Dr. Celeste Birkhofer

Dr. Celeste Birkhofer is a licensed clinical psychologist and adjunct clinical faculty member at Stanford Medical School, Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences. She maintains a private psychotherapy practice, teaches and supervises Stanford psychiatry residents, and is on the clinical advisory board for the JED Foundation—a nonprofit dedicated to promoting emotional well-being in teens and young adults and reducing suicide risk. Her approach to patient care combines her varied experience and training as a contemporary psychoanalyst, psychodynamic psychotherapist, grief counselor, couples therapist, dialectic behavior therapist, and mindfulness and self-compassion practitioner.