A Simple Tool for the Overstimulated Mind In our fast paced Bay Area lives, our minds often race ahead, trying to process everything we have seen, done, and thought throughout the day. This cognitive overload can leave our nervous systems feeling wired and unable to truly rest. When you struggle to digest the day, simple self care can feel impossible....[ read more ]
At Center for Mindful Psychotherapy, many of our clients are high functioning professionals, artists, and leaders in the Bay Area. They often come in exhausted, confused about why their energy reserves are constantly depleted despite their best efforts at self care. As a former tech professional who understands the unique pressures of performance culture, Associate MFT Rachel Lefkowitz Parnes specializes...[ read more ]
This guest post is offered by our associate therapist, Rachel Lefkowitz Parnes, MA, Associate MFT. Rachel’s journey to becoming a therapist is deeply relatable to many of our Bay Area clients, having spent nearly a decade successfully navigating the high stakes environment of the tech world at LinkedIn. Her lived experience of performance culture, combined with her deep clinical training in...[ read more ]
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...[ read more ]
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...[ read more ]
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...[ read more ]
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...[ read more ]
Associate therapist Erma Kyriakos is offering an online holiday support group this year. The holidays can be tough for many reasons and it helps to have a place to connect during this time. When the Most Wonderful Time of Year Doesn't Feel Wonderful At All The holiday season is often portrayed as a time of joy, connection, and celebration....[ read more ]
Welcome back to Conversations with Clinicians where we interview one of our associate therapists. We like to give you this opportunity to learn more about the way that they work. It can also give you insight into the differences between various therapeutic modalities, approaches and techniques. Today, meet Corinne Crone. Corinne is a transpersonal West Marin, California therapist. Asked to...[ read more ]
Welcome back to Conversations with Clinicians where we interview one of our associate therapists. We like to give you this opportunity to learn more about the way that they work. It can also give you insight into therapeutic modalities, approaches and techniques. Today, meet California telehealth associate therapist Erin Boyle, "a trauma-informed relational therapist who pulls from somatic, psychodynamic, and...[ read more ]