City Church Counseling Center is guided by a relational and incarnational model of care. The word most often attributed to the character of Jesus is "compassion." The original Greek word indicates that Jesus was moved in a deep way (literally, in his "gut") by the pain of others. We believe that therapy begins by forming a trusting relationship in which the therapist can witness the client’s story with compassion. If and when you feel safe and seen, we can begin the harder work of healing. In our time together, we will likely explore your story - the unique narrative of your life. No two stories are alike. Abuse, for instance, is experienced differently by each person. We want to know you. Counseling, we find, can take on many different forms - from problem-solving to grieving, from gaining awareness to identifying patterns of hurting others, from self-contempt to self-sabotage. With your trust, we'll identify the places where we need to work. Some of our psychological influences include  the writings of Dan Allender, Eric Johnson, and others, as well as the rich insights of Object-Relations Therapy, Attachment Theory, Narrative Therapy, Internal-Family Systems, and Existential Therapy (including the works of Bay Area native and committed atheist Irvin Yalom).

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