Those who are able to challenge their psyche

are able to face any challenges in you life

as well.

Free Consultation for 20 minutes available

 Do you have any following concerns ?

Somehow you are always hyper vigilant.

✅When you visit certain places, you cannot feel secure somehow.

You feel scared to sleep at night.

✅During sleeping, you often wake up in the middle of night due to nightmare.

✅I feel anxious about visiting new locations.

✅I am afraid of taking feedback or criticism at work or school.

✅I am uneasy at footsteps which is coming toward you.

✅I am uneasy at not being in my room.

✅I tend to avoid going to certain locations. When I go there, I am fidgety or restless due to remembering bad experiences in the past.

✅When I pass by people, I become cautious that they may hurt you.

✅I cannot build new relationships since my past relationships didn’t go well.

✅I am afraid of relationships due to being exposed to verbal and/or physical violence.

✅I have been able to get back to work due to fear of the past harassment.

✅I tend to have self criticism and to feel abandoned when my partner refuses my request which loses my confidence. Even when my partner has reasons  to say No, I still blame myself.

✅I don’t have any confidence at all so that I have difficulty socializing two to others.

✅I have difficulty moving on to new relationships due to the betrayal and abandonment in the past.

✅I act completely differently than who I am so that I often please others or I prioritize their needs over mine.

✅I have negative body image so that I have a hard time being exposed in public.

✅I am afraid of how people think of or perceive me.

✅My mind becomes blank or frozen due to overwhelming stress which  exacerbates my ability to think about or reflect on

✅I tend to have heartbeat. However my physical exam reports my heart didn’t have anything wrong. When something happens, I often experience heartbeat.

 Free 20min Consultation available

Ken Takahashi, LMFT

Licensed Marriage & Family Therapist

– Somatic Experiencing Practitioner

Certified EMDR Therapist

– Pranic Healer

-The Best Counselor awarded by The City Of Oakland in 2020, 2021 & 2022. 

14 year experience as a psychotherapist

Holistic Psychotherapy & Energy Healing Services

Services

1 – Talk Therapy (30 min or 50 min)

2 – EMDR Therapy (50min)

Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing

3 – Pranic EMDR Trauma Therapy (50min)

4 – Somatic Psychotherapy (Somatic Experiencing) (50min)

5 – Energy Psychotherapy (Pranic Psychotherapy) (30 or 60 min)

6 – Prosperity Healing 

7 – Relationship Healing 

8 – Essential Oil Healing (30 min or 50 min)

An emotionally hurt powerless adult sets out on a journey to reunify with one’s separated small hurt inner child who has got lost and stuck somewhere and looking for a savor.

The adult stumbled wherever one went.

However, the one will find the separated inner child and walk together toward a bright future. 

 

 

Ken Takahashi LMFT

Fee for Psychotherapy & Remote Healing

   My Story

When I was a child,  I was physically abused by my father who was alcoholic and a gambler. I did not know why I was hypervigilant toward noises around me back then. 

When I was in junior high school, I was practicing baseball on a local baseball team. One day, suddenly I became unable to throw a ball at all without having any pain in my right arm, elbow and shoulder. It felt so strange to become unable to do it. Even after I became like this, nobody supported me and complained about how I practiced baseball. Later in my life, I came to realize that my unconscious anxiety and fear of failure due to pressure in the team, reprimand from my coaches and judgement from my teammates. This symptom was called Conversion Disorder. After that, I stopped practicing baseball and I avoided playing any group sports. 

When I was 19 years old,  I had near death experience in which I became unable to breathe due to the air pathway dysfunction. I believed I would die. I was so nervous and panicky to experience this strange symptom since it was very unpredictable. Then, I went to consult with a doctor. However, my doctor only prescribed an inhaler and he didn’t explain any causes. However,  I continued having this strange symptom for several weeks. I didn’t know what helped me cope with it.  Taking some time without any stress was the only way to regulate this symptom. Later in my life, I came to realize that my overwhelming stress from pressure and anxiety to pass exams for universities manifested this strange symptom which were called somatization disorder or panic disorder.  

My therapeutic journey to become a therapist discovered alternative methods (EMDR,  Somatic Experiencing & Pranic Healing) to change myself within mentally, physically and cognitively, and overcome my past trauma and symptoms to experience the world differently.

These alternative methods could help you change your perception & physical reaction to external triggers.

You cannot change your past. However, you can change how you see yourself and the world.  

 

 

I’d Love to Help

I Have Experience With…

Individual Psychotherapy (Adult and child), Energy Healing, Coping skills for

– PTSD & Trauma from Childhood, Physical abuse, Emotional abuse, Mental abuse, Sexual abuse, 

– Panic attacks

– Phobia

– Anxiety, Racing (Spiral) thoughts

– Nervousness, Hypervigilance, 

– Depression

– Anger, frustration, lack of impulse control, 

– Stress, 

– communication issues, relationship issues,

– low self esteem, lack of confidence, lack of resilience

– tendency to become negative, negative spiral thinking pattern

– ADHD, difficulty focusing, difficulty building structure

– Addiction, difficulty controlling urge.

Get In Touch

Phone number

415-335-9085 

Email 

kenpsychotherapy@gmail.com 

Address

California in U.S.A.

Virtual Therapy, in U.S.A

Accessible online everywhere 

 

Office Hours

Mon – Fri: 9 am – 6 pm

My Approach & Philosophy

My approach is holistic and comprehensive.

Mental health issues are not only about cognitive and emotional process (thoughts and emotions), but also about physical process (nervous system and manifestation as sensation in the body). Some people feel something in the body even though your doctor tells you that you are healthy and nothing bad has been found in your body. However, you still feel something in the heart or excessive heart pounding.

In addition to cognitive, emotional, and physical aspects, there is another layer to them. it’s energetic and spiritual aspect. In energy system (chakra, and meridian system), thought, emotion and body affect your energy system and vice versa. If you work on you energy system and improves it, your issues in thought, emotion and body are improved. 

This holistic multi dimensional approaches will help you resolve your mental health issues more efficiently based on your needs and goals.  In addition to regular talk therapy, somatic experiencing (nervous system and physiology), EMDR (cognition, emotion, and body), Pranic Healing (non-touch energy healing on energy and 11 major chakra system), and other approaches such as essential oil approach in inhaling essential oil based on 11 major chakra system, nutrition for certain issues (ADHD, depression, anxiety, cortisol level), neck breathing for anxiety and racing thoughts, and mindfulness approach (catching oneself, racing thoughts and meditation).

Therapeutic Modalities…

 Talk Therapy

Benefits of talk therapy

  •    1 – improve the level of awareness of your thought and emotion  via reflection.
  •    2-  notice core belief about yourself, and your emotional pattern.
  •    3 – figure out how to handle your current situations.
  •    4 – learn how to set a health boundary.
  •    5 – learn how to cope with racing thoughts and emotions.
  •    6 – learn how to condition (train) your behaviors and thoughts                 with different behaviors and thoughts.
  •    7 – Improve communication skills.
  •    8 – improve self efficacy and confidence.
  •    9 – improve executive functioning in brain include Super brain                yoga, inhaling essential oil and taking certain nutrition                          (supplement).

 

What is Talk Therapy?

  • In talk therapy, clients talk about their issues, reflect on their thoughts and feeling and find out how they want to handle them. If necessary, we will discuss coping skills and solution for them based on clinical psychology, energy psychology, Buddhism and spirituality. Some clients just need to share what happened to be heard in session. Others seek feedback, coping skills and solution. Talk therapy is good for emotional issues, depression, anxiety, stress, relationships, ADHD, lack of daily structure, and so on. Coping skills include essential oil, breathing, mindfulness (catching oneself), and conditioning. 
  • 1 -talk about your issues and set goals. Talk about what modalities we may use.
  • 2- figure out cognitive patterns and distortion by looking at situations, behaviors, and emotions from different angles. Evidence based approach and multidimensional view points.
  • 3 – practice catching oneself and training your mind to think about different positive thoughts, using mindfulness, breathing, and other ways.
  • 4 – talk about coping skills for racing thoughts, negative thoughts, negative emotions, and other issues. Coping skills include mindfulness, skills to catch yourself (reminder), breathing exercise, turtle breathing with mindfulness, walking with mindfulness, conditioning breathing technique, inhaling essential oil using protocol of chakra system, screen exercise, and others.
  • 5 – build confidence and self efficacy by taking small goal setting with your intention and completing them with reward system.

EMDR Therapy

Benefits of EMDR therapy

  • 1 – regulate symptoms of anger, anxiety, depression, emotional distress, fear, phobias, panic attacks, stress, PTSD, traumatic memories, and other trauma-related symptoms.
  • 2 – reduce chronic pain relevant to trauma.
  • 3 – develop new perspectives and perception on trauma, the past memories, sense of self, and future,
  • 4 – enhance self-esteem, confidence, resilience, strength, and positive resources in you
  • 5 – reduce the level of urge for addiction and of avoidance.

What is EMDR Therapy? 

Pranic Psychotherapy

Benefits of Pranic Psychotherapy

  • 1 – release negative energies such as stress, emotions, thoughts, and belief. These energies include anger, anxiety, betrayal, depression, despair, distrust, fear, frustration, guilt, hallucination, irritation, low self-esteem, lack of confidence, phobia, poverty consciousness, resentment, stress, and worries.
  • 2 – release symptoms of addiction.
  • 3 – experience positive thoughts, and emotions
  • 4 – allow all chakras and energy system back to function normally and bring sizes of 11 major chakras and other minor chakras back to normal sizes.
  • 5 – cut out all negative cords from other people.

 

What is Energy Healing (Pranic Healing) ?? 

  • Energy (Chi &Prana) is invisible. That does not mean that it does not exist. Nowadays, everybody uses cell phones and electricity. Invisible signal sent to cell phones is invisible. We utilize them in life. In other words, you don’t see it, but it exists and works in that way. Energy is the same. It does exist and it influences our invisibly, let alone our physical and psychological health and well being.
    Interestingly, some physicist has concluded that there are 11 dimensions, based on very complex formula in physics. I really believe that energy system belongs to one of the dimensions. It is waiting to be proven in the future. 
  • Pranic Healing® is a no- touch energy healing modality developed by Grand Master Choa Kok Sui. Prana means life-force (invisible bio-energy or vital energy) in Sanskrit equivalent to Qi (Qi Gong), and Ki (Aikido).  Pranic Healing utilizes the principles that the body is able to heal itself. Pranic Healing helps accelerate the healing process by rebalancing physical and emotional components of energy life force. Grand Master Choa Kok Sui has built a cook book approach in which he has conducted tons of research and experiments on each specific physical emotional ailment with clairvoyance.   Pranic Healing utilizes 11 major chakras which influence the important functions of the body and mind, and other minor & mini chakras, all of which are equivalent to each acupuncture points. The cook book covers a numbers of physical and psychological symptoms from minor ailments and severe symptoms.
    A pranic healer cleanses negative energy out of chakras by scraping it with an energy glove on the hands without touching your body. After removing it completely, the healer energizes those cleansed chakras with fresh energy coming down from external life force in nature (air, earth, Sun, and divine energy).                                      What is Pranic Psychotherapy?
  • Pranic psychotherapy is an advanced technique of Pranic healing. It focuses more on removing negative emotions, thoughts and other negative components that contribute to your psychological ailments from chakras. Each chakra takes on a particular emotional and psychological energy. Removing negative emotional and psychological energy from chakra helps your mental stability. 
  • Pranic Psychotherapy works well on a variety of psychological symptoms including daily stress, irritability, anger, anxiety, grief, hysteria, sexual impotence, depression, paranoia, addiction (smoking, alcohol and drug), phobia, trauma, obsessions and compulsions, and ADHD.

 

 

 

Relationship Healing

Benefit of Relationship Healing

  • 1 – This healing helps remove negative emotions and thoughts between you and your partner via Pranic Healing.
  • 2 – It helps reinforce your emotional connection with your partner.
  • 3 – It helps you forgive your partner for the past mistakes,
  • 4 – it helps you and your partner become able to become more compassionate, merciful and generous as if you and your partner were connected as one. 
  • 5 – It helps you receive good karma for your relationship. 
  • 6 – 

What is Relationship Healing ?

  • It is an application of Pranic Healing (Non-Touch Energy Healing). 
  • This healing helps remove negative energy between you and your partner via Pranic Healing.
  • It cleanses heart chakra, and cords between them which reinforce your emotional connection with your partner.
  • You will also learn forgiveness technique to forgive your partner for the past mistakes,
  • You will learn Namaste Greeting exercise to acknowledge your partner as soul (you and your partner are oneness). 
  • You will learn Meditation on Twin Hearts to expand your heart chakra and send energy of compassion and loving kindness to your partner by which not only do you have more compassion, mercy and generosity toward your partner, but also do you receive good karma for your relationship after you bless other couples who are having good relationships and not having good relationships. 
  • Instead of hating each other, let’s send loving kindness energy to each other based on Law of Karma (It is in giving that we receive).

Prosperity Healing

Benefit of Prosperity

Prosperity Healing helps reduce negative energy of

  • 1 – your financial value your learned from your parents.
  • 2 – your tendency of impulsive shopping.
  • 3 – your assumption that money is bad and people who earn a lot of money are bad.
  • 4 – your unworthiness of earning money due to low self esteem
  • 5 – your misperception or trauma that you have to spend money before it is taken by others.
  • 6 – your obsession toward money, anxiety, and fear since you have tolerated the past financial issue.
  • 7 –  anxiety and fear that you have to continue working extremely hard while sacrificing your family and something important.
  • 8 –  fear of spending money on necessities and tendency to save all money.

What is Prosperity Healing ?

  • It is an application of Energy Healing (Non-Touch Energy Healing). 
  • Prosperity Healing Service helps reduce negative energy of your poverty consciousness out of your aura and specific chakras. In addition to that, your negative emotions and thoughts such as anxiety and fear that affect your finance will be removed out of your energy system. Also, you will receive how you can reinforce your prosperity energy such as direction of prosperity, simple exercises, and so on.
  • You will also learn a simple technique to remove negative energy toward your money and to reinforce your prosperity energy via one of the chakras. 

Essential Oil Psychotherapy

Benefits of Essential Oil Psychotherapy

  • 1 – improve your psychological symptoms such as stress, depression, anxiety, nervousness, anger, hypervigilance, adrenal gland, central nervous system, vagus nerve and executive functioning.

What is Essential Oil Psychotherapy (Inhalation version)

  1. Essential Oil psychotherapy is very unique. Inhaling certain essential oils while focusing on certain chakras and parts of the body helps reduce psychological symptoms by changing physiology. 

Somatic Experiencing Therapy

Benefits of Somatic Experiencing therapy

  • 1 – Enhance an ability to notice your physical sensation,
  • 2 – build resilience and positive resource via nervous system.
  • 3 – discharge nervous energy built up from nervous system securely.

  • 4 – relieve symptoms of anger, anxiety, depression, fear, frustration, guilt, hypervigilance, irritation, phobia, trauma, stress and

  • 5 – change your perspectives and perception of the past trauma and oneself.

  • 6 – reconnect mind and body more in harmony.  

  • 7 – feel less triggered by traumatic memories and current life situations.

  • 8 – allow a sense of coherence or wholeness.

     

What is Somatic Experiencing therapy

  • Somatic Experiencing® has been created and developed by Peter Levine Ph.D.  He has found there is a critical difference between those who become traumatized and those who do not become traumatized in the same traumatic situation based on recovery process of animals after they are attacked by other predators.
  • You may have experienced heart beating, sweating, tension in the shoulders, stomachache and so on under certain circumstances. These are physical signs manifested in the body due to irregular or stagnant energy in the nervous system.
  • When trauma becomes triggered by a certain situation or a person, your body becomes activated in the Sympathetic Nervous System. Trauma makes your nervous system overwork, and energy in the nervous system has not become able to be regulated within the normal range. Dr. Peter Levine calls this irregulation in the nervous system stagnant energy and has discovered that releasing this stagnant energy release you from trauma, PTSD, Panic attacks, anxiety, and anger. Somatic Experiencing has been applied to work on Eating Disorders and Substance Dependence as well. 
  • Somatic Experiencing Practitioners truly believes that human beings possess their own natural and organic healing ability. Compared to talk therapy,  you will spend most of time on tracking your physical sensation, and releasing stagnant energy out of the nervous system in Somatic Experiencing sessions. 
  • 1 – The Official Web for Somatic Experiencing.

 

Get In Touch

Phone number

415-335-9085 

Email

kenpsychotherapy@gmail.com 

Address

California in U.S.A.

Virtual Therapy, in U.S.A

Accessible online everywhere 

 

Office Hours

Mon – Fri: 9 am – 6 pm

Resources

If you have an emergency, please call 911 or go to the nearest hospital.
If you need support, please reach out to one of the following 24-hour hotlines:
•       Alameda County Crisis Line: 1-800-309-2131
•       Contra Costa Crisis Center: 1-800-833-2900 or text HOPE to 20121
•       Solano County Suicide and Crisis Hotline: 1-707-428-1131
•       National Suicide Prevention Lifeline: 1-800-273-8255
•       National Domestic Violence Hotline: 1-800-799-7233 or chat at thehotline.org
•       Oakland LGBTQ Center 510-882-2286 http://www.oaklandlgbtqcenter.org 
•       EMDRIA (EMDR International Association) https://www.emdria.org/
•       Youth ALIVE! www.youthalive.org

•       Nature time – Nature based summer program https://linktr.ee/AshleyKarell

 

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