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 they work with, their inspirations, passions, personal interests and more. Today, we’re talking with Emily Webb.
Emily Webb brings an unusually wide range of lived and professional experience to her work as a therapist. Before entering the mental health field, she spent years listening closely to people’s stories as a community organizer and hospice chaplain, and served as an ordained church minister. She holds both an AMFT and a Master of Divinity (M.Div), and currently works as a therapist in a residential treatment center for substance use alongside her private practice.
Emily’s own life path has moved through multiple career shifts, marriage, postpartum challenges, parenting, divorce, coming out, and mental health recovery, and all of this informs the depth of presence she brings to her clients today. Her work is shaped by liberation movements for racial, economic, gender and environmental justice. She is passionate about healing religious and spiritual trauma, supporting LGBTQ people and families, addiction recovery, grief, and empowering women facing maternal mental health challenges. For Emily, healing is possible within us, between people, among communities, and across the living systems we belong to.
Where is your office located?
Virtual
What is your therapeutic orientation?
What are your areas of specialty?
- Working through trauma and patterns of addiction
- Women considering divorce/unpartnering
- Families and parents facing challenges
- Spiritual and religious identity and growth
What other modalities inform your work?
What is it like to work with you?
Curious, Authentic, Relatable, Insightful
Who do you LOVE working with?
I loved working with clients who are excited about therapy! It’s wonderful that so much of the stimga that hung over mental health is clearing out and people are able to access care and support when they need it.
What inspires you about this work?
Spending time with my kid really inspires me.
We’d Love Some Recommendations From You…
…for the best place to laugh and cry in the Bay Area?
Grand Lake Theater; Thai Table; The Punchline in SF
…for self care practice?
- Free: Sit in a park/by the water with a journal and some good music
- On a budget: Dim Sum in Chinatown
- Higher Price Point: Full-Body Massage
Favorite books?
Therapy book:
Set Boundaries, Find Peace by Nedra Taawab Glover
Non-therapy book:
I just read The Correspondent by Virgina Evans and I loved it.
Other media favorites?
- Film: First Wives Club
- Music: Florence and the Machine
- Podcast: How to Survive the End of the World with Autumn Brown and adrianne maree brown
If you could sum up in one sentence why someone might go to therapy, what would you say?
Therapy is a chance to level up in the life YOU want — away form the noise of your well-meaning friends, family and social media influences.
What is one thing that clients might be surprised to learn about you?
In a past life, I was an ordained church minister. If you hunt on YouTube, you can find sermons I preached 10 years ago.
What is one takeaway moment that you’d like to share from your own experience as a client in therapy?
It was a big moment for me when I realized that I didn’t have to share everything about my mental health with my parents. This didn’t happen until I was in my 30s!
How can people contact you?
- Name: Emily Webb
- License #: AMFT 150662
- Supervisor: Anna Hirsch
- Phone: (510) 858-1218
- Website: emilyannwebb.com
- Email: [email protected]
Center for Mindful Psychotherapy is a non profit collective of ~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.