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I’ll work with you to overcome limiting patterns and discover new, more fulfilling ways to be in the world. Along the way you may discover deeply held beliefs and emotional responses that shape your experience, and choose to let go of what no longer serves you, while giving greater expression to your authentic self.
In my psychotherapy practice, I work with individuals and couples to:
* find relief from anxiety and other distressing emotions
* heal trauma
* improve self-esteem
* improve communication
* find greater relationship satisfaction
* experience greater overall clarity, aliveness, fulfillment and empowerment
I offer a warm and welcoming therapeutic environment where you can safely explore your concerns. My style as a therapist combines a calm and gentle presence with an active approach to facilitating change. In addition to traditional talk therapy, I include a focus on developing mindful awareness of feelings, sensations and other experiences that arise in the here and now of the therapy session, to deepen the therapeutic process.
I honor you as a thinking, feeling, embodied, social and spiritual being, and work with your concerns along these different dimensions, as appropriate.
Please visit my website to learn more, and to watch a brief introductory video!
Evening and weekend appointments available.
Meet the Manager
Mats H.
Manager
I am a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist (#88 243). I received my M.A. in counseling psychology, with a somatic specialization, from John F. Kennedy University. I also have a B.A. from the University of California, Berkeley, and a J.D. from Stanford University.
I have specialized training in Hakomi Experiential Therapy, Emotionally Focused Therapy (EFT) for Couples, Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR), and Re-Creation of Self. My work is also informed by psychodynamic and cognitive-behavioral therapy.
I was born and grew up in Sweden, and moved to the U.S. in my late teens. I have lived in the Bay Area for over 25 years.