I am a licensed psychotherapist (LMFT stands for Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist) who works in San Francisco with a wide variety of people on issues including but not limited to depression, anxiety, relationship issues, career and creativity struggles, phase-of-life challenges and questions of identity. I provide psychotherapy for adults, adolescents and children, in a safe and supportive atmosphere that aids in discovering together both the outer struggle and the underlying forces.
Often, it's hard to understand what is getting in the way of what we want (and often we don't know what we want or have been mistaken about it). Having a safe place where a direct and open exchange can occur, I believe, helps a person piece together what feels psychologically or emotionally true so that there can be room for something new to take place.
Another way to put it is that this therapy is not aimed primarily at changing outward behavior but rather sees outward behavior as a reflection of a set of inward conflicts and forces, and with a deeper appreciation of what's at play internally new experiences are made available. These new experiences can and often do lead to change.