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Center for Creative Growth

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Our Approach

 

Our counseling awakens, releases, and strengthens the forces of positive growth already present within you

 

 

Our Center was founded in 1982 with the purpose of providing the finest therapy available in the Bay area — therapy that combines effectiveness with caring, that comes from the heart of the therapist and reaches the heart of the client, creating true healing. Our mission has been to have a core staff who provide this quality of therapy and who train other therapists to do therapy from this framework. 

For more than three decades we have succeeded in this mission. And as one of the leading counseling centers in the Bay area, we have served thousands of people from the local community, as well as those who travel to us from other parts of the country and those we serve internationally via Skype.

At our Center, all of our therapy work — whether in individual, couples, family, or group therapy — focuses on helping you to discover and express your real self, your own inner voice. Each of our therapists is committed to bringing all of their skills and presence to assisting you in this process. To this end, we remain immersed in our own personal growth and recovery work.

Our therapists have:

  • a heartfelt commitment to your unique process
  • a deep understanding of the principles of growth and change
  • many years of advanced training in state-of-the-art therapeutic methods
  • personal and professional experience in recovery programs
  • expertise in a broad range of counseling modalities
  • an ongoing commitment to their own professional and personal development and recovery
  • openness and support for your own spiritual exploration

     

    We respond to your situation creatively, drawing
    upon specific, powerful, cutting-edge methods that will be of optimal assistance to you — allowing you to remove the blocks to living your life fully

     

Our orientation integrates:

  • John Bradshaw’s nationally acclaimed teachings on the inner child, codependency, and toxic shame
  • Brené Brown’s perspective on shame and authentic connection
  • latest evidence-based neuroscience findings
  • attachment and trauma work
  • humanistic and transpersonal therapy
  • family systems perspective
  • Gestalt therapy and psychodrama
  • 12-step approach to recovery
  • EMDR and other trauma-resolving modalities
  • mindfulness-based approaches and meditation support
  • expressive arts and somatic therapy
  • symbolic methods including dreamwork, art therapy, movement, and sandtray therapy that gently yet dramatically create change by tapping directly into the unconscious

We serve:

  • individuals, couples, children, teens, and families
  • people with a variety of sexual orientations and relationship configurations, including non-traditional and polyamorous
  • all age groups and ethnic backgrounds

Plain and simple: we get results

Phone: (510) 527-2100
Email: info@creativegrowth.com

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“Come my friends, ’tis not too late to seek a better world”
– Tennyson

 

Our Next 20-Week Group Intensive Program

Healing Your Past – Transforming Your Future
Saturdays, 11am-2pm
Beginning April 10, 2021
Spaces Currently Available

Click here for more details.

 

 

Spaces Currently Available in Our Ongoing Therapy Groups. To learn more about each group, please click on the name of the group.

Living Life Fully: Creating Emotional Health and Happiness

Becoming the Whole Man You Truly Are

A Women’s Group: Creating a Life You Love

 

 

 

 

Contact Us Today!

1221 Marin Avenue
Berkeley, CA 94706

(510) 527-2100

info@creativegrowth.com

Recent Blog Posts

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  • The Magic of Group Therapy – by Daniel Lesny, MFT
  • What Is “Creative Growth?”
  • Toxic Shame – A Root Cause of Conflict and Misery
  • What’s the Best Kind of Therapy for You?
  • John Bradshaw: A Teacher for Our Times
  • The Journey of the Wounded Child Within – by Teresa Kaplan, MFT

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