THERAPY IN SAN FRANCISCO
Couples therapy, trauma therapy, and EMDR online, for San Francisco adults and teens.
Whatever brings you to therapy, you can overcome, grow, change, and thrive, and we want to help.
Therapy newcomers welcome!
You've got a lot going on.
You're good at keeping it together. You've been good at it for a long time. The job, the apartment, the plans with friends, the appearance of having it figured out.
San Francisco rewards that kind of performance.
It also extracts a price most people don't talk about.
At some point something stops adding up. The exhaustion doesn't lift after a good weekend. The anxiety shows up even when nothing is technically wrong. You find yourself going through the motions of a life that looks right from the outside and wondering why it doesn't feel that way.
That's usually when people find us.
How Does Teletherapy Work?
Our therapists use a secure, HIPAA-compliant video platform for all our video therapy sessions. Before each therapy session, you'll receive a unique link to join a video chat. Just click and make sure you have a private, quiet place to talk for 50 minutes with good internet connection. From there, we'll proceed just as we would in person.
Our San Francisco Therapists
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Alexis Harney, LMFT
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Specializing in adults, teens, and EMDR
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Tatevik Sarkisian, AMFT
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Specializing in holistic therapy
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What We Offer in San Francisco
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Couples Therapy
Couples therapy in San Francisco for the relationship you want to protect before it gets harder. Most couples wait too long. By the time they call, they're managing distance, not building connection. Gottman Method therapy gives you practical tools and real insight.
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Burnout Recovery
Burnout therapy for the version of you that keeps everything running and hasn't stopped long enough to notice the cost. The exhaustion that doesn't lift after a good weekend. The anxiety that shows up even when nothing is technically wrong. That's not a productivity problem. That's your nervous system asking for something different. Here's what's actually happening in your body when that pattern takes hold and why a vacation won't fix it.
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Therapy for Lawyers
Therapy for lawyers and legal professionals who are good at their job and quietly exhausted by what it costs them. The billable hours, the performance, the Sunday dread. You became good at compartmentalizing because you had to. At some point the compartments start leaking. We know this world from the inside.
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EMDR Therapy
San Francisco EMDR therapy for trauma that talk therapy hasn't touched. Most people who find us have already tried talking about it. They understand their patterns. They just can't seem to change how they feel. EMDR works differently — at the level of the nervous system, where the trauma actually lives.
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LGBTQ+ Therapy
LGBTQ affirming therapy from San Francisco clinicians who understand queer experience from the inside, not just the textbooks. Minority stress is real, cumulative, and often invisible to the people around you. Our therapists bring both clinical training and lived experience to work that requires both.
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EMDR Intensives
EMDR Intensives for San Francisco professionals who can't wait six months to feel better. Instead of weekly 50-minute sessions, Intensives are extended multi-hour sessions designed to go deeper, faster. Clients often describe it as doing months of work in a concentrated period of time — without the stop-and-start rhythm of traditional therapy.
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Holistic Therapy
Holistic therapy in San Francisco for people who know something is off but can't locate it in their thoughts alone. Anxiety lives in the body before it shows up in the mind. Our holistic therapists work with both; integrating somatic awareness, mindfulness, and evidence-based approaches to get underneath the surface-level symptoms.
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Teen Therapy
Therapy for teenagers in San Francisco navigating anxiety, identity, and the pressure to have it all figured out. Adolescence has always been hard. Right now it's harder. Our teen therapists use EMDR and evidence-based approaches to help teenagers build real coping skills — not just get through the week.
Great Therapy Starts With A Great Therapist Match
Studies show that feeling a strong connection to your therapist is a major factor influencing successful therapy.
That’s why we’re so committed to making matches solely about good therapist fit.
No automation. No algorithms. Just authentic human connection.
We’ve developed a matching process over years of offering therapy that considers your therapy goals, your personality, your preferences, and what research says will be effective.
It starts with a free 20-minute chat with one of our therapists. No admins or call centers. Get connected today.
Our Practice Is 100% Therapist Owned & Operated
Laurel Therapy Collective is 100% therapist-owned and operated. That means no algorithms deciding your care, no venture capital investors to answer to, and no selling of client data; something several large teletherapy platforms have faced lawsuits over.
What it means in practice: every decision we make is about whether it's good for clients. Not whether it's good for a growth metric.
Reasons To Start Therapy in San Francisco
Decrease Your Anxiety
Being anxious in San Francisco makes sense, but it sure is uncomfortable. Whether you work in the legal sphere, tech industry, marketing, or healthcare sector, our therapy services are tailored to help you address and manage anxiety effectively. With our help, you can walk through life with greater resilience and calm.
Improve Your Relationships
Work can provide plenty of satisfaction, but it's our connections with others that truly enrich our lives. Whether you're feeling disconnected from your partner, experiencing more conflict, struggling to navigate family dynamics, or just craving deeper connections in general, therapy can work wonders. Our couples therapy services, including Gottman method couples therapy, can offer concrete strategies to have the best relationships of your life.
Heal Your Trauma
When trauma is following you around, it’s impossible to feel like you’re living your best life. Our San Francisco EMDR therapists can help you not just cope, but actually heal your trauma through EMDR therapy. We are passionate about this approach because we’ve seen it transform countless lives.
Improve Your Relationships Through Couples Therapy San Francisco
Are you seeking to reduce conflict, enhance communication, and deepen your connection with your partner? Our team of San Francisco couples therapists specializes in guiding couples through challenges. One dynamic that comes up often in SF relationships is what happens when a partner acts differently around family or work colleagues, and why it's harder to raise than it sounds. We help couples understand attachment dynamics and equip them with effective tools for managing disagreements.
Using Gottman Method couples therapy techniques, we help San Francisco couples experience the joy of reconnection, recommitment, and reigniting the spark that initially drew you together. While we welcome all couples, we hold a particular fondness for supporting LGBT couples towards stronger, healthier relationships.
Heal Your Trauma With EMDR Therapy San Francisco
Trauma can throw your life into disarray, disrupting your sleep, work, relationships, and overall sense of peace and security. It might feel as though you've lost a part of yourself. But there is a path forward.
Using the evidence-based technique of EMDR therapy, our EMDR therapists can help cut the link between trauma triggers and the physical distress they provoke. You can regain a sense of calm and safety, even if the events that occurred will never be okay. If you're not sure whether your past qualifies as trauma, this piece on why trauma often shows up later in life may help you name what you're carrying.
Our approach, rooted in the 8-phase EMDR therapy model, emphasizes resourcing and coping tools. We prioritize your safety, equipping you with tools to manage triggers effectively before we start any trauma processing. We strongly believe trauma therapy is only effective when you are first equipped to handle the intensity. We don’ skimp on preparation.
There is hope for healing and reclaiming your life. Take the first step towards recovery by scheduling a consultation with one of our San Francisco EMDR therapists today.
The Power of EMDR Therapy
EMDR therapist Alexis Harney explains what EMDR therapy can do for people in San Francisco who have experienced trauma.
FAQs: Therapy In San Francisco
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A few things. Our clinicians have lived experience in high-demand industries, not just clinical training in treating them. We specialize rather than generalize, which means you're matched with someone who actually knows your world. And our matching process is handled by a real person, not an algorithm. No intake forms before you've spoken to anyone. Meet our therapists →
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All sessions are conducted through a secure, HIPAA-compliant video platform. Before your appointment you'll receive a link — click it, find a private space, and we proceed exactly as we would in person. Most clients tell us they forget it's virtual within the first few minutes. You don't need to download anything or create an account. Learn more about how online therapy works →
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Yes. We offer Gottman Method couples therapy online for San Francisco couples. Most couples who reach out have been thinking about it for longer than they'd like to admit. You don't have to be in crisis to start. In fact, the earlier you come in, the more there is to work with.
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It starts with a free 20-minute consultation. We'll ask about your goals, your preferences, and what you've tried before. From there we make a recommendation based on fit, specialty, and what the research says is most effective for your situation. If the match doesn't feel right after a few sessions, we'll help you find someone who does. See our FAQs for more on getting started →
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Our rates range from $170 to $275 per session depending on the clinician. We are an out-of-network practice. Clients with PPO plans can often get partial reimbursement by submitting a superbill. We're happy to provide those on request.
You can check out our complimentary benefits checker here.
If cost is a concern, bring it up in your consultation and we'll be straightforward with you about what makes sense. Book a free consultation →
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It depends on what you're bringing in. Most clients work with us for 6 to 18 months. If you're coming in for a specific, contained issue you may move faster. If you're working through something more layered it takes longer. Your therapist will give you a realistic sense of the timeline after your first session rather than keeping you guessing.
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Yes, EMDR is one of our core specialties. And we’re not just casual EMDR therapists; we are all actively engaged in formal EMDRIA consultation and continuing education.
If you’ve been in talk therapy and feel like you understand your patterns but can't seem to change how you feel, EMDR may be the right next step. We also offer EMDR Intensives for clients who want to move faster.
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A conversation, not an interrogation. Your therapist will ask about what's bringing you in, what you've tried before, and what you're hoping for. We won't push you into anything heavy in the first session — the goal is to get a real sense of each other and start building the foundation. Most people leave feeling lighter than they expected. Book your first consultation here →
Other Holistic Therapy Services in California, Florida & Beyond
At Laurel Therapy Collective we offer customized teletherapy for a wide range of mental health issues. Our online California therapists also serve Los Angeles and Santa Cruz and can help with anxiety, trauma and EMDR therapy, LGBTQ and lesbian therapy issues, couples therapy, LGBT couples therapy, therapy for lawyers, Enneagram therapy, therapy for young adults, holistic therapy, and even teen therapy. Our team is LGBT affirming, anti-racist, body positive, and sex positive. You deserve to feel better.