I am committed to helping clients work through and heal from the challenges in their lives. In my work, I honor the unique experiences of each individual, providing a safe, calming space to explore one's inner world and ultimately develop greater self-awareness. I offer encouragement and creativity to help clients understand the past and embrace their strengths so they can move forward and fully enjoy life in the present. My approach is psychodynamic, influenced by depth psychology, mindfulness and relational theory. I welcome adults, couples and adolescents.       

I am dedicated to working with couples and individuals to help them enjoy more meaningful relationships, overcome personal and emotional challenges, effectively cope with grief and loss, productively move through life transitions, end patterns of substance abuse, and develop emotionally and spiritually in order to gain freedom, fulfillment, and peace in their daily lives.  I work from a client-centered perspective and integrate a range of approaches, including cognitive, mindfulness-based, and somatic methods, depending on the unique needs of each client.          

I believe that we as human beings have the capacity to heal ourselves emotionally, physically and spiritually and as a psychotherapist it is my intention to help guide you into tapping into your own rich inner resources in an effort to heal and grow towards a path of true authenticity. My style integrates therapeutic techniques to best meet the needs of each individual, couple, family or child that I work with. I provide my clients with empathy, warmth, and genuine caring as they work towards making meaningful changes in their lives.  I am open to working with a wide array of clients including individuals, couples, adolescents, and families.

As a psychotherapist, part of my work is to help clients, whether it's a problem to be solved, a desired behavioral change, or find meaning during a life challenging experience. I believe a therapeutic relationship can provide a sense of healing and offer a deeper understanding of one's self. My approach is integrative, drawing from a psychoanalytical and psychodynamic framework. I specialize in anxiety/depression, substance/abuse, trauma and grief/loss. I enjoy working with adolescents, individuals and families. Allow me to help you.       

Choosing to enter therapy is a brave and important step in your journey of self-discovery and healing.  I see it as my role to guide you in this journey in a warm and intuitive way.  My therapeutic style is eclectic, drawing from the Humanistic, Psychodynamic, Cognitive, and Mindfulness approaches. I also bring a perspective on the roles of nutrition, nature, and movement in attaining overall wellness. I enjoy working with individuals, couples, and children around issues including life transitions, relationships, sexuality, depression, and anxiety.

Sharon Gardner, MFT Intern, IMF 60687
Intern
415.835.2132

Supervised by Katie Cofer, M.A., MFC 35856

I enjoy seeing and reflecting back the great potential in each client and collaborating with them to reveal their unique wisdom and beauty. I enjoy assisting clients in developing greater self awareness through mindfulness; resolving the past to live more fully in the present; creating value from life’s challenging experiences; developing healthy, enjoyable and satisfying relationships; developing greater self appreciation and sense of purpose; and moving meaningfully through the transitions of life. I work with individuals, couples and families, bringing curiosity and warmth; sense of the wholeness of mind, body and spirit; Hakomi principles and training; many years of Buddhist practice; and my life experience.

Douglas Mitchell , M.A., MFT Intern, IMF 61580
Intern
415.835.2131

Supervised by Karen Palamos, MFT, MFC 38971

Perhaps you have stumbled upon reading this with hopes of some resolve or a spark to carry you forward.  If you're feeling confused, out of sorts, needing a transformation, or just need someone to listen, then my wish is to support you in expressing each of these in a safe, healthy and nurturing way.  I support you best honoring your innate intelligence and tending to your concerns using an eclectic approach of mindful, expressive and cognitive therapies unique to you.  These therapeutic sessions support you to articulate, realize and envision your life more clearly, working through blocks and opening new doors, bridging insight, meaning, and understanding between us.  I'm engaged, respectful, down to earth, and solution-oriented. I welcome your call!

As a psychotherapist it is my pleasure to provide support, education and guidance for those seeking to overcome personal difficulties and improve the quality of their lives. Using mindfulness based methods, I can help you transform the relationship you have with yourself, as well as the relationships you have with others, and bring about the changes you seek. Some of your concerns may be depressed or anxious moods, recovering from loss, relationship difficulties, addictions or blocked creativity. I enjoy working with individuals, couples and families.

I believe that kindness, respect, and compassion for oneself are the foundations of psychological and emotional healing. Working interactively with a strong emphasis on mindful, present moment experience, I help my clients reconnect to their passion in life and for each other. I work with relationship and communication difficulties, depression, anxiety, unresolved abuse and trauma, eating disorders, grief and low-self esteem. I have a broad educational background in Social Work and Counseling Psychology and I have trained in Non-Violent communication with Dr Marshall Rosenberg.  I work with individuals, couples, children and families of all ethnicities, colors, ages, genders and spiritualities.  I conduct psychotherapy in English, French and Dutch.

Jennifer Hesbol, MFT Intern, IMF 55166
Associate Intern
415.835.2186

Supervised by Larry O'Connor, MFT 41043

I believe that therapy is both an individual and a collaborative process between a client and the therapist. Psychotherapy begins with developing a safe space for experiencing inner authenticity and developing awareness about life patterns, struggles, hopes and desires. We all possess the ability to be present in our lives and manage the difficult path on which we sometimes find ourselves. Therapy is a place to grow inner resources that honor a client’s life history and emotions about the past, present, and future.

Stephanie Jansse, MFT Intern, IMF 57292
Associate Intern
415.835.2113

Supervised by Michael Baugh, LCSW, LC9324

Psychotherapy can help you to go beyond the fear that you are not good enough or that you "can't do it."  You can create the life you want to live by finding the joy in relationships and finding the answers within yourself. I will provide a space in which this is possible. I work with adults, couples, and children.

In my work I draw on the mystery of the unknown. Sitting with the creativity of an open mind, I empower clients to turn within for the answers to their life struggles. As I sit with people, I am moved, humbled and deeply appreciate the humanness and the wisdom that my clients and I share as people living on this earth. I trust that my clients' life circumstances, direct experience, and relationships hold a key to their wholeness. My work is inspired by an inquiry   process called "The Work" of Byron Katie, EMDR, mindfulness, and a passion for truth. I work with couples, individuals and groups.

Clodagh O'Herlihy, M.A., SVMHC, MFT Intern, IMF 52743
Associate Intern
415.835.2174

Supervised by Karen Palamos, MFT, MFC 38971

You may question the choices you have made; your relationships, your career and your spiritual beliefs. I believe that we all have an inner wise voice that can guide us with our choices in life. This voice often needs to nurtured, seen and heard in order to grow. With your permission, I would like to accompany you on your journey of personal empowerment. I am told that I am a warm empathic therapist and I like to use a client centered approach in my work. I am influenced by an existential framework and like to use mind-body-spirit integrative techniques and expressive arts (music and sound, writing, play). I work with families, children, adults and couples. I tend to attract people challenged with anxiety, depression, cross-cultural issues, trauma and life transitions.

In therapy, you are the expert who holds the wisdom of your unique life story. As a therapist, I become your guide and companion in a journey towards self-understanding and transformation. We will collaborate together in a safe space where your thoughts, feelings, and emotions can be explored. I work from a mind-body-spirit integrated approach and invite the possibility of expressive arts in therapy - drawing, painting, poetry, role-playing. With the combination of verbal and expressive arts therapy, understanding often arises that would be otherwise inaccessible. Speaking multiple languages and having traveled extensively, I'm aware of cultural differences and dynamics. I work with clients in English (my native language), Spanish, or Italian.

Life's unfolding path can sometimes be scary and confusing, but you don't have to walk that path alone. I provide support for those struggling with relationship, spiritual, cross-cultural, sexuality and LGBTQ issues. I effectively work with individuals living with anger; anxiety, depression and relationship concerns; and with individuals and couples from the queer community. I use mindfulness as a strong foundation, and I work in ways which compliment a clients goals and personality. This may range from client centered empathic listening, to a more directive approach. Allow me to help to ground you in your experience while we explore the twists and turns which can make life so exciting.
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