Dr. Verda Bradley, LCSW

Dr. Verda Bradley is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker (LCSW) with more than 30 years of experience as a clinical psychotherapist. She focuses on relieving emotional distress that arises from psychosocial stressors, trauma, domestic violence, substance misuse and mental health challenges, drawing on a long career across mental health, child protection, family services, criminal justice, and recovery programs.

She holds certification as a NIDA Relapse Prevention counselor and has extensive experience supporting individuals facing addiction and relapse risk. For several years she has also facilitated a bereavement group twice a month, offering steady support for those coping with loss. Her work emphasizes a trusting, client-centered environment where people can address problems and improve the quality of their lives.

Dr. Bradley’s specialties include stress, anxiety, addictions, relationship and family concerns, bereavement, and depression. She also works with caregiver stress, codependency, commitment and control issues, communication difficulties, family of origin problems, forgiveness, guilt and shame, hospice and end-of-life counseling, impulsivity, isolation and loneliness, life purpose questions, and midlife transitions. Clinically, she draws from client-centered therapy, cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT), emotionally focused therapy (EFT), mindfulness therapy, motivational interviewing, solution-focused therapy, and trauma-focused therapy. She practices in California and provides services in English. She is not currently accepting new clients but does work with international clients.