Dr. Jennifer Gershen

I have been working as a licensed clinical psychologist since 2004. My specialties include child development, adolescent development, family systems, parenting support, and help with children with neurodevelopmental struggles that may impact their school, friends and family. I have extensive training in helping young families adjust to parenting, help parents with concepts around how they work together to parent their children, discipline, and parent support. I also use evidence based treatments for depression and anxiety, as well as help with life adjustments. Additional areas of specialty include life changes, postpartum support, transition to college, transition to high school, adjustment to new schools or places to live, all can come with psychological impact.

In addition to private practice I currently work at Kaiser Permanente, Santa Rosa where I have worked for the past 20 years. I am also the clinical training director for the Doctoral Internship and Postdoctoral Residency Program (APA accredited). I am a graduate of The California School of Professional Psychology, Alameda.

In my practice, I will work collaboratively with you to help create treatment goals for you, your children and your family. I believe it is important to see the areas in which you and your family are working well and help to create goals and interventions tailored to that aspect of your relationships that need more support. In order to help your family it is important that your family values, traditions, community and relationships are understood and respected.

What I can offer is:

A supportive and collaborative approach to helping you, your child and your family

Years of experience I draw from to develop effective treatment plans tailored to your goals, values and needs

Specialized treatment for anxiety and depression

I have successfully treated families struggling with parenting strategies, difficult parent/child relationships, and communication. Over the past 20 years I have experience working with many types of families. I believe I can help you navigate through difficult times and complicated parenting, to reach your desired outcomes.