I am a licensed clinical social worker LCSW therapist in California with 25 years of professional work experience. I have experience in helping clients with stress and anxiety, motivation, self esteem, and confidence, depression, & coping with life changes. I believe that you are the expert of your story and that you have many strengths that will assist you in overcoming things that challenge you. Taking the first step to sign up for therapy can take courage and I am proud of you for getting started!
Additional areas of focus: Abandonment, Adoption and foster care, Aging and geriatric issues, Antisocial personality, Attachment issues, Avoidant personality, Blended family issues, Body image, Caregiver issues and stress, Chronic pain, illness, and disability, Co-morbidity, Codependency, Commitment issues, Communication problems, Control issues, Dependent personality, Dissociation, Divorce and separation, Domestic violence, Drug and alcohol addiction, Emptiness, Family of origin issues, Family problems, Fatherhood issues, Forgiveness, Guilt and shame, Hospice and end-of-life counseling, Impulsivity, Infidelity, Isolation / loneliness, Jealousy, Life purpose, Men's issues, Midlife crisis, Veteran and Armed Forces Issues, Money and financial issues, Mood disorders, Multicultural concerns, Narcissism, Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD, Panic disorder and panic attacks, Personality disorders, Phobias, Post-traumatic stress, Prejudice and discrimination, Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling), Self-harm, Self-love, Sex addiction, Sexuality, Smoking / vaping cessation, Social anxiety and phobia, Workplace issues
Clinical approaches: Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT), Attachment-Based Therapy, Client-Centered Therapy, Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT), Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT), Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT), Existential Therapy, Imago Relationship Therapy, Jungian Therapy, Mindfulness Therapy, Motivational Interviewing, Narrative Therapy, Psychodynamic Therapy, Solution-Focused Therapy, Trauma-Focused Therapy, Systemic Therapy
CA LCSW 65018
These quotes represent just a few of the many positive reviews that we have received for Eugene Yamamoto. We don't pay anyone to provide their review and they are all made voluntarily. Some people's experience receiving therapy with BetterHelp might be different.
Very professional, And thorough
Written on Nov 22, 2024 after therapy with Eugene for 2 months on issues concerning depression, stress, anxiety, and coping with life changes
I’ve explored every popular self improvement strategy besides therapy, until I decided to try working with Eugene. He has completely restored my faith in the institution. I guess I’d just had one too many therapists give confounding advice to people I knew and loved, and seemingly only had them live in their problems instead of finding a way to heal. I thought “of course therapists don’t want to cure you, they’d be out of work!” Eugene is one of those rare individuals, like the one teacher you remember from public school who went above and beyond, who clearly cares about the people he serves. He has to stop himself from using every minute available to help you, so he can go and immediately help another, because he’s so laser focused on you and helping to give you the tools you need. His heart is so abundantly clear in the way he listens and shares, his experience is impressive and decades long in some of the most difficult clinical settings, his knowledge is sweeping, covering the clinical literature, addiction recovery best practices, and most importantly for me, matters of spiritual wisdom, which have transformed my life since I was a lifelong atheist and skeptic and experienced a spiritual awakening. Do not be afraid to ask Eugene to leave the bounds of his immense clinical knowledge to share with you on the great spiritual thinkers, and you’ll see what is evidently clear when talking to him: that the spirit of love and joy and higher purpose dwell in him, making him a faithful servant and a genuinely happy and long suffering lover of humanity. I am so grateful that I met Eugene, and even though I could probably get therapy covered by insurance, I will continue on Better Help because of the vast improvement and encouragement and the dramatic life renewal I’m experiencing.
Written on Nov 19, 2024 after therapy with Eugene for 2 weeks on issues concerning stress, anxiety, addictions, relationship issues, intimacy-related issues, self esteem, career difficulties, coping with life changes, coaching, and adhd
He is smart and informative and a pleasure to work with.
Written on Nov 18, 2024 after therapy with Eugene for 2 weeks on issues concerning stress, anxiety, relationship issues, parenting issues, anger management, coping with life changes, and coaching
Very caring therapist who spends enjoys what he does.
Written on Nov 15, 2024 after therapy with Eugene for 2 weeks on issues concerning career difficulties, and coaching
Eugene has been a great help and I am grateful to be working with him.
Written on Nov 05, 2024 after therapy with Eugene for 2 weeks on issues concerning depression, stress, anxiety, grief, compassion fatigue, and adhd
He's good
Written on Oct 07, 2024 after therapy with Eugene for 2 weeks on issues concerning stress, anxiety, relationship issues, grief, self esteem, coping with life changes, and compassion fatigue