Find a Therapist in Martinez, CA

With a warm and friendly presence, I offer a collaborative experience of therapy. I have helped many individuals handle difficult work situations or career changes in academia, tech, and other fields. I also enjoy supporting people who are facing day-to-day stressors, loss, transitions, or issues with parenting. With exploration, individuals can discover new and creative ways to think about and address life challenges. In addition to individual and couples counseling, I offer mediation and conflict resolution services.

Offering expert support (sorting out and finding new solutions for complex matters), grief-support, erasing of self-defeating habits using emdr (process for erasing trauma and habits), sln (process to release habits and meet goals),hypnotherapy, life-medicine (taping and self-touching to shift patterns) I effectively help you. Individuals and couples receive non-judgmental support. I have successfully helped hundreds of people from diverse backgrounds to overcome self-defeating habits, move through challenging transitions, change significant relationship challenges and move through grief. Learn to identify and address the underlying issues that cause your difficulty. Would you like your life to be more rewarding and to be at peace? You will make changes that feel good to you with my facilitation. Been in practice for 17 years. Contact me now with questions about counseling. Begin to make changes. 15 minute initial free consult available. Counseling provides a compassionate approach to making changes. Discover new thoughts and feelings regarding ongoing difficulties. Become directed and self-loving. Feel good again. Contact me to start making satisfying changes. Feel free to call with questions too. Both short and long term counseling are available.

As a cognitive-behavioral and solution-focused therapist, my goal is to help children, teenagers and young adults unearth their real potential and lead lives that are more peaceful, enjoyable, and worth celebrating. Though we can't change troubling situations from the past, we can work collaboratively to better understand and resolve challenges in your own child's life or inside your family system. By utilizing complementary therapy techniques and approaches, we will uncover negative perceptions or behavior patterns that may be preventing your child or teen from experiencing a more meaningful and fulfilling life, as well as support a shift in behavioral and emotional expression that will enable the individual's positive nature and true strengths to thrive. I believe that everyone has the ability to change and improve, and I hope to take part in you or your family's positive journey toward empowerment, wellbeing, and growth.

Good therapy is all about making connections and building personal awareness. Everyone gets stuck sometimes! Most people at some point find themselves feeling unmotivated, uninspired, isolated, or even completely lost. During times of struggle and overwhelm having another mind to help you think and make meaning within a safe and non-judgemental space can be the key to moving forward. My therapeutic approach is warm, engaged, and non-directive. By listening deeply I strive to meet each person where they are and to help make meaningful links between past and present with an eye toward decreasing emotional and psychological suffering. I love my work as a therapist and I have the utmost respect for every person who entrusts me to do this very important work with them. It is an honor to hold my clients histories, stories, vulnerabilities, and strengths. I am continually awed by the courage and resilience of the human spirit and am grateful to witness these qualities in my clients everyday within a therapeutic context.

Hi, I’m Marla, a psychotherapist with a past life as an artist, offering empathy, insight, and authenticity for seekers of self-discovery and transformation. A San Francisco therapist, I work with highly sensitive, creative, and gifted individuals from a psychodynamic, somatic, and relational perspective. My work is grounded in depth psychology and intuitive presence. I’ve built my life around transforming pain into insight, so I can help others catalyze anxiety, trauma, addiction recovery, life transitions, and relationship challenges into meaningful change. You don’t need to know where to start or even be able to find the words. Just show up. I’ll meet you where you are. In session, I listen with my whole body, attuning to subtle shifts, sensations, and pauses that signal something meaningful — a deeper awareness that opens the way to clarity and healing. As a therapist, my work is about depth, meaning, creativity, and transformation. My best-fit clients are empaths and artists, writers and thinkers, people with creative spirits and analytical minds who often wonder if they are too sensitive, too intelligent, or too intense — haunted by the question: “Am I too much or not enough?” If you’re ready to do the real work, this is it — raw, sacred, and transformative. We’ll begin with you, one-on-one. Individual therapy with me is personal, relational, and empathic. Because each of us is also a multiplicity, the work may also evolve to include couples therapy, relationship therapy, or family therapy. As you heal, your relationships will, too. It’s a dynamic and beautiful phenomenon to behold when the benefits from personal therapy proliferate through an entire constellation of relationships and family systems. With advanced training in trauma therapy, addiction treatment, and complex relational dynamics, I can help you disrupt old patterns, instill self-trust, and reclaim the parts of yourself that have been buried or exiled. Come to release your burdens. Come to reclaim your life. As the founder of a boutique therapy practice in the Mission District at the intersection of Potrero Hill, Dogpatch, Mission Bay, and SoMa, I offer highly personalized therapy for privacy-conscious clients, ensuring focused, attuned attention and the utmost discretion. In-person therapy in San Francisco is available alongside online therapy throughout California including the Bay Area, Marin, Palo Alto, and Los Angeles. Therapy with me is irreverent, unapologetic, and full of soul. It's a place where you can finally tell the whole truth. Let this be your invitation to take up space — in your life, your relationships, and your healing. Reach out for a free consultation or request an appointment through my website (marlaleighcaplan.com). If you have questions, feel free to send me a message.

We seek therapy because at some level we imagine that life could be better. We all suffer in different ways and suffering is universal, but it is precisely that suffering that leads us into a process of discovering how our deepest selves want to be expressed in the world and then to find the inner resources to live that out. In its truest sense, psychotherapy – which means “tending to the soul” – is not only concerned with alleviating symptoms, resolving issues, or adapting to life’s demands (though these are important), but ultimately with living lives that are more joyful, creative and free. My approach is to discover with you what underlies your symptoms and difficulties and facilitates your psyche’s natural healing process. Our work is collaborative and I am an active part of the process rather than simply a quiet observer. As a Jungian, I work with dreams but not having them will not impede your process. We’d generally meet once or twice per week, sit across from each other and have a conversation.

I have been working as a therapist for over 30 years. Much of my work has been with couples, families, and groups, but I have more recently begun seeing individuals as well. I have been influenced by gestalt therapy, family systems, and relational psychoanalysis. To me, what is most healing for people is to find a "relational home", wherein they can feel safe to explore the most vulnerable aspects of themselves in a trusting, non-judgmental environment. This is true for couples and families, as well as for individuals. I am a growth-oriented therapist who is "difference-friendly", and I love to work with people who are on a path of personal and or spiritual growth.

I specialize in treating adolescents and young adults, and also work with many individual adults. Areas of focus include anxiety, depression, self-harm, suicidal ideation, low self-esteem, life transitions, phase of life challenges, skill building (coping, social, stress-management), emotion-regulation, building self-awareness, and communication strategies (assertiveness trainingboundaries). Often, part of my treatment with adolescents includes working with parents to find an effective balance between setting and reinforcing limits and maintaining a positive relationship with their child(ren). While my therapeutic approach varies depending on the specific needs and goals of each client, I utilize techniques from Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, Dialectical Behavioral Therapy, Solution Focused Therapy, and Rogerian Therapy. Most importantly, I believe that connection is a driving force for positive change. I value the unique "story" of each individual with whom I work and am passionate about empowering others to create quality, meaningful lives.

If you've come to a crisis point in your life, it can make such a difference to talk with someone who can help you not only with your immediate concern, but with understanding what it can tell you about yourself. I have an exploratory approach -- listening for what you say but haven't yet heard and speaking up for what you allude to but haven't yet articulated. This process requires privacy, safety, curiosity, and attention. Over the 20 years of my practice, I've found this approach to be especially helpful to people who are struggling with depression, relationship issues, anxieties, shame, inhibitions, self-esteem, identity questions, and life transitions. I am an avid listener and have a deep interest in language and the subtle, multi-layered ways that meaning is conveyed and received when two people are talking. At its best I think therapy is a collaborative, creative endeavor.

Trauma-informed therapy integrating somatic healing, eye movement desensitization and reprocessing (EMDR), sound-based practices, and nature-centered grounding. I provide specialized attention-deficit hyperactivity (ADHD) services to busy professionals juggling demanding schedules in San Francisco, Seattle, and New York City.

I believe that while personal growth is a lifelong process, therapy shouldn't be. That's why I use methods of psychotherapy that have been proven to improve clients' quality of life in a reasonable amount of time. My approach to psychotherapy is informed by Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT), Cognitive Behavior Therapy (CBT), and Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT). Beginning psychotherapy can be a turning point for the better because it can lead to a whole new way of experiencing life.

I help people get to the root of dynamics within themselves that cause their struggles. My approach is engaging and expansive. With over 30 years of experience with many types of people from different cultures and backgrounds, I see people as human with complex emotions and complicated lives. Most all of us are trying to live a better life with less struggle, less stress and fear. We all want to be loved and understood, but sometimes we get in our own way. We all create narratives of who we are - most of which are developed very early in life and get embellished along the way to adulthood. My work is to help people develop ways of reflecting on what has been, what is, and what might be in order to allow more choices in life than seem obvious or possible. We can get stuck at various times in our lives, tolerating an existence that may not reflect all that we initially wanted out of life, how we imagined our talents and skills would be put to use. We sometimes land in relationships that become painfully frustrating or boring because we do not understand why we pick the partners that we do, why we feel misunderstood or unloved. It takes courage to look at oneself instead of blaming circumstances and people around you. If life problems were easy to handle alone we would all be doing that. My work is based in the idea that feeling understood, being listened to carefully in a focused way and hearing other ways to think about yourself are actually helpful and curative.