Couples Counseling Therapists in Oakland, CA
![Photo of Gerald B. Chambers, LMFT, Marriage & Family Therapist](https://photos.psychologytoday.com/3f5f3e48-46cd-11ea-a6ad-06142c356176/2/320x400.jpeg)
My strengths: Addictions, couples, domestic violence, infidelity, interpersonal conflict, parenting, peak performance, relationships, and trauma.
Relationships are as important to us as food and water. They can strengthen us, like a vitamin, or weaken us, like the flu. You are only as good in relationships as the relationships you have been in. As your therapist I can assist you in many ways. I can help you learn more about yourself, increase both self-compassion and compassion for others, and heal past trauma. Together, we can explore how to feel more connected to yourself, your values, and people you care about.
My strengths: Addictions, couples, domestic violence, infidelity, interpersonal conflict, parenting, peak performance, relationships, and trauma.
Relationships are as important to us as food and water. They can strengthen us, like a vitamin, or weaken us, like the flu. You are only as good in relationships as the relationships you have been in. As your therapist I can assist you in many ways. I can help you learn more about yourself, increase both self-compassion and compassion for others, and heal past trauma. Together, we can explore how to feel more connected to yourself, your values, and people you care about.
![Photo of Emma Ewel, LMFT, Marriage & Family Therapist](https://photos.psychologytoday.com/4037c61f-22aa-46d4-a5f4-dfc6e36b52d3/3/320x400.jpeg)
As a therapist, I primarily work with young adults, the LGBTQ+ community, and people struggling with childhood trauma. I also focus on issues such as identity exploration, coming out, and developing healthy relationship dynamics.
As a therapist, I primarily work with young adults, the LGBTQ+ community, and people struggling with childhood trauma. I also focus on issues such as identity exploration, coming out, and developing healthy relationship dynamics.
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Therapy is a process of self-reflection and conversation that honors the struggles of life: career uncertainty, relationship decisions, loneliness, grief, and the ongoing pursuit self-love.
Learn how to feel more connected to yourself, others, and the world around you. Therapy provides all the elements of intimacy: honest communication, vulnerability, and trust. Good therapy is challenging yet warm, providing both structure and empathy for your unique experience.
Therapy is a process of self-reflection and conversation that honors the struggles of life: career uncertainty, relationship decisions, loneliness, grief, and the ongoing pursuit self-love.
Learn how to feel more connected to yourself, others, and the world around you. Therapy provides all the elements of intimacy: honest communication, vulnerability, and trust. Good therapy is challenging yet warm, providing both structure and empathy for your unique experience.
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Self-exploration within a safe therapeutic relationship can give someone the power to make healthy, informed choices that reduce distress and create more meaning and joy.
I specialize in helping adults and adolescents who are struggling with depression, anxiety, relationships, or identity issues. Changing things in life - whether in relationships with others, at work, or just in the day to day - can be hard to do on your own. I work to help you understand yourself on a new level, recognize patterns in your life that are keeping you from feeling how you want to feel, having the relationships you want to have, and achieving the accomplishments you hope to achieve.
Self-exploration within a safe therapeutic relationship can give someone the power to make healthy, informed choices that reduce distress and create more meaning and joy.
I specialize in helping adults and adolescents who are struggling with depression, anxiety, relationships, or identity issues. Changing things in life - whether in relationships with others, at work, or just in the day to day - can be hard to do on your own. I work to help you understand yourself on a new level, recognize patterns in your life that are keeping you from feeling how you want to feel, having the relationships you want to have, and achieving the accomplishments you hope to achieve.
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Acacia Hasina Chidi #lmft111125
Marriage & Family Therapist, MA, LMFT, CEO
Verified Verified
Oakland, CA 94609
I am experienced in couples, and individual therapy.
Welcome! I’m Acacia Hasina Chidi, I am known to help inspire change in individual’s lives and relationships. Experience has demonstrated to me that change is possible and necessary. If you are ready to initiate change, I’d like to work with you through the process of therapy which can allow you to grow, and realize aspects of yourself you may not be aware of, or that you are aware of, but have been unable to manage. Years of experience working with individuals, couples, families, and specialized groups have enabled me tools and techniques that help people achieve a deeper understanding of relational patterns needing repair.
I am experienced in couples, and individual therapy.
Welcome! I’m Acacia Hasina Chidi, I am known to help inspire change in individual’s lives and relationships. Experience has demonstrated to me that change is possible and necessary. If you are ready to initiate change, I’d like to work with you through the process of therapy which can allow you to grow, and realize aspects of yourself you may not be aware of, or that you are aware of, but have been unable to manage. Years of experience working with individuals, couples, families, and specialized groups have enabled me tools and techniques that help people achieve a deeper understanding of relational patterns needing repair.
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I also specialize in working with couples.
Do you feel anxious due to your work, family issues, low self-esteem, and relationship issues? I can especially help those with anxiety/panic attacks. I make it a priority to help clients with buried feelings who have trouble speaking on their emotions. Communicating emotionally is extremely important to promote well-rounded and mature adults. I will help you enhance your self-awareness around unhelpful thought and behavior patterns and build skills necessary to handle life more effectively and develop actionable steps to reach your goals.
I also specialize in working with couples.
Do you feel anxious due to your work, family issues, low self-esteem, and relationship issues? I can especially help those with anxiety/panic attacks. I make it a priority to help clients with buried feelings who have trouble speaking on their emotions. Communicating emotionally is extremely important to promote well-rounded and mature adults. I will help you enhance your self-awareness around unhelpful thought and behavior patterns and build skills necessary to handle life more effectively and develop actionable steps to reach your goals.
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Vincenza Jamie Baldino
Marriage & Family Therapist, MA, MFT
Verified Verified
Oakland, CA 94612 (Online Only)
I embrace creating relationship with others, deepening trust within the relationship to address what is disturbing balance in one's life.
My work is guided by the tenet, Life is Relationship. If we can trust our stories to a therapist, that therapeutic relationship can transform us. Self-acceptance, and calm return. I listen compassionately to others to understand what is inhibiting their motivation and self-confidence. I consider lifestyle practices, relationships, use of substances; healthy and unhealthy habits, and one's sense of belonging. My clients and I together identify what helps them change. Some practices and tools I use to guide my work are: talk therapy, Eye Movement Desensitization Reprocessing (EMDR), mindfulness and stress management practices derived from Yogic philosophy and practices.
I embrace creating relationship with others, deepening trust within the relationship to address what is disturbing balance in one's life.
My work is guided by the tenet, Life is Relationship. If we can trust our stories to a therapist, that therapeutic relationship can transform us. Self-acceptance, and calm return. I listen compassionately to others to understand what is inhibiting their motivation and self-confidence. I consider lifestyle practices, relationships, use of substances; healthy and unhealthy habits, and one's sense of belonging. My clients and I together identify what helps them change. Some practices and tools I use to guide my work are: talk therapy, Eye Movement Desensitization Reprocessing (EMDR), mindfulness and stress management practices derived from Yogic philosophy and practices.
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Trauma, Anxiety, Codependency, Post-traumatic stress disorder, Couples and marriage counseling, Family counseling, Grief counseling , Highly sensitive person (empath), Personality disorders, Narcissistic abuse, Domestic violence recovery, Sexual abuse recovery, Career counseling, Divorce counseling, Obsessive-compulsive disorder.
Hello, I'm Mary Joye, and I am here to help you listen to yourself from a new and nonjudgmental perspective. We will work together to make connections between the past and the present to help you enjoy a brighter and better future.
Trauma, Anxiety, Codependency, Post-traumatic stress disorder, Couples and marriage counseling, Family counseling, Grief counseling , Highly sensitive person (empath), Personality disorders, Narcissistic abuse, Domestic violence recovery, Sexual abuse recovery, Career counseling, Divorce counseling, Obsessive-compulsive disorder.
Hello, I'm Mary Joye, and I am here to help you listen to yourself from a new and nonjudgmental perspective. We will work together to make connections between the past and the present to help you enjoy a brighter and better future.
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Michael Rochette
Marriage & Family Therapist, MA
Verified Verified
1 Endorsed
Oakland, CA 94618 (Online Only)
I work with individuals couples, and families, of all ages, sexual orientation, body sizes, and ethnic and cultural backgrounds.
I have a lifelong commitment to exploring our interconnections with our selves, our families, our significant others, our coworkers/neighbors, and our natural world. I see many of our personal challenges, which tend to manifest as anxiety and depression, correspond with disconnected patterns that leave us stuck, emotionally, cognitively, somatically, and spiritually. As a California registered associate marriage and family therapist, I work with clients to heal existing interconnections and cultivate new ways of being in connection.
I work with individuals couples, and families, of all ages, sexual orientation, body sizes, and ethnic and cultural backgrounds.
I have a lifelong commitment to exploring our interconnections with our selves, our families, our significant others, our coworkers/neighbors, and our natural world. I see many of our personal challenges, which tend to manifest as anxiety and depression, correspond with disconnected patterns that leave us stuck, emotionally, cognitively, somatically, and spiritually. As a California registered associate marriage and family therapist, I work with clients to heal existing interconnections and cultivate new ways of being in connection.
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Psychotherapy With Heart & Humor
Marriage & Family Therapist, MA, LMFT
Verified Verified
1 Endorsed
Oakland, CA 94609
I am a safe and devoted ally in my clients' path to healing. I'm informal and real, and 100% non-judgmental. I love being a sleuth and a guide in gently sussing out the feelings and beliefs that need love, witnessing, and healing. These feelings and beliefs are birthed during painful life events and later show up as depression, anxiety, and relationship and life difficulties. I bring the same devotion to my work with couples. My greatest strength is helping each partner feel safe, heard, seen, and respected enough to uncover and put words to the vulnerable feelings that underly the discord and alienation.
I am a safe and devoted ally in my clients' path to healing. I'm informal and real, and 100% non-judgmental. I love being a sleuth and a guide in gently sussing out the feelings and beliefs that need love, witnessing, and healing. These feelings and beliefs are birthed during painful life events and later show up as depression, anxiety, and relationship and life difficulties. I bring the same devotion to my work with couples. My greatest strength is helping each partner feel safe, heard, seen, and respected enough to uncover and put words to the vulnerable feelings that underly the discord and alienation.
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Psychotherapy can be a truly life changing process. It works to gradually loosen stuck patterns in one's life, leaving more room for vitality and creativity. You may be trying to heal from past wounds, experiencing anxiety, loneliness, depression, or relationship difficulties. Or perhaps you feel relatively stable but have a sense that something deeper is missing.
Psychotherapy can be a truly life changing process. It works to gradually loosen stuck patterns in one's life, leaving more room for vitality and creativity. You may be trying to heal from past wounds, experiencing anxiety, loneliness, depression, or relationship difficulties. Or perhaps you feel relatively stable but have a sense that something deeper is missing.
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You can thrive, feel more freedom and peace, and you don't have to do it alone. Relationship challenges, confusing emotions, and transitions can leave us feeling shaky. Somatic (body-centered) therapy can help you understand yourself while healing past hurts. Every relationship you have had with others and society influences your well-being. I can help you navigate relationships with self, loved ones, and the wider world with confidence and ease. You possess tremendous inner strength, courage, and determination. If you are willing to work, you can have the change you desire. You deserve to be your best self.
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Abby Weintraub
Marriage & Family Therapist, MA, MFT
Verified Verified
Oakland, CA 94610 (Online Only)
Welcome! I work with people across many areas, but those who seek me out tend to be queer/LGBTQIAA2+, neurodivergent in some way, trans/non-binary/gender non-conforming, chronically or acutely ill, disabled, fat-identified and/or working on an empowered relationship with their body, polyamorous, kinky, sex workers, and non-traditional family structures. I'll be with you every step of the way as you move from shame to self-compassion, and work through the expression of anger, sadness, and grief around what you've lost, or what you never got to have.
Welcome! I work with people across many areas, but those who seek me out tend to be queer/LGBTQIAA2+, neurodivergent in some way, trans/non-binary/gender non-conforming, chronically or acutely ill, disabled, fat-identified and/or working on an empowered relationship with their body, polyamorous, kinky, sex workers, and non-traditional family structures. I'll be with you every step of the way as you move from shame to self-compassion, and work through the expression of anger, sadness, and grief around what you've lost, or what you never got to have.
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I help clients who are experiencing anxiety, self-esteem issues, relationship issues, and trauma & PTSD to heal deeply.
Are you tired of feeling controlled by your emotions? Do you struggle to let people in, but when you do, feel overwhelmed by feelings of being judged or "too much"? Maybe you've tried therapy before but didn't get that transformational change you hoped for. I help anxious adults like you by using a modern approach. I combine EMDR therapy, IFS therapy & experiential practices that help you go deeper than just venting to heal at the root of your issues to create lasting change. I also offer EMDR Intensives for those who want to heal NOW and are looking for something faster than the traditional therapy model.
I help clients who are experiencing anxiety, self-esteem issues, relationship issues, and trauma & PTSD to heal deeply.
Are you tired of feeling controlled by your emotions? Do you struggle to let people in, but when you do, feel overwhelmed by feelings of being judged or "too much"? Maybe you've tried therapy before but didn't get that transformational change you hoped for. I help anxious adults like you by using a modern approach. I combine EMDR therapy, IFS therapy & experiential practices that help you go deeper than just venting to heal at the root of your issues to create lasting change. I also offer EMDR Intensives for those who want to heal NOW and are looking for something faster than the traditional therapy model.
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Heather Genschmer
Clinical Social Work/Therapist, LCSW
Verified Verified
1 Endorsed
Oakland, CA 94618
Do you find yourself repeating unhealthy patterns in your life? Are you a new parent and finding that you are struggling to stay connected to your partner? Have you adopted a child and need parenting support? I work with individuals and couples (same and opposite sex) interested in reaching a deeper understanding of themselves and their interactions with the rest of the world. In my practice, I provide a supportive and safe environment for individuals to be heard and understood; at the same time, I am active and engaging.
Do you find yourself repeating unhealthy patterns in your life? Are you a new parent and finding that you are struggling to stay connected to your partner? Have you adopted a child and need parenting support? I work with individuals and couples (same and opposite sex) interested in reaching a deeper understanding of themselves and their interactions with the rest of the world. In my practice, I provide a supportive and safe environment for individuals to be heard and understood; at the same time, I am active and engaging.
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Octave - Oakland Clinic
Marriage & Family Therapist, PhD, PsyD, LCSW, LMFT
Verified Verified
1 Endorsed
Oakland, CA 94612 (Online Only)
Octave is a modern practice creating a new standard for mental health care that’s both high-quality and accessible. We partner with you to develop personalized plans that can include individual, couples, and family therapy to best suit your needs. Grounded in science, our approach enables you to experience profound change that is just as measurable as it is meaningful. Learn more at www.findoctave.com
Octave is a modern practice creating a new standard for mental health care that’s both high-quality and accessible. We partner with you to develop personalized plans that can include individual, couples, and family therapy to best suit your needs. Grounded in science, our approach enables you to experience profound change that is just as measurable as it is meaningful. Learn more at www.findoctave.com
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I particularly enjoy working with neurodiverse clients, adolescents, couples, and members of the LGBTQIA+ Community.
My style is compassionate yet direct, soft yet forceful. I combine traditional talk therapy with somatic therapy (i.e., therapy involving awareness and work with the body). I have a background working in the corporate world and understand the challenges unique to that space. I trained at the California Institute of Integral Studies and incorporate not only that training but my years of post-graduate education and time spent studying different energetic and intuitive healing techniques into the work I do with you. Visit my website at www.allisonzamani.com for more information.
I particularly enjoy working with neurodiverse clients, adolescents, couples, and members of the LGBTQIA+ Community.
My style is compassionate yet direct, soft yet forceful. I combine traditional talk therapy with somatic therapy (i.e., therapy involving awareness and work with the body). I have a background working in the corporate world and understand the challenges unique to that space. I trained at the California Institute of Integral Studies and incorporate not only that training but my years of post-graduate education and time spent studying different energetic and intuitive healing techniques into the work I do with you. Visit my website at www.allisonzamani.com for more information.
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Elizabeth Cadd
Marriage & Family Therapist, LMFT
Verified Verified
2 Endorsed
Oakland, CA 94611 (Online Only)
I want to help you find the love that you want -- with yourself and with others. I work with individuals and couples, focusing on bringing more love, kindness, and acceptance to your life and relationships. Individuals have worked with me to explore such things as anxiety, depression, trauma resolution, relationship worries, boundaries, and childhood wounding. I also work with couples to navigate such topics as infidelities, communication, developing intimacy, navigating trauma as a couple, transitioning from a monogamous relationship to an open one, and much more.
I want to help you find the love that you want -- with yourself and with others. I work with individuals and couples, focusing on bringing more love, kindness, and acceptance to your life and relationships. Individuals have worked with me to explore such things as anxiety, depression, trauma resolution, relationship worries, boundaries, and childhood wounding. I also work with couples to navigate such topics as infidelities, communication, developing intimacy, navigating trauma as a couple, transitioning from a monogamous relationship to an open one, and much more.
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Morrighan MacGillivray
Marriage & Family Therapist Associate, MA, AMFT
Verified Verified
Oakland, CA 94610
If you're looking for support moving through trauma, grief & loss, life transitions, shame, anxiety, depression, dissociation, or relationship challenges, or you just feel drawn to working with me, don’t hesitate to reach out.
I work with adults and youth navigating the oftentimes overwhelming and lonely experience of healing from complex relational trauma. Early trauma, whether from unmet needs or overt abuse, can warp our sense of self and imprison us in frozen fear, shame, or reactivity, impacting every aspect of our lives. Therapy can help us to find more freedom and connection - to all the lost and disowned parts of our psyches; to our amazingly resilient bodies, fiercely compassionate hearts and creative spirits; to other beings, community, and nature; to the present moment; to meaning and purpose; and to a felt sense of safety and possibility.
If you're looking for support moving through trauma, grief & loss, life transitions, shame, anxiety, depression, dissociation, or relationship challenges, or you just feel drawn to working with me, don’t hesitate to reach out.
I work with adults and youth navigating the oftentimes overwhelming and lonely experience of healing from complex relational trauma. Early trauma, whether from unmet needs or overt abuse, can warp our sense of self and imprison us in frozen fear, shame, or reactivity, impacting every aspect of our lives. Therapy can help us to find more freedom and connection - to all the lost and disowned parts of our psyches; to our amazingly resilient bodies, fiercely compassionate hearts and creative spirits; to other beings, community, and nature; to the present moment; to meaning and purpose; and to a felt sense of safety and possibility.
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Welcome to my queer- and gender-affirming therapy practice. Beginning the process of therapy and reaching out for support can often feel vulnerable and even scary, so I celebrate you taking this first step. I prioritize getting to know you and your specific needs very intentionally, and my objective is to witness and support you in the unique way you deserve. My approach is relational and collaborative in nature, and I strive to develop a relationship with my clients that will help to empower inner strength, expand capacity for self-compassion, and support in healing wounds that are impacting overall health and quality of life.
Welcome to my queer- and gender-affirming therapy practice. Beginning the process of therapy and reaching out for support can often feel vulnerable and even scary, so I celebrate you taking this first step. I prioritize getting to know you and your specific needs very intentionally, and my objective is to witness and support you in the unique way you deserve. My approach is relational and collaborative in nature, and I strive to develop a relationship with my clients that will help to empower inner strength, expand capacity for self-compassion, and support in healing wounds that are impacting overall health and quality of life.