insight-oriented therapy for adults in walnut Creek
Morgan Lloyd, LCSW
Helping you see and shift the patterns that shape your life
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Meet Morgan Lloyd, LCSW
I’m Morgan Lloyd, LCSW, a psychotherapist in Walnut Creek working with adults and couples. I’ve been in clinical practice for over 15 years and bring a thoughtful, steady, and engaged presence to the work.
I’ve pursued extensive post-graduate training in psychodynamic and psychoanalytic psychotherapy and continue to study and refine my work through ongoing consultation, training, reading, and writing. I experience psychotherapy as a craft — something that deepens with practice, reflection, and sustained attention over time. I’m drawn to the creativity of the work, the precision it requires, and the way careful listening can open unexpected understanding and change.
My style is warm, direct, and curious. I aim to create an environment that feels grounded and honest — thoughtful, engaged, and with room for a little humor along the way.
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Issues I work with
People come to therapy for many reasons, often when something in life starts feeling confusing, frustrating, or just… sticky.
Common areas I work with include:
Men’s & Women’s Emotional Health
Each link leads to more detail about how therapy can help with that area — giving you a clearer sense of what to expect and how we can work together.
I work with a range of concerns; my writing offers another window into how I work.
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My Approach
Many people I work with are thoughtful, capable, and outwardly functioning — yet feel inwardly stuck, anxious, or dissatisfied in ways that don’t seem to change despite effort or insight.
My approach is grounded in psychodynamic therapy, which focuses on understanding how emotional patterns develop and why they persist. When these patterns are brought into clearer focus, people often find that change no longer requires forcing or constant self-monitoring; new ways of responding begin to feel more possible and more natural.
I work with adults navigating relationship difficulties, anxiety, depression, trauma, addiction, and life transitions. Therapy offers a place to understand what has been holding things in place — and, over time, to experience greater ease, flexibility, and emotional freedom.
A Depth-Oriented Approach to Therapy
MOrgan Lloyd, LCSW | Therapist in Walnut Creek, CA
Many people come to therapy because something hasn’t shifted despite effort — familiar relationship patterns, repeated arguments, or emotional reactions that feel hard to interrupt. This work is grounded in psychodynamic therapy, a reflective approach that focuses on understanding why these patterns persist.
Often, people arrive after trying other forms of therapy that were helpful in some ways, but didn’t lead to deeper or lasting change. They’re not looking to start over or collect more tools — they want a way of making sense of what’s been holding things in place.
In therapy, we pay attention to how patterns show up over time — in relationships, emotional responses, and moments that repeat. As the emotional logic behind these patterns becomes clearer, people often find that change no longer feels forced; new ways of responding begin to emerge with more ease and flexibility.
The short video above and my blog offers a sense of how I think about therapy. If you’d like to get a feel for the space, you can take a Google Street View tour of my Walnut Creek office.
👉 Take a virtual tour of my Walnut Creek therapy office
What People Come to Therapy For:
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Insight-oriented therapy for understanding and shifting recurring patterns in relationships — with partners, family, friends, or work dynamics
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Thoughtful and reflective support for processing loss, sadness, and the emotional complexities that accompany grief.
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Therapy focused on understanding how trauma and past harmful experiences continue to shape emotions, relationships, and self-perception.
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Psychodynamic support tailored to women’s experiences — including career pressure, identity shifts, relationships, and life transitions.
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Therapy for men navigating stress, emotional isolation, burnout, work demands, relationships, and life transitions.
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Insight-oriented work that helps uncover emotional and relational patterns connected to addictive behaviors and substance use.
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A space to explore how personal identity and cultural background influence self-understanding, relationships, and emotional life
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Supportive psychodynamic therapy to explore the emotional, relational, and unconscious patterns behind anxiety and mood struggles.
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Insights and reflections on therapy, relationships, anxiety, grief, trauma, and identity.