Associates

Ashlyn Acikalin

Ashlyn focuses on helping those going through anxiety, trauma, identity, transitions, and relationship struggles. Ashlyn works from an integrative foundation to support children, teens, and adults, drawing from Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT), Play Therapy, Strengths-Based, and Humanistic approaches. She also offers parenting support and communication with schools and other clinicians to ensure the successful coordination of care. Through a collaborative and flexible environment, Ashlyn provides opportunities for increased reflection and understanding. In tandem with honesty, curiosity, and playfulness, a space is created where the whole-self can be explored. www.ashlynacikalin.com

Erin McQueen

Erin specializes in working with older adults, those struggling with chronic and/or terminal illness, life transitions, and grief/loss. With a collaborative style that is both warm and direct, Erin provides a safe environment for individuals, couples, and families to heal emotional wounds and navigate daily stressors with deepened awareness, understanding, and acceptance. Her approach is grounded in psychodynamic and existential frameworks which attend to both the psychological and sociocultural complexities of aging and dying in the promotion of dignity, agency, and wellbeing at every stage of life. www.psychologytoday.com/us/therapists/erin-mcqueen-san-rafael-ca/1246211

Lucy O’Dwyer

Lucy works with individuals and couples who are experiencing life transitions - new relationships, career changes, becoming parents, illness, grief. She is systems-oriented and strengths-based in her approach. Lucy is collaborative and direct. She has the capacity to take an expansive lens to matters of parenting as she has two children herself, who are now young adults. www.talktherapywithlucy.com

Katelyn Vandever

Katelyn specializes in supporting individuals and couples who find themselves at pivotal moments in their lives or relationships, where embracing the messiness is essential. She guides them through life transitions such as entering parenthood, navigating partnerships, shifting careers, and addressing the range of emotions that come up, as well as supporting people in shifting their expectations.  Using an open and person-centered approach, Katelyn creates a nurturing environment for clients to delve into their past and present experiences, laying the foundation for a future filled with intention and purpose. Meeting her clients wherever they may be, Katelyn empowers both individuals and couples to discover a sense of connection and joy. www.katelynvandever.com

Jenny Werba

Jenny specializes in working with individuals and couples struggling in their reproductive and perinatal journey.  More specifically, Jenny works with clients dealing with perinatal mood disorders, postpartum anxiety/depression, OCD, infertility, miscarriage, birth trauma and pregnancy loss, and coparenting challenges.  As a mother of two, Jenny brings awareness and understanding to many of the struggles individuals and couples face during this chapter of their lives.  Jenny works collaboratively with her clients and provides a supportive environment that builds on clients’ strengths.  Her therapeutic approach is integrative, primarily utilizing Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT), psychodynamic, feminist, expressive arts, and strengths based interventions. www.jennywerba.com