Keren Josephs
Keren Josephs
Hello! I am Keren Josephs, DC, LMFT in California. I received my Master's in Counseling Psychology and Community Mental Health from the California Institute of Integral Studies in San Francisco. I've been working with people for 25 years, helping to release stored trauma and tension in their bodies and minds. I help people struggling with anxiety, grief and loss, domestic violence, complex trauma, and chronic illness find strength and healing. In a world that is out of balance, I help people find hope, validation, peace, and recovery. Dealing with pain, fear, anxiety, depression, loss, addiction, illness, and trauma can make daily living feel impossible at times. I empower people to find light in the darkness and facility with their inner resources to move through life's challenges.
Get to know me
In our first session together, here's what you can expect
In our first session together, we'll start with brief introductions and discuss relevant personal history. Then we can discuss some of the specific challenges you're facing. I'll answer any questions you may have about my experience and methods. This will help me create a tailored plan for us to work through in follow-up sessions.
The biggest strengths that I bring into our sessions
I understand the value of providing a safe, supportive, and non-judgmental environment for my clients. I use a range of evidence-based therapeutic techniques to tailor treatment plans to each client's unique needs and goals. Providing a space for validation, understanding, hope, and change is paramount. Being fully seen, appreciated, and held by another human is essential for all of us. Feeling the privilege of being alive is hard when there is much suffering and struggle in the world around us. I help uncover blindspots and bring agency to your full self-expression and emotional intelligence while we work through all the barriers along the way.
The clients I'm best positioned to serve
I work with individual clients who have experienced trauma and loss in life or are dealing with stressful relationships, both at home and school or work environments. They want to feel connected but have trouble finding the skills and inner resources to accomplish their goals. Some have not found someone they trust to communicate with and want to dive deeper into their inner landscapes. My clients are often trapped in their circumstances and need help finding their way out. My clients have lost someone dear and need to process their grief. My clients long for connection, reflection, and validation. I am not taking more couples at this time.
About Keren Josephs
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Trauma Informed Care
Trauma-Focused Therapy is a specific approach to therapy that recognizes and emphasizes understanding how the traumatic experience impacts a client's mental, behavioral, emotional, physical, and spiritual well-being. This type of therapy is rooted in understanding the connection between the trauma experience and the emotional and behavioral responses. The purpose of trauma-focused therapy is to offer skills and strategies to assist the client in better understanding, coping with, and processing emotions and memories tied to traumatic experiences, with the end goal of enabling a client to create a healthier and more adaptive meaning of the experience that took place in her/his life. I help clients understand the roots of their behavior by explaining trauma’s effects on the brain and emotional regulation. I help clients learn and understand the importance of basic self-care, emotional regulation techniques such as deep breathing, mindfulness techniques, and visualization, and that a focus on wellness including states of calm and joy daily is the best way to stabilize the repetitive trauma arousal response of the nervous system. Safety is a key concept in trauma work helping clients to orient to the here and now using mindfulness techniques, and always giving power, choice, and control in the process.
Attachment-based
Attachment-based therapy specifically targets those thoughts, feelings, communications, behaviors, and interpersonal exchanges that clients have learned either to suppress and avoid or to amplify and overemphasize because of early attachment experiences. I work with clients to uncover how these past experiences affect their present issues and we work to find successful ways to relate and connect.
Motivational Interviewing
Motivational Interviewing (MI) is often recommended as an evidence-based approach to behavior change. I work with clients in a collaborative, goal-oriented style of communication with particular attention to the language of change. It is designed to strengthen personal motivation for and commitment to a specific goal by eliciting and exploring the person’s reasons for change within an atmosphere of acceptance and compassion.
Strength-Based
I support clients in seeing themselves as resourceful and resilient when experiencing adverse conditions or hardships. I help clients identify factors that might be holding back their growth. It empowers clients to be agents of change by creating an environment that promotes the change they need or desire.
Relational
Relational therapy, also known as relational-cultural therapy, is a therapeutic approach based on the idea that mutually satisfying relationships with others are necessary for one’s emotional well-being. This type of psychotherapy takes into account how social and familial factors relate to the relationships in a person’s life.