Philip MacEachron, PsyD (he/him)
Dr. MacEachron is a licensed clinical psychologist who completed his postdoctoral residency in KP Richmond’s Child and Family Psychiatry department in 2008. He worked as a therapist, training director, and coordinator of psychodiagnostic assessment in that clinic for about ten years. After that he transitioned to the Adult Psychiatry Department in Oakland, where he worked as a generalist psychologist on the trauma team for several years before moving into primarily supervising and training interns to conduct diagnostic assessments in the Adult Neurodevelopmental Assessment Program there, specializing in the assessment of ADHD and ASD in adults.
Dr. MacEachron did his undergraduate work in Tibetan Language and Buddhist Studies at Columbia University, which he initially thought would be totally irrelevant to any serious professional pursuit beyond academia. It turned out that when he started training in psychology, the field was in the process of absorbing Buddhist philosophy and meditation techniques into third-wave therapy approaches, so it was not so impractical after all. During his time in the PsyD program at the Wright Institute, Dr. MacEachron trained in depth therapy approaches at the Jung Institute of San Francisco, CBT at Haight Ashbury Psychological Services and the East Bay Anxiety Center, trauma-focused therapy at the VA, and prior to that he worked at a residential substance abuse program in San Francisco.