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  PROFESSIONAL PROFILE

Licensed
Marriage and Family Therapist

License No. MFT 32035

822 Delaware St.
Berkeley, CA 94710

510-644-0419
e-mail

  Bill Burmester, M.A., M.F.T.
  Individuals · Families · Couples · Groups
  Adolescents · Young Adults · Adults · Older Adults
  Education: M.A. from John F. Kennedy University in Clinical Psychology, 1991; M.A. from the University of California at Berkeley in Architecture, 1986; M.A. from the University of California at Berkeley in Comparative Literature, 1978

Experience / Training: 20 years clinical experience; psychodynamic and family systems training; trained in and 17 years experience using EMDR; 18 years focused experience in the treatment of sexual abuse. Training in somatic approaches to trauma treatment.

Professional Interests

  • Relationship difficulties and family impasses
  • Couples communication and growth
  • Men's issues
  • Parenting
  • Healing from trauma & post-traumatic stress through EMDR and somatic approaches
  • Childhood abuse and dissociation
  • Men healing from sexual abuse (individuals and groups)
  • Contemporary relational psychoanalysis & psychotherapy
  • film and the creative process

Professional Affiliations / Activities

California Association of Marriage and Family Therapists (CAMFT)
The Men's Center for Counseling and Psychotherapy  (Men's Center)
Northern California Society for Psychoanalytic Psychology (NCSPP)
MaleSurvivor (MS
formerly: National Organization on Male Suxual Victimization)
International Association of Relational Psychoanalysis and Psychotherapy (IARPP)
International Society for the Treatment of Trauma & Dissociation (ISSTD)
Bay Area Assoc. for the Treatment of Trauma and DIssociation (BAATTD)
Former Adjunct Clinical Faculty, (The Wright Institute)
 

 
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