Therapists in San Francisco, CA

Challenges with communication? Struggles with sex and intimacy? Are you questioning or exploring your gender and sexuality? I am here to support you and offer you tools and a place to process your current experience. I provide a safe space to explore who you are becoming and to discern old thought patterns that are no longer of service. I provide a healing space free of judgement and offer tools that you can immediately integrate into your current experience. I will collaborate with you and work with the intersections of your unique experience. I also offer ketamine-assisted therapy ie: psychedelic-assisted psychotherapy.

We need sex-positive, body-positive support for ourselves, our families, and our communities. Individuals, couples, polycules and groups I work with traverse the world with partners, genders, fetishes, or professional experiences that are often misunderstood by the dominant culture. I am in service to your joy, your healing, keeping you connected to a grounded source of abundance, gaining skills to navigate personal and professional dynamics, and being in keen awareness of your power. I’m excited to journey with you toward an embodied, fulfilling relationship with yourself and those you love.

If it’s your sexual functioning, infidelity, relationship discord, divorce, communication or stressors in life (transitions, work, health, life direction, etc.), I can help. I bring 18 years of experience and passion into the work we do. My focus is on sex therapy, couples and life stress. Our work is fulfilled when; you have a healthy, fulfilling and rewarding sex life, your relationships are energizing and rewarding, or when the stressors in your life are manageable and no longer the focus in your life. We will work to identify and then develop and create the life you want to live.

I am a certified sex therapist and work with clients experiencing issues related to sexuality including performance anxiety, sexual dysfunction, or problematic sexual behavior. We will examine the triggers in your life and find resources to help you manage your challenges when they arise. My work is informed from a social and sexual justice perspective. In addition to my work as a sex therapist, I also work with anxiety, depression, and grief. I am currently seeing clients online via video conference.

I mostly work with gay/queer individuals and relationships (couples/polycules). Identity, transition, and shame come up regularly in my sessions, and I am comfortable discussing sex, from kink/BDSM to pleasure to communication. I focus on anxiety, including workaholism, perfectionism, substance use, and body concerns. With relationships (monogamous, open, and poly), we'll evaluate your current goals and needs before exploring new ways of connecting, with joy and self-compassion and trust. This list is not exhaustive, so bring your whole self and we'll get curious together.

Bring it on! I offer uniquely tailored psychotherapy & sex therapy. Please talk about everything & anything, particularly topics that other therapists don't understand or won't hear. I'm said to have a large capacity for care, compassion, & candor while also being a straight-talker. I synthesize depth psychotherapy, sex therapy, coaching, counseling, and more. Sexual diversity, erotic pleasure, and relational intimacy are areas in which I thrive. We'll forge a deep therapeutic alliance and find, confront, address, and overcome the obstacles keeping you from being the very best version of yourself possible.

Dr. John K. Miller is a former full professor of therapy in the US and China and is a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist (LMFT) in the US. He has been in clinical practice for the past 30 years, specializing in individual, couples and family therapy. His philosophy and approach to treatment considers the context in which problems occur and the relationships between the people involved. With this in mind, he will occasionally ask for family and significant others to participate in treatment (only with your consent).

I appreciate you taking the time to see how I can assist with your journey. As a sex therapist, I help clients to understand themselves, their relationship(s), and the world around them. My clients are adults, individuals, and relationships seeking support. Focus areas are desire and arousal, gender identity, exploration, acceptance, anxiety, depression, life transitions, and trauma recovery. Many clients are living and learning in kink, ethical non-monogamy, and poly lifestyles. I provide care to clients who are cis-gender, transgender, queer, BIPOC, non-binary, and non-conformists, and a Sex Worker - Affirmative Therapist.

I am a trauma-informed, sex positive psychotherapist offering Telehealth sessions to couples and individuals in California. My practice is affirming and supportive for gender, sexuality, and relationship diversity (GSRD) from early adulthood to later life. With a nurturing and non-judgmental approach, I empower people to explore their desires, overcome obstacles, and create fulfilling relationships. I aim to provide a grounded and warm space for folks to explore the parts of themselves that are challenging to sit with alone. I am kink affirming, queer affirming, and non-monogamy affirming!

New career. New home. The end of a relationship. The beginning of re-discovery. Living authentically. Living in power. Whatever your need, wherever your journey, welcome to your safe space. I'm an associate psychotherapist specializing in LGBTQ+ Affirmative Psychology and Religious Trauma Therapy. Currently, I'm completing studies in Sex Therapy. Here, you have found a caring confidant who offers unconditional positive regard. Allow me to assist you in the areas of general psychology, individual therapy and couples & sex therapy.

I provide psychotherapy for individuals, couples and families. My aim is to help you identify and understand past experiences and to assist you in making decisions to cultivate a life of satisfaction, meaning and peace.

I have relational and engaged approach. My goal is to help you become the true you, and make magnificent, albeit often difficult, discoveries along the way. Together, we will explore your life in a variety of contexts - be it personal, family, social, or historical. I specialize in working with: adults; people in various types and stages of relationships; BIPOC; ethnically, racially and culturally diverse populations; LGBTQAI+, inclusive of all gender identities and sexual orientations; immigrant populations and speakers of English as a chosen language; and, people facing acculturation issues.

You’re a driven person but your personal or romantic relationships seem to be a struggle. Why is it sometimes easier to meet your professional needs and not your personal needs? You might struggle with vulnerability or feel confused about your relationship. I specialize in helping people create better relationships and clear obstacles to those relationships.

Longing for a different outcome? Want to write a new story? You are probably hoping to find support with the process of healing something that isn't feeling right. Psychotherapy can help by offering an accepting space to look, non-judgmentally, at whatever feels stuck, painful, or unresolved. Use my support and encouragement to help you approach these challenges in new ways, and find new solutions. My goal is to provide you with acceptance and ways to access your own innate wisdom and energy. I offer individual and relationship psychotherapy. Short and long term therapy options are available, depending on your concerns and goals.

I work to empower you to discover the growth & healing that is already inside of you so that you can live your most present, authentic, and dynamic life. Together we can unravel and intentionally rewrite the stories you tell yourself, reframe the lenses you've used to understand and interact with the world, imagine and embody new possibilities.

Accepting new clients. Welcome, I'm Pablo, a Spanish bilingual psychotherapist specializing in supporting gay men in California on their journey towards love, self-discovery, and mental well-being. With a focus on rapid, results-oriented therapy, I offer a compassionate yet confrontational approach to facilitate meaningful change. Do not settle for solitude or succumb to despair, depression. You can learn to nurture a partnership, to embrace happiness, and to set healthy boundaries with those around you.

For 16 years, I have worked successfully w/individuals and couples who want to feel better/create change in their lives. Whether relationship difficulty; anxiety or depression; work stress; life transition; trauma, loss, insecurity; you seek direction, deeper connection, a more creative/fulfilling life, or just feel lost or stuck - I tailor the treatment to your unique needs. Good therapy can transform - lead to feeling more alive, true to yourself, capable. We'll work together to alleviate your suffering, challenge old patterns of thinking/relating/behavior behind your distress, find new perspective, achieve your goals.

If you are looking to create positive changes in your life, but do not know where to start, you’ve come to the right place. Megan has experience working with clients who struggle with depression, anxiety, work and life stress. She works from an approach that offers comfort and understanding, while also challenging you to become the best version of yourself. She believes that the therapeutic space is a place to grow and evolve into the best version of yourself, and she truly cares about helping you get there.

Psychotherapy with me will be a guided, supportive exploration of how you think, feel, act and relate to others. I am a relational therapist: an approach to therapy which combines self-understanding and self-acceptance in relationship to your significant others, both past and present. We all need to be understood. This is my primary job with you: to understand how you think and feel. Once you feel understood, together we can figure out what is getting in the way of living a happier, fulfilling life. I am an expressive therapist, and you will never go away from a session wondering what I think.