About
Dr. Maria Meka is a licensed clinical psychologist who has been providing individual psychotherapy to clients across the lifespan since 2015. She specializes in addressing anxiety, depression, obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD), trauma, life transitions, interpersonal conflicts, and immigration and acculturation challenges. Dr. Meka has extensive experience in providing psychological care for adults and adolescents from a variety of social, ethnic, and cultural backgrounds. She also enjoys supervising postdoctoral students and providing psychoeducation and professional training on coping with OCD. Dr. Meka’s approach is rooted in psychodynamic theory, with an emphasis on understanding clients’ unique backgrounds and interpersonal dynamics in relation to their presenting problems. She works relationally, utilizing a warm, collaborative, and culturally attuned approach to empower clients and to help them gain tools for coping with their challenges. Dr. Meka received her doctoral degree in clinical psychology from the California School of Professional Psychology (CSPP-SF). Her research focused on depression as a result of immigration and acculturation challenges. She completed her internship at the Ann Martin Center and her post-doctoral training at Richmond Area Multi-Services (RAMS) in San Francisco.
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| Academic Suffixes: | PsyD |
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| Expertise: | Anxiety, Behavioral Issues, Bipolar Disorder, Borderline Personality, Child or Adolescent, Chronic Illness, Chronic Impulsivity, Codependency, Coping Skills, Depression, Domestic Abuse, Domestic Violence, Emotional Disturbance, Family Conflict, Elderly Persons Disorders, Grief, Infidelity, Life Transitions, Marital and Premarital, Narcissistic Personality, Obsessive-Compulsive (OCD), Peer Relationships, Pregnancy, Prenatal, Postpartum, Psychosis, Racial Identity, Relationship Issues, School Issues, Self Esteem, Self-Harming, Sleep or Insomnia, Stress, Suicidal Ideation, Teen Violence, Trauma and PTSD, Women |
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