Therapeutic Services Offered
Providing individuals support for anxiety, emotional disturbance and mental blocks.
Affirming diversity and overcoming psychological challenges in an ever-changing world.
Individual Talk Therapy Sessions
Personalized 1-hour in-person/telehealth therapy compassionately and effectively addressing psychological issues within a mindfulness-based cognitive behavioral framework. Attachment, parts work, somatics and creative visualization are also utilized in your collaborative care.
Experiential Intensives
Special sessions of 1 hour or longer, integrating Neo-Ericksonian and Neurolinguistic Programming (NLP) trance work and pulling from clients' own unconscious material. Akin to psychedelic integration but with sober techniques to induce endogenous altered brainwave states. Clients have described these experiences as like, "dreaming while awake," or "natural tripping." Many report accelerated insights and positive change after these sessions.
Common Areas of Exploration
• Adjustment Distress, Anxious &/or Depressive
• Anxiety, Tension & Worry
• Balancing Tech Use
• Consciousness Expansion
• Coping Skills
• Creative Actualization
• Deconstructing Limiting Beliefs
• Ego-Balanced Achievement
• Emotional Stabilization
• Existential Questions
• Gender, Sexual & Relational (CNM, ENM, BDSM)
• Getting Unblocked
• Heart-Centered Healing
• Identity Exploration
• Inner Child/Reparenting
• Mind-Body/Somatics
• Metacognition/Mindfulness
• Navigating Alternative Subcultures
• Neurodiversity
• Parts Work/Shadow
• Problems of Avoidance
• Resiliency & Boundaries
• Sadness & Low Mood
• Sexual Trauma
• Spiritual Emergence
• Transcending 'Either/Or' Thinking
• Values Exploration
• WOC & Multiracial Issues
Therapeutic Themes
Expert support for anxiety, identity, consciousness & creativity challenges.
Unblocking Creativity
Guidance for processing and releasing creative blocks and catalyzing generative flow. Honoring creativity as a birthright of beingness. Fostering creation impetus via authentic inspiration vs the scarcity mentality of pure ego striving.
Multicultural Identity
Navigating identity issues revolving around the immigrant experience, "third culture kids," mixed race heritage, colonial mentality, reclamation & integration of indigenous roots and more.
Neurodiversity Focus
Specialized support for neurodiverse individuals including those on the autism spectrum, ADHD or a combination (AuDHD). Affirming non-neurotypical needs and self-care within a "normie" world.
Gender, Sexual & Relational Diversity
Explore issues related to ethical consensual non-monogamy, kink, sex work, LGBTQ+ and other "alt sex" identities within a nonjudgmental, informed and compassionate space. Allyship and shared reality.
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Client Feedback
Read what clients say about their experiences with Dr. Josie Valderrama.
"Dr. Valderrama provided a safe space for me to explore all the ways that I used to get stuck. I learned to have more patience and love myself, even the parts of me that I hadn't thought were worth acknowledging."
"The experiential sessions we did were so very beneficial. Not only did I see immediate results, the insights and motivation I gained over the long term was extremely impactful."
Therapy
Supporting diverse identities and addressing psychological well-being together.
CONTACT
drjosie@drjosievalderrama.com
415-320-8173
© Valderrama Psychological, 2025. All rights reserved.
Josie Valderrama, PsyD (she or they) Clinical Psychologist, License PSY27913
"I go by 'Dr Josie, Dr V, Josie, Dr Valderrama' - whichever feels comfortable for you."