I am a licensed Marriage and Family Therapist (MFT #23566) with psychotherapy practices in Los Altos and Berkeley. I enjoy working with individuals and couples addressing issues related to anxiety and depression, adjustment challenges in work or family, parenting, aging, LGBT issues, addiction and grief.
I draw from psychodynamic and cognitive/behavioral models and am increasingly inspired by the usefulness of training attention and awareness.
Using mindfulness practices as one of the treatments for anxiety and depression invites clients to slow down and turn towards their immediate experience as a way to experience the freshness and vitality of the moment, thereby overriding habitual thinking. Profound transformation can occur in such moments as fear is mastered, self-soothing is possible and greater choice becomes available.
In addition to my psychotherapy practice, I teach Mindfulness in small groups, specifically for people who have a history of depression and want to increase
their resilience.
The challenge and promise of my work is to bring together our mutual strengths
with the intention to live more fully.
I draw from psychodynamic and cognitive/behavioral models and am increasingly inspired by the usefulness of training attention and awareness.
Using mindfulness practices as one of the treatments for anxiety and depression invites clients to slow down and turn towards their immediate experience as a way to experience the freshness and vitality of the moment, thereby overriding habitual thinking. Profound transformation can occur in such moments as fear is mastered, self-soothing is possible and greater choice becomes available.
In addition to my psychotherapy practice, I teach Mindfulness in small groups, specifically for people who have a history of depression and want to increase
their resilience.
The challenge and promise of my work is to bring together our mutual strengths
with the intention to live more fully.
I completed Deborah Abraham’s mindfulness course several months ago. Through a series of guided meditations and safe discussions with the other participants, I learned a new way of understanding my reactions to life experiences. The mindfulness techniques I learned are having a profound favorable effect as I work through a very stressful period in my life – helping me maintain an optimistic outlook and a vision of a better future."
-Doug T.
-Doug T.
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"Deborah Abraham is a wonderful mindfulness teacher who is kind, wise and empathetic." – Bob Stahl Bob Stahl, Ph.D. is Director of Mindfulness Programs in the Bay Area, Spirit Rock and IMS. He is the co-author of "A Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction Workbook", "Living With Your Heart Wide Open" and soon to be released "Calming the Rush of Panic." |
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