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Our Approach

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

Plain and simple:
we get results

 

We believe that every situation, every experience – no matter how difficult, painful, or “stuck” it may be –
holds within it the opportunity for creative growth.

 

  • We provide trauma-informed therapy based on the work of Pete Walker and John Bradshaw, focusing on healing Complex PTSD and reclaiming your inner child.
  • You will be empowered to make changes in your life, your relationships, and your relationship to life.
  • We get to the root causes of your problems and help you make profound changes with lasting effects.

Our therapy combines effectiveness with caring, comes from the heart of the therapist and reaches the heart of the client, creating true healing.

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
  • Pete Walker’s profound expansion of inner child work into healing Complex PTSD
  • 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, guided visualizations and meditation support
  • expressive arts and somatic therapy
  • symbolic methods including dreamwork, art therapy, and movement 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
  • all age groups and ethnic backgrounds

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 October 11, 2025
Spaces Currently Available

Click here for more details.

Contact Us Today!

(510) 527-2100

info@creativegrowth.com

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  • 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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