Solano Psychotherapy Associates

Solano Psychotherapy Associates operates under the California psychology licence of Dr. Michael Gray.   Doctors Elizabeth Krainer and Kevin Orzach, previously registered psychological assistants working for their psychology license post-doctoral hours under Dr. Gray, are now fully licensed psychologists.  

Michael Gray, PhD. is a licensed psychologist in private practice in Albany, CA. (since 1984).   He is on the faculty of The Psychotherapy Institute of Berkeley.   He works with individuals, couples, families, and groups (group psychotherapy) from a developmental and psychodynamic perspective.   Solano Psychotherapy Associates consists of Dr. Gray and up to two psychological assistants and two marriage and family therapist  interns, working under the supervision of Dr. Gray.

FOR MENTAL HEALTH PROFESSIONALS: Dr. Gray provides post graduate workshops, short courses, and on-going clinical case seminars for licensed mental health professionals for continuing education credits.

BACKGROUND: Dr. Gray grew up in Hawthorne, Nevada, attended the University of Nevada and received a BS degree in Electrical Engineering, his first career for 12 years.   After moving up into management and taking several management courses, he became more interested in people, their motivations, difficulties, and interactions.  He started taking undergraduate and then graduate courses in psychology at JFK University.  In 1980, he exchanged his full time engineering job for a part time consulting job and went full time to graduate school in psychology.  Dr. Gray received his masters in psychology in 1982 from John F. Kennedy University and his Ph.D. in clinical psychology from the Professional School of Psychology in San Fransisco in 1985.   He was licensed as a Marriage, Family, and Child Therapist in 1984 and received his clinical psychology license in 1987.   Dr. Gray trained at the Solano Center in Albany under Doctors Stephen Goldbart and David Wallin, and has been in private practice there ever since.  He is dedicated to keeping up with the latest literature on psychodynamic psychotherapy, reading  professional journals regularly and attending an on-going clinical case training seminar, now it its 27th year.   He teaches and provides consultation for individual, couples, and group psychodynamic psychotherapy for The Psychotherapy Institute in Berkeley and Solano Pacific Training and Consultation in Albany. 

CREDENTIALS: California Psychology license # PSY10328

PERSONALLY: Dr. Gray enjoys reading and spends much of his time reading the latest literature in psychology.  He also enjoys spending time with his family.  Together with his wife, he has two sons, two step-sons, and two granddaughters.  Together they enjoy playing music, skiing, golfing, whitewater rafting, and hiking.

Dr. Elizabeth Krainer, as of January, 2012,  Dr. Krainer has passed her California state licensing exam as a psychologist and has moved from her psych assistantship with Dr. Gray to her own private practice.   She can be  reached at (510)981-4563.

Dr. Kevin Orzech, as of June 18, 2010,  Dr. Orzech has passed his California state licensing exam as a psychologist and has moved from his psych assistantship with Dr. Gray to his own private practice.  He can be reached at (510)981-2187.