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Our mission

Our mission is to provide affordable & accessible mental health care services for all races, gender, & socio-economic backgrounds.

The San Francisco Marriage and Couples Center was founded in 2013. Our organization provides the highest quality of professional health care services with an emphasis and focus on patient care. We strongly believe this same quality of care should be accessible to all.

The Center provides a various range of services including couples counseling, family therapy, and individual psychotherapy in San Francisco, Oakland, and Berkeley. We concentrate on the treatment of trauma, relationship issues, mood and emotional conditions.

Our clinicians were chosen based on their unique backgrounds and what they could contribute to the Center's culture of diversity in addition to their expertise and training. Our clinicians are licensed marriage and family therapists, interns with supervision towards licensure, licensed psychologists, and psychological assistants working with supervision toward licensure. All our therapists passionately support diversity and are proud to serve LGBTQIA individuals and couples, polyamorous, trans, and non-binary folks, people of color, (POC), immigrants, and people of any religious and socio economic backgrounds.

Our approach

We take pride in the fact that our staff provides innovative treatment for relationship issues, trauma, and mood disorders.

Our marriage counselors, couples therapists, and individual psychotherapists are trained in at least one of the following modalities providing the most progressive professional mental health services San Francisco has to offer.

AEDP (ACCELERATED EXPERIENTIAL DYNAMIC PSYCHOTHERAPY) FOR COUPLES

The goal is to restore access to one's full ranges of emotions that play a powerful role in healing one’s relationships. AEDP for couples works through healing the underlying deprivation and trauma that can keep couples from thriving.

GESTALT THERAPY

The goal is focusing on whatever arises in the here and now including bringing awareness to the many parts within you. The belief is that healing happens in present moment awareness between therapist and clients. Couples will learn healthier communication, conflict resolution, how to get their needs met, and rebuilding trust and mutual respect.

PSYCHODYNAMIC/Psychoanalytic PSYCHOTHERAPY

The goal is to help couples develop self-awareness and understanding of the influence of the past relationships on your present relationships. Long term psychoanalytic couple psychotherapy is the most effective therapy as it focuses on understanding how the unconscious processes are impacting a person's present relational patterns. This understanding allows for changes in personality and behavior that is long lasting.

EFT (EMOTIONALLY FOCUSED COUPLES THERAPY)

A highly effective form of therapy that focuses on emotions and attachment needs. The goal is to help clients identify, explore, experience, make sense of, and manage their emotional experience. Research has shown that 70-75% of couples can move from distress to recovery with EFT Therapy.

INTERNAL FAMILY SYSTEMS

This model of psychotherapy offers a clear, non pathologizing, and empowering method of understanding your problems. It is an innovative philosophy of practice that believes that everyone in their core has leadership qualities i.e.. perspective, confidence, acceptance, and compassion. IFS Model has evolved over the last 20 years into a comprehensive approach that includes guidelines for working with individuals, couples, and families.

“Too often we underestimate the power of a touch, a smile, a kind word, a listening ear, an honest compliment or the smallest act of caring, all of which have the potential to turn a life around.”