Sexual Addiction Therapists in San Francisco, CA
I have been working and teaching in the mental health field for the past 20 years and have helped many people grow, live a more authentic life and form stronger bonds with the ones they love. I believe a good therapeutic relationship forms the foundation from which emotional growth and change occur. I create a warm, playful and collaborative environment where your thoughts and feelings can be safely experienced and explored. Ultimately, a good experience in therapy should help you to become more yourself and feel more secure in who that is.
I have been working and teaching in the mental health field for the past 20 years and have helped many people grow, live a more authentic life and form stronger bonds with the ones they love. I believe a good therapeutic relationship forms the foundation from which emotional growth and change occur. I create a warm, playful and collaborative environment where your thoughts and feelings can be safely experienced and explored. Ultimately, a good experience in therapy should help you to become more yourself and feel more secure in who that is.
Difficult feelings can be a gateway to growth. My approach is warm, grounded, and direct, helping you respond to life's challenges with renewed clarity and a stronger sense of yourself. I work with individuals and couples navigating anxiety, depression, trauma, relationship difficulties, and major life transitions, moving from feeling stuck or burdened toward steadier ground and a greater sense of ease.
Difficult feelings can be a gateway to growth. My approach is warm, grounded, and direct, helping you respond to life's challenges with renewed clarity and a stronger sense of yourself. I work with individuals and couples navigating anxiety, depression, trauma, relationship difficulties, and major life transitions, moving from feeling stuck or burdened toward steadier ground and a greater sense of ease.
I work with people who sense that something in their lives isn't fully alive yet. They're often outwardly capable and functional, but internally feel foggy, disconnected, or quietly dissatisfied. Many are wrestling with questions of purpose and identity, strained relationships, and the lasting influence of family dynamics. My role isn't to fix or rush. It's to slow down together and listen carefully to what's happening beneath the surface.
I work with people who sense that something in their lives isn't fully alive yet. They're often outwardly capable and functional, but internally feel foggy, disconnected, or quietly dissatisfied. Many are wrestling with questions of purpose and identity, strained relationships, and the lasting influence of family dynamics. My role isn't to fix or rush. It's to slow down together and listen carefully to what's happening beneath the surface.
I have provided therapy for individuals (children K-12 and adults), families, groups, and couple sessions for over ten years. My modality is Cognitive Behavioral which means we believe it is not the event itself but how we perceive and react to the circumstance that may cause a problem. We will explore different possibilities through our session and discover what may serve us the best in pursuing happiness.
I have provided therapy for individuals (children K-12 and adults), families, groups, and couple sessions for over ten years. My modality is Cognitive Behavioral which means we believe it is not the event itself but how we perceive and react to the circumstance that may cause a problem. We will explore different possibilities through our session and discover what may serve us the best in pursuing happiness.
If you’re dealing with anxiety, depression, adhd, low mood, disconnection, or the same old frustrating patterns in dating, sex, or relationships: I'm glad you're here. You're not alone, and you’re not broken. Something just isn’t working, and it’s worth figuring out why. You’ve likely been pushing through on your own, trying to outthink or outwork it, but that approach only gets you so far.
If you’re dealing with anxiety, depression, adhd, low mood, disconnection, or the same old frustrating patterns in dating, sex, or relationships: I'm glad you're here. You're not alone, and you’re not broken. Something just isn’t working, and it’s worth figuring out why. You’ve likely been pushing through on your own, trying to outthink or outwork it, but that approach only gets you so far.
I am a licensed psychotherapist serving children, adolescents, adults, and seniors in the San Francisco area, offering both virtual and in-person sessions. I welcome new clients and understand that seeking support is an important step toward well-being. I work with youth facing anxiety, depression, behavioral concerns, school difficulties, or family stress, providing a safe, confidential environment and collaborating with parents. I also support adults and seniors with mood concerns, transitions, grief, trauma, and relationship issues.
I am a licensed psychotherapist serving children, adolescents, adults, and seniors in the San Francisco area, offering both virtual and in-person sessions. I welcome new clients and understand that seeking support is an important step toward well-being. I work with youth facing anxiety, depression, behavioral concerns, school difficulties, or family stress, providing a safe, confidential environment and collaborating with parents. I also support adults and seniors with mood concerns, transitions, grief, trauma, and relationship issues.
You’ve tried to cut back or stop using substances, but it hasn’t worked out how you wanted. You’re looking for a better strategies to decrease your use or quit completely. Our approach to supportive, research-based therapy looks at the whole picture: your mental health, relationships, and life experiences. We are caring, honest, and focused on helping you understand what you need to move forward. Contact us for a free phone consultation.
You’ve tried to cut back or stop using substances, but it hasn’t worked out how you wanted. You’re looking for a better strategies to decrease your use or quit completely. Our approach to supportive, research-based therapy looks at the whole picture: your mental health, relationships, and life experiences. We are caring, honest, and focused on helping you understand what you need to move forward. Contact us for a free phone consultation.
My focus is to develop a relationship with the client. This is called the two person model which is different than the old fashion practice where the doctor is one up and the client is one down. Rather, the two person model attempts to understand the client through questions and mutual discussion. I am not a silent therapist. I give feedback and remain fully engaged with the patient. Together we build a rapport. I adhere to a humanistic approach.
My focus is to develop a relationship with the client. This is called the two person model which is different than the old fashion practice where the doctor is one up and the client is one down. Rather, the two person model attempts to understand the client through questions and mutual discussion. I am not a silent therapist. I give feedback and remain fully engaged with the patient. Together we build a rapport. I adhere to a humanistic approach.
Struggling with desire, orgasm, sexual pain, or intimacy challenges? You deserve a specialist — not a generalist. I'm Dr. Diana Urman, one of few therapists in California with a PhD in Human Sexuality, 20+ years in sex therapy, and experience as an Oregon Supreme Court expert witness. I help individuals and couples move from shame to authentic sexual confidence.
Struggling with desire, orgasm, sexual pain, or intimacy challenges? You deserve a specialist — not a generalist. I'm Dr. Diana Urman, one of few therapists in California with a PhD in Human Sexuality, 20+ years in sex therapy, and experience as an Oregon Supreme Court expert witness. I help individuals and couples move from shame to authentic sexual confidence.
Start seeing challenges as opportunities to get your needs met and improve your relationship! I’m Dr. Sean Robertson, Couples Counselor and Intimacy Coach. I know relationships can be hard, even though they’re also one of the most fulfilling parts of our lives. In my couples counseling I create an empathic space for learning and deep connection, while also being diligent about ensuring that clients implement the tools I teach. My methods are based in behavioral psychology, Gottman Method, and attachment psychology.
Start seeing challenges as opportunities to get your needs met and improve your relationship! I’m Dr. Sean Robertson, Couples Counselor and Intimacy Coach. I know relationships can be hard, even though they’re also one of the most fulfilling parts of our lives. In my couples counseling I create an empathic space for learning and deep connection, while also being diligent about ensuring that clients implement the tools I teach. My methods are based in behavioral psychology, Gottman Method, and attachment psychology.
Bob Burns brings decades of pastoral experience to his counseling practice, with a deep specialization in healing and strengthening relationships within the church and family contexts. Drawing from his background as a founding pastor who planted and led multi-cultural congregations, Bob offers culturally sensitive pastoral counseling that integrates proven therapeutic approaches, biblical wisdom, and spiritual insight. His areas of focus include church conflict mediation, recovery from church strife and division, and recovery from spiritual abuse. Bob provides compassionate support for those navigating painful church experiences.
Bob Burns brings decades of pastoral experience to his counseling practice, with a deep specialization in healing and strengthening relationships within the church and family contexts. Drawing from his background as a founding pastor who planted and led multi-cultural congregations, Bob offers culturally sensitive pastoral counseling that integrates proven therapeutic approaches, biblical wisdom, and spiritual insight. His areas of focus include church conflict mediation, recovery from church strife and division, and recovery from spiritual abuse. Bob provides compassionate support for those navigating painful church experiences.
People often come to therapy when life no longer feels sustainable. You may appear functional on the outside — working, achieving, taking care of others — while privately feeling anxious, emotionally alone, overwhelmed, or stuck in painful relationship patterns. Therapy can become a place where we slow things down enough to better understand what your emotional life may be trying to communicate beneath the pressure to simply keep functioning.
People often come to therapy when life no longer feels sustainable. You may appear functional on the outside — working, achieving, taking care of others — while privately feeling anxious, emotionally alone, overwhelmed, or stuck in painful relationship patterns. Therapy can become a place where we slow things down enough to better understand what your emotional life may be trying to communicate beneath the pressure to simply keep functioning.
You may be navigating anxiety, burnout, religious trauma, or the complexities of modern relationships. My clients often feel stuck in patterns they can’t quite name, or overwhelmed by transitions in identity, career, or relationships. Whether you're processing grief, loss, family conflict, questioning long-held beliefs, or searching for purpose, you want greater clarity, emotional stability, and a more compassionate relationship with yourself. You don’t need to have it all figured out—just the curiosity to start.
You may be navigating anxiety, burnout, religious trauma, or the complexities of modern relationships. My clients often feel stuck in patterns they can’t quite name, or overwhelmed by transitions in identity, career, or relationships. Whether you're processing grief, loss, family conflict, questioning long-held beliefs, or searching for purpose, you want greater clarity, emotional stability, and a more compassionate relationship with yourself. You don’t need to have it all figured out—just the curiosity to start.
Are you a high-achieving professional, founder, or investor who feels like you’re holding everything together — except the relationships that matter most? Or a couple who loves each other but has started to feel more like roommates than partners?
I work with individuals and couples in San Francisco who are ready to go deeper — to understand the patterns keeping them stuck and build something more connected and fulfilling.
Are you a high-achieving professional, founder, or investor who feels like you’re holding everything together — except the relationships that matter most? Or a couple who loves each other but has started to feel more like roommates than partners?
I work with individuals and couples in San Francisco who are ready to go deeper — to understand the patterns keeping them stuck and build something more connected and fulfilling.
Trauma Lives in the Body, Not the Event
Trauma is not defined by the event itself, but by the nervous system’s inability to return to a regulated state afterward. Even seemingly minor experiences can become traumatic when the body cannot fully process them.
Human connection shapes our experience—relationships give us meaning, and purposeful work grounds us. When these are disrupted, our sense of stability is shaken, often leading to overwhelm and collapse. Because trauma is fundamentally relational, so too is healing. A safe, attuned therapeutic relationship is often the foundation for recovery.
Trauma Lives in the Body, Not the Event
Trauma is not defined by the event itself, but by the nervous system’s inability to return to a regulated state afterward. Even seemingly minor experiences can become traumatic when the body cannot fully process them.
Human connection shapes our experience—relationships give us meaning, and purposeful work grounds us. When these are disrupted, our sense of stability is shaken, often leading to overwhelm and collapse. Because trauma is fundamentally relational, so too is healing. A safe, attuned therapeutic relationship is often the foundation for recovery.
Whether you are on the verge of separation or looking to improve your stable relationship, our therapists can support you in rediscovering the relationship you deserve. As devoted couples therapists, we specialize in the Gottman Method, an evidence-based approach designed to strengthen and heal relationships. With a deep passion for guiding couples through their challenges, we create a supportive, non-judgmental space where both partners can feel heard and understood.
Whether you are on the verge of separation or looking to improve your stable relationship, our therapists can support you in rediscovering the relationship you deserve. As devoted couples therapists, we specialize in the Gottman Method, an evidence-based approach designed to strengthen and heal relationships. With a deep passion for guiding couples through their challenges, we create a supportive, non-judgmental space where both partners can feel heard and understood.
Hi! I'm Nick and I am a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist who specializes in helping adults who are ready to move beyond just surviving and into a place of genuine connection and wholeness. I understand the profound weight you’ve been carrying for so long, whether it is the shadow of childhood trauma, navigating addiction or recovery, or the deep fatigue of not being fully seen. If you’ve spent years trying to hold it all together, navigating the world as a man, a trauma survivor, someone who is queer, neurodivergent, or in recovery, you may have learned to mask, people please, or stay small simply to survive.
Hi! I'm Nick and I am a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist who specializes in helping adults who are ready to move beyond just surviving and into a place of genuine connection and wholeness. I understand the profound weight you’ve been carrying for so long, whether it is the shadow of childhood trauma, navigating addiction or recovery, or the deep fatigue of not being fully seen. If you’ve spent years trying to hold it all together, navigating the world as a man, a trauma survivor, someone who is queer, neurodivergent, or in recovery, you may have learned to mask, people please, or stay small simply to survive.
As a seasoned depth psychologist formally trained in exploring the depths of being human, I will work collaboratively with you to get to the root of what ails you. I find cultivating an affirming, caring stance allows an individual to move more readily towards healing and the resolution of problems and difficulties. Consequently, you can be the person you want to be thereby realizing greater personal agency and generating more successful relationships. The heart and soul of my practice involves working with chronic shame, gender and sexuality issues, life transitions, grief, loss, trauma, dissociated self-states, self exploration.
As a seasoned depth psychologist formally trained in exploring the depths of being human, I will work collaboratively with you to get to the root of what ails you. I find cultivating an affirming, caring stance allows an individual to move more readily towards healing and the resolution of problems and difficulties. Consequently, you can be the person you want to be thereby realizing greater personal agency and generating more successful relationships. The heart and soul of my practice involves working with chronic shame, gender and sexuality issues, life transitions, grief, loss, trauma, dissociated self-states, self exploration.
Asja Kristina
Marriage & Family Therapist Associate, MA, AMFT, APCC
2 Endorsed
San Francisco, CA 94118
Waitlist for new clients
I specialize in working with adults who are navigating anxiety, betrayal trauma, and nervous system dysregulation. Many of my patients come to me feeling overwhelmed, stuck, or disconnected and together, we work toward creating a greater sense of calm, balance, and wholeness.
My approach is trauma-informed and integrative. I draw on psychodynamics, relational work, somatic practices, mindfulness, and evidence-based methods to support both body and mind. In our work, you’ll find a safe, compassionate space to explore your experiences and move at your own pace.
I specialize in working with adults who are navigating anxiety, betrayal trauma, and nervous system dysregulation. Many of my patients come to me feeling overwhelmed, stuck, or disconnected and together, we work toward creating a greater sense of calm, balance, and wholeness.
My approach is trauma-informed and integrative. I draw on psychodynamics, relational work, somatic practices, mindfulness, and evidence-based methods to support both body and mind. In our work, you’ll find a safe, compassionate space to explore your experiences and move at your own pace.
Thank you for visiting my profile. I feel honored whenever people allow me into their lives—especially when they don’t know me. As a therapist, my primary areas of focus are trauma, addictions, anxiety and relationships.
Thank you for visiting my profile. I feel honored whenever people allow me into their lives—especially when they don’t know me. As a therapist, my primary areas of focus are trauma, addictions, anxiety and relationships.
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