About Me

Welcome! I’m so glad you’re here.

Hi, I’m Christina, a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist in San Francisco. My style of therapy is relational, warm and interactive; I do not just sit in silence. Our work is collaborative and my style is engaged and responsive. I believe that you deserve not only to be heard, but also understood. Research shows that therapy is most impactful when you have a solid relationship with your therapist. In my practice, I prioritize our relationship and establishing safety in addition to the clinical aspects of the work. This is a safe space, free of judgement.

I provide compassionate understanding and will also invite you to consider new ideas or patterns in a productive way. It can be difficult to see or notice some of our own patterns, so I think this is a really crucial step in therapy. It’s really important to feel so supported and understood, and also important to challenge ourselves into new ways of thinking or learning about our own patterns, behaviors and thoughts.

I work from a lens of therapeutic frameworks that include:

  • Psychodynamic and relational

  • Attachment-based

  • Brainspotting

  • Trauma-informed

  • Emotionally focused

  • Person Centered

  • Mindfulness

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Areas of focus include

  • Relationships

  • Trauma and PTSD

  • Anxiety

  • Depression

  • Work stress/burnout

  • Life transitions

  • Grief and loss

  • Gender Expansive youth

  • Perfectionism

  • Emotional neglect

I have advanced training in

  • ABFT Attachment-Based Family Therapy

  • Attachment

  • Brainspotting

  • EFT Emotionally Focused Couples Therapy (Externship)

  • Childhood trauma and ACEs Study

  • Expressive Arts Therapy

  • Sandtray

  • California State Certified Sexual Assault Counselor

  • Domestic Violence (child and adult exposure)