John Brown, PsyD

John Brown, PsyD, is a clinical psychologist with the Faculty and Staff Assistance Program at UCSF. He previously worked as a clinical psychologist with the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation in a specialized crisis facility for patients facing acute psychological distress or severe decompensation of daily functioning. His predoctoral training took place at the Community Institute for Psychotherapy in San Rafael, where he worked primarily with individual adult patients and conducted therapy groups. He received his doctoral degree from the Wright Institute in Berkeley. Dr. Brown has extensive experience working with patients seeking to make a change, learn more about themselves, or recover from a traumatic event. Dr. Brown tailors the modality of treatment to the patient’s needs, often incorporating psychoanalytic, cognitive behavioral, mindfulness and solution-focused approaches in his work. He sees psychotherapy as an opportunity to identify and correct ineffective patterns of thinking and behavior in order to work towards gaining a deeper sense of personal identity and knowingness.