Facility Pleasanton Medical Offices Department of Mental Health/Chemical Dependency Services Address OFF-SITE CAMPUS 3825 Hopyard Road Suite 140 Pleasanton CA 94588 Map & Directions Telephone Appt/Advice/Cancellation: (925) 847-5051 E-mail your doctor View your preventive services

My Office Hours

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	10:00 am 7:00 pm	10:00 am 7:00 pm	10:00 am 7:00 pm	9:30 am 6:30 pm	8:30 am 5:30 pm
Closed during lunch, 12:30 pm to 1:30 pm

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I am a licensed clinical social worker and psychotherapist who has been providing mental health services in a variety of settings for over thirty years. I chose to be a psychotherapist and family therapist because my work gives me a chance to help people by tapping into and realizing their potential to solve problems. I have been working for Kaiser at the Pleasanton Mental Health clinic for fifteen years and enjoy my practice because my position allows me to work with a great variety of individuals drawn from a divers array of cultures, dealing with problems at various points across the life cycle. My approach is highly collaborative and based on my abiding respect for my clients' strengths, resources and knowledge about themselves. Clients often initiate therapy because they feel that no matter what they have tried, nothing is working and in the process, devalue those small successes that with a bit more work or adjustment might have worked. I try with everyone I work with, individual adults and children and their parents to understand and build on whatever is working or has worked in the past rather than devoting time trying to understand what has gone wrong. The Pleasanton mental health clinic is small and though I am a member of the child and family team there, I get to work with individual adults as well. Most of the children I work with have behavioral problems stemming from such diagnoses as attention deficit disorder. As a result, I have developed expertise as a behaviorist who in the great majority of my cases, actively involves parents in therapy.

I am a member of the National Association of Social Workers and am licensed by the State of California. I received my Masters in Social Work in 1977 from the Smith School of Social Work. I graduated with a BA from the State University of New York at Binghamton in 1969. I have received extensive training though both the Philadelphia Family Therapy Institute and the Brief Family Therapy Institute of Milwaukee.

Directions

How to find us: We are 'offsite,' in Hacienda Business Park West, i.e. we are not located at the main Kaiser Pleasanton Medical Office Building. Our address is 3825 Hopyard Rd, Suites 140 and 270. However, we don't have an entrance on Hopyard Rd. (The reason mapquest etc isn't too good: If you end up in the Lobby of 3825 Hopyard you can't get to us in suite 140 except through a keyed entry. You can get into Suite 270 but there's no receptionist there) complete recorded directions are available anytime at the main number for the department: 925-847-5051 and you can get a receptionist if you're lost.

From 580 East. Just a few streets after you cross 680 you'll come to Hopyard Road (called Dougherty going the other way). Take Hopyard south past Stoneridge Drive another mile or so and Turn LEFTon West Las Positas. Take your first LEFT on Coronado. Now you're around back of the business park. Turn into the first driveway on your LEFT. Immediately in the driveway turn LEFT about 50 yds, see a maroon awning that says Kaiser. That's our only public entrance. You'll walk into the waiting room and ask them to ring me.

Note: Coming south on Hopyard, you'll see Coronado off to your left before you get to West Las Positas. Don't take it. It loops between Hopyard and West Las Positas but it's easier to do the four quick lefts as above.

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