Arthur Kleinberg

I found myself becoming a psychotherapist through nudges from friends and family pointing me toward a field they believed suited me well. I'm so grateful I listened and changed careers from education to psychology; 10 years later, I'm writing this with great satisfaction about my profession. The work of joining a person in articulating, understanding, and organizing their experience is a wonderful thing. This work makes sense to me; I both enjoy serving others and the psychic rewards of their growth and success. I've worked in various settings, including CBT, college counseling, and psychodynamic clinics, as well as addiction medicine, behavioral health primary care, and medical integration with Kaiser Permanente. All of these contexts have combined to bring my clinical style together in an integrative-relational approach to treatment.

I am open to working with anybody who is contemplating, ready, willing, or exhausted by the change-making process. I welcome you into treatment, meeting you as necessary to support both uncertainty and vulnerability. I first like to listen to the leading edge of your desire for therapy through an open-ended conversation. We'll then continue with questions and sharing to clarify the source of the problem(s) and the options/choices you have for addressing them. Ultimately, we need to find a common language for figuring out a game plan for us to work together on.

I welcome you to connect with me in taking the first steps of therapy. It may be a time of transition or uncertainty, I'm glad to help you in making sense of the stress and identifying a healthy response to it. I encourage being in relationship with yourself, others, and your environment to be most available for meeting the moment in front of you.