California Therapy for Therapists
You spend your days holding space for everyone else—you deserve to turn that energy toward yourself, too. At Stillpoint Therapy Collective in San Francisco, our diverse team of LGBTQ+-affirming, somatically trained clinicians offers therapists the same depth of care you give your clients, in-person in San Francisco and online across California.
Helpers need help, too.
Being a therapist doesn't make you immune to burnout, anxiety, or old attachment wounds. In some ways, it makes you more vulnerable to them. You know the theory inside and out, but knowing isn't the same as felt healing. If any of these sound familiar, you're in the right place:
"I hold boundaries beautifully in session—and then say yes to everything in my own life."
"I'm so busy tracking everyone else's nervous system that I've lost touch with mine."
"I can't stop analyzing myself long enough to actually feel anything."
"I'm worried I'm too burned out to be present with my clients."
"I don't want to burden anyone with my problems—including my own therapist."
"I need a therapist who won't be intimidated by the fact that I do this for a living."
You deserve a therapist who can meet you as a whole person, not just a colleague. Our team gets it, and we'd be honored to support you.
Jump to a therapist
Amber Godwin: Good fit for therapists seeking Somatic Experiencing and nervous system regulation
Ky Cruz: Good fit for neurodivergent and BIPOC therapists who want depth work with a social justice lens
Tina Salomon-Tripp: Good fit for therapists balancing parenting, creative pursuits, and career
Bayley Azevedo: Good fit for queer therapists working on boundaries and burnout
Jen Ottman: Good fit for high-achieving therapists navigating perfectionism and imposter syndrome
Callista Cox: Good fit for therapists with chronic illness or disability
Amanda Nance: Good fit for therapists who want experiential, movement-based healing
Ellen Ottman: Good fit for therapists seeking somatic trauma work or ketamine-assisted therapy
Not sure which clinician is right for you? Reach out so we can help match you.
Meet our San Francisco therapists for other therapists
Amber Godwin
Good fit for therapists seeking Somatic Experiencing and nervous system regulation
As therapists, we spend all day co-regulating with clients, and our own nervous systems often pay the price. My work blends insight-oriented talk therapy with Somatic Experiencing to help you resolve what's stuck in your body, even if you understand logically what’s going on.
With a PhD in applied math and past careers in tech and wellness coaching, I understand demanding professional lives from the inside. Together, we'll rebuild your regulation capacity so you can feel grounded again, both in and out of session.
Credentials: Associate Marriage and Family Therapist #144905
Specialty Areas: Somatic Experiencing, nervous system and emotional regulation, anxiety, developmental and complex trauma, life transitions, relationship challenges
Availability: Online in California and in-person in the East Bay
Ky Cruz
Good fit for neurodivergent and BIPOC therapists who want depth work with a social justice lens
You've learned to hold complexity for others, so I offer a space where your own complexity is welcome. I work with therapists through a trauma-informed, social justice lens, drawing from psychodynamic, depth-oriented, and parts work approaches.
As a neurodivergent-affirming, LGBTQIA+ therapist who also specializes in supporting BIPOC folks, I'm especially attuned to clinicians whose identities shape how they move through this field.
Credentials: Associate Marriage and Family Therapist #160179
Specialty Areas: Trauma and CPTSD, neurodivergent-affirming therapy, LGBTQIA+ individuals and couples, BIPOC individuals and couples, identity exploration, substance use, self-esteem
Availability: Online in California and in-person in San Francisco
Tina Salomon-Tripp
Good fit for therapists balancing parenting, creative pursuits, and career
If you're a therapist juggling clients, kids, and a creative life that keeps getting pushed to the bottom of the list, I get it.
I spent 25 years in the creative arts before becoming a clinician, and as a mom of three, I know how easily your own identity gets lost in caring for everyone else. My relational, psychodynamic, attachment-based approach helps you find your inner compass again.
Credentials: Associate Marriage and Family Therapist #149177
Specialty Areas: Low self-esteem, work stress, parenting and family dynamics, creative blocks, guilt and shame, grief and loss, life transitions, dreamwork
Availability: Online in California and limited in-person in Santa Monica
Bayley Azevedo
Good fit for queer therapists working on boundaries and burnout
You spend your time helping other people set boundaries, but if you’re anything like the folks I work with, you struggle to set your own.
As a queer therapist myself, I offer psychodynamic, relational, trauma-informed care for LGBTQIA+ clinicians navigating burnout and people-pleasing patterns that show up so often in helping professionals.
Together, we'll practice the language of limits, untangle the cognitive distortions that undermine your self-trust, and approach the scary things with safety and grace.
Credentials: Associate Marriage and Family Therapist #140730
Specialty Areas: Boundary setting, burnout and stress, LGBTQIA+ individuals and couples, anxiety, depression, self-esteem, communication and intimacy, sexual trauma
Availability: Online in California and in-person in San Francisco
Jen Ottman
Good fit for high-achieving therapists navigating perfectionism and imposter syndrome
I know firsthand how isolating it can be to appear resilient while struggling internally. I specialize in supporting high-achieving professionals—therapists very much included—who are quietly battling perfectionism, overfunctioning, and imposter feelings.
My insight-driven, psychodynamic approach uses our therapeutic relationship as a place to practice the vulnerability you help others access every day. If you've built a career on holding it together, let's explore what happens when you don't have to.
Credentials: Associate Marriage and Family Therapist #153153
Specialty Areas: Professionals and executives, anxiety and stress, identity and self-worth, relationship and family dynamics, life transitions, couples and premarital counseling
Availability: Online in California and in-person in Santa Monica
Callista Cox
Good fit for therapists with chronic illness or disability
Therapists are professional caregivers, and caregiver burnout doesn't spare us just because we can name it.
Using Bowen Family Systems Theory, I help clinicians untangle the relational patterns that shaped their pull toward helping in the first place.
I specialize in supporting disabled and chronically ill clients, and I bring evidence-based tools from ACT, DBT, and exposure therapies. Clients describe me as quick-witted, down-to-earth, and honest—I won't perform therapy “at” you; I’ll be another human in the room with you.
Credentials: Associate Marriage and Family Therapist #141253
Specialty Areas: Caregiver burnout and family stress, chronic illness and disability, LGBTQIA+ and gender-diverse folks, grief and complicated grief, chronic stress and depression, psychosis and altered states
Availability: Online in California
Amanda Nance
Good fit for therapists who want experiential, movement-based healing
Healing doesn't always happen sitting still—a truth that's easy to forget when you sit in a chair all day. I bring experiential, somatic, and nature-based approaches to therapists who are tired of processing everything verbally.
Whether we're creating art, working outdoors, or punching office pillows, we'll honor what your survival strategies did for you while exploring what you're ready to release. My personal training background helps you stay connected to your body throughout our time together.
Credentials: Associate Clinical Social Worker #136898
Specialty Areas: Trauma and CPTSD, experiential and somatic therapy, ecotherapy, body image, self-esteem, identity exploration, grief and loss, athletes
Availability: Online in California and in-person in San Francisco
Ellen Ottman (she/her)
Good fit for therapists seeking somatic trauma work or ketamine-assisted therapy
As Stillpoint's founder, I've spent more than a decade helping people—including many fellow clinicians—reconnect with their bodies.
Therapists often intellectualize their pain; my somatic, attachment-focused approach helps you drop beneath the analysis into felt experience.
I'm trained in Sensorimotor Psychotherapy, Brainspotting, and Ketamine-Assisted Psychotherapy, offering pathways when insight alone hasn't created lasting change. If you're a therapist carrying chronic tension, burnout, or old trauma, I’m here to offer a different approach.
Credentials: Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist #124702
Specialty Areas: Somatic trauma therapy, Brainspotting, ketamine-assisted therapy and psychedelic integration, burnout, chronic pain, LGBTQIA+ individuals and couples, anxiety and depression
Availability: Online in California
What sets our practice apart
A diverse team of clinicians in identities, backgrounds, and clinical training so you can find a therapist who truly gets you
LGBTQ+-identified therapists offering genuinely affirming care informed by both lived experience and clinical excellence
Somatic training across the team, including Sensorimotor Psychotherapy, Somatic Experiencing, Brainspotting, and Hakomi
In-person availability in San Francisco plus secure telehealth anywhere in California
Evening availability that works around your own client schedule
Neurodivergent-affirming, trauma-informed care that meets you exactly where you are
Ketamine-assisted therapy for when talk therapy alone isn't enough
FAQs about therapy for therapists
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Therapists come to us with the full range of human struggles—plus a few occupational hazards that are unique to our career. Our team commonly supports fellow clinicians with:
Burnout, compassion fatigue, and vicarious trauma
Boundary-setting and people-pleasing patterns
Anxiety, depression, and chronic stress
Childhood trauma, attachment wounds, and CPTSD
Identity exploration, including gender, sexuality, and neurodivergence
Relationship challenges and disconnection
Imposter feelings and perfectionism
Whatever brought you here, you’re welcome.
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Absolutely. In fact, it's not just normal, it's wise. Many of the best clinicians we know consider their own therapy essential to sustainable, ethical practice. Doing your own work deepens your capacity to hold space for others. You spend your career recommending therapy; you deserve to benefit from it too.
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Our clinicians know the unique pressures of this work firsthand, and we won't be thrown by your clinical vocabulary or tempted to let you intellectualize your way out of feeling. Our somatic, body-based approaches are especially helpful for therapists who can analyze everything but struggle to drop into their own experience.
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We're a private-pay practice and don't bill insurance directly, but we can provide superbills for possible out-of-network reimbursement. We also reserve a limited number of sliding scale openings based on need and availability—if fees feel like a barrier, please reach out, and we'll work together to find a fee that fits.