My Approach

My therapeutic style can best be described as active, interactive, supportive, accessible, appropriately humorous, and, at times, challenging. I believe therapy is most effective when we work collaboratively toward clearly defined goals that reflect what is most important to you.

Together, we'll work to better understand the challenges you're facing, reduce distress, and cultivate greater insight, resilience, and lasting change.

In Our Sessions

In our sessions, I'll likely suggest interventions that may help reduce your distress, offer observations you may not have considered, and help identify patterns, assumptions, or ways of relating that are no longer working for you. If you're looking for a therapist who is largely silent and passive, we may not be the best fit. I take an active role in therapy, and my hope is that you will, too.

Education and Experience

I earned my doctorate in Clinical Psychology from Alliant International University’s California School of Professional Psychology in San Francisco. My doctoral research focused on ethnic-racial and subcultural identity, an area of study that continues to inform my understanding of identity, belonging, and the many ways people experience relationships and community.

I completed my postdoctoral fellowship at the University of California, Berkeley’s Counseling and Psychological Services, where I later joined the staff as a psychologist. I subsequently served as a staff psychologist at Stanford University’s Counseling and Psychological Services before founding my private practice in 2015.

My forthcoming book, Consenting Adults: Reimagining Commitment for People and Relationships That Defy Convention, will be published in February 2027.

Professional Affiliations

  • Gaylesta: The Psychotherapist Association for Gender and Sexual Diversity to Professional Affiliations

  • Open Minds: Psychotherapists Affirming Sexual & Gender Diversity, Member

  • NCCEFT (Northern California Community for Emotionally Focused Therapy) Member

  • ICCEFT (International Centre for Excellence in Emotionally Focused Therapy) Lifetime Member

  • AEDP (Accelerated Experiential-Dynamic Psychotherapy) Member

  • American Psychological Association

Background

Experience
Stanford University, Staff Psychologist
Counseling and Psychological Services
Stanford, CA

University of California, Berkeley, Psychologist
Counseling and Psychological Services
Berkeley, CA

Training
Post-doctoral fellowship: UC Berkeley
Counseling and Psychological Services
Berkeley, CA

Pre-doctoral internship: Santa Clara University
Counseling and Psychological Services
Santa Clara, CA

Education
Doctor of Psychology (Psy.D.)
Clinical Psychology
Alliant University
San Francisco, CA

Bachelor of Arts (B.A.)
Psychology and Art History
University of Rochester
Rochester, NY

“I have seen firsthand Dr. Gadomski’s ability to effectively treat a wide range of clients. She is warm, genuine, engaging, funny, smart, insightful, and appropriately challenging. Dr.Gadomski is an incredibly skilled psychologist and I can honestly say she is worthy of what I believe to be the the two highest compliments one can pay to a psychotherapist: her clients feel incredibly attached to her and other therapists refer to her frequently (myself included).”

- Dr. Meridee Wilson
Psychologist/Owner at Affinity Psychological Services, Former Colleague at Stanford University