I have a private practice in South Berkeley where I work to support teens, adults, and couples. I am primarily a psychosensory trauma therapist: I help clients work towards psychological healing through research-based self-applied physical touch, or body movements. My expertise lies in EMDR and Havening, both of which I use to work with issues including trauma, addictions, complex grief, anxiety, relationships, and transitions of all sorts.
I earned my M.A. in Counseling Psychology from The Wright Institute. There I came to appreciate the inter-subjective nature of therapy. In my mind, therapy is not a top-down process, but is a relationship we co-create specifically to suit your needs. I help create a physical and emotional environment intended to help you feel safe, heard, and respected.
I earned my M.A. in Counseling Psychology from The Wright Institute. There I came to appreciate the inter-subjective nature of therapy. In my mind, therapy is not a top-down process, but is a relationship we co-create specifically to suit your needs. I help create a physical and emotional environment intended to help you feel safe, heard, and respected.
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Having a strong therapeutic relationship is very closely related to successful outcomes in therapy. I offer a free phone consult prior to making a first appointment. You have no financial risk in calling and exploring your options. Teaching the next generation is one of the most important jobs a person could have, and in our society it seems one of the least appreciated.
Alisa Vincent is an integrative and multicultural psychotherapist who uses a combination of methodologies to provide the best possible care to her clients. This includes EMDR, Motivational Interviewing, and Gottman Method Couples Counseling. Material on this website is for informational, educational and business purposes only.
I specialize in EMDR, and have significant experience and training in both schools of EMDR practice. It is a relatively new therapy, only developed in the early 1990s, but it is becoming popular quickly, and with good reason. The American Psychological Association and the Veterans Association both agree that EMDR is very effective in treating trauma and PTSD.
In Hakomi we create a safe relationship that allows the client to slow down, and drop into a space of mindful self-awareness of their present experience, whether that experience be emotional, somatic, cognitive, energetic or spiritual. About 90% of our present is subconsciously informed by core material developed in our past.
When treating addiction, I generally approach it from multiple therapeutic perspectives. I help clients to develop Mindfulness and learn to identify their emotions in order to create space and awareness between impulse and action. I also use a combination of Motivational Interviewing and EMDR to process pain and shame, and to reinforce internal motivations.
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Tanya Lima
Nov 24, 2019
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Seeing Alisa has been so beneficial to me! I can’t recommend her highly enough. She is professional, knowledgeable, compassionate, focused and offers really helpful guidance, and feedback during EMDR sessions. Since seeing her I’ve seen myself change rapidly! I have been able to meet all the goals I had when entering therapy with her. Some of which were to feel more capable and productive in my life, manage my emotions and triggers better, and experience release from those triggers and allow myself to enjoy peace, safety and a feeling of freedom.
I am so happy I found Alisa, she’s really
I am so happy I found Alisa, she’s really
