Find a Therapist near Hercules, CA

At Golden Hour Psychology, we believe the right care starts with understanding the whole person. We take a collaborative, evidence-based approach to therapy and psychological assessment, helping clients better understand what they are experiencing, build practical tools, and create meaningful change. Our team works with children, teens, adults, couples, and families across a wide range of concerns, including anxiety, trauma, relationships, attention-deficit hyperactivity (ADHD), autism, life transitions, parenting, and high-stress professions. Because we are a group practice, our clinicians can also collaborate and consult with one another when additional perspective or specialized expertise may be helpful. Our goal is to make care feel personal, clear, and useful from the beginning. Whether you are looking for support through a difficult season, greater clarity about a diagnosis, or a better way forward, we will help you find the provider and approach that best fit your needs.

Dion holds a bachelor’s degree in psychology from California State University, Chico, and a Master of Science in Clinical Mental Health Counseling from Grand Canyon University. She has completed specialized training in internal family systems (IFS) and emotionally focused therapy (EFT), approaches that inform her relational, attachment-based, and insight-oriented work with clients. Dion has worked in community mental health, as well as the nonprofit sector, where she supported individuals navigating complex emotional and relational challenges. She specializes in women’s health, with a special passion for those navigating infertility, birth trauma, perinatal mood and anxiety challenges (PMADs), pregnancy and infant loss, and the emotional weight of self-criticism and perfectionism. Dion is currently pursuing her Perinatal Mental Health Certification (PMH-C). Many of her clients come to therapy feeling overwhelmed by life transitions, relationship challenges, people-pleasing patterns, or the quiet grief that can accompany reproductive struggles. She believes women deserve meaningful support during these experiences, especially in a culture that often encourages them to move on, stay strong, or simply try again. Dion intentionally creates a space where women can slow down, process their experiences fully, and feel deeply understood in ways they may not have previously experienced. Her therapeutic style is direct, compassionate, and collaborative. She integrates thoughtful humor with deeper emotional exploration, helping clients understand how past experiences shape current emotional patterns and relationships. Through this work, clients develop greater self-compassion, clarity, and a stronger connection to themselves. Dion’s goal is to help clients heal past wounds, understand themselves more fully, and move forward into new chapters of life feeling more grounded, whole, and connected to who they are becoming. Dion currently lives in Spain with her husband, their two dogs, and two cats. Outside of therapy, she enjoys reading romance novels, traveling, working out, and prioritizing her own personal growth through therapy.

You want to work on your creativity. You may struggle with feeling like you belong? Or maybe like you don't have permission to do things in your life, and you are stuck? You need a place to start. Currently, people are feeling anxious, overwhelmed, and uncertain about how they are supposed to manage their relationships, careers, and their lives. Pushing away your needs and not taking time for yourself can lead to long-term issues for your mind and body. I believe it shouldn’t be so hard to live a better life. Do you just need someone to hear you fully and strive to understand? Then call me, let's talk for a bit. We might do some education on your nervous system, how trauma affects it, and how to regulate trauma responses, and the choices surrounding them. We could delve into creative work, studying your subconscious through your dreams with dream-tending, birth-chart-informed shadow work to tap into the areas you need to work out, be they past or present. I want to understand you. Let's build some coping and adaptive mental processing.

I am interested in what is happening beneath the surface of talking, and I am just as interested in what is happening between us in the room. Therapy with me is relational, engaged, and deeply attentive. I notice the places where you become quieter, move away from yourself, brace, minimize, change the subject, or suddenly come alive. I am listening to what you say, but also to what may be harder to say. I do not approach therapy as a formula or assume that one explanation accounts for everything you are experiencing. Your history matters. Your relationships matter. Your body matters. The larger systems and environments you have lived within matter. I want to understand how all of these pieces fit together in the context of your particular life. I am also not a therapist who sits silently while you do all of the work alone. I will be present with you, ask questions, offer observations, slow us down when something important is happening, and help us stay curious about what emerges. At times that means making connections to the past. At other times it means noticing what is happening in the therapy space with your emotions, sensations, and thoughts. Therapy is a relationship in which there is enough safety, honesty, and room to encounter yourself differently. Change can happen not only through what we understand together, but through what you are able to experience differently while another person is genuinely there with you.

I mostly offer therapy and coaching for leaders in High Tech, particularly engineers. My clients are usually highly successful but have some issues in a particular area, either at work of at home. These could be communicationsocial issues, feelings of inadequacy (impostor syndrome), confidence or assertiveness issues, performance issues, personality issues such as being perceived as too"blunt", etc. I also provide career coaching services for job seekers, working professionals and entrepreneurs. I draw mostly from Solution-Focused Brief Therapy, Bioenergetic Analysis, Analytic Somatic Therapy, Reichian Therapy, Object Relations, Systemic Therapy. Jungian Dreamwork and Gestalt Therapy. I am non-judgmental and supportive. I don't have an agenda for my clients but guide them to accessing their own strengths. I believe one can only live a fulfilling life if one is connected to one's own true self. I bring in creative perspectives. I move my clients out of a problem-stance into a solution-stance. I help couples resolve intimacy and communication issues for more fulfilling relationships. As to somatic psychotherapy: Emotions connected with traumatic experiences are held in the body and only by including the body in the treatment, fundamental change can occur. Between 1998 and 2002, I trained in Brief Therapy with Paul Watzlawick, Richard Fisch and others at the Mental Research Institute in Palo Alto, CA. Between 2002 and 2005, I trained in Solution-Focused Brief Therapy with Steve de Shazer and Insoo Kim Berg in Milwaukee, WI. I completed a 4-year training Analytic Somatic TherapyBioenergetic Analysis with John Conger in Berkeley, CA. I am certified in Systemic Therapy and Analytic Somatic Therapy.

I am licensed to practice in California and New York. I offer online therapy for people living in either of those states, and a offer in-person therapy at my office in Sausalito, CA. I have a holistic and integrative approach to therapy, helping people to explore and resolve deeper issues that might be holding them back or manifesting as depression or anxiety. I specialize in helping clients to navigate major life transitions, overcome feelings of being stuck or overwhelmed, improve their relationships, and live with a stronger sense of vitality and purpose. I am grateful to be doing work that I love, and I find it immensely rewarding to help people make profound, lasting changes in their lives. I offer a safe and supportive space to help you work through whatever it is that might be causing you distress or keeping you from making the changes you'd like to make. My website includes more information about my training and background. Please don't hesitate to contact me if you'd like to discuss working together.

It is my passion and a privilege to help people struggling with anxiety, depression, self-esteem, trauma, family dynamics, relationship issues, career stress, life transitions, existential angst, and finding meaning and purpose. I welcome people of all types and backgrounds into my practice. I see you as a unique individual, and I look forward to getting to know you on a deep level. I am here to support you every step of the way on your journey of self-discovery and healing. My approach is depth-oriented and relationally focused. I aim to help you go beneath the surface and get to the root of the issues you are facing. If you've tried other therapy methods without success, it may be time for a more psychoanalytic approach. In our sessions, we can delve deep together to unearth patterns, especially painful ones that are keeping you stuck, and connect the dots between past and present. As collaborators, we will work together to generate meaning from your experiences and make sense of things in your life. Please reach out to book a first session or a free 20-minute call: lehrman.julia@gmail.com.

My passion for helping others heal is rooted in empathy, compassion, and a thorough understanding of the complexity of trauma. I specialize in working with individuals and couples who have experienced the profound impact of complex PTSD, also known as developmental or relational trauma, on their emotional and psychological well-being and relationships. The effects of cPTSD can leave you feeling unsafe, disconnected, powerless, ashamed, defective, and overwhelmed. You may also find yourself engaging in self-abandoning behavior, experiencing emotional flashbacks, or struggling to overcome your harsh inner critic, toxic shame, and guilt. As your therapist, I strive to create a safe and supportive space for you to heal and grow. My approach is tailored to your unique needs, integrating evidence-based techniques such as Internal Family Systems (IFS), Emotionally Focused Therapy (EFT), and Somatic Experiencing (SE) to help you break free from the cycle of trauma and build the skills you need to thrive. Whether you are seeking individual or couples therapy, my ultimate goal is to empower you to reclaim your life, heal from the past, and create a fulfilling future where you can experience meaningful connections with yourself and others. Whether you're struggling to navigate the challenges of a relationship as a complex trauma survivor, or working to heal on your own, I'm here to support you every step of the way. I believe that healing from complex trauma is possible, no matter what you've been through. Together, we'll work to break free from the cycle of pain and create a fulfilling, meaningful life full of connection, joy, and authenticity. Whether you're struggling with patterns of self-sabotage, difficulty trusting others, or simply feeling stuck in your past experiences, I'm here to provide the support and resources you need to make real progress toward healing and growth.

Hi! Time to change something? I'm Adrian. I absolutely love this work and am energized by it. Many of my clients tried just about everything before deciding that therapy was their best solution. Making changes in our lives and getting clear on what we need to change can be very difficult. Psychotherapy can help you let go of subconscious patterns and beliefs that aren't working for you. And changing our assumptions about the world and improving our relationships can result in profoundly positive change and a life worth celebrating! As a therapist I help clients determine and make what changes they'd like, and help them do so as quickly and easily as possible. Not that change is easy. It rarely is. But when you're serious about change, the benefits of therapy far outweigh the work involved. So, when you're ready to create change -- be it resolving depression or anxiety, improving communication skills, parenting, saving or enhancing a marriage -- I'm here to help. I wish you the best in whichever direction you take and, if you pick me to work with, I look forward to speaking with you.

Do you feel life or work stress are sucking the fun out of your life? Are you and your partner stuck having the same argument over and over again, leaving you feeling unheard, unappreciated, and lonely? Do you want to make some changes in your life, but feel unsure or stuck? I can be your partner in change. I provide warm and supportive space for my clients to share thoughts and feelings, but I also provide a solution focused approach. I assess my clients quickly and learn what their needs are. I offer insight and suggest relevant tools, skills and solutions to their issues. I collaborate with my clients to help them create the changes they want in their lives.

Offering expert support (sorting out and finding new solutions for complex matters), grief-support, erasing of self-defeating habits using emdr (process for erasing trauma and habits), sln (process to release habits and meet goals),hypnotherapy, life-medicine (taping and self-touching to shift patterns) I effectively help you. Individuals and couples receive non-judgmental support. I have successfully helped hundreds of people from diverse backgrounds to overcome self-defeating habits, move through challenging transitions, change significant relationship challenges and move through grief. Learn to identify and address the underlying issues that cause your difficulty. Would you like your life to be more rewarding and to be at peace? You will make changes that feel good to you with my facilitation. Been in practice for 17 years. Contact me now with questions about counseling. Begin to make changes. 15 minute initial free consult available. Counseling provides a compassionate approach to making changes. Discover new thoughts and feelings regarding ongoing difficulties. Become directed and self-loving. Feel good again. Contact me to start making satisfying changes. Feel free to call with questions too. Both short and long term counseling are available.

I am a graduate of University of Southern California School of Medicine and New York University Psychiatry residency. I treat adult patients for a wide variety of mental health issues or disorders. I also welcome patients, who do not have diagnosable psychiatric disorders but are interested in their personal growth. I tailor my therapeutic approach to each individual patient’s issues and goals. Thus, I utilize eclectic style of psychotherapy incorporating various therapeutic approaches based on their effectiveness for individual needs of each particular patient.