Mental health is not a binary state of being well or unwell. It is a continuum that touches every aspect of our lives—how we relate to ourselves, others, and the world. At the Center for Mindful Psychotherapy, we view mental health as a process of remembering wholeness, not fixing brokenness. Whether someone comes to therapy in a moment of crisis or during a time of reflection and growth, we meet them with respect, presence, and attunement.
Our practice is rooted in relational, trauma-informed, integrative, and anti-oppressive approaches. We are based in the San Francisco Bay Area, where social complexity, innovation, and systemic pressure all shape the experience of well-being. On this page, you’ll find an overview of common concerns clients bring into therapy. Each section links to more detailed information and provides a window into how we can work with you. You can find additional topic areas by clicking on the “what we help” section at the top of the page and reviewing the dropdown menus.
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Emotional Health and Inner Patterns
This category includes issues that affect how we feel and think on a daily basis. Many clients seek therapy because their inner world has become overwhelming, confusing, or painful. These concerns are often interconnected and deserve compassionate, skilled attention.
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Anxiety: Anxiety therapy supports people experiencing persistent worry, panic, phobias, or high-functioning anxiety. It helps identify triggers and teach practical skills through modalities such as cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT), somatic therapy, and mindfulness-based approaches.
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Depression Spectrum and Mood Disorders: Depression therapy focuses on lifting the weight of low mood, hopelessness, or emotional flatness. This includes support for major depression, bipolar depression, seasonal affective disorder, and postpartum depression using integrative, evidence-based, and relational methods.
- Grief and Loss: Grief therapy offers support for mourning the death of a loved one, the end of a relationship, or other major losses. Therapy draws from attachment theory, meaning-making models, and somatic grief work to accompany individuals through sorrow.
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Self-Esteem and Self-Criticism: Self-esteem therapy offers a space to gently challenge the inner critic, build internal trust, and develop more compassionate self-understanding. Therapists draw on psychodynamic, CBT, and humanistic approaches.
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Perfectionism and People-Pleasing: Perfectionism therapy helps interrupt rigid patterns and restore flexibility, authenticity, and boundaries. Through self-inquiry, inner child work, and relational therapy, people begin to unhook from external validation.
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Obsessive Compulsive Disorder (OCD): OCD therapy provides tools to manage and reduce intrusive thoughts and compulsive behaviors. Modalities often include exposure and response prevention (ERP), mindfulness-based cognitive therapy, and somatic awareness.
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Suicidal Ideas: Suicidal ideation therapy offers a safe and nonjudgmental space to explore intense thoughts and emotional pain. This work often includes existential, trauma-informed, and psychodynamic therapy as clients navigate what it means to stay alive in difficult moments.
Identity, Embodiment, and Self-Discovery
This category focuses on how individuals experience themselves in their bodies, in their identities, and in their sense of purpose. Many clients come to therapy not because something is wrong, but because they are ready to go deeper.
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Eating Disorders: Eating disorder therapy helps individuals living with anorexia, bulimia, binge eating, ARFID, or other disordered eating patterns. Treatment includes somatic, psychodynamic, and family systems work aimed at healing body image and emotional regulation.
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Food and Body Issues: Food and body therapy supports those who experience chronic dieting, body shame, or compulsive exercise. Even in the absence of a clinical diagnosis, therapy can address cultural messaging, trauma, and identity held in the body.
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Growth and Self-Discovery: Personal growth therapy creates space for people who are drawn to introspection, curiosity, or transformation. This work is expansive, incorporating existential therapy, Jungian-informed practice, and transpersonal approaches.
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Individuation Work: Individuation therapy focuses on the deep psychological process of becoming more fully oneself. Rooted in Jungian theory, this work supports exploration of archetypes, dreams, shadow material, and the unconscious.
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Psychedelic Integration: Psychedelic integration therapy helps clients process expanded states of consciousness with care and grounding. Whether the experience was therapeutic, spiritual, confusing, or distressing, therapists use trauma-informed and meaning-oriented frameworks to support integration.
Begin Your Journey with Us
Each of these topics is a doorway into meaningful therapeutic work. Some people begin by identifying with one concern and come to understand that multiple areas of life are affected. Others are not sure where to start, but feel ready to talk to someone.
Wherever you are, you are welcome here.
You can browse our therapist directory to find someone who fits your needs, or contact us to get help finding the right support.