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Services

Dr. Daley is available for a range of professional services, please contact him directly if you would like a copy of his full curriculum vitae.

Medication

Medication is a powerful tool that can help you on your path to recovery and may also be part of your long term maintenance of remission. Some conditions, such as bipolar disorder, require you to take medication for the long term to be healthy. Dr. Daley’s approach is to monitor carefully for side effects and to empower you to be active in selecting amongst your treatment options.

Psychotherapy

Dr. Daley’s approach is to help you learn and practice tools to challenge your thoughts and to create new behavioral patterns. For some cases, remission of a condition can be achieved within a set span of 8-10 weekly sessions. Other cases may require longer or more frequent meetings to help do a more complex piece of work stemming from deeper wounds.

Consultation

Dr. Daley can provide you a comprehensive biopsychosocial consultation with diagnostic considerations and treatment recommendations. This can be as a second opinion, or as a blueprint for you to seek these services wherever you would like to get your care. This typically requires one to three 50-minute meetings with some additional time for record review.

LGBTQIA+ Clients

Dr. Daley has worked closely with the LGBTQIA+ community for the span of his career with education from UCSF and Stanford on culturally informed care. Please do not hesitate to contact him around issues related to coming out, navigating sexual minority stress, relationship difficulties or trauma.

Addiction

Unhealthy substance use patterns have become more and more common, and it can be difficult to find an integrated approach to help leverage medical treatments and psychosocial treatments. Dr. Daley has experience treating some of the common addictions in the bay area including alcohol, marijuana and crystal methamphetamine. He does not provide medical detox or suboxone. 

Forensic Work

Dr. Daley is board certified in forensic psychiatry with experience in courtroom and consultative settings. He has civil and criminal experience with liability around medication induced lapses in consciousness. Dr. Daley is also experienced with standards of care for suicide/violence risk management and medication safety and can serve as an expert witness for inpatient/outpatient/PHP settings.

Educational Sessions

Dr. Daley is an accomplished public speaker on a range of topics. These have included his specialities of HIV and LGBTQIA+ psychiatry , as well as basic core lectures on Mood disorders, Anxiety/PTSD and Psychotic Disorders. He can tailor and lead small group trainings or speak to a large audience.

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A Safe Environment

Dr. Daley utilizes a medical record system that maintains strict confidentiality. Offline records can also used upon your request.

Get Expert Care from Anywhere

With telemedicine, Dr. Daley is available on a range of days/times. Arrangements can also be made to meet in-person in an outdoor setting comfortable to you.

Personalized Touch

Dr. Daley believes that healing requires a personalized connection. He keeps his client list small so that he can show up with attention and enthusiasm to each visit.

Frequently Asked Questions

Yes, Dr. Daley can provide medication management services while you see a different therapist. He will want to be in contact with your therapist and get a sense of what type of therapy work you are doing. Not all therapy modalities are compatible with Dr. Daley’s treatment, and he will get a sense of this during your initial consultation.

No, a referral is not required.

Dr. Daley is not currently on any insurance panels and has opted out of Medicare. A superbill will be provided to you which can aid you in reimbursement from your provider if you are on a PPO plan.

Dr. Daley will work with you to develop an understanding of your symptoms and help build a treatment plan on how to feel better. Your plan will be tailored to you and will take into account your personal and medical history.

Dr. Daley will help determine this based on your current symptoms and your overall goals. Many people need 8-10 sessions to get to a point of stability. Some will choose to continue to meet on a weekly basis to work on additional goals at that time. 

Although Dr. Daley is trained in basic couple/family therapies, he does not typically provide these services as the primary treatment. You are welcome to invite your loved ones to be part of a session, and Dr. Daley will often want to understand your connections as part of the larger treatment plan.

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