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# Jooske Stil MFT

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## Posts

- [The trouble with Relationships](https://www.jooskestilmft.com/the-trouble-with-relationships-2/) - Relationships are difficult. Sometimes it seems that the more that you care, the more difficult the relationship becomes. The reason that this is so is, because we are driven by two opposing equally strong forces. No wonder we are confused and bewildered. We are driven equally and oppositely towards selfishness and selflessness. Love creates the
- [Skills In Order to Build a Happy Life: Being Present; Gratitude and Emotional Regulation](https://www.jooskestilmft.com/skills-in-order-to-build-a-happy-life-being-present-gratitude-and-emotional-regulation/) - BEING PRESENT Most often we are focused in the future or in the past, how ever it is only in the present that you can have any impact. It is difficult to be here now because it is going against nature. We are designed to ruminate on past mistakes and to endlessly plan for the
- [Happiness Is A Skill](https://www.jooskestilmft.com/happiness-is-a-skill/) - You have to learn how to live a happy life because we are not programmed for happiness. We are programmed for survival, not today, but 50,000 years ago. Our environment has changed radically, but not our bodies. Our biologically driven urges feel natural, normal and sometimes irresistible but that does not necessarily mean that it
- [Mental Health and Evolution](https://www.jooskestilmft.com/mental-health-and-evolution/) - It is helpful to consider the original evolutionary purpose of a condition, in order to understand it and to treat it. There are 4 classes of mental disorders. The first is the group that is characterized by excessive energy. This would include anxiety, panic attacks, obsessive compulsive disorder, insomnia and phobias. These conditions exhibit the

## Pages

- [Contact](https://www.jooskestilmft.com/contact/) - 433 Callan Avenue, #306 San Leandro, CA 94577 Schedule a Consultation 510.589.0606 Follow Me
- [Confidentiality](https://www.jooskestilmft.com/confidentiality/) - In order to benefit from counseling it is important to feel safe and secure. The state of California safeguards confidentiality by law, in order to promote patient safety. Everything revealed by patients in psychotherapy is held in the strictest confidence. The only exceptions to this are 1) if you are a danger to yourself or
- [Fees and Insurance](https://www.jooskestilmft.com/fees-and-insurance/) - My fee is $150.00 an hour. In case of need I am willing to negotiate a lesser rate. I want to accept insurance, because I want to be available to be of service to all, however because of the low reimbursement rates, I can only accept a limited number of insurance patients. At the moment
- [About](https://www.jooskestilmft.com/about/) - I have been a licensed marriage and family therapist for twenty seven years (wow, time flies). Before that I practiced as an intern for two years. During this time I continue to be amazed at the amount of diversity and variation in the human experience. I have also been trained in a variety of modalities

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