About Morgan Lloyd, LCSW
About Morgan Lloyd, LCSW
Therapist in Walnut Creek
Psychodynamic Therapy in Walnut Creek, California
If you’ve ever felt “stuck despite effort,” repeatedly drawn into the same emotional patterns, or unsure why certain problems keep resurfacing — even when you’re functioning on the outside — you’re in the right place.
I’m Morgan Lloyd, a licensed clinical social worker (LCSW) with over 15 years of experience offering psychodynamic psychotherapy to adults and couples in Walnut Creek and the East Bay. I work with people who want thoughtful, reflective support — not surface-level quick fixes — and who are ready to explore what deeper change might look and feel like.
My work blends warmth, curiosity, humor, honesty, and psychological depth.
A Collaborative Space to Understand Yourself More Deeply
In therapy, we slow down habitual patterns of thinking and feeling so that you can understand them rather than just react to them. This often includes:
Naming long-standing emotional and relational patterns
Exploring how past experiences continue to shape how you feel, think, and relate
Recognizing limiting beliefs that keep you bound to certain responses
Opening real possibility for change, choice, and self-understanding
Clients often find that as old patterns become clearer, they feel more grounded, flexible, and confident in how they navigate relationships, stress, and transition.
Issues I Work With
People come to therapy for many reasons — typically when something in life starts feeling confusing, painful, or just… unchanging.
I provide support around:
Life transitions, identity shifts, and existential questions
Many people who come in are high-functioning in important areas of life — successful at work, responsible with others — yet feel unsettled, dissatisfied, or constrained in ways they can’t fully name. Therapy offers a conversation where those experiences are taken seriously and explored with depth.
My Approach
My practice is grounded in psychodynamic and relational psychotherapy. This means we look not only at what’s happening now, but at how earlier experiences continue to influence how you respond to stress, conflict, closeness, and autonomy in present life.
I’m not here to tell you what to think or do — I’m here to help you understand why certain feelings and reactions persist, where they came from, and what that means for how you live now. As this understanding deepens, change often shows up as greater ease, clarity, and self-direction.
Therapy with me feels conversational, reflective, and honest — a space where you can think loud, feel without judgment, and notice patterns that previously felt automatic or invisible.
Beyond the Office
I earned my Master’s in Social Welfare with a concentration in Mental Health from UC Berkeley and have worked across a variety of settings, including community mental health clinics, trauma-informed programs, and private practice. My background includes extensive work with individuals facing complex life struggles, which informs how I hold complexity, nuance, and depth in all therapeutic work. I enjoy writing as a way of thinking and making sense of emotional life, and many people find that my blog offers a good window into how I understand therapy and the work we do together.
Begin Working Together
If anything here resonates with you — the sense of being stuck, the desire for understanding as a path to change, or the wish for a thoughtful and collaborative therapy experience — I invite you to reach out for an initial consultation.
We can talk about what’s bringing you to therapy and whether working together feels like a good fit.
You are also welcome to explore a virtual tour of my psychotherapy office in Walnut Creek to get a sense of the space where we would meet for therapy.