Licensed Psychologist
License No: PSY 12905
902 Carmel Ave. Suite 8
Albany, Ca. 94706
510-526-0474
Margaret Dodson, Ph.D
Individuals · Couples · Children · Families · Consultation
Children · Adolescents · Young Adults · Adults · Older adults
Education: Ph.D. in Clinical Psychology from California School of Professional Psychology at Alameda, CA, 1990. M.A. in Social Psychology from Teachers College, Columbia University, New York, NY, 1983.
Experience / Training: 21 years clinical experience, 15 years experience working with children and their families, 10 years clinical supervision of therapists in training. Conduct therapy in Spanish and French.
Professional Interests:
- Creating a safe, warm, respectful atmosphere to encourage self-exploration
- Overcoming negative self-beliefs which interfere with achieving life goals
- Helping to overcome depression, anxiety, guilt, fear of success and fear of failure
- Assisting individuals, familes, and children with life transitions: pregnancy, infertility, marriage, divorce, school, career, bereavement, midlife concerns
- Facilitating healing from childhood and adult physical, emotional, and sexual abuse, rape, trauma, post-traumatic stress disorder
- Helping children and their parents overcome children's fears, insecurities, behavioral and school problems, depression
- Supporting couples in developing more satisfying and intimate relationships
Cross-cultural therapy
Professional Affiliations / Activities
Adjunct Clinical Faculty, Wright Institute
Alameda County Psychological Association
American and California Psychological Associations
San Francisco Psychotherapy Research Group