Center for Mindful Psychotherapy is a non-profit collective of 125+ Associate Marriage and Family Therapists in the San Francisco Bay Area. You can learn more about each of them by perusing our Therapist Directory. In our Conversations with Clinicians series, we interview therapists in more depth. They share more about the work that they do, the clients that they work...
Reviewed by Kathryn Vercillo, MA Psychology | Last Updated: May 2026 Resilience has become one of the most overused words in the mental wellness conversation. It can sound like a demand to bounce back from things that should not be happening in the first place, or a piece of corporate language meant to extract more from already exhausted people. We...
Reviewed by Kathryn Vercillo, MA Psychology | Last Updated: May 2026 For years, mental health has often been framed as a matter of internal experience: thoughts, feelings, biology. That framing is real, but incomplete. Mental health is also shaped, sometimes profoundly, by the conditions of your life. The economy you live in, the news cycle you absorb, the air you...
Center for Mindful Psychotherapy is a non-profit collective of 125+ Associate Marriage and Family Therapists in the San Francisco Bay Area. You can learn more about each of them by perusing our Therapist Directory. In our Conversations with Clinicians series, we interview therapists in more depth. They share more about the work that they do, the clients that they work...
Reviewed by Kathryn Vercillo, MA Psychology | Last Updated: May 2026 Every May, millions of people across the United States pause to put mental health into focus. Mental Health Awareness Month, founded by Mental Health America in 1949, is now in its seventy-seventh year. The 2026 theme, More Good Days, Together, asks a question that sounds simple and...
Reviewed by Kathryn Vercillo, MA Psychology | Last Updated: May 2026 A few years ago, Mental Health America offered a simple framework for how anyone can engage with mental health awareness work: learn, act, advocate. The framing was originally tied to a specific year's theme, but the structure has stayed with us. It maps cleanly onto the work of building...
This is a guest post from our associate therapist Emily Webb. Emily's approach to therapy is warm and relational. She is passionate about healing religious and spiritual trauma, supporting LGBTQ people and families, addiction recovery, grief/illness and empowering women facing maternal mental health challenges. You can learn more about working with Emily from her therapist bio and this therapist interview....
Center for Mindful Psychotherapy is a non profit collective of approximately 140 Associate Marriage and Family Therapists in the San Francisco Bay Area. You can learn more about each of them from perusing our Therapist Directory. In our Conversations with Clinicians series, we interview therapists in more depth. They share more about the work that they do, the clients that...
Reviewed by Kathryn Vercillo, MA Psychology | Last Updated: March 2025 You may have heard the phrase inner child in therapy circles, in self-help books, or perhaps even said somewhat skeptically to a friend. It can sound abstract, even a little soft. But inner child work is grounded in some of the most substantive thinking in developmental psychology and...
Reviewed by Kathryn Vercillo, MA Psychology | Last Updated: March 2026 If you have ever sat in a therapy group and felt like you were constantly explaining yourself, like your life required footnotes just to begin, you already understand why culturally affirming therapy exists. For many BIPOC individuals, therapy has historically been a space designed by and for white, Western...