Therapist Directory

Welcome! I grew up on the East Coast, have roots in the Midwest, and have called the Bay Area home since 2011. Like many of my clients, I have struggled with depression and anxiety. My own healing process informs the care I bring to my clients and deepens my passion for continuing to learn about the many ways people can heal emotionally and spiritually. Outside of my work as a therapist, I find meaning in music, nature, the written word, and cultivating community.

My view is that life’s triumphs and challenges are just too painful and too beautiful to bear alone. I see the role of therapist in our increasingly isolated modern society as that of witness, guide, collaborator and companion along the way. If you're looking for support with trauma, grief & loss, life transitions, self-esteem issues, anxiety, depression, relationship challenges, or embodiment, or you just feel drawn to working with me, don’t hesitate to reach out. I would love to hear from you.

Everyone encounters feelings of dissatisfaction and confusion in their life, questioning their choices, their direction, or even who they are at the core. I provide a calm, nonjudgmental space for you to share the things that trouble you. Especially the things that are hard to share, or the parts of you that you may not feel good about. I work to help you see how what you feel makes sense, making connections to past experiences, and coming to new self-understanding and acceptance.

Being raised in an immigrant, working class family taught me the value of respect, humility, and looking out for one another. I carry these values in any space I operate in, whether it’s in my own family, community, and my professional space. I know that it can be a struggle to reach out for help when you might be disconnected from yourself and others, which is why I value any person that reaches out to me.

As a first-generation person of color raised in East Los Angeles and of immigrant parents from Mexico, it has been a healing journey for me to work through my own trauma to be fully present and genuine with any one I am working with. I am here to help you address issues pertaining to your past, present, and future self to heal and begin to take the steps in breaking negative generational cycles.

I'm an online therapist with a collaborative, mindful, trauma-informed practice that holds space to explore all the unique aspects of you, and facilitate awareness and inner discovery, so you can live the life you find most meaningful.

My role as a psychotherapist is to help clients acknowledge and harness their innate strengths, enabling them to attain and sustain the well-being they are searching for. What holds us back? What keeps us returning to habitual patterns that limit us? How can we heal from past experiences or learn to cope with current life challenges? Together we will examine your life from many vantage points, with compassion and curiosity. By expanding how you view yourself, relate to others, and respond to difficult circumstances, new possibilities will emerge.

My areas of expertise include:
• Cultivating self-compassion to combat shame, self-criticism, and threats to self worth
• Advocating for the unique issues LGBTQ individuals face
• Understanding and coping with depression and anxiety
• Examining the causes and harmful cycles of addiction and codependency
• Exploring intimacy concerns for individuals and couples
• Supporting clients coping with grief and loss
• Building resilience while navigating life transitions
• Embracing cross-cultural differences and attachment patterns in couples
• Working with childhood trauma

Hi, I’m Samantha (she/her). I’m a mixed-race, queer therapist providing individual, virtual therapy to teens and young adults. I specialize in supporting young people as they process trauma, move through life’s challenges, and shape lives that feel authentic, meaningful, and joyful to themselves. These pivotal years can be overwhelming, complex, and full of questions around identity, relationships, and how to feel safe in your own skin. As someone committed to connection and compassionate care, I partner with each person to create a safe, nonjudgmental space where they can show up fully as themselves. I am particularly passionate about working with immigrants, queer, trans, and gender-expansive communities, and folks facing the impacts of trauma and systemic violence. My style is warm, thoughtful, and non-pathologizing – I am trained in relational-cultural and social justice models and believe healing occurs within a larger social context. I look forward to connecting with you.

I offer somatic therapy for individuals & couples with a focus on attachment repair and trauma healing. I address relationship ambivalence, anxiety, life transition, depression, stuckness, conflict and communication, among other issues.

My style is warm and direct. I foster the development of safety and trust, so that together we can process what may be inaccessible or overwhelming to do alone.

Are you tired of feeling stuck in life, but don’t know how to begin to change? Maybe you become caught up in worry spirals, feel paralyzed by indecision and perfectionism, struggle to create boundaries, constantly second-guess yourself, or worry about what others think of you. Or perhaps you’re experiencing more anxiety, loneliness and disconnect in your relationships.You may even find it hard to remember a time you didn’t feel like this. But life can be different.

You don’t have to continue feeling overwhelmed by worry and self-doubt, and you don’t have to do it alone. It is possible to feel better. It is possible to feel more empowered in your life and more connected in your relationships. It is possible to quiet your inner critic so that you can live the more joyful life you deserve. I can help you get there.

I work with teens, adults, and couples in support of their exploration of a wide range of issues and challenges. Some areas of focus that I work with are:

□ Financial Anxiety
□ Trauma
□ People-pleasers
□ Brainspotting (weekly and Intensives)
□ Relationship anxiety
□ Communication and boundary setting
□ Codependence
□ Identity exploration (sexuality, gender identity, racial identity, etc.)
□ Whiteness / Participation in systems of oppression

Welcome! My name is Emily/Em (they/she). I am an associate marriage and family therapist (AMFT) in the Bay Area. I specialize in helping people heal their attachments with themselves and others. I do this with individuals and dyads/groups in relationships (couples, families, polycules, systems/system members, etc.).

The three pillars of my work are liberation-focused, attachment-based, and trauma-responsive approaches. To learn more about what this means please read my bio or visit my website.

I create an experience tailored to your individualized needs and goals. Instead of sticking to a template, we’ll identify how to ensure you feel most comfortable expressing yourself. Therapy can deepen your awareness—which could mean welcoming back parts that you feel disconnected from, discovering new thoughts or ideas, or working with feelings that don’t seem to fit easily in your day-to-day life. As a result, you’ll start to better understand the unique factors that influence your relationships and behaviors: your strengths, values, intuition, and emotions. With new perspectives, you can prepare to live with greater authenticity.

I offer support that is consistent, genuine, collaborative, and direct. My approach integrates the empathetic and existential roots of humanistic therapy, relational work grounded in attachment, present-focused mindfulness tools, and somatic awareness of sensations and feelings within the body. Let's discuss how to tailor these approaches to your needs.
People benefit most when they feel connected to their therapist. I’m open to sharing about myself. When working together, we'll regularly discuss the dynamic between us to ensure therapy is addressing your goals. I encourage you to call for a free 15-minute consultation or learn more about me at my website.

Whether there's resurfacing trauma or you're in the process of revisiting identities and beliefs due to life transitions, therapy can be a healing space to process how all those disruptions are impacting your sense of Self, and mood.

You’re not broken, though at times in life we can feel that way. It can be difficult, but reaching out for support is the first step to feeling like life is working again. I work with individuals and couples to help facilitate their process of living a fuller, deeper, more authentic, and balanced life, through Mindfulness Based and Somatic Psychotherapy. It’s an honor to sit with my clients and be a part of their journey.

Hello, I’m glad you’re here. I believe people are not broken, people are carrying pain, patterns, and survival strategies that once helped them navigate life, but may no longer serve them. This is where the healing begins. I work with those who may appear to be holding it all together on the outside, but feel stuck, overwhelmed, or disconnected on the inside, whether within themselves, their relationships, or couples navigating challenges together. I believe in meeting life’s heaviness with compassion and the occasional well-placed smile or laugh when it’s needed most. If you're ready for something to shift, even if you're not sure what that looks like yet, I’d be honored to walk alongside you as you water your own grass, grow, and begin to blossom into the version of yourself you aspire to be.

The pace and complexity of life these days can make it really hard to understand how or what we are feeling, and why we're feeling that way. Too often, we are urged to ignore or push away key needs and parts of ourselves in order to be - or do - what seems to be required of us. Somewhere in the midst of this, our relationships to ourselves can get eclipsed, murky, lost.

I offer therapy to re-integrate these key parts of you, so that you can address the challenges that you are up against with more self-understanding and insight; with your whole self.

Hello and welcome- I support children, teens, adults, & parents to overcome various adversities, heal to obtain healthy development & maturation, and ultimately reach full potential. Specialties are trauma, depression, anxiety, ADHD/Executive Functioning (neuroatypical), self-esteem/self awareness, stress management, secondary effects of learning differences, life transitions, women's issues, multi ethnicities/cultures, and spirituality. Support is holistic and integrative, incorporating Brainspotting, Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, Humanistic/Existential Therapy, & Play Therapy, while utilizing innate strengths. Helping you to heal, integrate, grow, and thrive.

I am a trauma-informed, somatic psychotherapist offering in-person sessions in San Francisco and telehealth sessions to clients throughout California.

I strive to create a space rooted in trust, where you will feel safe to slow down and explore all parts of yourself, your strengths, and your challenges. As you share what troubles you, I will follow your lead with curiosity and compassion. Together, we will seek to understand why things are as they are so that you can know yourself more fully. This understanding is the beginning of acceptance, healing, and change.

Hi, I’m AJ. I’m a white, queer, neurodivergent therapist who works with adults, youth, and people in intimate partnerships. I specialize in supporting people navigating trauma, identity, and relationships. I strive to show up with warmth, curiosity, and deep respect for your lived experience — and with a commitment to care, relational integrity, and mutual accountability.

I hold a personal understanding that healing is not linear — often messy — and can be nurtured not only in therapy, but also through connection and community. I’m especially passionate about working with queer and trans communities, people in recovery, and those living with the impacts of complex trauma, systemic harm, and neurodivergence in a society that often pathologizes difference and prioritizes productivity over care.

My approach is collaborative and relational — rooted in nervous system awareness, emotional insight, self-reflection, and clarity in thought and behavior. I welcome all kinds of relationship structures and family systems, and strive to work at a pace that prioritizes safety and sustainability.

If you’re seeking a therapist who values integrity, compassion, and complexity — I’d be honored to connect.

I provide teens and adults a non-judgmental space to work through challenging and “messy” experiences such as anxiety, panic, depression, relationship issues, and disordered eating. Rather than grabbing the Clorox and trying to “fix” things, I help clients explore how and why their symptoms came to be. As clients better understand themselves, they often feel profoundly relieved and have greater capacity to try out new ways of managing challenges. Ultimately, I hope to help clients make peace with their complexities so they can feel and act more wholly themselves.

I’m a holistic spiritual therapist and practicing astrologer based in Sacramento, offering telehealth throughout California. I specialize in working with individuals who feel out of place in their environments, those experiencing spiritual awakenings, and anyone navigating deep personal transformation. My practice is a haven for empathetic, highly sensitive, and neurodivergent individuals, as well as mothers moving through the underworld of matrescence or on complex parenting journeys.

I work well with people who are healing from childhood trauma, breaking generational cycles, and seeking to reconnect with their authentic selves. Many of my clients are cycle breakers, spiritual seekers, or alternative healers doing the brave work of reclaiming their wholeness.

As a clinician, I bring warmth, intuition, and deep reverence for your story. I approach therapy as a sacred process of remembering, rooted in relational safety, depth, and spiritual curiosity. If you're feeling stuck, unseen, or amid profound change, you don't have to go through it alone. This work is about coming home to yourself.

Hi, I’m Jessica Cruz (she/her), an associate therapist passionate about supporting individuals and couples navigating life’s complexities. I specialize in helping people explore identity, heal relational and developmental trauma, and reconnect with their sense of self in a way that feels authentic and empowering. My practice is rooted in curiosity, care, and a deep belief that healing happens in safe, connected relationships. Whether you’re moving through anxiety, grief, family dynamics, or a desire to feel more grounded in who you are, I’m here to walk alongside you with compassion and clarity.

Hi there, I’m Mirisen (she/her). I offer online therapy for adults, teens, and relationships (couples and polycules) across California. I'm warm and interactive in sessions. I strive to practice from an anti-oppressive lens, attending to how systems of power shape our lives and wounds. My approach is grounded in Internal Family Systems (IFS), attachment theory, and client-centered therapy, with tools from Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) when helpful.

I work with people who want to:
- reconnect with their true selves and inner wisdom
- live with greater intention and self-trust
- feel alive in their connection to themselves and others
- follow what brings them meaning and nourishment

I am Nita - I have mixed heritage, mixed beliefs, and mixed practices, so I understand the importance of welcoming all parts of our identities to show up in our bodies and in the room. I practice a “both/and” model in my personal life and with my clients. When we welcome all parts of our identities, we promote integration of the whole person. I emphasize safety, authenticity, freedom, and vitality in all aspects of my life

I welcome folks from all walks of life and find that working somatically supports me to work with a variety of clients through their own direct experience of living in their body/bodies.

As a mental health therapist, it is my desire to help you live your life to the fullest and healthiest potential. There is hope for positive change. You do not have to be stuck in unhealthy patterns or states of mind. I care deeply for each and every one of my clients. I would love to help you in your healing journey.

Hi there. I’m glad you’re looking into getting support. I specialize in somatic, creatively-focused, and inner child work psychotherapy. With me as your therapist, we will ground and regulate the body, as we invite different parts of you to be heard and to integrate. I utilize somatic touch work to help my clients move through stuckness and into healing.

As many people are especially overwhelmed right now, trauma-informed techniques are even more important. I am holistic and integrative, which means that I believe there is potential for healing in each one of us. I am here to facilitate what the body knows how to do best, which is to heal.

I enjoy working with clients of all ages, ethnicities, abilities, gender identities, sexualities, and other intersectional identities. I meet with clients via Telehealth, In-Office in Pleasant Hill, and for Outdoor Therapy sessions. Please feel free to read more about what our work together will entail, and contact me to book a consultation. I look forward to meeting you.

"The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances: if there is any reaction, both are transformed."
— Carl Jung

If you’ve found yourself here, you may be feeling the impact of relating with another. Connection—whether romantic, platonic, or familial—is essential to our well-being, yet it can be deeply challenging. I work with individuals, couples, and families to ease the tension that often arises in relationships.

I work well with people who:
- Want to improve communication during conflict
- Crave more depth, connection, and intimacy
- Feel heavy, anxious, stuck, or burnt out
- Have a creative spirit
- Are navigating polyamory or ethical non-monogamy

By slowing our automatic responses—whether in conflict with ourselves or others—we make space to ask: What’s really happening? What do I need? How can I express that clearly? In couples work: How can I share this in a way my partner can truly hear? When we name and express our needs and emotions, our relationships—with ourselves and others—grow stronger.

I focus on building trust and creating a safe space that can allow clients over time begin to do some more depth work (e.g. process grief, trauma, attachment wounding). The work that I do with my clients is best described as Somatic and Relational therapy.

I offer trauma-informed psychotherapy to adults across the lifespan. With warmth, curiosity, and practicality, I will collaborate with you in our sessions to discover what healing and change look like for you.

I believe that you're the expert of your own experience and everyone has the capacity to grow, heal, and create meaningful change in their lives. A safe, trusting, and supportive therapeutic relationship allows for a dedicated space to explore, carefully unpack, and gain more tools to navigate whatever it is that brought you to therapy.

Whether it's learning how to better manage anxiety, move through a big transition, recover from a traumatic event, navigate the loss or death of a loved one, or adjust to a new or ongoing disability or medical condition, I will partner with you along your journey. Together, we can figure out the stuck places, help you identify what you want and need, and chart your path forward.

I'm a warm, collaborative therapist who works with teens and adults navigating life transitions, anxiety, identity, and relationship challenges. I create a space that is thoughtful, grounded, and real -- where you can slow down, reflect, and reconnect with what matters most to you. I especially enjoy supporting people who are deep thinkers, caregivers, creatives, and those who feel a bit out of step with the world around them.

Welcome! I’m Bella. Thank you for finding your way here. I am an integrative psychotherapist offering telehealth therapy throughout California.

I come to this work with a deep reverence for the human experience and the courage it takes to turn inward. I am passionate about supporting highly sensitive souls, and those navigating anxiety, depression, grief, self-esteem issues, and life transitions. As someone who is no stranger to the rocky terrain of the psyche, I know what it feels like to feel lost, scared, and longing for relief. And yet, even amidst the chaos, there is wisdom, clarity, and calm that can always be found. This, I hold as a deep truth. If you're carrying more than your heart knows what to do with, you don't have to carry it alone.