
Erin S. Phillips
Psychotherapy
Master of Arts in Counseling Psychology
Registered Associate Marriage and Family Therapist #133018
erin.phillips@mindfulcenter.org
​415.612.8101
Psychotherapy with me is ideal if you …​
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Are impacted by disrupted bonds, such as those caused by divorce, death, adoption, illness, or substance use.
Experience emotions intensely, and know that finding safe ways to express them can lead to powerful transformation and balance.
Feel a deep need to name, acknowledge, and explore the impacts of emotional, physical, environmental, cultural, and/or spiritual wounds and work toward fulfilling adaptations.
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Could benefit from a container to hold the disparate parts of your experience, while a new story, your story, emerges.
Are highly sensitive and want to transform that depth into strength.
Sense an obligation to show up more fully, are ready to identify and remove obstacles to vitality and live with more creative flow amidst the chaos and demands of daily life..
Want support understanding, accepting, and adapting to that which has irrevocably changed, while the seeds of new life gather the energy to spring forth.
​Want to hone your insight and develop the endurance to remain true to what you know despite the powerful winds of family, friends, and culture that blow you off course.
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​Sense an opening and want to delve into the mysterious unknown - listening to, and interacting with dreams to facilitate more authentic life choices.
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I strive to:
serve as an accompaniment, and create a 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 nourishing 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.
I embrace:
the power of a nurturing and healing presence,
to provide structure, depth, and context
for the often arduous task of addressing inner and outer challenges,
and to notice the relationship between them.
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​I have noticed with:
greater consciousness and a sense of possibility,
clients are able to take a step back, and with compassion,
move into engaged alignment with their own uniquely imagined lives.
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