Reviewed by Kathryn Vercillo, MA Psychology | Last Updated: November 2025 Maybe you downloaded Woebot after seeing an ad. Perhaps you found yourself typing your worries into ChatGPT at 2 a.m. when you could not sleep. Or maybe a friend mentioned Wysa helped them through a rough patch, and you are curious whether AI therapy could work for you too....[ read more ]
We recently shared with you several therapists' answers to the question about what keeps them inspired in their work. However, therapists are whole people, too, so we also wanted to know what keeps them inspired outside of the work. After all, work-life balance and self-nurturing are wonderful things for therapists to model! Here, eleven of our associate therapists share what...[ 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 so that you get to know them in more depth. They share more about...[ read more ]
There are many different ways to approach therapy for addiction / substance use. You may want to quit using all substances or some substances, reduce your use, reduce the harms associated with your use, or make no changes and just discuss the role it's playing in your life right now. Those are all perfectly okay ways to show up to...[ read more ]
We're back today with another California therapist interview from our Conversations with Clinicians series. Meet Kaye Reeves, a former staff attorney in the California appellate courts who is now working with us as an associate therapist. Kaye is inspired by the growth and change of doing this work. Let's learn more about working with this therapist, who is located in...[ read more ]
Reviewed by Kathryn Vercillo, MA Psychology | Last Updated November 2025 This article was originally published in March 2023 as an exploration of what AI itself had to say about its role in therapy. While AI tools may have supportive roles alongside human therapy as described below, recent research confirms they should not replace human therapists. Visit our blog for...[ read more ]
Odessa Avianna Perez is a California therapist who specializes in working with issues of oppression and marginalization using a trauma-informed Somatic Psychotherapy approach with a focus on mindfulness, attachment, nervous system regulation, and dance and movement therapy. In this interview we learn more about her work. Plus, she gives us some great recommendations. Where is your office located? Working only virtually for...[ read more ]
Sofía Escudero is a bilingual (Spanish/English) San Francisco Bay Area therapist who is part of our associate therapist team here at Center for Mindful Psychotherapy. She is currently seeing clients via Telehealth only but hopes to offer in-person East Bay (Oakland or Berkeley) appointments soon. Learn more about her approach to her work in the interview below. What are your...[ read more ]