Michael Murphy-Loeffler, MA, MFT

Specialties

My approach to therapy is warm, engaging, spiritual, and creative. I approach my patients as human beings who are trying to find their place or purpose in the world or just make it.

Individuals

–Mature Individuals Seeking Deeper Meaning in Life

–Career Problems

–Relationship Difficulties or Repetitions

–Creative Blocks or Impasse

–Obsessive, Depressive, and or Anxious Feelings

–Men’s Work

–Spiritual and Religious Inquiry

Child and Adolescent Therapy

— Social Difficulties

— School Problems

— Emotional Distance

— Foster and or Adoption Changes

— Low Self-​Esteem

— Suicidal Ideation /​Cutting

Often the greatest human suffering is in the belief that everything you are doing or going through is your fault.

While some of your issues may have a self-​generated core it’s very important to know where that ends. In other words, similar to the serenity prayer, its important to know what you can actually change.

Equally important is in trying to understand what your symptom is telling you. Often symptoms are a manifestation of a deeper difficulty. This difficulty may be a masked opportunity for the change you may feel desperate for. Often with children and adolescents symptoms emerge when they are stuck or unable to make it through the necessary development that is needed.

History

Established in 2009.

I am also located in Petaluma, CA. See Petaluma​Men​tal​Health​.com

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Meet the Business Owner

Michael L.

Business Owner

Because the internet cannot capture the full experience of a clinician I suggest a phone conversation or face-​to-​face consultation.

My interests are in adult, adolescent, and young adult psychotherapy. I understand the complexity of feeling stuck coupled with the desire to change. Given that I have previous experience in the business world I also understand the difficult balance of work and family life.

My pre-​graduate experience was with the Golden Gate Integral Counseling Center and my post-​graduate experience was with the Grateful Heart Holistic Therapy Center and at the Mcauley Adolescent Psychiatric.

I have completed year long intensive studies at both the C. G Jung Institute in San Francisco and the Northern California Society for Psychoanalytic Psychology.

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