Charles Dithrich, PhD

I am a licensed clinical psychologist and certified psychoanalyst. My private practice office is in north Oakland, CA. I provide psychotherapy, psychoanalysis, and assessment for children, adolescents, adults, and couples as well as consultation, supervision, and clinical study groups for mental health professionals.

I engage with sensitivity, depth, and clarity. My intention is to reach whatever is at a given moment obscuring and blocking your ongoing personal growth and development, and to engage at a pace that is in alignment with you.

I have extensive experience treating anxiety, depression, OCD, ADHD, dissociation, somatization, alienation, and disregulation. In my assessment and during treatment I consider the context of your internal life, your current and past relationships, and cultural forces that may affect you presently and ancestrally.

I have specific skills for working with ASD and neurodivergence, and related conditions of hyper sensitivity and hyper permeabililty. I do not see these conditions as “disorders” to be fixed. Rather, they require understanding and support towards how to live creatively and successfully in a largely neuro typical world.

I have worked extensively with creative people including artists, musicians, writers, dancers, poets, visionaries, and entrepreneurs. I am a musician, performer, and instrument builder.

I have long standing experience working with issues related to spirituality, mysticism, altered states, and psychedelic experiences. I am skilled in supporting integration and extension of psychedelic experience.

In addition to my private clinical practice, I am a personal and supervising analyst and core faculty member of PINC, the Psychoanalytic Institute of Northern California. My current teaching involves the understanding and clinical use of dreams in psychotherapy and psychoanalysis.