Holistic Mental Wellness Therapy Center | Oakland CA | 94610

Grateful Heart Holistic Therapy Center in Oakland, CA helps families, couples, individuals and children with mental health, trauma, grief and life changes

  • Holistic Mental Wellness Therapy Center | Oakland CA | 94610
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Jamie Kellenberger

she/her

  • Registered Associate Marriage and Family Therapist

AMFT 108590

Master of Arts, Counseling Psychology with an emphasis in Somatic Psychology

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How I Can Help

I help clients transform patterns; increase tolerance for uncertainty and fear; cultivate self-compassion; and deepen in relationship.

I believe that we suffer because of the world, culture, and systems in which we live, not because we are broken. At best these systems around us mean well but often don’t support us in the ways we need; at worst, they oppress, violate and even kill us. To survive, we must adapt. At creation, our adaptations are brilliant, but often we outgrow them, or they control us. These adaptations may impact you through chronic anxiety, symptoms of depression, a fierce inner critic, loneliness, or shame.

Clinical Expertise:

  • Pandemic-related depression, isolation, or overwhelm
  • Grief and loss
  • Anxiety, including social anxiety
  • Self-doubt, insecurity, perfectionism, inner critic
  • Struggling with the day-to-day, desiring increased coping skills
  • Difficulty in intimate relationships
  • White folks addressing systemic racism, internalized white supremacy and white fragility
  • Burnout, career or otherwise
  • Persons recovering from traumatic experiences
My Background and Experience

I studied somatic psychotherapy at California Institute of Integral Studies. I have since had experience working with an array of issues from managing general emotional wellbeing to more severe and often chronic mental health conditions such as thoughts about suicide, depression, anxiety, and Borderline Personality Disorder. I have facilitated Dialectical Behavioral Therapy (DBT) skills groups and bring that knowledge and skill into my work.

Before studying psychotherapy, I worked in both the tech and nonprofit fields, eventually hitting a place of profound burnout that impacted my body, energy, and life. This experience has given me an understanding of finding fulfillment and purpose through work as well as the often-excessive demands placed on workers in U.S. society, especially in the Bay Area.

My Approach

In a culture that prizes intellectualization, productivity, and perfectionism, I invite space for intuitive, somatic and creative knowledge; rest and spaciousness; and delighting in being (a work) in process.

I work somatically using the body, its cues, and its wisdom to help clients process pain and grief and connect back to themselves and a place of safety within. Working somatically supports regulation of the nervous system, the system that is responsible for feelings of safety or fight/flight.

I also work relationally, using the therapeutic relationship to help clients understand how it is to be in relationship and to experience new ways of being in relationship that can translate to outside the therapy room.

I am heart-centered and direct. I aspire to rock the boat in an intentional, caring way. I love laughter in therapy and relishing in the calm and feeling good places; it doesn’t have to be painful, hard work to be therapeutic.

Client Ages
  • Young Adult: 18-25
  • Adults: 25-65
  • Seniors: 65+
I Provide Therapy To
  • Individuals
Other Areas of Expertise/Interest
  • Persons with Histories of Physical or Emotional Abuse
  • Women
Supplemental Training or Certification Completed
  • Dialectical Behavioral Therapy
  • Experiential Therapy
  • Psychodynamic Psychotherapy
  • Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy
  • Relational Psychotherapy
  • Somatic Psychotherapy
  • Trauma-Informed Psychotherapy
  • Other:

Internal Family Systems

Types of Payments Accepted
  • Credit Card
Full Fee

$160

Sliding Scale Range

$90-$130

Sliding Scale Openings

No

Phone

(415) 226-9356

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Office Address

Telehealth only during COVID-19 pandemic. Based in San Francisco, CA, and can see clients throughout CA via telehealth

Availability
  • Tuesday Afternoon
  • Tuesday Evening
  • Thursday Afternoon
  • Friday Morning
  • Friday Afternoon
  • Friday Evening
Scheduling Instructions

If you think I might be a good fit for you, please call (415) 226-9356 or email jamiekelltherapy@gmail.com to setup a free 20-minute consultation to speak about working together.

Supervisor Name & License Type/Number

Ludmila Cantamissa, LMFT 37803

Last Updated

06/06/2022

Grateful Heart Holistic Therapy Center

We offer affordable teletherapy (therapy by phone and by video) throughout the Greater Bay Area and California. Please call us today to schedule a preliminary meeting. Our services are offered in multiple languages during day and evening hours, 7 days per week. Compassionate and dedicated, our clinicians will provide you with care sensitive and responsive to your needs.

510-394-5065
admin@gratefulhearttherapy.org

MAILING ADDRESS
360 Grand Avenue, #46
Oakland, CA  94610

TIN: 20-5284226
NPI: 1942650239

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Internships

We offer a supportive private practice internship program, allowing pre-licensed clinicians (AMFT/ASW/APCC) to earn an income, accrue hours towards licensure and develop the clinical and entrepreneurial skills required for success in private practice. During the Coronavirus pandemic, we are continuing to accept new associates, helping them to launch practices as teletherapists. We also occasionally accept newly licensed clinicians, helping them to launch their private practice careers.

Services

In response to the Coronavirus, we now focus on providing teletherapy (therapy by phone and video) to our clients. Teletherapy can be helpful to individuals of all ages, including children and teenagers. Couples and families can also benefit from the convenience, flexibility and effectiveness of teletherapy. Please call or write us today to learn more about our services.

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