Scott Alvarez

Scott Alvarez, Ph.D., is a clinical psychologist and Jungian analyst with over forty years of experience in private practice in Oakland and Walnut Creek, California. He is an analyst member of the C.G. Jung Institute of San Francisco, where he received his certificate as a Jungian analyst in 2004, and is a member of the International Association for Analytical Psychology.

Alvarez works with adults, adolescents, and couples, drawing on Jungian, relational, and depth-oriented therapeutic traditions. His clinical approach integrates guided exercises, reflective dialogue, somatic awareness, meditation, and deep spiritual inquiry, reflecting a holistic understanding of the psyche that honors both its embodied and transpersonal dimensions. He offers a free fifteen-minute initial consultation to prospective clients.

His therapeutic specializations include trauma and PTSD, depression, anxiety, and the broader existential and developmental concerns that arise across the lifespan. His decades of clinical experience and his grounding in multiple therapeutic modalities — including psychoanalytic, psychodynamic, relational, transpersonal, and trauma-focused approaches — allow him to tailor his work to the unique needs of each individual who enters his practice.