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CAREE BROWN L.C.S.W. PSYCHOTHERAPY

Individual, couples therapy, & Family Therapy

Caree Brown, L.C.S.W.

Psychotherapist

Caree Brown LCSW (Carole-Lee LCS 10338) is a licensed individual, couple and family psychotherapist with over 50 years of experience. She has excellent credentials from Cornell and McGill Universities, and also a Post Graduate Degree is Couple and Family Therapy  from the Institute of Community and Family Psychiatry in Montreal. In addition, The city of Walnut Creek has repeatedly honored Caree in 2013, 2014, 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022 and 2023 by awarding her “Best Psychotherapist in Walnut Creek”.

Caree’s clients claim that it is her depth of wisdom, her exceptional warmth and caring personality, and her capacity to inspire creative breakthrough solutions that make her style unique. Distinctive from other approaches, Caree does not feel that therapy usually needs to be a long drawn out process. Her clients are often surprised to resolve their issues much faster than they had originally expected.

Whether it involves an individual, couple or a family, most people are better able to create the change they seek when they learn How to make that change. As Einstein once said, “Most problems cannot be solved at the same level of thinking as when they were created.”
Caree employs an eclectic, collaborative approach, which may include mindfulness, solution-focused, cognitive behavioral, psychodynamic, psychoanalytic. Her choice of intervention is never formalaic and is always geared to the uniqueness of each client’s situation. Her style is warm, creative, and down to earth.
Caree’s education and credentials are exceptional and she brings a standard of excellence to her work as well as to her professional development. She has published articles, taught classes, led groups, run workshops and has supervised other medical professionals in Montreal and New Jersey as well as here in the Bay Area.
If you would like to hear what Caree’s clients have to say about their work with Caree, read her reviews online or click here for her Yelp! reviews.

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