
Erin S. Phillips
Psychotherapy
Master of Arts in Counseling Psychology
Registered Associate Marriage and Family Therapist #133018
erin.phillips@mindfulcenter.org
​415.612.8101
The privilege of a lifetime is to become who you truly are.
—C.G. Jung
I strive to:
serve as a companion and create a nurturing and healing temenos,
where self-discovery can lead to the restoration of trust, purpose, and playful engagement
in natural self-expression.
I value:
courage, curiosity, the creative process,
and relatedness
as the soil for fresh growth, flourishing, and vitality.
My approach is:
holistic and integrative, sacred and soulful, yet practical.
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I weave in:
trauma-informed and mindfulness practices, embrace the power of a witnessing presence,
support patients while they address inner and outer challenges,
foster greater consciousness and sense of possibility,
and hold on to the dream of moving into alignment with one's own uniquely imagined life.
Psychotherapy with me is ideal if you …​
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Are a child or adult impacted by disrupted bonds, such as those caused by divorce, death, adoption, illness, or substance use.
Want to tap into and explore your creativity more deeply amidst the chaos and demands of daily life.
Feel a deep need to acknowledge emotional, physical, environmental, cultural, and spiritual wounds and work toward fulfilling adaptations.
Want to hone your insight and develop the endurance to remain true to what you know to be a direction toward a path with meaning and heart.
Are seeking a container for the disparate parts of your experience while a new story, your story emerges from the ashes of the old.
Sense an opening and want to delve into the unknown - listening to, and interacting with dreams to facilitate stronger, more authentic, wise life choices.
Long to identify and remove obstacles to vitality to live with more creative flow.​
Experience emotions intensely, and know that finding safe ways to express them can lead to powerful transformation.
They are highly sensitive and long to transform the accompanying depth into confidence, strength, and balance.
Want support understanding, accepting, and adapting to that which has irrevocably changed, all the while awaiting new life, yet to come.
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Offering Telehealth and Outdoor Sessions
Working remotely throughout California and in person as needed.
Fees
$185 for 50 minute session with sliding scale available.
Please inquire

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There’s a thread you follow. It goes among things that change.
But it doesn’t change.
People wonder about what you are pursuing.
You have to explain about the thread. But it is hard for others to see.
While you hold it, you can’t get lost.
Tragedies happen; people get hurt or die; and you suffer and get old.
Nothing you do can stop time’s unfolding.
You don’t ever let go of the thread.
William Stafford
Be patient toward all that is unsolved in your heart and
try to love the questions themselves
like locked rooms and like books that are written in a very foreign tongue.
Do not now seek the answers, which cannot be given you
because you would not be able to live them.
And the point is, to live everything.
Love the questions now.
Perhaps you will then gradually, without noticing it,
live along some distant day into the answer.
Rainer Maria Rilke

50 and 75 minute sessions -
Tailored to meet your specific needs.
Sliding scale available.
Please inquire.
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Working remotely throughout California
Walk and talk or sit and play sessions in
Santa Cruz, East Bay, and San Francisco
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All of us can create if we allow ourselves to.​
Natalie Goldberg
Put your ear down close to your soul and listen hard.
Anne Sexton
The person who has a why can live with any how.
​Friedrich Nietzsche