Vanessa C Morrison, MA

Vanessa brings a rare combination of compassion, clinical expertise, and high business and leadership acumen to her work as therapist. Moreover, Vanessa has a truly great sense of human and a great gift for being with people in pain. I have known Vanessa as a colleague and peer for many years now and recommend her without hesitation, particularly to those looking for a smart, strong, savvy female therapist. She’s a real asset to the clinical community in Berkeley.

As a friend and colleague, Vanessa has often been there for me with a nonjudgemental, compassionate attention that one needs in a therapist. She is intuitive and sensitive with a direct, honest way of being with a humorous New York edge. As an artist she brings in creativity and has many approaches to work through creative, professional, and personal blocks. She is invested in helping her clients achieve measurable results.

If you are are looking for a good therapist, I would highly recommend my friend, former classmate, and colleague Vanessa Morrison. Vanessa brings incredible warmth, creativity, humor, and a keen intelligence in her work with clients. She has helped me a lot, and I’ve been impressed with her insights and her ability to be honest and direct. She will never skirt an issue and has the capacity to handle challenging issues with great compassion and sensitivity.

Vanessa is one of the people I admire most as a therapist. Her ability to work with clients to push through interpersonal, creative and career challenges is incredible. Her intelligence both intuitively and as a researcher provides clients with a creative and individualized approach based on evidence, experience and imagination. As an artist — she thinks outside the box. I love this about her because she really helps her clients to escape old stories inhibiting their success and happiness. I look to Vanessa as a role model and a leader in the field of psychotherapy.

Vanessa is an experience and skilled therapist. She’s empathetic, intuitive, and insightful. She’s exceptional at making me feel heard, understood and appreciated, which creates a huge foundation of trust. From this place, she’s been able to work with me to dig deeper, ask real questions to better understand myself, and look at what choices I have in how to approach my life. Part of what makes working with her so transformative is that she combines cognitive and somatic approaches to therapy, allowing her to really get at what is going on, and all without being new-​agey. Vanessa has helped me look at what is deepest and hardest in my life as well as just find ways to better relate to my family and myself. Having seen many therapists, I couldn’t recommend her highly enough.

Vanessa Morrison is an excellent therapist. She honestly cares about her patients and really helped me understand myself better. She walked me thru some rough times and I will definitely continue to seek her therapeutic help when I need it. Thank you Vanessa.

I transitioned into seeing Vanessa from another therapist, which could have made my seeing Vanessa not go too well. I tend to not be that trusting of a person, but Vanessa is an open-​hearted person, who’s willing to help and happens to be really good at it. I really needed someone who would talk to me, not just listen and ask me how I felt about x, y, and z. Vanessa was exactly what I needed and still is. She’s helped me through traumatizing events and also helped me with techniques for my anxiety. Vanessa is an absolute blessing to those who see her.