Divorce Therapists in Oakland, CA
Specializing in couples therapy, I offer a unique coaching-style approach to relationship healing. While couples often seek therapy citing communication problems, these difficulties are typically symptoms of deeper underlying conflicts. When partners bring their individual needs into a relationship, these needs can clash in fundamental ways. As tensions build and partners begin blaming each other, communication breaks down. The heart of couples therapy lies in uncovering both our own unfulfilled expectations and understanding those of our partner.
Specializing in couples therapy, I offer a unique coaching-style approach to relationship healing. While couples often seek therapy citing communication problems, these difficulties are typically symptoms of deeper underlying conflicts. When partners bring their individual needs into a relationship, these needs can clash in fundamental ways. As tensions build and partners begin blaming each other, communication breaks down. The heart of couples therapy lies in uncovering both our own unfulfilled expectations and understanding those of our partner.
I care deeply about the emotional health of my clients and wish for their independence and freedom from emotional distress interfering with their goals and values. I work from a foundation of client-centered, trauma-informed, narrative approaches/philosophies, and utilize Cognitive Behavior Therapy (CBT), Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT), Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT), Motivational Interviewing (MI), Emotionally Focused Therapy (EFT) in practice and interventions. I feel confident in short-term models that include psychoeducation, skill building, and processing in tandem.
I care deeply about the emotional health of my clients and wish for their independence and freedom from emotional distress interfering with their goals and values. I work from a foundation of client-centered, trauma-informed, narrative approaches/philosophies, and utilize Cognitive Behavior Therapy (CBT), Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT), Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT), Motivational Interviewing (MI), Emotionally Focused Therapy (EFT) in practice and interventions. I feel confident in short-term models that include psychoeducation, skill building, and processing in tandem.
I specialize in work with couples and individual adults dealing with relationship problems. Common issues for couples I see include communication difficulties, affairs, arguing or withdrawing, parenting conflict. I have experience working with a diverse range of people, including couples in mixed race/culture relationships, inter-faith relationships and members of the LGBTQ+ community.
I specialize in work with couples and individual adults dealing with relationship problems. Common issues for couples I see include communication difficulties, affairs, arguing or withdrawing, parenting conflict. I have experience working with a diverse range of people, including couples in mixed race/culture relationships, inter-faith relationships and members of the LGBTQ+ community.
If you find yourself struggling in life to feel whole, happy, at ease with yourself and being in the world, or feel frustrated with a lack of intimacy in your relationships, I can help you. It is important when searching for a therapist that you feel an honest connection. I give a free 30-minute consultation to help you decide if working with me is a match. My focus has been in trauma recovery for the last two decades, utilizing Bioenergetic Analysis, EMDR, Somatic Experiencing, Mindfulness and Psychodynamic work. I specialize in a holistic approach to healing anxiety, panic, body imagine issues and marital relationship issues.
If you find yourself struggling in life to feel whole, happy, at ease with yourself and being in the world, or feel frustrated with a lack of intimacy in your relationships, I can help you. It is important when searching for a therapist that you feel an honest connection. I give a free 30-minute consultation to help you decide if working with me is a match. My focus has been in trauma recovery for the last two decades, utilizing Bioenergetic Analysis, EMDR, Somatic Experiencing, Mindfulness and Psychodynamic work. I specialize in a holistic approach to healing anxiety, panic, body imagine issues and marital relationship issues.
If you are experiencing stress responses related to trauma, grief, relationship (interpersonal and intimate) breakdown, divorce, family conflict, or existential crisis, or have an eating disorder then my training and lived experience makes me your ideal therapist.
On your journey my role is to be an active listener and to collaborate with you by providing therapeutic interventions that align with your values and goals. In addition to individual therapy, I am trained to work with couples and survivors of intimate partner violence. While my practice focuses on adults, I do support children and teens in family therapy.
If you are experiencing stress responses related to trauma, grief, relationship (interpersonal and intimate) breakdown, divorce, family conflict, or existential crisis, or have an eating disorder then my training and lived experience makes me your ideal therapist.
On your journey my role is to be an active listener and to collaborate with you by providing therapeutic interventions that align with your values and goals. In addition to individual therapy, I am trained to work with couples and survivors of intimate partner violence. While my practice focuses on adults, I do support children and teens in family therapy.
You look like you have it together. But inside, it feels like the fire alarm won't stop going off.
You second-guess yourself. Boundaries feel impossible. Your body is tense and tired. Your relationships feel strained. You're not sure how much longer you can keep pushing through. Maybe you're navigating intergenerational trauma, the pull between two cultures, or a body that never feels safe.
You're not broken. You're carrying a lot.
I'm an LMFT with 9+ years of experience specializing in trauma, anxiety, somatic healing, and multicultural identity.
You look like you have it together. But inside, it feels like the fire alarm won't stop going off.
You second-guess yourself. Boundaries feel impossible. Your body is tense and tired. Your relationships feel strained. You're not sure how much longer you can keep pushing through. Maybe you're navigating intergenerational trauma, the pull between two cultures, or a body that never feels safe.
You're not broken. You're carrying a lot.
I'm an LMFT with 9+ years of experience specializing in trauma, anxiety, somatic healing, and multicultural identity.
Axis Mundi would like to present Karrin Cheifetz. Karrin is a Marriage and Family Therapist Trainee and is supervised weekly by Natalie Webster LMFT 126065. The supervisor works with Karrin to help develop her clinical skills and ensure that she provides quality care to you as the client.
You might be feeling anxious, overthinking conversations, or unsure where you stand in your relationships. Or you may find yourself pulling back, shutting down, or struggling to express what you feel. You may replay interactions, wonder if you asked for too much, or feel stuck in patterns that keep repeating.
Axis Mundi would like to present Karrin Cheifetz. Karrin is a Marriage and Family Therapist Trainee and is supervised weekly by Natalie Webster LMFT 126065. The supervisor works with Karrin to help develop her clinical skills and ensure that she provides quality care to you as the client.
You might be feeling anxious, overthinking conversations, or unsure where you stand in your relationships. Or you may find yourself pulling back, shutting down, or struggling to express what you feel. You may replay interactions, wonder if you asked for too much, or feel stuck in patterns that keep repeating.
Through counseling, I support individuals, couples and families to identify patterns in behavior and communication. Our work together will be collaborative and strengths-based. It will encourage shifts in the family to promote healthy expression of emotions and communication to improve relationships. I use a directive style of communication and an active and integrative approach. I encourage parents, caregivers and other family members to be involved in the therapeutic process.
Through counseling, I support individuals, couples and families to identify patterns in behavior and communication. Our work together will be collaborative and strengths-based. It will encourage shifts in the family to promote healthy expression of emotions and communication to improve relationships. I use a directive style of communication and an active and integrative approach. I encourage parents, caregivers and other family members to be involved in the therapeutic process.
My name is Melanie Kushnir-Pappalardo and I am a Licensed Clinical Social Worker (LCSW) based in the San Francisco Bay Area. Through telehealth, I enjoy connecting with clients throughout California. I specialize in working with adults seeking to disrupt patterns and behaviors that no longer serve them. This may include substance abuse, addictions, criminal justice involvement, and unhealthy relationships. I communicate directly, transparently, and in a non-judgmental manner. You should feel safe and supported during our sessions.
My name is Melanie Kushnir-Pappalardo and I am a Licensed Clinical Social Worker (LCSW) based in the San Francisco Bay Area. Through telehealth, I enjoy connecting with clients throughout California. I specialize in working with adults seeking to disrupt patterns and behaviors that no longer serve them. This may include substance abuse, addictions, criminal justice involvement, and unhealthy relationships. I communicate directly, transparently, and in a non-judgmental manner. You should feel safe and supported during our sessions.
I am passionate about helping couples and individuals uncover the source of their emotional suffering and identify new strategies for adjusting to painful life events. I am concerned with the way our significant relationships, both early-on and in adulthood, impact how we experience the present. I collaborate with couples to identify unmet attachment needs driving disconnection in relationships and facilitate expression of these needs so partners can reconnect and feel secure in their relationships. My work with individuals promotes self-acceptance and value-driven action.
I am passionate about helping couples and individuals uncover the source of their emotional suffering and identify new strategies for adjusting to painful life events. I am concerned with the way our significant relationships, both early-on and in adulthood, impact how we experience the present. I collaborate with couples to identify unmet attachment needs driving disconnection in relationships and facilitate expression of these needs so partners can reconnect and feel secure in their relationships. My work with individuals promotes self-acceptance and value-driven action.
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.
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.
I'm glad you are here. This is a big deal. Whether you seek therapy individually or as part of a couple, the way you relate to yourself, your world, and your people are pivotal to understanding your mental health. I'm committed to supporting couples and individuals at all levels of development who seek a supportive environment in their pursuit of growth and healing. Together, we will explore your present and past to discover your strengths, while making space for the pain and distress you are carrying. Together, we will understand your partner and relationships in a new way and rediscover your capacity to find solutions on your own
I'm glad you are here. This is a big deal. Whether you seek therapy individually or as part of a couple, the way you relate to yourself, your world, and your people are pivotal to understanding your mental health. I'm committed to supporting couples and individuals at all levels of development who seek a supportive environment in their pursuit of growth and healing. Together, we will explore your present and past to discover your strengths, while making space for the pain and distress you are carrying. Together, we will understand your partner and relationships in a new way and rediscover your capacity to find solutions on your own
Imagine living from your best self, able to calmly assess challenges, remain open and compassionate, and create connections, love, and abundance, all as a part of a meaningful, purpose-driven life. That is the doorway I can open for you, first by clearing traumas and negative beliefs holding you back, then by exploring your core purpose in this life, and finally, get ready world! I have been an EMDR master therapist for over two decades, helping clients reclaim their lives with cutting edge brain re-training but the deeper work occurs in my role as a transformational coach. BE your change! Text me: 831-888-6201.
Imagine living from your best self, able to calmly assess challenges, remain open and compassionate, and create connections, love, and abundance, all as a part of a meaningful, purpose-driven life. That is the doorway I can open for you, first by clearing traumas and negative beliefs holding you back, then by exploring your core purpose in this life, and finally, get ready world! I have been an EMDR master therapist for over two decades, helping clients reclaim their lives with cutting edge brain re-training but the deeper work occurs in my role as a transformational coach. BE your change! Text me: 831-888-6201.
Life can be a lot sometimes, especially to navigate alone. I'm here to join you as you ride those waves. We can go at your pace while I offer an outside perspective to support you in seeing some blindspots. As we walk together, I hope to encourage you to cultivate more compassion and understanding for yourself and others. I'll show up with warmth, kindness, curiosity, and sometimes humor. I'm bilingual and bicultural, born in Brazil and raised in the Bay Area. I bring a multicultural, queer-, poly-, kink-friendly, trauma-informed lens into the room. I'm gentle at times, firm at others and hope to help you deepen your self-awareness.
Life can be a lot sometimes, especially to navigate alone. I'm here to join you as you ride those waves. We can go at your pace while I offer an outside perspective to support you in seeing some blindspots. As we walk together, I hope to encourage you to cultivate more compassion and understanding for yourself and others. I'll show up with warmth, kindness, curiosity, and sometimes humor. I'm bilingual and bicultural, born in Brazil and raised in the Bay Area. I bring a multicultural, queer-, poly-, kink-friendly, trauma-informed lens into the room. I'm gentle at times, firm at others and hope to help you deepen your self-awareness.
Hello, and thanks for viewing my profile. Asking for help can be difficult, and finding a good fit in searching for a therapist is essential. Therapy can help us deepen both our understanding of the problems we face and our agency in addressing them. My job is to push you to think critically about your concerns, to live with deeper meaning and purpose, and to find complexity and richness in your lived experiences. In addition to private practice work, I hold a clinical position at UC-Berkeley, and work as the liaison to the Cal Athletics Department and the Golden State Warriors.
Hello, and thanks for viewing my profile. Asking for help can be difficult, and finding a good fit in searching for a therapist is essential. Therapy can help us deepen both our understanding of the problems we face and our agency in addressing them. My job is to push you to think critically about your concerns, to live with deeper meaning and purpose, and to find complexity and richness in your lived experiences. In addition to private practice work, I hold a clinical position at UC-Berkeley, and work as the liaison to the Cal Athletics Department and the Golden State Warriors.
It might be a transition in your life that has brought unexpected trials: adulthood, marriage or divorce
I am an analytic therapist who listens in a layered way, tuning into underlying patterns and meanings you may be unaware of. I pay attention equally to the reality of your everyday life as well as your internal world, both conscious and unconscious. At the same time I will draw on any additional therapeutic modalities that can add to our understanding.
It might be a transition in your life that has brought unexpected trials: adulthood, marriage or divorce
I am an analytic therapist who listens in a layered way, tuning into underlying patterns and meanings you may be unaware of. I pay attention equally to the reality of your everyday life as well as your internal world, both conscious and unconscious. At the same time I will draw on any additional therapeutic modalities that can add to our understanding.
Relationships are where our deepest wounds and longings often live. I guide couples through moments of disconnection and conflict, helping partners slow down, rebuild trust, and learn to truly hear and respond to one another. Whether you’re navigating repeated arguments, distance, betrayal, or the weight of shared history, therapy becomes a space to understand the patterns between you and begin creating something new, together.
I work with couples, families, transitional-age youth, and young adults who are navigating trauma, anxiety, grief, family stress, identity, and major life transitions. My clients come seeking
Relationships are where our deepest wounds and longings often live. I guide couples through moments of disconnection and conflict, helping partners slow down, rebuild trust, and learn to truly hear and respond to one another. Whether you’re navigating repeated arguments, distance, betrayal, or the weight of shared history, therapy becomes a space to understand the patterns between you and begin creating something new, together.
I work with couples, families, transitional-age youth, and young adults who are navigating trauma, anxiety, grief, family stress, identity, and major life transitions. My clients come seeking
I welcome children, teens, and adults to my practice. The decision to enter therapy often comes when we’re feeling stuck and unable to move forward in one way or another. I offer a non judgmental space to work through the deeper dynamics that may be holding you back from living more freely. I work from a depth oriented and relational approach. This type of therapy not only addresses immediate issues, but strives to foster long term growth. This process often leads to new levels of creativity, self understanding, and resilience.
I welcome children, teens, and adults to my practice. The decision to enter therapy often comes when we’re feeling stuck and unable to move forward in one way or another. I offer a non judgmental space to work through the deeper dynamics that may be holding you back from living more freely. I work from a depth oriented and relational approach. This type of therapy not only addresses immediate issues, but strives to foster long term growth. This process often leads to new levels of creativity, self understanding, and resilience.
Often when an individual or couple is seeking out a therapist they're in the midst of a significant transition or challenge that can feel overwhelming. Paradoxically, I believe this is often the time in which the greatest change is possible. By exploring issues through a multi-layered approach, we will identify the deeper truths and lessons these challenges are presenting. By lending tools and feedback, I assist my clients in having a different relationship with their challenges; thus moving away from constriction into conscious growth and empowerment.
Often when an individual or couple is seeking out a therapist they're in the midst of a significant transition or challenge that can feel overwhelming. Paradoxically, I believe this is often the time in which the greatest change is possible. By exploring issues through a multi-layered approach, we will identify the deeper truths and lessons these challenges are presenting. By lending tools and feedback, I assist my clients in having a different relationship with their challenges; thus moving away from constriction into conscious growth and empowerment.
You may have landed here because something doesn’t feel quite right—or because you’re not sure how you feel at all. At times, this can show up as feeling overwhelmed, disconnected, or unsure how to make sense of your inner experience. I invite you to trust your intuition in taking this step.
In our work together, we’ll focus on helping you connect more deeply to yourself, and in turn, to others. I use a trauma-informed, integrative approach that blends depth-oriented work (including IFS), somatic experiencing, mindfulness, DBT, and psychodynamic perspectives. I am also trained in EMDR, which supports reprocessing trauma.
You may have landed here because something doesn’t feel quite right—or because you’re not sure how you feel at all. At times, this can show up as feeling overwhelmed, disconnected, or unsure how to make sense of your inner experience. I invite you to trust your intuition in taking this step.
In our work together, we’ll focus on helping you connect more deeply to yourself, and in turn, to others. I use a trauma-informed, integrative approach that blends depth-oriented work (including IFS), somatic experiencing, mindfulness, DBT, and psychodynamic perspectives. I am also trained in EMDR, which supports reprocessing trauma.
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