Eric Anders, Psychotherapist in Oakland, 94618

Eric Anders, Ph.D., Psy.D.

Profession(s):
Psychotherapy
License Status:
I'm a licensed professional.
Primary License:
California Research Psychoanalyst - RP202

My Approach to Helping

Training and Supervising Psychoanalyst and faculty member at the Institute of Contemporary Psychoanalysis. Two offices: Rockridge and Financial District....

I am a Training and Supervising Psychoanalyst and faculty member at the Institute of Contemporary Psychoanalysis, Los Angeles, and an active member in ICP's Bay Area branch. I split my private practice between two offices, both very close to BART stations. My Oakland office is in the Market Hall building in the heart of Rockridge. My San Francisco office is half a block from the Montgomery station in the Financial District.

I have helped a variety of clients with a wide range of psychological difficulties. I work with adults, college-age and up. My patients range from those suffering from debilitating anxiety, depression, and trauma to those who come in simply for relationship issues or greater self understanding. I have experience working with people, both heterosexual and homosexual, who have difficulty maintaining lasting and good love relationships.

One of the most important things necessary for deep, self-reflective therapy is the presence of a respectful, emotionally engaged, and caring therapist. My approach is to engage people on several levels: addressing the current situation while also getting into early life experiences, helping people explore both conscious and unconscious parts of themselves, and invariably working with the underlying dynamics that block progress toward healing and wholeness.

I approach each individual based on the unique and specific circumstances of his or her life and personality. Since I don't need to work with insurance companies, I am not interested in diagnostic categories as found in the DSM or psychology or psychiatric literature. Every therapeutic situation is highly unique since the therapist, the person coming for help, and how we work together are all very unique.

I am a former program supervisor at The Pyshcotherapy Institute (TPI) in Berkeley, and a graduate of TPI's Supervision Study Program (SSP), a two-year intensive program that gives senior therapists an opportunity to hone their skills as psychotherapy teachers. As an ICP Training and Supervising Analyst and graduate of TPI's SSP, I have experience consulting with both licensed and unlicensed therapists, teaching them psychotherapy from from the perspective of a variety of psychoanalytic schools.

I have also been on the faculty of the Newport Psychoanalytic Institute in Orange County and Seattle's Center for Object Relations, and was recently a Visiting Scholar at Stanford University and the University of Washington in Seattle. I have taught a variety of courses from an introduction to psychoanalysis, to a course on hysteria, to one on working with traumatized veterans. I am also a board member of The University of California Interdisciplinary Psychoanalytic Consortium.