Current openings are reserved for couples
In-person in San Francisco and online throughout California, with Saturday and limited weekday openings beginning in late August.
Psychodynamic & Relational Therapy
For thoughtful adults, teens, and couples who understand their patterns—but still feel caught in them.
Therapy can help you understand recurring struggles involving intimacy, identity, self-criticism, and emotional disconnection—and how earlier relationships continue to shape the present.
My current openings are reserved for couples. My individual and teen caseloads are presently full.
meet your therapist
Teresa King, MA (she/her)
Registered Associate Marriage & Family Therapist | Registered Associate Professional Clinical Counselor | Employed by Pierce Street Integral Counseling Center | Supervised by Susan Frankel, LMFT #23930
I offer relational and psychodynamic therapy grounded in attachment theory. I work with adults, teens, and couples who are thoughtful, self-aware, and often highly analytical, yet find themselves repeating patterns they cannot simply think their way out of.
Together, we pay attention to emotion, language, family history, culture, defenses, and the expectations we bring into relationships. The goal is not only to understand why a pattern developed, but to create greater freedom in how you relate to yourself and others.
I have particular interests in ADHD and neurodivergence, men’s emotional lives, intimacy and commitment, compulsive behavior, grief, and recurring relationship patterns.
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You may love each other and still feel trapped in the same painful cycle. One partner pursues while the other withdraws; conversations become debates; intimacy grows distant; or secrecy and betrayal have disrupted trust.
I offer relational and psychodynamic couples therapy informed by attachment theory and Emotionally Focused Therapy. We will work to understand the fears, histories, and protective reactions shaping the relationship—without reducing either partner to the problem.
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Individual therapy offers room to understand patterns involving anxiety, self-criticism, emotional distance, intimacy, identity, compulsive behavior, and the feeling of being stuck despite considerable insight.
I work especially well with thoughtful and analytical adults who often reach emotion through language, ideas, and meaning-making. We can respect the intelligence in how you have learned to cope while becoming curious about what those strategies protect you from feeling, needing, or wanting.
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Adolescence can bring intense pressure around identity, belonging, achievement, family, sexuality, and the future. I offer teens a thoughtful, nonjudgmental space to explore experiences that may be difficult to communicate elsewhere.
When appropriate, I also collaborate with parents and caregivers while protecting the privacy and integrity of the teen’s therapeutic relationship.
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Understand why the same conflict, attraction, disappointment, or withdrawal keeps repeating—and what may allow something different to happen.
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Explore the emotional and relational effects of living with a mind that moves quickly, notices intensely, and may struggle with conventional expectations.
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Approach behaviors involving intimacy, sexuality, work, substances, or avoidance with curiosity about the function they serve rather than judgment.
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A space for men who want to understand relationships, shame, avoidance, anger, commitment, infidelity, or the pressure to appear perpetually capable and self-sufficient.
Common Reasons People Come to Therapy
Begin with a Conversation
You do not need to arrive with a complete explanation of the problem. We can begin with what keeps happening, what feels difficult to say, or what you hope could become different.
I am currently accepting couples for in-person therapy in San Francisco and telehealth throughout California.
