Joy A Fillman Ph.D. | Novato Psychologist

Listing Information:

CA License PSY7197 My practice combines my research degree in Developmental Psychology with my PhD in Clinical Psychology to uncover, then remove, hidden obstacles that have blocked or hindered clients’ access to happy, fulfilled lives at each stage of their development. My process creates a partnership – the client and me – utilizing the most effective psychotherapeutic tools to recognize and create the optimum family, work, and social environment. ​ The honor and privilege of working as a “psychological detective” has allowed me to develop and begin to write a concept of the mind I call “empathic detachment” – recognizing and sidestepping that point at which one is drawn into another’s sometimes dysfunctional world, hence giving up control of our own vital personal destinies.My concept of empathic detachment works on the premise that all human beings are hard wired for both autonomy and attachment, and that to allow for both leads us to a full and vital life.