retired, and new habits of relating to life and others can be implicitly learned, or chosen and implemented. In my practice, therapy is as diverse as my clients, following from their deepest and increasingly explicit goals, and their changing moods and preferences.

Growing out of a shy childhood and an early adult focus on physics and neuroscience, my own ongoing journey is one of growing inner safety for emotional presence and integration of thought and feeling, with ever less dependence on youthful habits of "emotional survival."�¯�¿�½

In ten years as a therapist, I have worked with people facing challenges associated with growing up, parenting, generational differences, displacement, work communication and organization, career transitions, substances, sexual preference, ADHD, learning disorders, multiple stressors, grief, depression, anxiety, abuse, neglect, bizarre experiences and relationship issues. My clients often fear that their problems will be overwhelming. Paradoxically, even when experiences are frustrating, grim or frightening for clients, sharing them in therapy is typically relieving, enlivening and even joyful. Alternatives then become possible.

More Info About My Practice

My full fee is $170 and I have a sliding scale. If you are committed to therapy, and particularly if you are a student or single parent, I can be very flexible with my rate and still be fully engaged in your therapy. I have offices in San Francisco, Palo Alto, and Berkeley (for details see my website). As part of my own self-care and to save my time for therapy, I generally do not deal with insurance companies other than Medicare and the Victim/Witness program. However, I am happy to format bills for reimbursement if you have out-of-network coverage or a flexible spending account. I am very open to initial consultations to see if we might be a match, and you do not need to fear pressure or worry about hurting me. Looking forward to meeting you.