Our Team
Benjamin Morsa, PsyD
Founder
Licensed Clinical Psychologist (CA License # PSY29349)
Dr. Morsa is a respected clinician and published author with a wide range of clinical and professional interests. He is best known for providing comprehensive psychological assessment for children, adolescents and adults. He is especially skilled at assessing personality dynamics and social-emotional functioning. His assessment experience spans community mental health, forensic educational, and outpatient clinical settings. He draws on this breadth of experience to arrive at a deep understanding of how people function in their environment and context. He has presented to colleagues in regional and national settings on: neurodiversity affirming assessment of autism / ADHD / giftedness, and the use of the Rorschach in prodromal presentations and adolescent-onset psychosis.
Dr. Morsa has also practiced psychotherapy for more than a decade, from a relational psychoanalytic orientation. He is most skilled at helping individuals to better understand their personal history, their patterns of thinking / feeling / relating, and their sense of agency and empowerment. He works with adolescents and adults, typically for long-term psychotherapy. He is a deep listener with an expansive mind - especially adept at helping patient’s to make connections across their experiences and mobilize this insight to experience greater freedom in the present. He enjoys working with a wide range of people, most especially:
Therapists and teachers
Artists and creatives
Scientists and engineers
Punks and tricksters
First-generation college students
Gifted folks of all stripes
Dr. Morsa is also an artful teacher who supports students to build confidence in rigorous knowledge of history, theory, and praxis and a capacity for deep ethical and critical thinking.
Dr. Morsa extends his clinical work through scholarly writing, typically on topics of gender, queerness, masculinity, autism and neurodiversity, history, and the philosophy of science. His recent publications include:
Farewell Diagnosis: Diffracting Psychoanalysis and Autism (working title, under contract, Bloomsbury)
Fractional Distillation: On Psychoanalysis’ (Mis)Formulation of Autistic Children in Childhood predicaments: Precarity, desire, loss, liminality, (im)possibility (2023).
Play Starts Here: A Review of Clinical Encounters in Sexuality: Psychoanalytic Practice and Queer Theory in Fort Da - Journal for the Northern California Society for Psychoanalytic Psychology (2020).
Services: Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy, Psychological Assessment, Forensic Assessment, Individual and Organizational Consultation, Teaching
Languages: English / Spanish
Anna Weicker, PsyD
Psychologist
Licensed Clinical Psychologist (CA License # PSY33818)
Dr. Weicker currently provides individual therapy for adults and psychological assessments for children, teens, and adults.
Dr. Weicker holds a Bachelors and Masters in Gender Studies, History, and Psychology awarded by the Ludwig-Maximilians University in Munich, the Humboldt University and the Free University in Berlin, and a Doctorate in Clinical Psychology from the Wright Institute in Berkeley, California. For the past six years, they have worked therapeutically with children, teens, and adults and have provided individual and group therapy in outpatient clinics, hospital settings, and intensive outpatient programs. They completed their predoctoral internship at Hamm Psychiatric Clinic in St. Paul, Minnesota and postdoctoral licensure hours at Kaiser Permanente, Walnut Creek, CA. Their assessment experiences include psychodiagnostic, neuropsychological, and therapeutic assessments in community clinics and hospital settings. At Tide Pools, Dr. Weicker provides assessment across the lifespan with a specific focus on affirming assessment for gender diverse and neurodivergent patients.
Before training as a psychotherapist, Dr. Weicker lived in Berlin, Germany where they were involved in a number of social justice movements and taught gender & queer studies with a focus on race & (post)colonialism. Their passion for social justice and trauma healing developed out of their work with survivors of sexualized and intimate partner violence, community accountability work in LGBTQIA* communities, and collaboration with refugee groups.
Services: Psychological Assessment, Psychotherapy
Languages: English / German