Patricia Frisch, Ph.D.
Call: 415-388-0622
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Dr. Patricia Frisch is a licensed Psychologist, couple/family therapist, and group leader, with a specialty in Orgonomy since 1976. Orgonomy utilizes the principles of Wilhelm Reich, father of somatic (body-based) psychology who created a mind/body discipline that works with breath, direct muscular intervention, and emotional expression to treat the interface between inner/external conflicts and stress related symptoms (anxiety, depression, chronic pain, physical illness, muscular tension, sleep disorders, etc.). Reichian/Orgonomic therapy is very powerful. It facilitates dramatic personal change by dissolving defensive patterns, integrating difficult inner feelings, and creating healthy styles of relating.
Dr. Frisch’s approach utilizes present-centered conversation, direct feedback and dream work to help patients confront difficult pasts and 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.
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 stress-related symptoms (muscular tension, headaches, nervous disorders, physical illness, etc.)
- •Assist with sexual problems
- •Establish new approaches to intimacy and develop successful skills of communication and expression through relational therapy
- •Self-awareness, understanding, resolution of old pain, and transformation
- •Discovery of a more authentic self with enhanced expression and creativity
- •Increase in 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 Orgonomic Institute of Northern California, where she trains and supervises graduate students and professionals in Wilhelm Reich’s character-analysis, 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 and also leads popular retreats at Esalen® Institute in Big Sur, California.
Licenses:Licensed Psychologist
Licensed Marriage & Family Therapist
Please call or email for an appointment or more information:
415-388-0622 – Dr. Frisch
Lower-Fee Therapy Option:
Dr. Frisch has a group of professional trainees who offer lower fee services for patients with financial concerns. Contact her at 415-388-0622 for an appropriate referral.