Stress therapists in San Francisco, California CA
Browse Stress therapists in San Francisco. Compare credentials, specialties and therapeutic approach. Contact a therapist to learn more.
Stress
Shohreh ("Sho-ray") Schmuecker
Marriage and Family Therapist, MA, LMFT
Stress is a natural part of life, but when it becomes overwhelming, it can affect your physical health, relationships, and overall well-being. Whether stress comes from work, family, or other life demands, finding effective ways to manage it is essential.
Stress can feel all-consuming, making it hard to focus, relax, or enjoy daily life. In therapy, we can work together to uncover the underlying factors contributing to your stress and develop personalized strategies to restore your sense of calm and balance. You can gain tools to respond to challenges with greater ease and confidence. If you feel ready to better understand and manage your stress, I invite you to reach out. Support is available to help you find greater calm and well-being.
12 Years Experience
Online in San Francisco, CA California (Online Only)
Stress
Susanna La
Psychologist, Ph.D.
When we do not listen to our stress response, our mental/physical health can get affected. This can contribute to relationship conflicts, burnout, increased depression, anxiety, and overall poor quality of life. If you lead a life with multiple roles (as most of us do), such as parent, child, caregiver, employee, friend, etc., you may benefit from learning how to manage your stress by increasing your self-care and setting boundaries.
13 Years Experience
Online in San Francisco, CA California (Online Only)
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Lisa Abdilova Andresen
Licensed Clinical Social Worker, LCSW
Feeling overwhelmed by pressure and responsibilities? Learn how to tolerate major stressors, self-regulate in distress, and unwind in order to recharge. Optimize your resilience in order to let go of whatever's been holding you back. I specialize in supporting high-achievers and entrepreneurs who often remain successful even while struggling.
9 Years Experience
In-Person in San Francisco, CA 94107
Online in San Francisco, CA California
Stress
Michael Myette Therapy
Licensed Clinical Social Worker, LCSW
I specialize in treatment for stress
19 Years Experience
Online in San Francisco, CA California (Online Only)
Stress
Dr. M at Insight Thoughts Psychotherapy Services (ITPS) Inc
Licensed Professional Counselor, EdD, LPCC
Stress can build when demands and pressure keep adding up. I help clients understand what is driving that strain and develop ways to handle it with more clarity and control.
7 Years Experience
Online in San Francisco, CA California (Online Only)
Stress
Diane Hough, LMFT — Integrative Therapy for Relationships & Life Transitions
Marriage and Family Therapist, LMFT
Stress often comes with change, especially change we don't want or are afraid of. Everyone has stress in their lives, but the way we hold stress and what we tell ourselves about it can determine how we deal with it. There's a lot of information around neuroscience and working with ways to navigate stress that can make stress and life transitions easier. I would like to assist you with that.
32 Years Experience
In-Person in San Francisco, CA 94123
Online in San Francisco, CA California
Stress
Anders Greenwood
Psychologist, Psy.D, Ph.D.
I enjoy helping clients accept and like themselves, organize around strengths, achieve greater emotional presence, think clearly, and let go of shame, guilt and old habits of emotional survival. I believe therapy should lead to better decisions, as well as improved quality of life and relationships.
23 Years Experience
In-Person in San Francisco, CA 94104
Stress
Juliana Sloane
Hypnotherapist, CHT
Stress can feel overwhelming, but hypnosis offers a powerful way to restore calm and clarity from within. Through hypnotherapy, we work with the subconscious mind to release tension, quiet racing thoughts, and strengthen inner resilience. Clients often notice greater emotional balance, greater trust in themselves, and a renewed sense of ease. I provide online hypnosis sessions designed to help you feel more relaxed, grounded, and empowered. Through this work, you will walk away with life-long tools to manage stress and overwhelm with greater ease.
6 Years Experience
Online in San Francisco, CA California (Online Only)
Stress
Abigail (Abi) Zarate Ramsay
Pre-Licensed Professional, Marriage and Family Therapist Trainee, Professional Clinical Counselor Trainee
I help clients manage chronic stress and overwhelm by understanding triggers, strengthening boundaries, and developing everyday regulation tools that fit your life.
0 Years Experience
Online in San Francisco, CA California (Online Only)
Stress
Dr. Jag Soni
Psychologist, Ph.D., HSPP, PCC, SPHR, SHRM-SCP
While some Stress is inevitable, chronic overwhelm can erode your health, relationships, and professional clarity. Drawing on over 35 years of evidence-based practice, I help you move beyond temporary coping mechanisms to address the underlying drivers of your stress response. We work together to foster the resilient internal shifts needed to navigate high-pressure environments with composure and mental clarity. In a private, secure Telehealth setting, I provide a sophisticated space to help you reclaim your well-being and move toward a thriving future. Contact me to schedule your first appointment.
36 Years Experience
Online in San Francisco, CA California (Online Only)
Stress
Aaron Kapin
Somatic Experiencing Practitioner, SEP, LMT
There are a lot of ways to look at stress. Here's a way of looking at stress that I find useful:
Stress is what happens when your body builds up energy to handle one or more situations, but ends up rallying more energy than is necessary to handle those situations well. For example, you have to do your taxes? So your body pumps out a bit of cortisol to get you focused enough to take it seriously. Great. But what happens when your body just keeps dumping cortisol till you feel overwhelmed and exhausted? That's stress.
With Somatic Experiencing, we work together to teach your body how to use just enough energy to get the job done, and then let go of that energy once the job is finished. Rally, execute, then rest. Viola, less stress.
11 Years Experience
Online in San Francisco, CA California (Online Only)
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San Francisco Counseling Collective
Licensed Professional Counselor, LPCC, LMFT, LCSW
At San Francisco Counseling Collective ("SFCC"), we help clients analyze stress sources and build sustainable regulation practices. Therapy includes skills for pacing, boundary calibration, cognitive reframing, and lifestyle adjustments that support long-term resilience.
9 Years Experience
In-Person in San Francisco, CA 94114
Online in San Francisco, CA California
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Marcelle Little
Marriage and Family Therapist, MPH, MA
Research indicates that improvement in the quality of emotions reduces stress. I guide you through a process to develop emotional regulation strategies to cope with stress and alter your experience with and perception of stressors.
9 Years Experience
In-Person in San Francisco, CA
Online in San Francisco, CA California
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Corina Bair
Licensed Clinical Social Worker, LCSW
Stress is an everyday occurrence for most of us, but that doesn't mean it has to hold us back from being our best selves and achieving our goals - so let's get down to it. I have years of experience working with teens, young and middle-aged adults in overcoming the many ways stress manifests in our lives, whether that is due to social, personal, work, past trauma, every day life, or just something you've always had. Assisting my clients with building insight and understanding into your thoughts, emotions, and behaviors is an essential part of my therapy practice, and provide evidence-based practice tools that you can use outside of therapy as well. ~~~ Just to make it clear: BLM. Protect the dolls. FDT. Free Palestine & Sudan. F the patriarchy/capitalism. Sex + Body Positive. ~~~
I am passionate about providing a safe, compassionate, and welcoming space where you can be open about your stressors so we can work through them together. Click that contact button and we can schedule a free consultation call today!
11 Years Experience
Online in San Francisco, CA California (Online Only)
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Dr. Christina Charlotin
Psychologist, Psy.D.
Coping tools to better manage stress.
14 Years Experience
In-Person in San Francisco, CA
Online in San Francisco, CA California
Stress
Erin Powers
Counselor/Therapist, APCC 9590
One of the primary reasons my client's seek therapy services is for general stress-related issues. I use mindfulness-based methods, as well as energy healing, to decrease stress and support client's in finding balance and peace in their everyday lives.
6 Years Experience
Online in San Francisco, CA California (Online Only)
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choicetherapy
Psychologist, Psy.D.
Stress is common but can certainly get in the way of what is meaningful to us. I enjoy helping individuals learn new ways of interacting with stress in order to take control over their lives.
20 Years Experience
In-Person in San Francisco, CA 94109
Online in San Francisco, CA California
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Amenah Arman
Therapist, MS-CLINICAL MENTAL HEALTH COUNSELING, Nationally Certified Counselor
Chronic stress often develops when the demands of work, leadership, or creative output remain high for long periods of time. Many founders, creatives, and high-performing professionals live in a constant state of pressure where the nervous system rarely has the opportunity to slow down. Through trauma-informed therapy and nervous system regulation, we work to understand the patterns driving overwork and burnout so you can respond to stress with greater steadiness, clearer thinking, and sustainable energy.
7 Years Experience
In-Person in San Francisco, CA
Online in San Francisco, CA California
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Heidi Hartston
Psychologist, PhD
Stress can have you feeling burned out, on edge, anxious, irritable or highly reactive. Whatever the cause, especially when there are multiple sources of stress, your nervous system can chronically burn on overdrive, disrupting your sleep and interfering in relationships, job performance and life satisfaction. Even with multiple sources of pressure on you, therapy can help you learn to create external boundaries by limiting what you take on, and internal boundaries by holding all that pressure at arms length, and managing stress in ways that allow you to access a sense of calm in the storm. I combine insightful, caring depth work with evidence based techniques that effectively free you from self-sabotaging patterns, and help you manage stress and build the balanced, happy life you deserve.
35 Years Experience
Online in San Francisco, CA California (Online Only)
Stress
Kim Christine Stevens
Marriage and Family Therapist, LMFT, MA
Stress can be a big part of being alive today. I love supporting my clients through their stress issues.
11 Years Experience
In-Person in San Francisco, CA
Online in San Francisco, CA California
San Francisco's extreme housing costs and the psychological toll of the tech industry — characterized by intense performance pressure, rapid layoff cycles, and boom-bust uncertainty — have made burnout, anxiety, and economic grief among the most common presenting concerns. The city has a historically significant LGBTQ+ community, and affirming therapists specializing in gender identity, queer relationships, and HIV-related concerns remain an important part of the local therapy landscape. UCSF Health provides world-class institutional mental health resources, while the city's dense network of independent practitioners reflects a culture that has long embraced therapy as a normal and valued part of life. Telehealth has expanded access significantly for Bay Area residents commuting from Oakland, the East Bay, and the Peninsula.
Stress therapists in San Francisco, California Statistics
Stress therapists in San Francisco, California average 15 years of experience and charge around $203 per session. 99% offer online sessions. The top treatment approaches are Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) (60%), Psychodynamic Therapy (42%), and Person-Centered Therapy (Rogerian) (39%).
Average years in practice
15 Years Experience
Average cost per session
$203
Accept insurance
35%
Offer sliding scale
50%
Gender ID
| 70% |
Female |
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| 25% |
Male |
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| 3% |
Non-Binary |
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| 2% |
Gender Fluid |
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Session Type
| 61% |
In Person and Online |
|
| 38% |
Online Only |
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| 1% |
In Person Only |
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Top Treatment Approaches
| 60% | Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) |
| 42% | Psychodynamic Therapy |
| 39% | Person-Centered Therapy (Rogerian) |
| 35% | Existential / Humanistic Therapy |
| 35% | Somatic Therapy |
| 32% | Emotionally Focused Therapy (EFT) |
| 30% | Solution-Focused Brief Therapy (SFBT) |
Ages Served
| 98% | Adult |
| 61% | Young Adult |
| 50% | Senior |
| 43% | Teen |
| 20% | Children |
Client Focus
| 63% | Women |
| 44% | LGBTQ+ |
| 38% | Men |
| 26% | Christian |
| 26% | Hispanic / Latino |