Kentfield Therapists specializing in Parenting

katherine butler

As well know, parenting is rough, sometimes we need a fresh perspective to problem solve

Adam Cohen

My approach is very interactive; I bring my full self into the room, and invite clients to do the same. At the beginning of working with someone new, emphasis in placed on getting clear about what it is they are seeking and then collaborating with them to decide the pace and direction we go. I love guiding people in becoming aware of any unconscious beliefs that are getting in their way. Some of this work involves going back into the past, staying in the present, and/or planning action steps to make shifts in the future. Core to this approach is working with people and their inner critics - the (often unconscious) limiting beliefs we have about ourselves that shape the lens through which we see ourselves and our world. "I'm not good enough," "I always mess up," “I’m not capable,” etc - I help people to recognize, understand, and then move beyond their inner critic by gaining deep understanding of their self and engaging in the practice of self-compassion.

Derek Rubinstein

I received my doctorate in clinical psychology (PsyD) from the California Institute of Integral Studies; a holistic practice-focused program that bridges depth-psychology, the latest scientific research and neuroscience, and the world’s great wisdom traditions. I am grateful for attending a unique program that emphasizes multiple ways of knowing, sociocultural factors, and spiritual dimensions of human experience. I have extensive training and experience in providing long term psychodynamically oriented therapy, but primarily see myself as integrative in how I work. I have trained and worked in a variety of settings including community mental health clinics doing both psychotherapy and neuropsychological assessments, in-home behavioral services for individuals on the autism spectrum, school and university settings, and a harm-reduction based drug treatment center. I have also been an active volunteer at Spirit Rock Meditation Center’s Family and Teen program as a mindful leader.

Maysie Tift, LMFT

Clients want a therapist who actively engages with them in sessions - and rightfully so. I believe the most therapeutic engagement is something different from advice-giving or a string of “techniques.” My engagement is generally aimed at the powerful fundamentals of psychotherapy. These include things like: helping me understand my clients better; helping clients to understand themselves better; facilitating clients’ emotional awareness and expression in the present moment; identifying relationship patterns; contemplating symbolic meanings of various events in a clients’ life; and exploring what’s unresolved from the past and most important in the present and the future.

Darshana Weill

I see the therapeutic relationship as a collaborative exchange. I am not the expert but a guide on the side helping you uncover the conditioning, negative beliefs, and patterns that hold you hostage. I listen deeply, reflect, and support you with compassion and warmth to dive deeper into the vulnerability that is longing to be seen. We are building a relationship and it is through the truth and trust in that relationship that you can begin to study yourself, your habits, your thoughts, and your feelings, allowing you to heal your wounded, unacknowledged parts. My approach blends talk therapy, somatic therapy, and engaging exercises that help you notice what is going on within in order to bring those parts forward. Then you can decide what you want to keep and what needs to go away.

Dr. Nadia Thalji

Whether you are experiencing anxiety, depression, or anger, you will find relief in sharing your story. Together, we will look at what is holding you back, and engage in a process of transformation that will improve your relationship with self, others, and the world. The therapeutic process will help you feel more empowered to overcome the challenges in front of you and unlock your full potential.

Buddhist Therapy Center - Starla Dean

A Vipassana Buddhist practitioner for 35 years, mindfulness teacher, interfaith minister, forgiveness facilitator, hospital chaplain, hospice grief therapist, dream support group leader for cancer patients, spiritual midwife for the dying and their families - and student of shamanic studies and psychedelic-assisted therapy - I am here to support you to go as deep as you can to heal, envision, create, actualize and thrive!

Heather Chamberlain

Being a parent is hard! Parent consultation can help you identify areas of strengths in your child and family as well as ways to manage difficulties. Goals may include decreasing tantrums, understanding temperament, and finding solutions to developmental challenges such as sleep, toileting, and tantrums. I support you in developing a plan that supports you, your child, and your family.

Buddhist Therapy Center - Starla Dean

A Vipassana Buddhist practitioner for 35 years, mindfulness teacher, interfaith minister, forgiveness facilitator, hospital chaplain, hospice grief therapist, dream support group leader for cancer patients, spiritual midwife for the dying and their families - and student of shamanic studies and psychedelic-assisted therapy - I am here to support you to go as deep as you can to heal, envision, create, actualize and thrive!

Nancy Rosas

Think of my role, in our journey, as one of a mental hygienist-just as you have proper physical hygiene, we all need mental hygiene too! I will mirror, guide and challenging you, all while creating new neural pathways that will allow you to live your authentic self! I'm interested in challenging what it is to be "good", the roles we play, the emotional cost. I am so pleased you have made the decision to seek out additional support through psychotherapy. I am here to foster your courage, vulnerability and create a safe space for you to heal, be free and become an authentic you! Together we can reach that mountain top! Therapy with me is one that is collaborative and is built on mutual understanding, respect and commitment. My approach is drawn from my certifications in evidence based therapies: trauma focused cognitive behavioral therapy, child parent psychotherapy & parent child interaction therapy.

Tessa Gordon

Stephanie Fletcher

This work is my passion. I firmly believe you are the expert on you. I can professionally, realistically, and warmly help tap into your strengths removing the 'stuck spots'.

Lisa Garbus

I offer a warm, honest, and collaborative space within which we can explore issues that are troubling you. My aim is for you to feel more fully alive, to find the flexibility and resilience for stronger connections to others and a more vigorous pursuit of your goals and dreams. Many of us feel blocked or confused as we approach the things we most deeply want. This confusion can be the result of an important emotional cycle in our lives that has been interrupted. We often develop coping strategies under unique and sometimes difficult conditions. These strategies were necessary and helpful at the time, but now they are unconsciously getting in the way of relationships, career goals, creativity, or just the ability to be content and feel good about ourselves. We feel that something is off, and we frequently blame ourselves. My goal is to help you find the emotional flexibility to use your energy and creativity in ways that you choose, and the freedom to live a more satisfying life.

Jeff Wright

I offer a solution-focused, forward-looking, results-oriented approach and simple practical tools that you can put to immediate use to begin improving the quality of your life, work and relationships. My approach respectful, friendly, non-judgmental, non-oppositional and non-pathologizing. My style is clear, kind, loving and direct. I offer a safe, collaborative therapy environment where you can build on existing strengths to appreciably improve the quality of your life, relationships and career. Whether you are struggling with current circumstances, would like to heal long-standing unhelpful thought/behavior patterns, address past traumas or are feeling good and simply want more out of life, we can work together to help you efficiently and effectively navigate your path of self-healing and create a more joyous, connected, fulfilling and successful life.

Intercultural Psychology Nadia Thalji, PH.D.

My practice has been focused on helping people that are from a diverse ethnic, racial, cultural, religious and spiritual backgrounds, integrate the multiplicity of their experience from within. As a multicultural and multilingual psychotherapist with an intercultural mindset, I view interactions from multiple cultural perspectives. For several years, I've been helping bicultural, multiethnic, biracial and multicultural individuals, couples and families. Experienced working with international migrants, ex-pats, cultural hybrids, international sojourners, global nomads, refugees, Adult Third Culture Kids (TCK), Adult Cross-Cultural Kids (CCK), people that were raised in several countries around the globe, as a diplomat’s kid, or because their parents worked for an international organization. I hold a Ph.D. in Clinical Psychology a MA in Culture and Spirituality and a BA in Performance studies.

Nadia Thalji, Ph.D

I work with: Techies, Creatives, Expats, International migrants, first-generation, TCK, CCK, Mental Health professionals, and Graduate students. My style is relational, this means that we will work collaboratively to address the core issues and unlock your inner resources. For the past 8 years, my practice has been focused on helping people heal from trauma, feel a sense of belonging, and improve their love life. My expertise is working individuals, couples and groups, mostly bi-culturals/multicultural, multiethnic, and multiracial. My goal is to help you gain a deeper understanding of your unique psychology, and become your best advocate. You will be able to apply your knowledge of Self in your relationship with self and others. My credentials include a Ph.D. in Clinical Psychology, Jungian Analysis, Post-Doctorate in Psychoanalysis, Training in Humanistic, Transpersonal approaches. I utilize Dreamwork, Active Imagination, SandPlay, Mindfulness, Somatic, Art Therapy, and CBT.

Dr. Nadia Thalji

Whether you are experiencing anxiety, depression, or anger, you will find relief in sharing your story. Together, we will look at what is holding you back, and engage in a process of transformation that will improve your relationship with self, others, and the world. The therapeutic process will help you feel more empowered to overcome the challenges in front of you and unlock your full potential.

Taylor Swing

My work is person-centered and rooted in the attachment and relational approaches in therapy. I utilize multiple therapeutic modalities, including CBT, DBT, feminist theory, attachment, and mindfulness, to collaborate, support, and empower you in your individual goals. Our client-therapist relationship is truly important in the therapeutic process and I work to create a safe, authentic, and non-judgemental therapeutic space. Additionally, I utilize a Health at Every Size (HAES®) and body liberation informed framework throughout my practice to support you in your body image journey. I am truly passionate about empowering and helping others build connection, it's what led me to being a therapist and what motivates me every day. Whether your story includes feeling stuck, anxiety, shame or pressures around body image, relationship challenges, codependency, desire to explore your own identity, or any of the many facets of life that impact us, I would be honored to support you.

Isobel Heath

Often, it is in our most significant relationships in life that we can get the most deeply hurt, yet it is also through relationships that we are capable of accessing internal resources, developing new ways of being, and experiencing healing and transformation. I strive to provide a safe, empathic, and compassionate therapeutic relationship in which the challenges and pain you’ve encountered in life can be held, related to in new and different ways, and ultimately shift. I draw from both traditional psychodynamic (talk) therapy approaches and from experiential approaches, particularly mindfulness-based and somatic (body-centered). I am a graduate of the California Institute of Integral Studies' Integral Counseling Psychology program.

Amanda Tran

In addition to talk therapy I also incorporate body-based practices, artistic explorations, and your own cultural healing traditions. Our process is collaborative; you are the expert on yourself, and I will support and guide you to reconnect with your own innate gifts, wisdom, and healing capacity. We’ll cultivate your connection with values, communities, and practices that can anchor you during times of change and uncertainty. I empower you to set the pace for your healing and to recognize what feels right for you at all times. My approach is trauma-informed and poly, kink, sex worker, and LGBTQ+ affirmative. Through ongoing personal and professional self-examination and education, I aim to provide care that is holistic, culturally responsive, and rooted in anti-oppression.