Personal Statement
We all do our best to manage life's ups and downs, but sometimes we reach a point where our usual ways of coping just stop working. When life starts to feel beyond our control, having an attuned, objective listener can be invaluable.
I work with people inspired to build more meaningful lives and relationships. In our work together, the focus is on you: your history, your patterns, your responses to events and people. In a safe, nonjudgmental environment, your relationship to life can begin to shift.
Therapy offers empathy, insight, and new ways to respond to life's challenges. No matter what difficulties we’ve encountered—or will continue to encounter—each one of us has an inner compass that can guide our healing. If you want support for anxiety, depression, grief, life transitions, or relationship challenges—or if you simply want to understand yourself better— I look forward to hearing from you.
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Click HereClient Focus (Age)
- Adults
Therapy Specialties
- Anxiety
- Codependency
- Coping Skills
- Depression
- Divorce
- Emotional Disturbance
- Family Conflict
- Grief
- Multicultural Issues
- Peer Relationships
- Physical Illness/Impairment
- Relationship Issues
- Self Esteem
- Stress
- Trauma and PTSD
- Women's Issues
Treatment Orientation
- Attachment-based
- Collaborative Problem Solving
- Emotion Focused Therapy
- Family Systems
- Gestalt
- Humanistic
- Integration of different therapy models
- Interpersonal
- Mindfulness Based Approaches
- Person Centered/Rogerian
- Psychoanalytic
- Psychodynamic
- Relational
- Sand Play
- Somatic
Modality
- Individuals
- Group
Accepted Insurance Plans
- Out Of Network
Years in Practice
10+ years
Services Fee
- Therapy Session $220-$230
Payments Accepted
American Express, Cash, Check, Discover, Mastercard, Visa
Licenses
License Name | License | State | Year |
---|---|---|---|
Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist (LMFT) | 97538 | CA | 2016 |
Education
School | Degree | Major | Year |
---|---|---|---|
California Institute of Integral Studies | MA | Counseling Psychology | 2012 |
Barnard College | BA | American Studies | 1998 |
Languages
- English
Office Address
Shirin Shoai, MA, LMFT
3223 Lakeshore Ave
Oakland, California 94610
Hours Of Operation
Monday | Closed |
Tuesday | 10:00AM-8:00PM |
Wednesday | 10:00AM-7:30PM |
Thursday | 2:30PM-8:00PM |
Friday | Closed |
Saturday | Closed |
Sunday | Closed |