THERAPY IN SAN FRANCISCO

There are any things to consider, starting with whether you plan to use your insurance. If you plan to go out of network, you have many options. Consider if you need a specialist, such as a couples therapist or EMDR therapist. Or perhaps you feel strongly about working with someone who has a shared identity, such as a lesbian therapist. Whatever you decide, the most important thing is that you feel a strong connection with your San Francisco therapist. In fact, it’s one of the most important predictors of therapy success.

We’ve got a handy calculator for determining what your PPO insurance will cover for you with our services.

If you plan to use your insurance to cover therapy, go to your insurance website and search for in-network providers.

Think about whether you require a specialist, like a couples therapist or EMDR therapist. Alternatively, you might prioritize working with a therapist who shares your identity, such as a lesbian therapist. Regardless of your choice, the key is to establish a meaningful connection with your therapist in San Francisco. In fact, it's one of the most crucial factors in determining the success of therapy.

Our rates are market average for out of network providers in San Francisco, ranging from $165-250 for a weekly therapy session.

We’ve got a convenient calculator for determining what your PPO insurance will cover of our services.

Therapy in San Francisco is as diverse as its residents! You can find just about anything in this beautiful city. We’re passionate about providing EMDR therapy, couples therapy, therapy for teenagers and millennials, and therapy for our LGBT community.

It’s a fair question, and we wish we had an answer. Frustratingly, the answer is “it depends.” If you decide to start therapy with us, your therapist can help give you an estimate to this question.

If you choose to work with us, you can expect your first session to be relaxed and conversational. We don’t want to overwhelm you by diving deep into trauma or the most difficult parts of your life. We understand that trust is built over time and is critical for therapy to be successful.

We recommend starting therapy in San Francisco once a week. This gives some time between sessions, but not so much that sessions are spent playing catch up on everything that happened in between.

After some time and progress has been made, we do sometimes titrate down to every other week. The timeline and appropriateness of this is determined on a case-by-case basis.

Once you’ve completed your therapy goals, you can graduate, or go down to once a month check ins.

If cost is an issue, talk to your therapist.

We understand it can feel awkward or uncomfortable to talk to someone you don’t know yet about things that are highly personal. We aim to make it less uncomfortable by building a meaningful therapeutic relationship based on trust.

If you’re open to exploring new ways of thinking and responding to things in your life, therapy can help. The only reasons we see therapy fail is when someone isn’t open, the therapist is poorly trained or acting unethically, or the relationship with between client and therapist isn’t strong.

Therapy can help many people with many different issues. When working with trauma survivors, we often hear concern that people don’t want to share details about what happened. That’s normal and makes sense. The great news is that with our approach to trauma therapy - EMDR therapy - you don’t have to share a lot of detail for it to be effective.

Likewise with couples therapy, it makes sense to be skeptical that someone can help the two of you feel closure and have less conflict. Using Gottman method couples therapy, our couples therapists can give you concrete tools to improve your relationship.