About Dr. Veksler

Psychotherapy is a unique experience because it gives you the time and space to explore your thoughts and emotions. Through her clinical experience, Dr. Veksler’s approaches are collaborative with the client, short term and solution focused. She instills hope while remaining authentic, objective, and empathic, and creates a safe environment for individuals to express themselves. She is flexible in adapting treatment to each client’s needs and goals.

These techniques help client’s understand the connection between thoughts, feelings and actions.

Highlights:

• Therapist works with client on accurately identifying feelings and regulating emotions.
• Therapist assists client in distinguishing between thoughts, feelings, and actions.
• Therapist continues to track, explore and process the client’s thoughts to gain new perspective and control.
• Therapist helps client generate alternative thoughts that are more accurate or helpful to improve mood and behavior.
• Allow therapist feedback and utilization of new skills to give a new perspective.
• Mindfulness skills enable clients to be more present in their everyday lives and helps alleviate symptoms of anxiety.
• Therapist provides psychoeducation on various relaxation techniques and your bodies physiological responses.

• Dr. Veksler has over 8 years of experience providing assessment, treatment planning and psychotherapy for individuals, children, couples and families in both non-profit and private practice settings.
• Her most recent experience has been at a non-profit agency which is contracted by the Department of Mental Health. Here, Dr. Veksler works with a wide range of clients dealing with issues such as anxiety, depression, trauma, domestic violence, gender dysphoria, personality disorders to name a few.

Juliana has a bi-cultural upbringing and is fluent and able to provide services in both English and Russian.

• Doctorate in Applied Clinical Psychology from the Chicago School of Professional Psychology.
• Licensed as a Marriage and Family therapist in the state of California.
• Masters of Arts in Clinical Psychology with an Emphasis in Marriage and Family Therapy from Pepperdine University.