KINSHIP COUNSELING COLLECTIVE

Therapy rooted in connection.

Virtual therapy for California residents statewide.

In-person sessions in the Bay Area & Sonoma County

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Kinship Counseling Collective is a therapy collective — a chosen family of practitioners who share values without requiring sameness.

Our therapists are culturally responsive and depth-oriented, approaching their work with genuine curiosity and care. We use creative, tailored interventions to support clients at every stage of their lives — not to manage symptoms, but to go deep and heal.

We work with adolescents, adults, couples, families, and all kinds of relationships. What connects our clinicians isn't a treatment philosophy — it's a shared commitment to quality, integrity, and seeing the whole person.

You Don't Have to Explain Yourself Here.

Our clients are as diverse as the clinicians who serve them. What they share isn't a diagnosis or a demographic — it's a readiness to do real work.

You might be a teenager figuring out who you are. A young adult carrying more than you let on. Someone navigating grief that doesn't look like grief. A person of color exhausted by having to explain yourself everywhere you go — at work, in relationships, in rooms that weren't built for you.

You might be queer — navigating identity, coming out at any age, building chosen family, or healing from what it cost you to get here.

You might be neurodivergent — ADHD, autistic, or somewhere on the spectrum — and tired of systems and relationships that ask you to mask, manage, or make yourself smaller.

You might be in a relationship — a partnership, a marriage, a polycule, a non-monogamous configuration that doesn't fit the standard template. Whatever shape love takes in your life, it belongs here.

You might be a high-achiever who has built something impressive on the outside and still feels like something is missing. Or someone carrying the weight of intergenerational trauma alongside your own. Or both.

Most of our clients are holding more than one of these things at once. That layering — the way identity, history, relationships, and the world you live in all press on each other — is exactly what we're here for.

If you're looking for a therapist who will meet you where you are — not where a framework says you should be — you're in the right place.

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Rarely, if ever, are any of us healed in isolation. Healing is an act of communion.
— bell hooks

How We Work:

We practice in conscious opposition to models that rush healing, commodify care, or ask clients to shrink themselves to fit a framework.

Our work is culturally responsive and socially aware. We bring creativity, depth, and genuine curiosity to the therapeutic relationship. We believe a strong therapeutic relationship isn't a nice-to-have — it's where the actual healing happens.

We're not going to tell you what your healing should look like. We're here to help you figure out what it actually is.

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Kinship is the antidote to isolation.

We are a collaborative group of therapists with a holistic approach & a wide range of specialties

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What We Offer

Therapy isn't one-size-fits-all. Our clinicians bring distinct backgrounds, modalities, and lived experiences. You'll find the right person — not just a warm body with availability.

INDIVIDUAL therapy — Learn More



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CLINICAL SUPERVISION — Learn More



Our Areas of Expertise

Accessible Online Therapy

We offer telehealth sessions to California residents statewide, so you can receive care from wherever feels right. In-person sessions are available in the Bay Area and Sebastopol, Sonoma County.

Oregon telehealth is available only with Raquel Wells, LCSW.

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MEET OUR TEAM

About US

Ready to Begin?

Healing starts with one conversation. Whether you're looking for therapy, supervision, or just trying to figure out if this is the right place — reach out.

A free consultation is where we start.

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