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Welcome to Bay Area Psychotherapy Associates!
If youre here, you are probably looking for help in dealing with some difficulty in your life. It may be a relationship conflict with your partner or child or parent. It may be a life transition like the loss of a loved one, divorce, or an upcoming job change. Or you may be experiencing depression or anxiety that is getting in the way of living a full life. These, and many other issues, can have you searching for professional help.
We offer that help. BAPAs seven associates work with the full spectrum of human problems and at all stages of the human lifecycle children, adolescents, adults, and seniors. Our therapists meet with individuals, couples, and families. We have many years of experience in assisting people work through family conflicts, self-esteem issues, trauma recovery, sexuality problems, and others.
About Us:
Bay Area Psychotherapy Associates is an interdisciplinary group of independent practitioners, who are fully licensed professionals. We stay current with advances in our profession by continuing education, and we offer high quality services.
Education and Experience: Each therapist brings years of experience to the problems their clients face. The rich background of each therapist provides an opportunity for each client to benefit from that experience. These backgrounds include: work at Juvenile Hall, domestic violence programs, school based and agency settings and many more. Our therapists hold either a Masters or a Doctorate degree.
Accessibility: Our therapists are accessible and responsive to telephone contact during and after practice hours. Every effort is made to accommodate clients schedules for appointments, including morning, afternoon and evening sessions. Our offices are wheelchair accessible. We are conveniently located in Campbell, CA, adjacent to San Jose.
Insurance: Some of the therapists at BAPA accept major health care insurance.
Confidentiality: As required in the State of California, all of the sessions are confidential. Our aim is to provide a safe and comfortable environment for you to do the work that you would like to do, and then move on with your life in a healthier way.
While the associates at BAPA share a few expenses and administrative functions, as well as office space and a name, we want you to know that we are each completely independent in providing you with clinical services, and we are each solely responsible for those services, including fees, insurance and availability. Each therapist maintains his or her own confidential records.
Please contact the therapist below who seems appropriate for you. Contact information is provided with each person.
Meet Our Associates:
Bea Armstrong, MFT, focuses on adults who have been sexually traumatized. A licensed therapist for 16 years, she works with incest survivors and rape victims. Bea also has extensive experience in working with couples who are struggling to make their partnership the best possible. Other interests: financial/abundance issues, ACA, adult children of narcissistic parents, grief and loss, and mood disorders, such as depression, anxiety, panic attacks and bipolar disorder. She works from a Control Mastery orientation. For more information call 408/486-9202 or visit http://www.beaarmstrong.com.
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Mary Miller, Psy.D., works with children, adolescents, adults, and families. A psychologist, she specializes in treating children, adolescents, and adults suffering from stress, anxiety, depression, and communication and behavioral problems. In her work with children and adolescents, she also focuses on repairing the communication problems between parent and child. For more information call 408-679-9462.
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Treacy Eller, MFT, conducts psychotherapy with adults, adolescents and couples. She enjoys in-depth, long-term work to discover the barriers to having satisfying relationships. Treacy has extensive experience working with domestic violence perpetrators and victims in groups and in individual treatment. Other areas of interest include: Depression, anxiety, life transitions and helping couples communicate effectively with one another. For more information call 408/871-7226 or visit http://www.treacyeller.com.
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Pamela Milliken, MFT, focuses on helping her clients develop relationships that work, not hurt. She works with individual adults, couples, and adolescents. Pam has extensive experience working with adults who struggle with compulsive overeating. She also leads groups and works one-on-one with parents, helping them understand and communicate more effectively with their children. Pam's other areas of interest are depression, stress, communication issues, grief, and loss of pets. For more information, call 408/794-0440 or visit http://www.pamelamilliken.com.
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Joseph LeFevre, MFT, works with adolescents, adults, and families. He believes that everyone has natural strengths and resources, and we are all capable of living successful, fulfilling lives. Joseph believes that each persons needs are unique and may change over time, and he enjoys working with clients interested in long-term depth therapy, intermittent tune-up therapy, and short-term, specific-issue focused work. For more information call 408/871-7353 or visit http://www.josephlefevre.com.
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Michelle Myers, MFT, believes that therapy can be a transformative internal makeover moving from darkness to light. Therapy can be a spiritual journey into the past, and a definition of the unique gifts that each person brings to our world. Whether you describe your pain as anxiety, depression, relationship conflict, abuse, parenting concerns, or some other form of emotional upset, I would welcome your call to see if I could be helpful to you. I believe therapy can provide respite to overscheduled lives and sow seeds of renewal in families where a lack of communication has corroded love, respect, and fun. Michelle holds degrees from the University of San Francisco and Santa Clara University and provides sessions in a culturally competent manner in Spanish or English. For more information call 408/871-1218 or visit http://www.mftmichelle.com.
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Judith McFarland, MFT, works from a Control Mastery/Cognitive Therapy orientation. Her special interest is in helping her clients to have relationships that are a source of joy in their lives, rather than a source of pain. Some other areas of focus are adult children of alcoholics, communication work, parenting, depression, and grief and loss. In addition to private practice, Judy has presented Bullying Prevention programs at local schools and been a professional advisor, trainer and group facilitator for GoodParents, Inc, providing education and training for parents of teens. Judy works with couples, individual adults and parents, with or without their teen. For more information call 408/566-3119 or visit http://www.judithmcfarland.com.
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Russell Wilkie, MFT, specializes in couples and individual adults with relationship issues. He has extensive experience with communication issues and substance abuse. He has a special interest in Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR), existential-humanistic psychotherapy, gay/lesbian issues and Sex Therapy. For more information call 408/529-1975 or visit http://www.russellwilkie.com.
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