Mats Hellsten, MFT

Specialties

In my psychotherapy practice, I work with individuals and couples to:

* find relief from anxiety and other distressing emotions

* heal trauma

* improve self-​esteem

* improve communication

* find greater relationship satisfaction

* experience greater overall clarity, aliveness, fulfillment and empowerment

I provide a warm and welcoming therapeutic environment in which you can safely explore your concerns. Using a mindfulness-​based approach, I help you build awareness of deeply held beliefs and emotional responses that shape your view of yourself and the world, shift and transform what is no longer working for you, and discover new choices.

I honor you as a thinking, feeling, embodied, social and spiritual being, and work with your concerns along these different dimensions, as appropriate.

Please visit my website to learn more, and to watch a brief introductory video!

Evening and weekend appointments available.

Meet the Manager

Mats H.

Manager

I am a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist (#88 243). I received my M.A. in counseling psychology, with a somatic specialization, from John F. Kennedy University. I also have a B.A. from the University of California, Berkeley, and a J.D. from Stanford University.

I have specialized training in Hakomi Experiential Therapy, Emotionally Focused Therapy (EFT) for Couples, Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR), and Re-​Creation of Self. My work is also informed by psychodynamic and cognitive-​behavioral therapy.

I was born and grew up in Sweden, and moved to the U.S. in my late teens. I have lived in the Bay Area for over 25 years.