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How I Work + What Happens in Therapy |
Therapy for Partners |
Who I work withQueer Couples
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What issues I work withGridlocked Conflict
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How I work Psychobiological Approach to Couple's Therapy (PACT)
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Wanna know a little more? Let me break it down...
I work with families, friends, and partners looking for a therapist who “gets it.” Queer, poly, kinky, and non-traditional folks welcome! I hold our therapeutic relationship with deep respect and care, making room for your story and your experiences without judgment. You are not too intense, too much, too sensitive, too “out there.” The whole of you is welcome with me. I take your experiences of marginalization, your upbringing, and your identities seriously and come from a social justice, anti-racist, trauma-informed lens informed by my clinical training at Pacific Center for Human Growth, the oldest LGBTQ+ center in the Bay Area.
I integrate attachment theory and am informed by Emotionally Focused Therapy, Psychobiological Approach to Couple's Therapy (PACT), Relational Life Therapy, and the Gottman Method.
I integrate attachment theory and am informed by Emotionally Focused Therapy, Psychobiological Approach to Couple's Therapy (PACT), Relational Life Therapy, and the Gottman Method.
More than help with communication. A focus on how your past effects your present, depth of connection, and your personal definition of partnership and family.
But yeah, we will work on communication, too.
My job is to collaborate with you, uncovering your own personal toolkit and strategies to help you grow in and heal your relationships. We will identify what your wants, needs, and fears are and how to communicate that and connect to your partner. We will find ways to identify and rework patterns you find yourself stuck in. We will discover how to exist as a differentiated person while living interdependently with your partner(s), family, and community. I will help coach you in regulating your nervous system and in regulating the nervous system of your partner. I will be there with you to support, and most importantly to me, hold your story as precious and listen with a non-judgmental, affirming ear as we build trust and safety in the therapy room and in your partnership. More on what that may look like here.
Offering in-person sessions in Oakland and virtual sessions for clients residing anywhere in California.
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Stephanie Bain (she/her/hers)
Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist, LMFT #137288 stephaniebaintherapy@gmail.com | 1-510-545-9329 445 Bellevue Ave, #6B, Oakland, 94610 |
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