With compassion, presence and warmth, I am here to be your partner and guide on your growth journey. I partner with you to heal emotional trauma and gain self-acceptance through my specialized mind-body approach. I support you through healing limiting beliefs about yourself, developing excellent boundaries, and connecting with your inner-wisdom. You are unique and so is your therapy process, so we tailor our work together to your specific needs and goals. I serve empaths and highly sensitive people, supporting you in coming home to who you really are. Somatic. LGBTQ+. Internal Family Systems. Check out my TEDx talk via my website!
Client Focus
Session Format: Couple, Group, Individual sessions.
Age Specialty: Adult, Children, Teen, Young Adult
Demographic Expertise: Buddhist, LGBTQ+, Women clients.
Languages: English
Treatment Approach
- Art Therapy Uses creative activities like drawing, painting, or sculpture as a way to express emotions. It is especially helpful when words are hard to find.
- Compassion-Focused Therapy (CFT) Builds skills in self-kindness and compassion toward others. It is especially helpful for people who struggle with shame or self-criticism.
- Dance / Movement Therapy Uses movement and body awareness to express emotions and improve mental health. It can increase confidence, reduce stress, and support healing.
- Developmental Therapy Looks at how childhood and developmental experiences affect current challenges. It aims to repair unmet needs and foster healthy growth.
- Emotionally Focused Therapy (EFT) Focuses on strengthening emotional bonds in couples or families. It helps people identify negative cycles and create more secure connections.
- Existential / Humanistic Therapy Encourages people to explore meaning, freedom, and authenticity in their lives. It focuses on personal growth and living in alignment with one’s values.
- Experiential Therapy Involves hands-on activities to bring emotions into the present moment. It helps clients process feelings more deeply than through conversation alone.
- Family Systems Therapy Looks at problems within the context of the family as a whole. It aims to improve communication and balance in family relationships.
- Feminist Therapy Addresses how gender roles, power, and social inequality affect mental health. It empowers clients to challenge limiting beliefs and systems.
- Gestalt Therapy Encourages awareness of thoughts, feelings, and actions in the present moment. It helps people integrate different parts of themselves for wholeness.
- Hakomi Method A mindfulness-based approach that helps clients notice unconscious patterns in their body and mind. It emphasizes compassion and non-judgment.
- Integrative Therapy Combines techniques from multiple approaches into a customized plan. It adapts to each client’s unique situation and needs.
- Internal Family Systems (IFS) Helps clients heal by working with different ‘parts’ of themselves, like inner critics or wounded children. It fosters harmony within the self.
- Jungian Therapy Draws on Carl Jung’s ideas about archetypes, dreams, and the collective unconscious. It helps people explore deeper layers of meaning.
- Object Relations Therapy Focuses on how early caregiver relationships shape current relationships. It aims to improve patterns of attachment and trust.
- Play Therapy Uses toys, games, and creative play to help children express emotions. It is especially useful when children can’t fully verbalize their feelings.
- Somatic Therapy Helps clients notice how emotions are stored in the body. It uses breath, movement, and awareness for healing trauma and stress.
- Transpersonal Therapy Integrates spirituality and higher states of consciousness with psychology. It encourages growth beyond the individual self.
Approach Description: I believe that we are each perfect, whole and complete. You do not need to be fixed and there is nothing wrong with you. We each have the healing and guidance we seek within us.
I am passionate about being the catalyst you need to reacquaint yourself with your own wholeness, badassery, and intrinsic ability to heal, grow and evolve.
Fees & Insurance
Fees
- Average Session Fee 200
- Affordable sliding scale therapy: apply if you may be eligible.
- 150
- Out of Network
Education & Credentials
Kim Christine Stevens LMFT, MA
- Female, Non-Binary
- License # LMFT#125869
- Licensed in California
- Practicing Since 2015
Education: Masters degree in counseling psychology and additional specialization in working with LGBTQ & trans populations, dance& movement therapy, art therapy, body-oriented psychology (somatic), Buddhist psychology, trauma healing. I am a certified practitioner of Neuro-emotional technique & a sound healer.
Kim Christine Stevens Practice Details
Therapy Sessions
- Available In-Person in Berkeley, CA 94709 and San Francisco, CA
- Available Online for residents of California
- Online Therapy Details: I am accepting new Telehealth clients- video call or phone call
You are unique and so is your therapy process. We tailor our work together to your specific needs and goals. It is my belief that you don’t need to be fixed and you are whole and complete. A great therapist helps guide you to your own inner wisdom and natural ability to heal. In my practice I love incorporating Internal Family Systems model, somatic modalities, and mindfulness-based modalities, as I have personally and professionally experienced how powerful, effective, transformative, and gentle these methods are. I am also trained in and passionate about psychedelic / Ketamine assisted therapy and psychedelic integration.