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Last updated | Tuesday February 18, 2025

Compassion is the foundation of my therapeutic work with all clients. It's important to me that you feel respected, cared for, and that you feel better. Challenging life situations, traumatic experiences, and/or dysfunctional family dynamics can cause all of us to feel distressed. Sharing your experiences, feeling validated and listened to, can decrease your emotional pain. Using a relational and client-centered approach, I can address your individual needs. Working together, we can find solutions and tools to help you make lasting changes that ultimately result in you feeling better.
I have extensive experience helping individuals, and families cope with life's challenges both as a psychologist and as an educator. My specialties include trauma, anxiety, dysfunctional family systems, codependency, parenting issues, child-parent mental health, eating disorders, and life transitions.
Using compassion, my training, and my belief that we all want to feel better, I am able to provide a warm, unconditional, and safe space where you will feel supported, heard and understood. I want you to both engage and learn from your negative life experiences, and also grow and develop new strategies to creating meaningful change in your life.
About Gretchen Palau
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Getting To Know Gretchen Palau
Compassion is the foundation of my therapeutic work with all clients. It's important to me that you feel respected, cared for, and that you feel better. Challenging life situations, traumatic experiences, and/or dysfunctional family dynamics can cause all of us to feel distressed. Sharing your experiences, feeling validated and listened to, can decrease your emotional pain. Using a relational and client-centered approach, I can address your individual needs. Working together, we can find solutions and tools to help you make lasting changes that ultimately result in you feeling better.
I have extensive experience helping individuals, and families cope with life's challenges both as a psychologist and as an educator. My specialties include trauma, anxiety, dysfunctional family systems, codependency, parenting issues, child-parent mental health, eating disorders, and life transitions.
Using compassion, my training, and my belief that we all want to feel better, I am able to provide a warm, unconditional, and safe space where you will feel supported, heard and understood. I want you to both engage and learn from your negative life experiences, and also grow and develop new strategies to creating meaningful change in your life.
Take the first step to finding help. Call Gretchen Palau now – (925) 261 7433
Rates & Insurance
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Individual Sessions 190
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Couples Sessions 0
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Groups Sessions 0

It’s typical for mental health professionals to not participate in your insurance network. However, numerous insurance plans do provide coverage for out-of-network services, which means you might receive partial reimbursement for your expenses.Learn more
Treatments & Expertise
Client Focus
- Individuals
- Life Transitions
- Mental Health: Dissociative Disorders (did)
- Alcohol Use
- Mood Disorders
- Parenting
- Chronic Impulsivity
- Anxiety
- Codependency
- Sexuality: Bisexual
- Self Esteem
- Addiction
- Family Conflict
- Coping Skills
- Developmental Disorders
- Depression
- Trauma And Ptsd
- Lesbian
- Impulse Control Disorders
- Women's Issues
- Peer Relationships
- Lgbtq+
- Relationship Issues
- Culturally Sensitive
- Family Systems
- Family Therapy
- Person-centered
- Integrative
- Relational
- Compassion Focused
- Trauma Focused
- Feminist
- Humanistic
- Psychodynamic
- Attachment-based
- Strength-based
- Structural Family Therapy
- Multicultural
- Dialectical Behavior (dbt)
- Interpersonal
- Intervention
- Emotionally Focused
- Teen
- Adults
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Compassion is the foundation of my therapeutic work with all clients. It's important to me that you feel respected, cared for, and that you feel better. Challenging life situations, traumatic experiences, and/or dysfunctional family dynamics can cause all of us to feel distressed. Sharing your experiences, feeling validated and listened to, can decrease your emotional pain. Using a relational and client-centered approach, I can address your individual needs. Working together, we can find solutions and tools to help you make lasting changes that ultimately result in you feeling better.
I have extensive experience helping individuals, and families cope with life's challenges both as a psychologist and as an educator. My specialties include trauma, anxiety, dysfunctional family systems, codependency, parenting issues, child-parent mental health, eating disorders, and life transitions.
Using compassion, my training, and my belief that we all want to feel better, I am able to provide a warm, unconditional, and safe space where you will feel supported, heard and understood. I want you to both engage and learn from your negative life experiences, and also grow and develop new strategies to creating meaningful change in your life.
About Gretchen Palau
Identity
Getting To Know Gretchen Palau
Compassion is the foundation of my therapeutic work with all clients. It's important to me that you feel respected, cared for, and that you feel better. Challenging life situations, traumatic experiences, and/or dysfunctional family dynamics can cause all of us to feel distressed. Sharing your experiences, feeling validated and listened to, can decrease your emotional pain. Using a relational and client-centered approach, I can address your individual needs. Working together, we can find solutions and tools to help you make lasting changes that ultimately result in you feeling better.
I have extensive experience helping individuals, and families cope with life's challenges both as a psychologist and as an educator. My specialties include trauma, anxiety, dysfunctional family systems, codependency, parenting issues, child-parent mental health, eating disorders, and life transitions.
Using compassion, my training, and my belief that we all want to feel better, I am able to provide a warm, unconditional, and safe space where you will feel supported, heard and understood. I want you to both engage and learn from your negative life experiences, and also grow and develop new strategies to creating meaningful change in your life.
Take the first step to finding help. Call Gretchen Palau now – (925) 261 7433
Rates & Insurance
-
Individual Sessions 190
-
Couples Sessions 0
-
Groups Sessions 0

It’s typical for mental health professionals to not participate in your insurance network. However, numerous insurance plans do provide coverage for out-of-network services, which means you might receive partial reimbursement for your expenses.Learn more
Treatments & Expertise
Client Focus
- Individuals
- Life Transitions
- Mental Health: Dissociative Disorders (did)
- Alcohol Use
- Mood Disorders
- Parenting
- Chronic Impulsivity
- Anxiety
- Codependency
- Sexuality: Bisexual
- Self Esteem
- Addiction
- Family Conflict
- Coping Skills
- Developmental Disorders
- Depression
- Trauma And Ptsd
- Lesbian
- Impulse Control Disorders
- Women's Issues
- Peer Relationships
- Lgbtq+
- Relationship Issues
- Culturally Sensitive
- Family Systems
- Family Therapy
- Person-centered
- Integrative
- Relational
- Compassion Focused
- Trauma Focused
- Feminist
- Humanistic
- Psychodynamic
- Attachment-based
- Strength-based
- Structural Family Therapy
- Multicultural
- Dialectical Behavior (dbt)
- Interpersonal
- Intervention
- Emotionally Focused
- Teen
- Adults
Not sure if you’re the right fit for Gretchen‘s Practice? Take This Quick Survey