Dr. Peter Kassel

Who I Can Help

Mood & happiness

  • Achieving greater happiness

  • Improving mood and reducing distress

  • Increasing your sense of hope about the future

Relationships & identity

  • Improving and strengthening relationships

  • Addressing concerns about sexual orientation or identity

Effective talk therapy helps you to gain greater control over your life, improve personal relationships, increase positive emotions as you get relief from distressing emotional issues, and become more engaged in your life at home, work, and school. Therapy can also help you to change lifelong ways of coping that aren’t working well right now, and to derive more pleasure, satisfaction and meaning from your life.

To be effective, therapy has to address your life situation and goals. When you are ready, here are some difficulties I can help you with:

Anxiety & stress

  • Lessening anxiety, worry, and other forms of stress

  • Addressing procrastination

  • Enhancing resilience, emotional control and growth

Adults & adolescents

Self & patterns

  • Develop greater insight and self awareness

  • Enhancing your self-esteem and self-image

  • Decreasing self-defeating thoughts, feelings and actions

  • Reducing problematic behaviors or habits

  • Clarifying your values and goals

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For clinicians

Mental health professionals

For over 30 years, I have maintained a private practice and served as a faculty and staff member at UCLA, MIT and Harvard Medical School/Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center.

As director of training programs for psychologists and other mental health professionals in hospital and healthcare settings, I provided education, consultation and clinical supervision to psychologists, psychiatrists, nurses, social workers, and MFTs. These combined professional experiences have helped me develop a breadth of knowledge and expertise in the following two areas.

I offer treatment, supervision and consultation for psychologists, psychiatrists, social workers, and masters level therapists. I strive to create a space promoting personal and clinical flexibility and the development of unique clinical voices rather than imposing any one style or ideology. A commitment to multicultural awareness and competence is a cornerstone of my practice.

Psychotherapy Services

Having trained therapists of all kinds for many years, I know first-hand about the incredible professional and personal importance and value of one’s own psychotherapy. I specialize in offering these services to mental health professionals, physicians, nurses, and other healthcare professionals. I provide some reduced-fee psychotherapy times available for training mental health professionals (psychologists, psychiatrists, nurses, social workers, and MFTs).

Consultation and Supervision

These services are for mental health professionals seeking an experienced clinician’s perspective and recommendations for treatment & who want to deepen their clinical work, find more effective ways of working with their patients, and develop or grow a successful private practice.

I am a particularly good fit for newer and experienced clinicians seeking guidance in case conceptualization, diagnosis and treatment in complex cases, therapists who are struggling to feel connected to a theoretical orientation, and those interested in some of my areas of specialization.