If you are feeling lost, broken, overwhelmed, or in need of something more from your life, therapy can help reconnect you to yourself. I provide depth-oriented psychotherapy to adults and adolescents in the East Bay. I enjoy supporting individuals, teens, and couples who feel stuck due to depression, anxiety, difficulties in relationships, and distress related to past and present trauma. I have experience working within the LGBTQI+ community and welcome people who occupy non-conforming gender and sexual identities.

Together we will work to connect to your authentic thoughts and emotions, build insight into the origins of your struggles, highlight your strengths, and make space for the things that bring you meaning. This process of exploration can promote greater self-awareness, increased confidence in navigating challenging situations, and a deepened relationship to self and others.

I hold an undergraduate degree from Brown University in gender and sexuality studies and a master’s degree from John F. Kennedy University in counseling psychology. I previously worked as a psychotherapist in the clinical training program at the Pacific Center for Human Growth, an LGBTQI+ community center.

I believe that past struggles often revisit us at times when we are more able to work through them, and that these times, while they may feel disorienting and painful, are opportunities for profound insight and growth. I also believe that we heal in and towards relationships. In the context of our therapeutic relationship, we might find artifacts of other relational wounds you’ve incurred in your life. These moments of uncovering can help lead us to deeper understanding of how you’ve learned to live and relate in this world. Couples and relationship work will often further focus on building and/or re-enforcing safety, trust, authentic communication, and intimacy while deepening each partner's understanding of the other(s).

My approach is warm, reflective, emotion-focused, and gentle. I aim to be responsive to your needs, to listen to you without judgment, and, above all, to hold you and your stories with care. I invite you to reach out to see if we may be a good fit. I look forward to getting to know everything that makes you, you.

• Youth: 12-18
• Young Adult: 18-25
• Adults: 25-65
• Seniors: 65+

• Individuals
• Couples

• Gender Fluid or Gender Non-Conforming Individuals
• Highly Sensitive Person/s
• LGBTQIAA+ persons
• Persons Experiencing Grief and Loss
• Persons in Polyamorous Relationships
• Persons Recovering from Domestic Violence
• Persons Recovering from Traumatic Events/Experiences
• Persons with Histories of Childhood Sexual Abuse
• Persons with Histories of Physical or Emotional Abuse
• Women
• Other:
• Persons with Histories of Physical or Emotional Abuse
• Women

• Psychodynamic Psychotherapy
• Relational Psychotherapy
• Trauma-Informed Psychotherapy
• Other:

• Credit Card

$170

$110-$170

Yes

(510) 283-9395

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I am currently offering teletherapy sessions via video or phone for clients located in the state of California.

• Tuesday Morning
• Wednesday Afternoon

You can contact me at gracecain@protonmail.com or at 510-283-9395 to schedule a free 10-15 minute phone consultation. I look forward to hearing from you!

(Please note I currently have only limited openings for weekly therapy sessions on Tuesday mornings and Wednesday afternoons.)

Lucy Collier, LMFT 37260

9/14/2023