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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Rachel Gold

she/her

  • Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist

LMFT 137576

Master of Arts, Counseling Psychology

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How I Can Help

I'm here to help you understand and accept yourself, make sense of difficult experiences, and find more of what makes you truly happy. This might mean working through unprocessed trauma that is holding you back or examining your patterns in relationships. Whatever path our work takes, I believe self-knowing and self-compassion are at its core. Who are you, what is hurting inside you, and what do you need to feel whole? Let’s get curious and find out together.

About Me

I grew up on the East Coast and in the Midwest and have made my home in San Francisco 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, singing, nature, crafty projects, and good stories.

My Background and Experience

I studied music theory at Oberlin College for my undergraduate degree. My desire to understand music, something that has always been highly emotional for me, eventually developed into a desire to understand emotions and emotional healing. This led me to study integral counseling psychology at the California Institute of Integral Studies (CIIS). Since completing my master’s degree at CIIS, I have counseled clients at the Pierce Street Integral Counseling Center and the Liberation Institute. I joined Grateful Heart in 2017.

My Approach

My approach is trauma-informed, which means I look to your past experiences to better understand the ways you are struggling today. Trauma, big and small, leaves you with deeply ingrained beliefs about yourself and the world that you might not even realize you’re carrying. I will help you identify those beliefs, consider whether they are helping or hindering you, and work to shift them when appropriate.

My approach is also relational, which means that our relationship as therapist and client is an important part of our work. How you relate in therapy reflects how you relate to the world, and our sessions provide a safe, nonjudgmental container to explore those patterns.

My Values

I value integrity, authenticity, and aliveness. I work well with clients who share these values and are striving to be true to themselves. I also value access to mental health care and strive to make my services affordable and available to all who are willing to commit to working on themselves. If you are concerned about affording therapy, please talk with me about my sliding scale fee option. My wish is for therapy to be accessible to everyone. If I can’t accommodate you in my practice, I will help connect you with someone who can.

Client Ages
  • Young Adult: 18-25
  • Adults: 25-65
  • Seniors: 65+
I Provide Therapy To
  • Individuals
  • Couples
Other Areas of Expertise/Interest
  • Activists
  • Artists
  • Highly Sensitive Person/s
  • Immigrants
  • LGBTQIAA+ persons
  • 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
  • Persons with Disabilities
Supplemental Training or Certification Completed
  • EMDR
  • Humanistic Therapy
  • Psychodynamic Psychotherapy
  • Relational Psychotherapy
  • Trauma-Informed Psychotherapy
More About My Practice

In addition to traditional talk therapy, I practice eye movement desensitization and reprocessing (EMDR). EMDR is a technique for working with trauma, anxiety, and your feelings and beliefs about yourself. Please visit my website to learn more about EMDR and how it can help.

Types of Payments Accepted
  • Cash
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Full Fee

$150

Sliding Scale Range

$80-$140

Sliding Scale Openings

No

Phone

(415) 967-3453

Email

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Website

rachelgoldtherapy.com

Office Address

Only seeing clients remotely

Scheduling Instructions

To schedule an initial session or to talk more about whether we might be a good fit, please send me an email or leave a message at my confidential voicemail via the phone number listed.

Last Updated

08/31/23

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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