San Luis Obispo, CA 93405
(310) 226-6945

drjosephhturner.com
drjosephhturner@gmail.com

License Number:
PSY 27066

University/School Attended: 
Cal State, Los Angeles (CSLA) - Master of Science in Forensic Psychology
Pepperdine University - Doctorate of Psychology;
Psychoanalytic Center of California (PCC) - Certification in Psychoanalysis

Year Graduated:
CSLA - 2003
Pepperdine - 2010
PCC - 2017 - Present 

Insurance Accepted: 
Medicare; Superbills Provided for PPOs 

Treatment Modalities: 
Individual Psychotherapy, Couples, Infant-Caregiver (dyads), Parents and Parents-to-be, Toddler and Early Childhood Play Therapy, Neurodevelopmental Evaluations 

Problems Treated: 
Developmental Trauma, PTSD, Anxiety, Depression, Characterological issues, Borderline, Psychosis, Pregnancy Anxiety, Postpartum Depression, New Father Adjustment, Talking to your Baby, Early Childhood Emotional Enhancement 

Primary Theoretical Orientation:
Psychodynamic/Psychoanalytic - Psychoanalysis is a highly effective approach to mental health and personal growth. The patient and therapist work to establish and maintain emotional contact, while traversing the turbulence of psychological pain and confusion. Similar to the sensitive and intuitive communication that develops between any mother and baby, the psychoanalytically informed psychotherapist aims to receive and digest raw and often unconscious emotional experience, usually residing in the body in the form of symptoms. Mental digestion of these symptoms helps to make the experience more manageable and available for thinking and dreaming. The product of psychoanalytic treatment is often the development of mind and the capacity to manage powerful emotions in one’s life, leading to less psychological suffering and a fuller spectrum of human fulfillment and experience. 

Specialties: 
Primitive Mental States; Prenatal Trauma; Infantile Trauma; Early Childhood Trauma; Severe Attachment Issues; Preverbal States of Mind; Adult Emotional Difficulties and Disturbance

For further information, please call the telephone number listed above.  Thank you.