✦ Please, have a seat on the couch ✦
✦ Please, have a seat on the couch ✦
Come on in — I'm glad you found your way here.
Hi, I'm Art 👋 — a therapist working with complex developmental trauma, attachment, and inner child healing. In person in San Francisco and online across California.
You don't need the right words or a tidy story — wherever you're starting from is a fine place to start. Poke around the room to learn how I work: the diploma, the plants, the bookshelf, and the calendar all open. (The cat is just the cat.)
Hi, I'm Art. I believe the wounds we carry from early life were made in relationship — and that they heal in relationship, too.
I'm a therapist practicing in San Francisco, and my work centers on complex developmental trauma and attachment. Many of the people I see grew up having to be older than they were: reading the room before entering it, earning care instead of receiving it, becoming very good at being fine. That kind of childhood leaves patterns that don't respond to advice or willpower — they live in the body and in the ways we attach.
So that's where we work. Alongside talk therapy, I bring in inner child work — meeting the younger parts of you that are still waiting for someone to show up — as well as psychodrama, which lets us step into old scenes and give them new endings, and somatic practices that help your nervous system learn, in real time, what safety actually feels like.
The room reflects how I think about this work: unhurried, warm, a little bit sheltered from the weather. Healing here isn't about forcing change — it's about making room for it, the way fog lifts off the bay in its own time.
You may have noticed Boston asleep on the rug. He's real, he attends most sessions, and he is very good at his job.
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Every plant on that shelf needs something different to grow. So does every person.
Weekly 50-minute sessions for adults healing from complex developmental trauma — the kind that came from how you were raised, not a single event.
Gently meeting the younger parts of you that adapted to survive, and giving them what they didn't get the first time: attention, protection, repair.
Experiential work that puts old scenes in motion — speaking to an empty chair, stepping into a role, rehearsing the conversation you never got to have.
Body-based tools — breath, grounding, movement, tracking sensation — that teach your nervous system to settle, not just your thoughts.
Telehealth sessions are available for clients anywhere in California.
Kept on plain paper, on purpose. No surprises.
| Individual session (50 min) | $220 |
| Couples session (75 min) | $280 |
| Initial consultation (20 min, phone) | Free |
I reserve a portion of my practice for sliding-scale clients — please ask, and never let the fee be the reason you don't reach out.
I am an out-of-network provider. I can provide a monthly superbill for insurance reimbursement, and I'm happy to walk you through how that works.
Notes from the bookshelf — short essays on therapy, rest, and being a person.
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The hardest part is often the first call. I try to make it easy.
123 Presidio Avenue, Suite 4
San Francisco, CA 94115 (placeholder)
Near the Presidio — yes, you really can see the bridge.
Tue – Fri, 9am – 6pm
Telehealth available statewide
If you are in crisis, please call or text 988 (Suicide & Crisis Lifeline) — support is available 24/7.
Resident therapy cat. Unlicensed, but very experienced.
Boston is a black-and-white shorthair who has sat in on more sessions than most interns. Specialties include: sitting on the exact paper you need, purring at clinically significant moments, and modeling excellent boundaries around nap time. He is also living proof that you can wear a tuxedo every day and still be extremely relaxed.
He says hi. That's all this one does. 🐾