Charles W. Dithrich

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

As a psychotherapist I engage with sensitivity, depth, and clarity with the intention of reaching whatever is at a given moment obscuring and blocking ongoing personal growth and development, and to do so at a pace that is in alignment with whomever I am working with.

I have extensive experience treating anxiety, depression, OCD, ADHD, dissociation, somatization, alienation, and disregulation. I look at all of these issues in the context of both the individual's internal life, their ongoing relationships, and the cultural forces that affect them 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 of how to live creatively and successfully in a largely neuro typical world.

I have worked successfully with creative people including artists, musicians, writers, dancers, poets, visionaries, and entrepreneurs. I am a musician 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 further 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.