Robert Waska, Psychotherapist in San Francisco, 94118

Robert Waska MFT, PhD

Profession(s):
Psychotherapy, Counselling, Marriage & Family Therapy
License Status:
I'm a licensed professional.
Primary License:
MFT - MFT28161

My Approach to Helping

HELP & GUIDANCE
For 30 years, I have helped bring understanding, resolution, and relief to individuals and couples struggling with difficult emotional states or sudden crisis points in life.

I offer specialized and lasting assistance with Relationships, Depression, Anxiety/Panic/Phobia, Conflict Avoidance, Self Sabotage, Substance Abuse, Weight Loss, and Grief.

The fee for weekly sessions is $125. I am an experienced provider for all EAP's, HMOs, and PPOs and will gladly help you find out if your coverage includes counseling and psychotherapy.

More Info About My Practice

HELP & GUIDANCE
By the time people come to see me, they have suffered long enough, feeling stuck and hopeless. With my help, individuals and couples are able to resolve their painful conflicts. I work closely with you to turn problems into solutions.

Meeting frequently and consistently, we will work together to find the answers. We will quickly locate lasting and meaningful ways to reach your goals and help you feel more in control of your life.

Specializing in curing the root cause of your problems instead of looking to temporary fixes, I believe in helping you find long-term answers and real relief. Finally, life can be lived instead of dreaded or avoided. Let's start today.

When working with you in individual counseling and couples therapy, I utilize my effective and research based therapy for improving your mental well being. My psychotherapy and counseling approach provides an effective way to learn about the unconscious, deeper aspects of yourself so that you can find out the source of your distress. This new self knowledge creates an opportunity to effectively work through the core issues that hold you back in life. In doing so, you not only can step away from these problems, but grow and expand your abilities to love, learn, and engage with others and feel confident and no longer so anxious, depressed, or otherwise impaired.

The counseling and psychotherapy I offer allows the individual or couple to gradually understand the real source of their breakdown in successful living, their sudden unhappiness, or their ongoing patterns of distress. As you gradually learn the underlying emotional causes for your problems and conflicts, then you can gradually face, challenge, and change those obstacles. Once you can name the problem, you can claim it as your own emotional issue, not something strange, overwhelming, or painful that has power over your life. Once you can claim the emotional problem, you can tame that problem. As the psychological issues are addressed, the unhealthy relational patterns, negative behaviors, and painful emotional cycles can all improve.

With the back and forth, interactive method of my psychodynamic counseling and psychotherapy service for individuals and couples, your sense of helplessness, loneliness and frustration can gradually shift to more of a feeling of knowing yourself, being in charge, and making new choices.

I can assist you in working through difficulties with depression, anxiety, grief, drugs or alcohol, family of origin issues, trauma, work conflicts, panic, phobias, anger and loss. In addition, I help individuals and couples explore, understand, and master their conflicts and confusing patterns in sex, love, dating, relationships, parenting, and marriage. As a result, you can truly move beyond these problems and find a greater sense of self and a deeper meaning in life. This inner transformation translates to greater external success and happiness in your day to day living.

Specific Issue(s) I'm Skilled at Helping With

Depression, Anxiety, and Relationship problems are the three areas most people are struggling with when they enter counseling and psychotherapy services. Dr. Waska has a special expertise in these three areas and has helped countless patients with such problems for several decades. In addition, he has written numerous books and professional journal articles on each of these topics. For more information about Dr. Waska's specialties and experience, please link to www.drwaskaanxiety.com, www.drwaskadepression.com, www.drwaskarelationships.com, and www.drwaskatherapy.com