My name is Paul Agustinovich, and I welcome you to the website for my private psychotherapy practice in San Mateo, California. The first step is not always easy. You may be feeling depressed, anxious, overwhelmed from job stress, or wondering how to improve your relationship with an intimate partner, friends, family members, co-workers, or boss.
I commend for you taking this first step! When you reach a point in your life where you need some help, you want to talk with someone you trust and with whom you feel comfortable. Psychotherapy is about your pain being heard and understood. Most psychotherapists agree, an important factor in determining whether or not to work with a particular therapist is your level of personal comfort and safety with them. Almost always this abuse has resulted in a negative belief about self and relationships.
I also work with couples who want to better or save their relationship. Living in the Bay Area, demanding work schedules, and providing for the family all add to stressful living and sometimes burn-out and depression. Under these conditions, couples may experience tension and disconnection. A large percentage of the clients I work with are high-tech professionals. I am familiar with the stresses and challenges facing this population: long days, difficult work schedules, difficult managers and co-workers.
Many often need help navigating burn-out issues, relationship difficulties, or coping with the high-paced nature of Silicon Valley life. Also, there is much ethnic and cultural diversity amongst this population. Adapting and assimilating to American life brings its own challenges.
These clients are quite intelligent, intuitive and creative. I am a humanistic, interactive therapist who draws on a variety of techniques to help my clients achieve their goals. Humanistic is defined here as dealing with the essence of the person β the values and characteristics that best define you as an individual β and using them to attain your own power and vitality as a person.
