All About Susan
Qualifications
Graduate School: California Institute of Integral Studies
Year Graduated: 1982
California License No: MFC 21193
I have been couseling individuals and couples in the Bay Area since 1981. In addition I taught prospective psychotherapists for 18 years at U.C. Berkeley Extension and advanced psychology graduate students for four years at New College of California in San Francisco. I also supervise interns and provide consultation for licensed therapists. I am a Clinical member of the California Association of Marriage and Family Therapists, The Psychotherapy Institute in Berkeley, and the Northern California Society for Psychoanalytic Psychology in San Francisco.
I work with adults, individually and as couples. The relationship we develop will help you to find a safe, welcoming space to explore your inner world and find healing.
Professional Publications
About Affairs, Blog, Author Susan Berger - www.aboutaffairs.com
"Ethnicity and Family Therapy," Book Review, THE THERAPIST, November/December 2006.
"The Bridge Dialogues Across Cultures," Book Review, THE THERAPIST, September/October 2006.
"Prozac: Another Viewpoint," Letter to the Editor, FORT DA, THE JOURNAL OF THE NORTHERN CALIFORNIA SOCIETY FOR PSYCHOANALYTIC PSYCHOLOGY, Winter, 1996.
"First Session" and "You Discover Your Subjectivity," (poetry), THE PSYCHOTHERAPY INSTITUTE JOURNAL, Winter 1994.
"Chronic Fatigue Syndrome, A Self Psychological Perspective," THE CLINICAL SOCIAL WORK JOURNAL, Spring 1993.
Letter to the Editor (regarding child abuse reporting issues), EAST BAY CAMFT NEWSLETTER, November 1991.
"Psychological Functioning and Physical Illness," An Interview With Jeffrey Anderson, M.D. THE CALIFORNIA THERAPIST, January - February 1991.
Letter to the Editor (regarding effects of illness on psychological functioning), THE CALIFORNIA THERAPIST, September - October 1990.
Other Publications
"Navigating Life"s Transitions," OPEN EXCHANGE, September - October 1993.
"Breaking up is Hard to do," RECOVERING, August 1992.
"Why is it so Hard to Change?" OPEN EXCHANGE, October - December 1991.
"Greens," (short story with themes of child abuse and alcoholism), INNISFREE. May - June, 1990.
Presentations
"Judy Berlin" Dissociation and the Denial of Desire, Psychotherapy Institute, May 2003.
"Black and White Thinking, A Psychoanalyst Reconsiders Race," Therapy Network Meeting, Facilitated discussion of Neil Altman"s article, April, 2002.
"Daniel Stern's Interpersonal Infant and the Severely Disturbed Client," San Diego, Paper delivered at the Self Psychology Conference, 1999, San Francisco Psychotherapy Research Group Friday Afternoon Seminars, 1999 and Self Psychology Association of the Bay Area, 1995.
"Listening to Patients: Medication in the Context of Relational Therapy," San Francisco, Mt. Zion Psychiatric Grand Rounds, June, 1996.
""What do I do With This Anger?" Relational Uses of Countertransference," Oakland, East Bay CAMFT Conference, 1995.
"Self Psychology," EB CAMFT Chapter Meeting, February 1995 and the Marina Counseling Center, (1991).
"Post-traumatic Stress Disorder," First Vallejo Hospital, January 1995.
"Counseling and Psychotherapy as a Career Option," College of Notre Dame, Alumni Resources and Turning Point Center, 1991 - 1993.
"Case Consultation Groups," Self Psychology Association of the Bay Area, 1994.
"Chronic Fatigue Syndrome, a Self Psychological Perspective," paper delivered at EB CAMFT Conference, and the Psychotherapy Institute Case Conference, 1991.
"A Gestalt Therapist Becomes a Self Psychologist," paper delivered at East Bay Women"s Therapy Network, 1989.
San Francisco Office
121 Clement St.
(415) 751-6515
Walnut Creek Office
1700 Ygnacio Valley Rd. #200
(415) 751-6515
Berkeley/Albany Office
902 Curtis Street
(415) 751-6515