Reid Kessler, PsyD
Licensed Psychologist #29855
I enjoy working with kids, teens, adults, couples, and groups. I like meeting with a worn out parent one hour, then a busy executive, then doing play therapy with a child, than a couple, then two different teenagers who are figuring our who they are.
Working with children helps me with adults, and vice versa.
Every person has a unique history and way of communicating how they have come to this point in their life. There is subtext in play therapy that needs to become verbalized to help the child. Simiarly, their are meanings and affects that imbue how we relate as adults that need to be known in different, deeper, and othen more explicit ways. Oftentimes these are pretty young ways of relating we soaked in from the world around us, from when we were young and soaking so much in.
Getting into this level of work is what I love doing and helping people make changes in how they relate to themselves and others feels deeply satisfying to me.
I have also found that I enjoy supervising and mentoring junior colleagues as they finish up their doctoral training to become psychologists.
The biggest project I have taken on professionally is to start and grow a group practice of clinical psychologists. We have offices in Encinitas and Carlsbad, and there are currently 12 doctorally trained psychologists. It is both my clinical home where I see all of my patients and the primary place where I am continuing to learn and grow as a psychologist in community.
I am deeply grateful to the learn more every day from the patients who allow me work be their therapist. Working in group practice with other psychologists also continues to form how I understand people and enliven my hope for change in the midst of suffering.
I am especially excited about advanced ongoing training our team is doing in psychoanalytic personality assessment using psychological testing. Having shared language in personality styles and organization as a team provides us specific and descriptive concepts to best describe the minds of the people we help.
To learn more about me or my practice you can visit website at Coastal Therapy Group.