Reviewed by Kathryn Vercillo, MA Psychology | Last Updated: November 2025 You have probably downloaded at least one. Maybe several. The meditation app that promised to ease your anxiety. The mood tracker that was supposed to help you understand your patterns. The chatbot that offered cognitive behavioral therapy techniques at 2 AM when you could not sleep. These apps are...
The question, "What is it to be alive today?" is perhaps the most profound human inquiry. As we navigate the end of the year, this question often feels obscured by external demands. There is also a constant, low level hum of anxiety. Society frequently suggests that our meaning lies in our capacity to produce, achieve, and solve. If we...
Reviewed by Kathryn Vercillo, MA Psychology | Last Updated: November 2025 You've been dragging yourself through each day feeling like you're moving through thick mud. Your shoulders ache constantly. Getting out of bed requires monumental effort, even after a full night's sleep. You assumed you were just tired, stressed, or maybe coming down with something. It might not have occurred...
Center for Mindful Psychotherapy is a non profit collective of approximately 100 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: November 2025 You notice the pattern again. A relationship starts well, but as you grow closer, something shifts. Maybe you find reasons to create distance. Maybe you become anxious when your partner seems less available. Maybe the whole dynamic feels eerily familiar to relationships that didn't work out before. You tell...
Center for Mindful Psychotherapy is a non profit collective of approximately 100 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...
What does it actually look like to practice therapy mindfully? How do therapists hold space for complex emotions while maintaining their own groundedness and capacity? This month, we're sharing an intimate glimpse into the daily practice of Madison Parikka, AMFT, one of our associate therapists at Center for Mindful Psychotherapy. Her video offers more than a "day in the life."...
You know you need help processing your trauma. Maybe it's PTSD from a difficult experience, anxiety that traces back to childhood wounds, or depression rooted in unresolved grief. You've started researching trauma therapy in the Bay Area, and you've discovered something both exciting and overwhelming: there are dozens of specialized approaches, from Brainspotting to EMDR to Somatic Experiencing to Internal...
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 with, their inspirations, passions, personal interests and more. Today, we're talking with Rachel Lefkowitz Parnes. Rachel's journey to becoming a therapist is one of profound personal transformation. She first became aware of her own...
This guest post is offered by our associate therapist Madison Parikka, AMFT, who received her MA in counseling psychology from The Wright Institute in Berkeley, California. She shares, "I see therapy as a coming together, an exploration, and a place to look inward - to see and be seen." In this beautiful post, she shares her own love letter to...