Hank Berman, MFT

Specialties

Facilitating positive changes in relationship with yourself, friends, colleagues, and romantic partners. Helping to remove impediments to feeling good about your life. These could include alcohol and/​or drug dependence, work stress, and lack of intimacy building skills. Learning effective strategies for dealing with bouts of depression and anxiety.

History

Established in 1984.

Some clients I had been seeing at a San Francisco based social service agency requested greater privacy than could be offered at the agency. It also became clear that, as a ‘branch director’ I found myself more in the role of an administrator than a therapist and began to miss the more dynamic arena of therapy, one that enlivened almost all my days since leaving grad school. As it happened, a former colleague and friend had just received her license as a psychologist, and we decided to share an office across from Mt. Zion Hospital. As our practices grew so did our need for full time space and Ms. Thorson moved to another location. We remain friends and have, over the last 32 years, shared the experience of balancing a passion for the work we love and the attention to both body and spirit that’s required to continue to do it.

Meet the Business Owner

Hank L.

Business Owner

Grew up in New York City. Traveled overland from England to India and onward east to California. Attended graduate school in San Francisco. Employed at Catholic Social Service, Jewish Family and Children’s Services and a Drug Treatment Program before beginning full time private practice in 1984. The ‘job’ that I will always remember though, was teaching a baby gorilla (Koko) sign language while she resided in a trailer within the grounds of the Children’s Zoo in San Francisco.