About

Experience

Adam Rochmes is a licensed clinical psychologist with over 40 years’ experience treating adults, couples, and families. His practice is located in Berkeley, California, in the South Campus neighborhood.

Dr. Rochmes is a 30+ year member of The Psychotherapy Institute in Berkeley. He provides clinical supervision to therapists in training and serves on the faculty of the Supervision Study Program. He was honored by The Psychotherapy Institute “…in recognition of his generosity of spirit, good humor, and excellence in training, supervision, and leadership.”

For more than 20 years he has had a subspecialty working with older adults, including persons with progressive cognitive impairments, such as Alzheimer’s disease and Mild Cognitive Impairment, and their family members. He has provided individual and family therapy, led psychotherapy/support groups and educational workshops for caregivers, care receivers, and couples, and pioneered in the development of couples groups for patients in the early stage of Alzheimer’s disease and their spouses/partners.

Dr. Rochmes has held professional positions at the California Medical Clinic for Psychotherapy, a sliding scale community clinic, and more recently the Alzheimer’s Association, Northern CA and Northern NV Chapter. In addition to these positions, he has been in private practice continuously since his psychology licensure.

Education

Dr. Rochmes earned his A.B. at Harvard University and his Ph.D. in clinical psychology at the University of California at Berkeley.