(he/him)
Hello. I am a licensed Clinical Mental Health Social Worker/Therapist with 30+ years of experience. I have practiced in the states of California and Indiana, and received my graduate education through Purdue University and Indiana University. I enjoy working with individuals and couples. I particularly like to promote optimal living, in which healthy living habits, including health-promoting diet, exercise, spirituality, creative expression, and service to others, is practiced. My therapeutic orientation is holistic, with use of cognitive-behavioral therapies, hypnotherapy, eye-movement desensitization & reprocessing (EMDR), and humanistic-existential therapy. Currently I am providing therapy remotely through tele-mental health.
Initially, I do a complete evaluation, exploring the reason that you are seeking therapy, symptoms and their impact in your life, previous mental health treatment, and your expectations for therapy. A session with me is characterized as exhibiting warmth, empathy, humor, honest self-reflection, learning life skills and about the neuro-mechanisms responsible for anxiety, depression, and the symptoms of trauma.
Compassionate & empathetic, patient, a good listener, lots of experience and success, rational and logical, emphasize finding wholeness & happiness, self-disclosive, able to sit with the pain of others. I love what my professional path has been. Therapy has been the gift that keeps on giving. I invite you to share your questions and to discuss what you want in your life.
I have worked with general mental health populations (community mental health), but also college students (a university counseling center), couples counseling (private practice), military veterans (the San Francisco VA Medical Center), and geriatric populations (through providing psychiatric care to nursing care facility patients). I value being able to pass on skills necessary to coping and to growth, and espouse our human potential for optimal living. I recommend approaching therapy with an inquisitive mind, and a commitment to making healthy changes in yourself.
Other specialties
Cash - $125 per session
Aetna
Aetna - Allied Benefits
Aetna - ASR Health Benefits
Aetna - Luminare
Aetna - Medicare
Aetna - Moda
Aetna - WebTPA
Aetna – HealthEZ
All Savers
Ambetter Health
Amerihealth Administrators
Amerihealth NJ Medicare Advantage
Anthem
Arlo
AvMed
Blue Cross Blue Shield
Blue Shield
Blue Shield of California - Medi-Cal
Blue Shield of California - Medicare
Blue Shield of California Promise Health Plan (Medi-Cal)
CalViva Health (Medi-Cal)
Carelon Behavioral Health (Commercial)
Centivo
Central California Alliance for Health (Medi-Cal)
Cigna
Cigna - HealthEZ
Community Health Plan of Imperial Valley (Medi-Cal)
EAP:Cigna
EAP:Evernorth
EAP:UnitedHealthcare/Optum
Evernorth
Gold Coast Health Plan (Medi-Cal)
Gold Coast Health Plan Total Care Advantage (HMO D-SNP)
Golden Rule
GTEB
Harvard Pilgrim/UnitedHealthcare
Health Net (Medi-Cal)
Health Plan of San Joaquin/Mountain Valley Health Plan – Medi-Cal
Humana - Medicare
Humana Dual (Medicare & Medicaid)
IHSS Healthy Workers
Independence Administrators
Independence Blue Cross
Independence Keystone 65 HMO
Independence Personal Choice 65 PPO
L.A. Care Covered
L.A. Care Covered Direct
L.A. Care Health Plan (Medi-Cal)
L.A. Care Medicare Plus (HMO D-SNP)
L.A. Care PASC-SEIU
Managed Health Services (Managed Medicaid)
Medicaid - Managed Health Services
Optum
OptumHealth Complex Medical Conditions
Oscar
Oxford
Partnership HealthPlan of California (Medi-Cal)
San Francisco Health Plan (Medi-Cal)
Santa Clara Family Health Plan - Medi-Cal
SFHP Care Plus (HMO D-SNP)
Sharp Health Plan
Surest (formerly Bind)
Sutter Health Plan
Tufts Health/Cigna
United Medical Resources
UnitedHealthcare Complete Care (C-SNP)
UnitedHealthcare Dual (Medicare & Medicaid)
UnitedHealthcare Life Insurance
UnitedHealthcare Shared Services
UnitedHealthcare StudentResources
UnitedHealthcare/Optum
UnitedHealthcare/Optum - Medicaid
UnitedHealthcare/Optum - Medicare
WellCare
Cognitive Behavioral (CBT)
Cognitive focus to enable recognition of impact of thoughts and beliefs upon emotional activation, and learning to trouble-shoot negative thinking patterns. Somatic/behavioral focus to learn physiological basis of emotional states, and how to recognize and defuse unpleasant emotion states.
EMDR
Utilization of EMDR to reduce/defuse negative affect and effect cognitive reprocessing (enabling more realistic and accurate cognitive appraisals of internal and external states, including memories).
Hypnotherapy
Hypnosis to "change the channel" on pain, to effect more accurate cognitions about pain, and to utilize the mind & body's capacity to reduce and/or eliminate pain. Hypnosis can be used in a variety of other ways, including improving focus, and concentration.
Mind-body approach
Utilize EMDR, CBT, DBT, Hypnosis, Meditation, and other modalities emphasizing the Mind-Body connection. Much of this approach utilizes introducing the client to learning more about the body/somatic awareness, meditative states, hypnosis, other experiences utilizing cognitive/rational processing, body awareness, and emotional regulation.
11 ratings with written reviews
June 15, 2026
It's always very difficult for me to be open in the beginning of rapport building, however this time through his patience, grounding energy and authentic open minded approach I felt as though William was able to really hear me through the nervous static, assisting me in pinpointing the coding skills and goals that would help most. I look forward to every appointment
May 28, 2026
He's a very amazing person and counselor he listens to everything and don't take sides. He works good with me and my boyfriend
May 26, 2026
Very nice provider.his voice is soothing