Behavioral Health therapy provides an effective way for individuals, couples, and families to work through complex issues and to improve their quality of life. We offer options including: cognitive-behavioral, family, child life services, and couples therapy as well as Behavioral Fitness™, mindfulness-based stress reduction, hypnotherapy, and reiki energy healing. Our team collaborates to work with women, men, children, and couples to develop personalized treatment plans.

At Comprehensive Wellness, our team offers a diverse array of therapy options to best meet your individual needs. We address and treat a wide range of conditions and concerns, including:

At Comprehensive Wellness, we offer patients a wide variety of options to address your concerns. Our expert team will work together to put together a plan that is right for you.

Integrative Health Coaching (IHC) empowers you to make lasting health behavior changes that are the cornerstones of lifelong well-being. Comprehensive Wellness’s IHC places the patient at the center and considers the full range of physical, emotional, mental, social, spiritual, and environmental influences that are affecting your health.

Cognitive-behavioral therapy involves learning to recognize negative thoughts and working to replace them with positive thoughts. This therapy is used to treat disorders that affect physical and mental well-being, including: depression, anxiety, eating disorders, and insomnia.  

Therapy can help improve family relationships by coaching you to communicate more effectively. It teaches healthier ways to resolve conflicts that come up in everyday life and to resolve major disagreements that occur between family members. 

Couples therapy facilitates better communication to reduce tension and improve overall relationships. It provides an opportunity to address issues that cause conflict and a chance to work through them. Couples grow closer as they learn effective ways to handle disagreements. 

Life is full of decisions that can cause stress, anxiety, missed opportunities, and regret. But they don’t have to. Comprehensive Wellness is pleased to offer patients valuable support in making these challenging life decisions through a unique partnership with Decide LLC.

Our therapists have expertise in child development and are specially trained to work with teens and children. Therapy can build helpful thinking patterns and healthy behavioral habits that helps those who are going through tough times, including difficulties with family, school, social situations, and health.

Comprehensive Wellness’s school-based counselors are available to help families and children who are seeking guidance on how best to navigate the academic landscape and optimize wellbeing for all involved. Placing you and your child at the center and engaging in a shared decision aimed at designing a comprehensive plan to support emotional, social, developmental, and behavioral concerns.

Comprehensive Wellness is the only out-patient child life services provider in the East Bay. Our team works with infants, children, youth, and families to cope with the stress and uncertainty of illness, injury, and treatment. We provide evidence-based, developmentally and psychologically appropriate interventions to reduce fear, anxiety, and pain.

Hypnosis is a natural state of mind in which the body experiences physical relaxation while the mind remains clear. The subconscious mind becomes open to suggestion, facilitating positive change.

Our team works with individuals to discover how the life-changing practice of integrating mindfulness into daily life can improve overall health, well-being, energy, and creativity.

Reiki energy therapy is used to relax and strengthen a patient’s well-being; reduce pain, anxiety, and fatigue. It helps manage symptoms, accelerates the body’s natural healing abilities, and supports recovery after injuries or surgery.

Acupuncture uses thin needles to release energy blockages in the body to ensure a healthy, uninterrupted flow of energy. We treat patients for a variety of conditions, including pain, fertility, digestion, insomnia, stress, anxiety, and cancer support.

Meet our Behavioral Health clinicians

• Allyson Mayo, DBH – Doctor of Behavioral Health
• Simret Nanda, MD – Adolescent and Adult Psychiatrist
• Alan Brast, PhD, CCHT, CSA, NLP – Emotional Trauma Specialist
• Denise Arline, MA – Reiki Energy Therapist / Holistic Life Coach
• Kristin Avicolli, LCSW – Licensed Clinical Social Worker
• Rebecca Berke, BCH – Hypnotherapist / Mindfulness Specialist
• Brett Beaver, LMFT – Licensed Marriage & Family Therapist
• Bess Inzeo, MA, PPS – Counselor/Child Wellness Advocate
• Maddie Schmitz, CCLS – Certified Child Life Specialist