My name is Dr. Anne Joseph-Ingham, and I began my work as a psychotherapist in 2005 working with The Cleo Eulau Center helping adolescents on the peninsula involved with the Juvenile Justice System. Since that time I have worked in Berkeley, San Francisco, Oakland, Menlo Park, Palo Alto and internationally in Copenhagen, Denmark. Having studied anthropology, I have always had a passion for getting to know and understand people from diverse sociocultural, family and linguistic backgrounds. I worked in private practice and in public psychiatry in Denmark from 2010 through 2014, and in this way I developed a specialization in relocation and cultural adaptation as well as fluency in the Danish language. I am an expert in intensive, depth-oriented treatment for making significant and sustainable change to relational problems and personality dynamics that hinder personal growth, happiness, creative productivity and/or career successes. I am also highly skilled and passionate about short-term treatment of depression, anxiety and relational problems. I work with people with a broad range of mental health problems such as major depression, anxiety disorders and phobias, eating disorders, and personality disorders. However, many of my patients do not have a diagnosable mental disorder, but seek help enriching their lives and/or relationships by becoming more fully aware with what they truly think and feel, becoming less fearful or working through painful experiences or life events. Through experience, I have found that many people hamper their own potential, and that psychotherapy can loosen some of these barriers and allow one to thrive more fully.
Throughout my career, I have gained wide range of skills in treating adults, adolescents and children. In 2007-2009 I completed a two-year certification in Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy and Play Therapy at Access Institute for Psychological Services in San Francisco. I was affiliated with the Psychoanalytic Center at the University of Copenhagen, Denmark from 2010-2014, and I also worked as a psychologist in a specialty center for Severe Mental Illness including Major Depression and Schizophrenia. I completed my Postdoctoral Residency in Adult, Adolescent and Child Psychotherapy at The Psychological Services Center in Oakland, where I taught and supervised practicum trainees and predoctoral interns, treated adults and children in the Oakland clinic, and lead a team of school-based therapists in a high school mental health services center.
I am passionate about helping those struggling with eating disorders. I am affiliated with Center for Discovery, a residential treatment center for eating disorders and The Heathy Teen Project, a partial hospitalization and intensive outpatient program. I consult with families and individuals to determine the best individualized treatment plan including what level of care is right for you.
In my current Palo Alto practice I see individual adults, adolescents and children as young as 9 years. I teach and supervise psychologists in training, and I am affiliated with Access Institute for Psychological Services, the Wright Institute and San Francisco Center for Psychoanalysis (SFCP).