Licensed to practice in California. Specializes in Anger Management, Anxiety, Depression and 10 more.
(he/him)
Hi and thank you for your time to read about my background. 📘 Introduction I have been providing mental health services as a psychotherapist and disaster mental health specialist for my entire adult life. Relationships with professors led to my first becoming a therapist as a twenty-one-year-old undergraduate student majoring in Community Service at University of Oregon. The majority of my career was working 23 years for the National Center for PTSD. I had the extraordinary experience of creating my own job description as a Health Scientist in the emerging field of Disaster Mental Health. Over the course of these years, I responded to a dozen Presidentially declared catastrophic events. Additionally, I created a therapy integrating cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) and meditation endorsed by a leading 20th century cognitive therapy psychologist who assisted the work being published in an international clinical journal dedicated to CBT. Retired from the federal government in 2013. Worked in Ukraine in 2014 and 2018 providing services to veterans and civilians in addition to teaching at universities in Kyiv, Lviv, and Rivine, and training Ukrainian mental health professionals throughout Ukraine. Provided pro bono remote clinical supervision for six years to Ukrainian psychologists. 📘Overview: • Licensed Clinical Social Worker (LCSW) helping clients cope with anxiety, depression and traumatic events to achieve behavioral change. • In 2022, I began offering telemental health therapy. • Former Health Science Specialist and Editor-in Chief of clinical journal at National Center for PTSD. • Provided direct services, training, and consultation in the aftermath of terrorist attacks, plane crashes, earthquakes, floods, hurricanes, & civil unrest. International Work • Assembled and led Disaster Mental Health Team, Ukraine (2014) Post-Maidan Revolution • Fulbright Grant: Ukraine (2018)
Typically, a first session begins creating a telemental health environment that enables you to feel safe to express your concerns and ask questions. Together, we identify your challenges and goals and options and strategies to help you achieve them. I'll share the best treatment-matching options with me or with someone I feel would better serve you. Typically, clients leave the first session with steps they can begin to implement to move toward their goal(s).
Over many years, I have been told the warmth, empathy, and authenticity I hold are helpful in working with me. I have been gifted with creative intelligence, perceptiveness, spontaneity, and an ability to conceptualize helping behaviors (affirmed by more than 30 publications about therapeutic practice). I believe people can change and triumph over adversity. I currently work with adults/clients (ages 18 through 81) burdened by anxiety, depression, or a history of traumatization within a safe environment.
I know that therapists' capacities for warmth, empathy, and genuineness prove to be more powerful indicators of therapeutic efficacy than techniques. These qualities are important to me and exist at the core of my practice. That said, I created a humanistic values-based protocol that integrates CBT with alpha wave learning and experiencing the meaning of self-determined affirmative cognitions. The protocol was published in a peer-reviewed international journal related to therapy and endorsed by CBT oriented psychologist and pioneer, the late Michael Mahoney, PhD.
I have created a protocol that integrates CBT with alpha wave learning and experiencing the meaning of self-determined affirmative cognitions.
5 ratings with written reviews
December 31, 2025
Bruce has a wealth of experience and tools. He invests in the client and the process. He is great at follow up and communication.
December 4, 2025
Been talking to Bruce for some time now, and I'm beyond thankful for it.
November 12, 2025
Bruce is a seasoned human with extensive professional experience. He is confident and competent so that there is almost instant value added.