Best Psychoanalyst San Jose Near Me

4worldlovers: I am a Lacanian Psychoanalyst and a licensed clinical psychologist in practice with infants, children, young adults, adults, couples & families. I acknowledge that suffering experienced in relation to anxiety, depression, relationship issues, developmental difficulties, marital distress, parenting, trauma, illness, medical conditions, physical pain experienced in relation to physical injuries, illness & other experiences can result in debilitating distress. Amongst other roles, I also have served as a founder of companies including Tech and understand the incredible toll & joy startup life takes.

In my practice I cognize that choosing a psychologist & treatment modality can be difficult and confusing. I am here to attempt answering questions you may have about the process of therapy, analysis, or brief analysis.

Areas of expertise: assessment; treatment planning; trauma, secondary stress, burnout & compassion fatigue; psychoanalysis; brief psychoanalysis; treatment of ages 0-5; psychotherapy for children, young adults, adults, couples & families; consultation to clinicians, teachers, executives & institutions.

I have also authored manuscripts in the areas of child psychoanalysis, psychosomatic conditions, trauma & secondary stress & co-authored & implemented a Brief Lacanian Treatment Model & a "Lacanian Approach" model to the organization and its individuals. I also offer a weekly Lacanian Seminar for clinicians to help advance their knowledge of Lacanian & Freudian theory & practice.

4worldlovers: Welcome! I’m Dr. Randi Fredricks, a psychotherapist in San Jose, California dedicated to helping people experience healing, growth and lasting change in their personal lives, careers and relationships. In my practice, I use a therapeutic approach that is exceptionally powerful. Some clients experience remarkable results in as little as one session. How can this happen? I combine an unusually effective combination of methods known for producing rapid and profound change.


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Therapy is not unlike other services in that there are different levels of effectiveness. We all want to feel better, but what about feeling extraordinarily well? I believe that therapy needs to do more than merely restore us to our “previous level of functioning.” Therapy should provide us with the opportunity to lead our best lives. If therapy simply restores us to the way we were before, exactly what will prevent a reoccurrence of the issue that brought us to therapy in the first place? In order to prevent such a relapse, we need to learn how to implement new tools.


I combine the wisdom of ancient healing practices with modern modes of psychotherapeutic theory and techniques. Specifically, I bring to therapy the skills I acquired while studying psychology and natural medicine. During my education and training, I learned about natural methods of healing that have been used for thousands of years along with recently developed cutting-edge treatment modalities.

My approach to therapy is pure, simple, and effective. To achieve consistent results, I tailor each therapy session to meet the immediate needs of each person. One of the therapists I most admire is Milton Erickson, who said, “I create a new therapy for every client.” It is my guiding principle that each person is unique and needs to have therapy custom-made just for them. I trust my own intuition along with the preferences and inclinations of my client to tell us what each therapy session should look like. This spontaneity combined with sensitivity makes my work kind, swift, exciting, and enlivening.

If you have any questions, please give me a call at (408) 264-3082. I would love to chat with you!