Eval Gal-Oz, Ph.D., a Clinical Psychologist with MAIA
Get to know Clinical Psychologist Dr. Eval Gal-Oz, who serves patients in Palo Alto, California.
Dr. Gal-Oz is a clinical psychologist who utilizes personalized therapy, recognizing that each patient is a unique individual with his or her own very personal history and issues. Her goal is to use psychotherapy to guide patients in achieving awareness and understanding of the sources of their psychological problems, and then working through those problems so that they can feel better about themselves and lead healthier and happier lives.
Currently, she serves patients at her private practice, MAIA, in Palo, Alto, California. There, she provides professional, personalized, and affordable therapeutic services and education to individuals, couples, and groups. Her specialties include healthy relationships (couples, friendships, parenting, family), life transitions (marriage, the birth of children, divorce, midlife changes, illness or loss, retirement), anxiety, and depression.
Attributing her success to her passion for her profession and her desire for continuous learning, Dr. Gal-Oz also serves as the Director of Clinical Training of the Counseling Program at Goodwill Silicon Valley in San Jose, where she supervises psychology graduate students in practicing psychotherapy with underserved populations such as unemployed, homeless, and severely mentally ill individuals.
Her background in psychology includes both short and long-term therapy and psychological testing at the Inpatient/Acute Care Psychiatric Unit of the San Mateo County Health Center, the Geriatric Primary Care Clinic, the Department of Public Health in San Francisco-Mission Health Integrated Services, San Jose Job Corps-Health Services, the Barbara Gronowski Clinic in Palo Alto, and a private practice in Tel Aviv. She has also served on the Adjunct Clinical Faculty in the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at Stanford University, conducting research on binge eating disorder and weight loss.
On the subject of her educational background, Dr. Gal-Oz earned her Bachelor of Science degree in Biology from Tel-Aviv University in Israel, followed by her Master of Science degree from the same educational venue. She also holds a Doctorate degree in Clinical Psychology from the Pacific Graduate School of Psychology in Palo Alto.
In order to stay up to date in her field, she remains a member of the American Psychological Association, the Northern California Society for Psychoanalytic Psychology, and the Santa Clara County Psychological Association.
Clinical psychology is a broad branch of psychology that focuses on diagnosing and treating mental, emotional, and behavioral disorders. Some of the more common disorders that might be treated include learning disabilities, substance abuse, depression, anxiety, and eating disorders. Clinical psychologists, like Dr. Gal-Oz, meet with patients to identify problems, emotional, mental and behavioral, in their lives. Through observation, interviews, and tests, they aim to diagnose any existing or potential disorders.
Learn More about Dr. Eval Gal-Oz:
Through her findatopdoc profile, https://www.findatopdoc.com/doctor/8138259-Eval-Gal-Oz-Psychologist-Palo-Alto-California-94306 or through MAIA, http://maiatherapy.com/meet.htm
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