All relationships get stuck in distressing patterns at times. Couple and relationship therapies can help you identify those patterns, understand one another, and communicate more effectively so all partners’ needs are met and you feel like a team. We use evidence-based therapies, meaning treatments that have been tested in clinical research studies and shown to be effective. No treatment is a silver bullet for everyone, but these evidence-based therapies give you the best chance to deepen your connection, heal relational wounds, and communicate well.

The evidence-based therapies that we use include:

Integrative Behavioral Couple Therapy (IBCT)

Cognitive-Behavioral Couple Therapy (CBCT)

Emotionally-Focused Couple Therapy (EFT / EFCT)

Relationship Issues We Treat

Regardless of your relationship structure or style, our therapists can help you work through a wide range of issues and challenges, including:

•  Communication problems
•  Sex and intimacy issues
•  Infidelity and other betrayals
•  Co-parenting
•  Racial, cultural, or values differences
•  Mental health diagnoses and symptoms (PTSD, OCD, depression, etc.)
•  Coping with discrimination, illness, or other chronic stressors
•  Decisions about commitment, children, and the future of your relationship
•  Breaking up with kindness and integrity

We work with individuals who are interested in improving your relationships so you can create the joyful, expansive life you want. We support clients in developing essential relationship skills like emotion regulation, conflict management, and intimate connection. We also help clients explore your values, needs, and boundaries so you can make healthy relationship decisions.

We specialize in working with people who are queer/LGBTQ+, kinky, and/or non-monogamous, but we are passionate about supporting all people in building your best possible relationships, whatever that looks like. We honor each person’s unique identity, goals, and circumstances - your therapist is a person who truly understands and accepts you unconditionally. We work with clients to develop a treatment plan that helps you identify and work toward your personal goals.

We use evidence-based therapies that have shown to be the most effective ways of making the changes you want, including:

Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)

Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)

Dialectical Behavioral Therapy (DBT)

Self-Compassion

Ketamine-assisted psychotherapy (KAP) is a cutting-edge treatment for individual and relational problems. Ketamine is a dissociative anesthetic, and along with psilocybin and MDMA is being studied as a modality of modern psychedelic-assisted therapy.

Ketamine has the potential to enhance benefits of traditional individual and couple therapies by improving cognitive flexibility, perspective taking, empathy, and connection. Ketamine works by increasing neuroplasticity, the ability of our brains to create new neural pathways, which can translate into the ability to make changes in your thinking, behavior, and relationships that previously felt impossible. Read more about how couple KAP works from Drs. Kayla & Chandra on Psychology Today and Frontiers Journal.

Prescribing Ketamine Partners

We partner with Journey Clinical and other medical prescribers to provide KAP to our clients. They provide your ketamine prescription and medical care, while we work with you on preparation and integration of ketamine medicine sessions. We can also provide remote guidance and support during your ketamine session. KAP is available for individuals, couples, or other pairs or groups of loved ones.

Reclaim Your Joy: Let Go of Dysfunctional Relationship Patterns and Build Healthy Connections

Are you stuck in distressing relationship patterns? Do you hold on to past hurts and resentments that keep you from moving forward? Are negative thoughts or feelings getting in the way of meeting your ideal partner and building your ideal relationship?

This ketamine-assisted group therapy includes 9 sessions of 90-minute, weekly groups and up to 6 optional ketamine medicine sessions. We will explore your values and set treatment goals, learn emotion regulation skills and self-compassion, and release attachment to dysfunctional relationship patterns and a painful past.
In addition, this program uses a community-building approach to provide accountability and support in making the relationship and behavioral changes you want.

All sessions are completed over video telehealth from your home. Anyone in California can participate in the program. New group members can join every 4 weeks.

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