Valerie Beltrán, MA, MFT

3470 Mount Diablo Boulevard

Lafayette, CA, 94549

925-297-5230

Valerie Beltrán Psychotherapy, specializing in trauma therapy (EMDR), couples therapy (including poly couples), and child/adolescent therapy; with offices in Lafayette, CA and Danville, CA. Free consultations and sliding scale. Accepts some insurance.

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Valerie Beltrán, MA, MFT

Mental Health and Coping During COVID-19

March 21, 2020 Valerie Beltran

Valerie Beltrán Psychotherapy, specializing in trauma therapy (EMDR), couples therapy (including kink & polyamory), and child therapy; with offices in Lafayette, CA and Danville, CA. Free consultations and sliding scale. Accepts some insurance. …

We’re all in this together

As more of us start to get tested, we’ll begin the necessary -- yet frightening -- process of tracing our possible contact with those who test positive. There will be the tendency to point fingers, especially, as we have seen, at Asian Americans.

You have the choice: will you be xenophobic? Resentful? Blaming? Will you feed into the political divide currently raging in our country?

Liberal, conservative, we’re all in this together. This virus affects all of us, regardless of our skin color or political preference. This can unite us or divide us. We all get to choose which.

Make the right choice.

An Integral Approach to COVID-19

February 1, 2020 Valerie Beltran

For several years, Ken Wilber (creator of Integral Theory), has been talking about how close to 10% of the world's population is reaching the next stage of psychological development (2nd tier consciousness for any Integralists out there), which creates a tipping point: with that much of the population at that developmental stage, that stage's values will start to be infused in our world's systems.

Anyone who studies developmental psychology knows that crises (such as this virus) act as fulcrums to launch us to the next stage of development (breakdown > breakthrough). I believe this is the exact thing our species needs to launch us to our next stage of development, which will be an unprecedented shift because it's a whole different tier of consciousness.