San Francisco Marriage and Couples Center - Pacific Heights

Founded in 2013, The San Francisco Marriage and Couples Center serves individuals, couples, families, and polycules in San Francisco, with online therapy available throughout California. Clients receive support for relationship conflict, communication difficulties, intimacy and sex concerns, infidelity, parenting challenges, anxiety, depression, trauma, grief, addiction, ADHD, eating disorders, and life transitions. The center’s Pacific Heights location provides couples, individual, family, premarital, and co-parenting counseling.

Growing Through Change

At the San Francisco Marriage and Couples Center, therapists use emotionally focused therapy (EFT), cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT), motivational interviewing (MI), eye movement desensitization and reprocessing (EMDR), dialectical behavior therapy (DBT), psychodynamic, attachment-based, Gestalt, somatic, and relational approaches. Other methods include the Gottman Method, accelerated experiential dynamic psychotherapy (AEDP), psychobiological approach to couples therapy (PACT), internal family systems (IFS), hypnotherapy, expressive arts, and mindfulness-based methods.

Inclusive Relationship Support

The San Francisco Marriage and Couples Center supports LGBTQIA+ clients, consensually non-monogamous and polyamorous relationships, neurodivergent clients, immigrants, and people from diverse cultural backgrounds. Therapists may examine real-time relationship dynamics, incorporate body awareness, and use communication exercises to help clients recognize patterns and develop new ways of relating. Additional services include perinatal mental health care, relationship coaching, and executive coaching for workplace partnerships.