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Angela Sowa, PsyD

Marriage & family therapist
psychoanalyst
psychotherapist
consultant

seeing individuals, couples & groups from the surrounding South San Francisco Bay area including San Jose, Los Altos, Los Gatos, Mountain View, Sunnyvale, Menlo Park, Cupertino, Atherton and Woodside.

Welcome to my website. Learning to think creatively is one way to describe the goal of psychoanalytic psychotherapy. With guidance and support, an individual learns to hold the tension of multiple perspectives/emotions resulting in a flexibility of thinking that involves both analytic and imaginative parts of the mind.

This "full thinking" can be applied to personal life issues, relationships and creative pursuits. While some individuals enter therapy with acute distress and specific problems that need to be addressed; others have a more vague feeling of discontent. In either case the self-exploration of analytic work is meant to expand the way one thinks and feels.

Stress affects health and psychological well-being. I pay special attention to an individual's physical and make referrals as needed.

I am a psychotherapist, psychoanalyst and consultant with advanced training in Freudian and Jungian perspectives. I have been a licensed marriage and family therapist since 1991 and my post-license training includes an analytic certificate and a doctorate of psychology in psychoanalysis from the Psychoanalytic Institute of Northern California. I also have additional training in working with groups. My practice areas include psychotherapy, psychoanalysis, consulting and group consultation.

I welcome your inquiries by phone.
call: 650-917-9650
email: aasowa@mac.com