Patricia Frisch, PhD
Call: 415-531-1222
or email Dr. Frisch
Dr. Patricia Frisch is a licensed Psychologist, licensed MFT, couple/family therapist, and group leader, with a specialty in Orgonomy since 1976. She has developed her own innovative synthesis of Reich and Masterson that updates Reich utilizing current theory and research.
Dr. Frisch’s method is powerful. It facilitates dramatic personal change by dissolving defensive patterns, integrating difficult inner feelings and experiences, and creating healthy styles of relating. Dr. Frisch is an Orgonomist and utilizes the principles of Wilhelm Reich, father of somatic (body-based) psychology who created an inclusive mind/body analytic model that works with breath, direct muscular intervention, and emotional expression to treat the interface between inner/external conflicts and psychological/physcial symptoms (anxiety, depression, mood disorders, chronic pain and tension, sexual disorders, physical illness, sleep disorders, addiction etc.).
Dr. Frisch’s approach utilizes an alive, engaged and present-centered conversation with direct honest feedback to help patients confront their unhealthy character styles. Compromised coping strategies grow out of difficult pasts and result in current problems. She skillfully intervenes to restore healthy self-regulation – both emotionally and physically. Therapy allows for an insightful, examined life and supports conscious changes needed to heal body, mind, and spirit. Her style is warm, sometimes directive, intuitive, and always profoundly engaged. Her couple/family approach opens up communication and helps resolve wounds that disable a loving relationship. Dream analysis allows the psyche to help direct the patient from within.
Dr. Frisch Offering Telehealth Therapy Services
California Psychological Association, in partnership with California’s mental health provider associations, has advocated the need to allow all mental health services to be delivered via telehealth during the COVID-19 pandemic. Every day, state and local guidance are asking more people to “shelter in place” and self-isolate to reduce the spread of COVID 19. As a result, CPA is concerned about people being able to access the critical mental health services needed at this time.
DMHC is requiring all plans to reimburse for telehealth at the same level they reimburse for face-to-face visits.
Please call or email Dr. Frisch for more information or to set up a telehealth appointment:
Phone: 415-531-1222
Email: Dr. Frisch
Benefits of Therapy with Dr. Frisch
- Change aspects of personality, emotional patterns, and habitual thoughts that cause chronic difficulties
- Alleviate symptoms of depression, anxiety, and panic
- Decrease unhealthy somatic responses and stress-related symptoms (muscular tension, headaches, nervous disorders)
- Address sexual problems
- Establish new approaches to intimacy and develop successful skills of communication and expression through relational therapy
Dr. Frisch’s therapeutic style facilitates
- Self-awareness, understanding, resolution of old pain, and transformation
- Discovery of a more authentic self with enhanced expression and creativity
- Increased ability to experience pleasure individually and within relationships
- Freedom from inhibitions and fears that block the experience of aliveness
Dr. Frisch is also the Executive Director of The Frisch Institute of Modern Orgonomy, where she trains and supervises graduate students and professionals in Wilhelm Reich’s characteranalysis, Mastersonian Disorders of the Self (including Attachment theory), elements from Jung, and Reich’s somatic approach. She is a member of the Order of Thich Nhat Hanh.
For Dr. Frisch’s full CV, please click here.
Publications
Frisch, Patricia; Orgonomy (Reichian Therapy); Encyclopedia of Theory in Counseling and Psychotherapy; Thousand Oaks, CA; Sage Publications, Inc., 2015.
Frisch, Patricia (Author); Orgonomy [Video}; United States; SAGE Video Product for Libraries: Counseling & Psychotherapy; release date: late June, 2015.
Licenses
Licensed Psychologist (Psy 8206)
Licensed Marriage & Family Therapist (MFT M8298)
Please call 415-531-1222 for an appointment or more information, or email Dr. Frisch.
Lower-Fee Therapy Option
Dr. Frisch has a group of professional licensed therapists, some accredited by FIMO and others who are trainees, who offer lower fee services for patients with financial concerns. Locations include Marin, Novato, San Francisco, and the East Bay. Contact her at 415-531-1222 for an appropriate referral.
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