MINDFUL LIFE TRANSITION - Key Persons

Dr. Hirshfield is now working entirely via Tele Therapy to ensure the health and safety of each individual. She can be accessed by email at: Hirshfieldphd@gmail.com, or by calling (707) 529-0302. Therapy will be conducted on the phone FaceTime or Zoom. Please allow 24 hours after contact to receive an email or phone response. Born in Chicago, I was lucky to have a cohesive family unit, with a focus on respect, love, togetherness, education and awareness of our natural and social environment. My personal life philosophy grew out of these hallmarks: the need to listen, to show loving-kindness, to be a teacher of life, and, above all, to be compassionate to others, their ideas, their ideals and differences. I believe that without an understanding of our interdependence with all of life, without compassion for ourselves and for others, and without active involvement in creating a greater good, we and humanity suffer. My philosophy: "If I am not for myself, who will be for me? If I am only for myself, what am I? And if not now, when?" I received an M.A. from Sonoma State University in psychology, with a primary interest in psychodynamic psychotherapy. My Ph.D. was completed at the San Francisco campus of the Professional School of Psychology in clinical psychology, with a dissertation focusing on the chronic aspects of posttraumatic stress disorder combat veterans. After receiving my Ph.D., I completed a post-doctorate fellowship with Kaiser Hospital's Department of adult Psychiatry in Santa Rosa, California.