Psychotherapy in San Francisco - Scott Schulkin, MFT - SSchulkin@aol.com

About Psychotherapy:

Most people turn to psychotherapy because they are having significant problems in some important area(s) of their life. Often times, a relationship seems to have lost an important spark, or the boss at work is becoming unbearable. Other times, people seek out professional help because they realize that they are not living up to their potential.

When we are involved in our busy lives, we often do not see how our past comes up to haunt us. At times, we find we are behaving in ways or experiencing important people in ways that causes us discomfort, or even pain. What we learned about the world in our early years helps form how we experience the world now. It is as if the lens we look through now was ground in our childhood. Unresolved childhood problems, wishes, fantasies or traumas can cause us a great deal of problems in work, relationships and even in our experiences of ourselves.

Psychotherapy can help resolve problems from the past. We can learn how our current experience is tinted by phenomena from the past. By working to uncover unresolved problems from the past, we can begin to come to terms with problems we could not face, or resolve earlier. By doing this, we can be freed from trying to work these problems out with our spouses, partners, bosses, teachers or other people with whom these relationship patterns are really not appropriate.

About my practice:

I work with adults, couples, children and adolescents. I believe that it is important to create a safe environment where a person can begin this type of exploration. An important part of the work is simply to come to terms with being a human being. This is not as simple as it sounds. We all have thoughts and feelings that we would rather not even admit to ourselves.

In psychotherapy, the relationship between the therapist and the client often lends very important clues to what is happening in the client (thoughts and feelings) that are often just outside of his or her awareness. By exploring the intersection of these experiences (in the therapy) with other current experiences and experiences from the past (again, including thoughts, feelings, wishes, and fantasies) sometimes profound insights can be made. Over time, and with work, these insights can form the foundation for a different way of experiencing one's self and for different ways of relating to others.

To contact me:

It is quickest to contact me by phone:
(415) 440-0678

E-mail: SSchulkin@aol.com

I check my e-mail every day or two. I generally return phone calls the same day, and e-mails within one to two days.

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SSchulkin@aol.com
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